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.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.
Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
A talk entitled ‘The Conquest of the Universe’: which delves into the connections between the underground filmmakers and musicians in New York in the early 1960s
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
