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.
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.
A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.
