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.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.
A chat with Eugene Thacker. Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us?
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
