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.
Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
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.
Three days of discussions, performances, actions, dancing and food – continuing No Total’s ongoing contemplation of ways of being together and the ways Arika have been entangled in those, ever since Episode 4.
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.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
