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 space to reflect on our own experiences with the police and explore more community and care-based ways of dealing with violence and difficulties in our lives.
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops & analogue synthesizers
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
