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.
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
Inspired by the supernatural horror of H. P. Lovecraft, black metal and a sense of worry as to what constitutes an object, or a world.
Vajra are a Japanese psychedelic rock supergroup, hewn from the collective consciousness of Fushitsusha’s Keiji Haino, folk radical Kan Mikami and percussionist Toshiaki Ishitsuka.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
