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 riot of 60’s psychedelia, magick, ritual and tight black leather, this programme highlights underground innovators who use and subvert pop music for their own experimental ends; and be warned, in Anger, there’s real darkness.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
We’ll be looking at reframing trauma, how we might understand trauma in the bodymindsoul, taking a look at the physiology of trauma, forms of trauma, and at ways to mitigate and heal trauma.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
Dir: Maurizio Lazzarato & Angela Melitopoulos
A filmic constellation exploring Felix Guattari’s anti-patriarchal, anti-colonialist, anti-psychiatric, animist ideas of care and the self. And an Introduction to the Episode.
