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.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
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.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
