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 collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Three iconic figures from the Japanese underground assembled as a trio to stand in for the advertised duo of Junko and Jerome Noetinger who was unable to attend the festival due to illness.
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
What is the radical concept at the core of ‘rhythm’, expanded from simply musical or mathematical notions to encompass personal, social, collective rhythms?
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Julius Eastman’s Evil Nigger for 4 pianos performed by Joe Kubera, Kate Thompson, David Murray, Alan Fearon and Simon Passmore.
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