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.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
Three intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A carefully thought out, simple but rich performance using just a turntable, teach yourself foreign language LP’s, the impeccable timing of a percussionist, and an idea.
Three days of discussions, performances, actions, dancing and food – continuing No Total’s ongoing contemplation of ways of being together and the ways Arika have been entangled in those, ever since Episode 4.
