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.
Pitching Fahey inspired, eastern-infused folk vibrations, sad elliptical drones and oracle chants into one kaleidoscopic sound.
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
Chris Corsano, Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in the Hamilton Mausoleum, Hamilton.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
Julius Eastman’s Evil Nigger for 4 pianos performed by Joe Kubera, Kate Thompson, David Murray, Alan Fearon and Simon Passmore.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.
