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 reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
Dual projections of pulsating shards of film, treated in crystallized salts and dyes merge with the whirring of projectors, distilled into particles of sound.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
Sound as it is endured by space and the body: 15 participants lie face down and pound the floor with a microphone one thousand times, each person choosing their own rhythm and intensity.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
