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.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
An open conversation around the history and practices of the Ueinzz Theatre Company – a radical Brazilian schizoscenic theatre company of carers, so-called psychotic patients and philosophers.
First live show outside the USA featuring one-off film pieces and live theatre from the ringleaders of the ‘weird new America’ psych folk explosion.
Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
