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.
Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.
