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.
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
An audio report for the NATOarts board of directors that seeks to promote global security and stability through the exhibition of works of conceptual art.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.
