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.
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
An evening of live performances, readings & saucy rococo cakes celebrating the launch of Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Beatriz will explore her thinking, on film as translation, plural subjectivity or land-based militancy. Discussion will centre around her work Oriana and its companion piece Oenanthe, which will be screened in full.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
A mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.
