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 conversation of intergenerational trans-resistance and anti-racist fierceness between two of the most inspiring public speakers we know.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Giants of the Japanese avant-rock scene Ruins are a hardcore prog rock bass + drums duo led by drummer extraordinaire Tatsuya Yoshida and joined in Dundee by Sasaki Hisashi.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
Psychedelic and intense, and featuring some of the most visually stunning, mesmerizing and transcendent experiences you can imagine, batten down the hatches for some of the boldest, most immersive and abrasive works in experimental cinema.
What is the radical concept at the core of ‘rhythm’, expanded from simply musical or mathematical notions to encompass personal, social, collective rhythms?
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