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.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Rhodri Davies plays two deconstructed harps. Lee Patterson examines the sonic properties of burning nuts.
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One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A programme of discontinuity between narration, text and image. Including Manual Saiz’s employment of John Malkovich’s Spanish dubbing double and Peter Rose’s absurdly hilarious concrete poetry subtitling chaos.
Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.
