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.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
