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.
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.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
We’ll be looking at decolonising ‘global mental health’. We’ll look at the concepts of decoloniality, of things being ‘culture bound’, and at hermeneutical injustice* as ways to examine dominator knowledge systems, and the institution of psych/iatry.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
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.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Sarah Washington uses electronics and wind-up radios, running out of charge to repsond to the festivals’ Self Cancellation provocation.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.
Taking The Futurist Cinema’ manifesto and turning it into software to track ‘aluminium’ online, tracing relationships companies with interests in aluminum had to each other and other agencies.
The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.
