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.
Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
A community of those without community, for a community to come. A schizo-scenic video-collage of the disturbing ‘normality’ of Moby Dick.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
An assembly to try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality, in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.
