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.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
