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.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
Patented 60 cycle hums, static pops, and terse electron pinpricks mutated into perfect, post-techno grooves and synaesthesic video
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Hartmut led “a workshop in the old-fashioned way of discussion, mutual exploration of ideas and samples; trying out what can be shared and where the fault lines show.”
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
