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.
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
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.
First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Coming to us from Taipei, Yo-Yo sends us elsewhere while bringing us back with her to the timezone of tomorrow. A dancer, media artist, and choreographer who makes multi-dimensions and realms, Lin’s amplification of energies and connections across bodies devolves the separations we are taught to abide.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
Joe Colley specialises in hotwired sound constructions full of ominous electronic disturbances and caustic, noxious drones. For KYTN, Joe created a situation of controlled chaos with 50 light sensitive oscillators placed in a field of candles.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
