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.
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers
Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…
For day three of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Nancy Nevárez.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Deliberately blurred drones, absent of definite structure or rhythm, framed in silence and devoid of any distraction from the pure matter of sound.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
