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.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
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.
