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.
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers
Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
