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 saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
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.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
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.
