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.
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
Series of short sets by Acid Mothers Temple / Ruins offshoots Zubi Zuva X, Akaten & Zoffy.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.
Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
