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.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Do almost nothing: re-present (unaltered and arranged by chance) silent family home movies handed down to Flo, (Ken’s wife) and follow them with a “teach yourself Yiddish” cassette tape.
All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
What to do about a telethon other than fuck it up? Poet, tarotist, artist, and librarian Cyrée Jarelle Johnson returns to IWBWYE to read the 1980s and ’90s for what those decades were: practice for now.
Amid the blur of erotics, the jangle of poetics, and the fetishizing of sickness and disability, the heat of Panteha’s performance and sculpture freezes all.
