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.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
Screening of films by Duvet Brothers, David Critchley, David Hall, John Latham, Judith Goddard, Mike Leggett, Tony Sinden
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
