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 trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A conversation and livestream considering a global feminist critique of capital with Silvia Federici, Hortense Spillers and Gayatri C. Spivak.
What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Out of a dark haze, shafts of light emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
