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.
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives NY by Jandek, Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht, and MV & EE.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A performed self-cancelling discussion, with artists from the festival, invited speakers and local artists talking at once, over each other, or straining to be heard over the din.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.
