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.
Minimal details and otherworldly glistening drones, rich with sustained metallic timbres that breathe with the scrapped pulse of bowed metal.
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
