Arika have been creating events since 2001. The Archive is space to share the documentation of our work, over 600 events from the past 20 years. Browse the archive by event, artists and collections, explore using theme pairs, or use the index for a comprehensive overview.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A festival hewn from passions for experimental music, film and visual art and for a passion in figuring out how they can relate to, cross-fertilise and inspire and each other.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
