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.
Craig will give a guided reading of his handbook of exemplary instances of literary listening and will be joined by one of the selected authors, Vanessa Place.
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.
This programme is a celebration of Charlemagne Palestine; passionate, extravagant, visceral. Including two sections from Ritual dans le Vide, an extension of his ‘running camera’ works of the 70’s and Pip Chodorov’s vibrant workout of a live version of Strumming Music.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
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.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.
Bringing together artists working with music, sound, film and the moving image, KYTN 2008 saw performances, improvisations, screenings and installations over three days at DCA.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
