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.
What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Vajra are a Japanese psychedelic rock supergroup, hewn from the collective consciousness of Fushitsusha’s Keiji Haino, folk radical Kan Mikami and percussionist Toshiaki Ishitsuka.
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
