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 cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
An open collaborative workshop space in which games, warm-up sessions, exercises and scenes are potentially the same thing, through which to project your own concerns onto the stage.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
