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.
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
Sachiko’s very simple, pure sine tones and structures. Otomo on double pianos. Filament’s music isn’t composed and it isn’t improvised: it’s a hybrid of the two.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
What is the radical concept at the core of ‘rhythm’, expanded from simply musical or mathematical notions to encompass personal, social, collective rhythms?
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
