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.
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
