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.
IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.
How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
Temporary Outpost for an Auditory Gesture is a kind of performed installation that explores how sonic phenomena (like feedback, vibration, resonance, echo, rhythm) condition our experience.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
