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.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Free Jazz group comprising Matt Lavelle, Matt Heyner (TEST, No-Neck Blues Band) and Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs).
A carefully thought out, simple but rich performance using just a turntable, teach yourself foreign language LP’s, the impeccable timing of a percussionist, and an idea.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
