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.
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
Repetitive, mesmerizing rhythmic workouts, to pieces of stark and rigorous introspection, where notes picked and slid in isolation, scatter like mercury around the listener.
Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.
