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.
NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
60 minutes of hard ass minimal film, projected onto a weather balloon and accompanied by the inspired poetic rant of a visionary Frenchman.
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
A performance of Ueinzz’s new play. Each Ueinzz performance is a process of reinvention, between exhaustion and a fleeting vision: singular, collective, anonymous, plural, suspensive, intensive, unworking life.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
