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.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Gravitational Feel is an engine for intensifying the differentiation of our entanglement, which you continually reprogramme in the mutual rub, shift and lap of its sonic, wooden, steel, textile and human material.
The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
