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.
A performed film lecture exploring how the ‘Rumberas’ of Caribbean cinema of the 40’s and 50’s subverted demeaning images of themselves through dance, sound and a sociality that insisted on blackness as being a cultural performance, not simply due to skin colour.
A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
