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.
One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Opening with one of the most memorable shots ever filmed, and screened a year after the initial successes of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Too Soon, Too Late is a search for the traces left on the landscape of past revolutions in France and Egypt.
A panel exploring how to dismantle the master’s house — its material edifices and ideological architecture — and the construction of abolitionist futures in the present.
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
