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?
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
How black radical practices of abolition imagine a way out of the caging and mass killing of life.
Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
