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.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
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.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest
