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 fulcrum to the Japanese noise scene, JOJO Hiroshige has been responsible for much of the explosion of free music coming from Japan in the last 30 years.
Philip Jeck creates slowly evolving symphonies that are as much about the crackling hiss of old vinyl as the actual ‘musical’ material.
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
