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.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.
Ken Jacobs chats to Edwin Carels: Edwin is a curator based in Ghent, responsible for some fantastic programmes of experimental film and art at the Rotterdam Film festival (amongst others).
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Everyday objects and materials (rubber bands, paper, a sink, microphones) disabused of their inertia and made to speak for themselves in a kind of focusing in on the tiny, repetitive, almost unobserved (sonic/ visual) potential of everyday things put into motion.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
