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.
Slowly evolving ultra-subtle harmonics and multi-tracked, otherworldly drones that only reveal their true power at high volume.
A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
In a moment of social exhaustion, we want to ask how we might care for each other differently. We Can’t Live Without Our Lives is a 5-day exploration of care as a form of struggle and resistance, with communities who embody it.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
