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.
Kanta is a young Japanese artist with a home-made, short circuited take on electronics and physical phenomena which he uses in performance to produce close circuit systems of audio / video feedback.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
A performed installation by one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Thuja specialise in a unique and abstract folk music, a devoutly organic tapestry deeply rooted in the sway and bow of nature.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing by the Stones of Stenness, instead of the Ring of Brodgar, because of bad weather.
