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.
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.
Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
One of the great experimental films. A 60 minute, three part riddle that maybe approximates our intellectual development by moving from imageless words to the recognition of silent images and the learning of simple tasks and finally a serenity and acceptance of death.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Two figureheads of the minimalist electronica pulse, Ikeda and Nicolai have been responsible for some of the most innovative and ground-breaking music of the last decade, redefining experimental electronica.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
