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.
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
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.
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
Italian duo of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio utilising an array of acoustic and electric guitars, various toy-instruments and toy-microphones.
For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
William cradles, hammers, and rains down blows, plucking and using 2 bows to attack the strings above and below the bridge, all in the service of a fiery and passionate creativity.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
