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.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Smith/Stewart set up allegorical situations over which they often have little to no control, but which instigate explorations of dependence and trust, the body, sex and death.
A talk entitled ‘The Conquest of the Universe’: which delves into the connections between the underground filmmakers and musicians in New York in the early 1960s
The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.
