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.
Former street performer, organist, performance artist, circus performer, harpist, accordion player, tree surgeon and tricyclist performing solo.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
