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.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Looking at and listening to different ideas about sound and music, INSTAL 09’s collection of artists included Tetsuo Kogawa, vocalist Joan La Barbara, Phil Minton (and his Century FC feral choir), Austrian Actionist Hermann Nitsch, Steve McCaffery and many more.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
A performed installation by one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
