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.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Thought and action, writing and protesting. A chat with Nat Raha, KUCHENGA and Jackie Wang asking what can be learnt from writing across genres by agitators, activists and abolitionists?
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
