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.
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Solo by Jean-Philippe Gross, a French electro-acoustic improviser, working with mixing board, cheap mics, small speakers and an analog synth, built around a honed interest in feedback.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.
Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
