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.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
An extravagant debauch of plush toys and ritual. Palestine performed a version of Strumming Music, a trance inducing investigation into overtone systems achievable on a Bosendorfer Imperial Piano.
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.
