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.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
A space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
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?
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Joe Colley specialises in hotwired sound constructions full of ominous electronic disturbances and caustic, noxious drones. For KYTN, Joe created a situation of controlled chaos with 50 light sensitive oscillators placed in a field of candles.
