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.
Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Elizabeth’s writing pulls apart toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify it; working towards an alternative distribution of powers, so that ways of being otherwise can endure.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.
Could cruising and random public sex be the basis of an ethically organised society? A discussion with Jackie Wang, Samuel R. Delany and Huw Lemmey.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
