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.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
A cast of pioneering spirits over an expanded three day festival including Jandek (one year on from his first ever show at INSTAL 04), JO-JO, Tetuzi Akiyama,Tom Bruno, Pauline Oliveros, a legendary Hijokaiden performance and Henri Chopin.
Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
