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.
When one calls a strike, who hears the call, who attunes and listens to it? How to listen to the call of a strike? What prevents one from hearing this call or stops one from listening to it?
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
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.
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Chip’s written some of the greatest of all Sci-Fi and Fantasy—page turning character driven diamond-hard novels and short stories: each a lens that refracts our real-life struggles and desires.
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
I wanna be with you everywhere is an everywhere gathering envisioned for and by disability communities and anyone who wants to get with us. IWBWYE returns to Performance Space and any space on June 21 for an outdoor pop-up and hybridized event.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
