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 poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
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.”
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Film and sound stripped of ‘content’ and experienced spatially, to be looked at not on the screen but in the space of the gallery
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?
Real-time video feedback loops submerged in laminal sheets of sound soaked in gauzy timbral detail and multi-valenced, buzzing overtones.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
