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.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Three days of discussions, performances, actions, dancing and food – continuing No Total’s ongoing contemplation of ways of being together and the ways Arika have been entangled in those, ever since Episode 4.
Each film in this programme celebrates process; the decay of emulsion, the properties of dust and dirt, the manipulation of time. Post the dawn of the digital age, we reflect on our love of the film form, celluloid as an object, a medium and a physical entity.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Thuja specialise in a unique and abstract folk music, a devoutly organic tapestry deeply rooted in the sway and bow of nature.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
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.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
