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.
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.
A performed installation by one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt
Junko’s screaming vocal in a nuanced, piercing duo with Urabe’s fuming and convulsive saxophone, far removed from the codes of musical tradition.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
An assembly to try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality, in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.
