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.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
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.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
A changing pool of people (40 or so at a time – artists, audiences, etc) talk for 90 minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, structured like speed dating, and mixed live as both a concert and for radio broadcast.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
Slowly evolving ultra-subtle harmonics and multi-tracked, otherworldly drones that only reveal their true power at high volume.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
