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.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.
Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange” then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Folk poet, actor and bon viveur Kan Mikami in duo with Jojo Hiroshige, a founding member of Japanese Noise band Hijokaidan.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
