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.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
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.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
A party and fundraiser to support Sex Workers’ struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers’ community and allies, plus DJ’s and dancing.
