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 discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Dead Labour Process drool-tape farmer, squeaking/creaking Usurper brother and Peeesseye’s yodelling traps-man hold a real OUT splutter party.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.
