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.
Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
John Mullarkey sets in a wider context our understanding of Alain Badiou and Francois Laruelle, two of the most radical philosophers in Europe today.
