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.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of light emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?
Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
