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 spectacular musical show which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history. A learning play on myth construction and its reproduction.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
An extravagant debauch of plush toys and ritual. Palestine performed a version of Strumming Music, a trance inducing investigation into overtone systems achievable on a Bosendorfer Imperial Piano.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
