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 sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.
The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Sound as it is endured by space and the body: 15 participants lie face down and pound the floor with a microphone one thousand times, each person choosing their own rhythm and intensity.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Work for cello, percussion, contra bassoon and cherbulum commissioned for Instal in collaboration with Paragon
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.
