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.
Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
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.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Munehiro Narita’s Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intentions) fired out some of the most compelling no-wave improvised rock of the 80s.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
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Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
