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.
Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
One of the most revered and legendary underground acts of the past 20+ years, Current 93 is the constantly evolving creation of David Tibet.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
