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 public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…
Bringing together artists working with music, sound, film and the moving image, KYTN 2008 saw performances, improvisations, screenings and installations over three days at DCA.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
