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.
Experience a sense of being in the world, in a specific space and time. Including Jeanne Liotta’s recordings of the ionosphere and Walter Ruttmann’s radical 35mm precursor to musique concrète.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.
A screening of short films by queer sex workers, who reclaim the authorship of intimacy.
Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
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.
