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 evening of live performances, readings & saucy rococo cakes celebrating the launch of Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
Joe Colley specialises in hotwired sound constructions full of ominous electronic disturbances and caustic, noxious drones. For KYTN, Joe created a situation of controlled chaos with 50 light sensitive oscillators placed in a field of candles.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
