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.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Radu plays a trombone, Klaus creates pure sine waves: they sound on their own, or sometimes together and often with considerable space and silence.
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
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.
A party and fundraiser to support Sex Workers’ struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers’ community and allies, plus DJ’s and dancing.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
