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.
Usurper luddite twins’ disabled instruments play a game of pick-up-sticks with the deconstructed horn of a young Derby opponent.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A double bill of Morgan Fisher films that ask what can be achieved by a simple structural method of commenting on scraps of 35mm film, re-shot on 16mm film and what happens to meaning (if anything) when ‘insert shots’ are relieved of their original duty of providing crucial plot development for a variety of other movies?
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
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.
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
