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.
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
Thought and action, writing and protesting. A chat with Nat Raha, KUCHENGA and Jackie Wang asking what can be learnt from writing across genres by agitators, activists and abolitionists?
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Includes: a polish counting lesson, around NYC with D A Pennebaker, a portrait of a tower block, a man with a spade, at home with KYTN regular Guy Sherwin, a cinematic Blair Witchish cut-up and a song for some swings.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
