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.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Acting at the minimum. Each film here substitutes one small thing for another, (ironically) transforming received meanings by the simplest of actions; often kind of funny too.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
