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 collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
Multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops & analogue synthesizers
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Thirty lucky Instal punters experience Kylie’s pre-match aggro workout one-on-one in the darkness of an Arches dressing room.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
