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.
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.
One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
