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.
Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
