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 confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
Beyond time, colorlines, ability, and sexuality, a movement exploration into what it means to see and be seen, how hearing contrast with what is actually being heard.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
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.
What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?
