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.
Investigating the border between the audible and the visible means looking at the margins, the edges of creativity where artists test out new boundaries and define them anew.
Munehiro Narita’s Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intentions) fired out some of the most compelling no-wave improvised rock of the 80s.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
A conversation about the movement for prison abolition and refusing the logic of race and sex that underpins the criminalisation and mass incarceration of communities.
A full-blooded, emotional attempt to reinvigorate improvisation from a musically inclined philosopher and two philosophically inclined improvisers.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.
When one calls a strike, who hears the call, who attunes and listens to it? How to listen to the call of a strike? What prevents one from hearing this call or stops one from listening to it?
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
