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.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Three intimate 45 minute sessions, reading your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
