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.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
A glance at both analogue and digital processes; the clarity and precision of digital colour or the yawning, endless depth of dye and emulsion, our programme celebrates how both approaches revel in colour, saturation, hue and tone.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange” then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?
Expansive and considered, inclusive and deeply human minimalism: Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder.
Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
