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.
Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
Junko’s screaming vocal in a nuanced, piercing duo with Urabe’s fuming and convulsive saxophone, far removed from the codes of musical tradition.
Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
A whistle stop tour of visual and material culture that has anchored the sex workers rights movement through the decades until today.
Emotional fantasies, towers of cakes, identity troubles, collapsed distance and time and Samuel R. Delany’s rarely seen 1971 film The Orchid.
