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 simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
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