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 discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Sachiko M and Ami Yoshida, two of the most prominent members of the Onkyo movement, place much more emphasis on sound texture than on musical structure, distilling elements of techno, noise, and electronic music into a unique hybrid.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.
Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
Quintessentially British, The Bohman Brothers’ music is a home-made and DIY conflux of some of the most virulent strains of experimental music.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
