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.
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
How do grassroots feminist organisations strategise relationships between mothers, parents, carers and their children based on respect and empowerment, in resistance to the practice of putting children in often the most uncaring of places – care.
Profound mathematical ideas for romantics, to help us linger in the difference we share.
We wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness?
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
Former street performer, organist, performance artist, circus performer, harpist, accordion player, tree surgeon and tricyclist performing solo.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
