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.
Listening to people listening to their own homes. Musicians and actors will listen back to recordings made in local peoples homes on headphones, and interpret/ translate what they are hearing.
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.
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.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
