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.
Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Improvising violinist Angharad Davies performing with pianists Tisha Mukarji and Andrea Neumann.
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.
A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
How do grassroots feminist organisations strategise relationships between mothers, parents, carers and their children based on respect and empowerment, in resistance to the practice of putting children in often the most uncaring of places – care.
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
