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.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange” then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
An assembly to try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality, in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
