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.
Folk poet, actor and bon viveur Kan Mikami in duo with Jojo Hiroshige, a founding member of Japanese Noise band Hijokaidan.
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
A multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
