
Directing Hand
Directing Hand
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
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.
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
With a signature spartan sound and long term preoccupation in structural tactics (subtle shifts in density, drawn out stasis) Polwechsel blur the boundaries between individual instruments.