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.
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Experience a sense of being in the world, in a specific space and time. Including Jeanne Liotta’s recordings of the ionosphere and Walter Ruttmann’s radical 35mm precursor to musique concrète.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
