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.
Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Screening of films by Duvet Brothers, David Critchley, David Hall, John Latham, Judith Goddard, Mike Leggett, Tony Sinden
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
