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.
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
Kanta is a young Japanese artist with a home-made, short circuited take on electronics and physical phenomena which he uses in performance to produce close circuit systems of audio / video feedback.
By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
