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.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Do almost nothing: re-present (unaltered and arranged by chance) silent family home movies handed down to Flo, (Ken’s wife) and follow them with a “teach yourself Yiddish” cassette tape.
Experience a sense of being in the world, in a specific space and time. Including Jeanne Liotta’s recordings of the ionosphere and Walter Ruttmann’s radical 35mm precursor to musique concrète.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
