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.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
