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.
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’
