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.
Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Vajra are a Japanese psychedelic rock supergroup, hewn from the collective consciousness of Fushitsusha’s Keiji Haino, folk radical Kan Mikami and percussionist Toshiaki Ishitsuka.
A performed self-cancelling discussion, with artists from the festival, invited speakers and local artists talking at once, over each other, or straining to be heard over the din.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
