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.
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
Black-clad with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
