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.
Deliberately blurred drones, absent of definite structure or rhythm, framed in silence and devoid of any distraction from the pure matter of sound.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
For day three of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Nancy Nevárez.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Acting at the minimum. Each film here substitutes one small thing for another, (ironically) transforming received meanings by the simplest of actions; often kind of funny too.
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.
