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 prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
