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.
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Power-electronic klutz behaviour indecipherable blasphemies, cuts, bruises and broken microphones by Kovorox Sound head-honcho Lea Cummings.
Film and sound stripped of ‘content’ and experienced spatially, to be looked at not on the screen but in the space of the gallery
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
