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 system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.
One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.
A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?
