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.
An utterly deep introspection told in aching, weeping guitar lines; melodic, simple, always minimal but somehow entirely epic.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Pitching Fahey inspired, eastern-infused folk vibrations, sad elliptical drones and oracle chants into one kaleidoscopic sound.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.
Mirror and Phantom Engineer performing an improvised soundtrack to Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 horror film prototype, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
A multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
A panel exploring the radical potential of technologies through fugitivity and opacity: their ability to obscure, to make it impossible for us to be known, to render us untraceable by every arm of the state even under the all-consuming spectre of surveillance capital.
