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.
Italian duo of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio utilising an array of acoustic and electric guitars, various toy-instruments and toy-microphones.
The pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
Inspired by Delany’s Aye, and Gomorra. A spookily filmic world where asexual bodies live in the contradiction of their unarousable loneliness and desire for intimacy and contact.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
