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.
Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
2 days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil.
Dois dias de discussões e apresentações online de artistes explorando as práticas cosmológicas, decoloniais e sensoriais de coletivoas de arte, dança e música de base negra e indígena no Brasil.
Cask-strength electrohypnol/ shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder responsible for recent Tremors blowouts.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.
How do we gesture to the invisible, the trans or the obscure? A performative conversation between boychild and Fernando, a sharing of gestures, and a bodily back and forth between mathematician and dance artist.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
