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 kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
Seven women recite monologues composed from texts from the vibrant years of the Weimar Republic. A kind of cultural echo: an experience of histories brought to the present.
Live in person at Performance Space New York and live-streamed everywhere! Watching Storyboard P dance feels like glimpsing into another world.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
