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.
Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.
Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.
Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
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.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
