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 slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.
