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 stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
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.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
