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.
Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
