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.
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Three speakers play back pre-recorded sounds, Marc listens and responds: “What is played is the imperfect witness of what I listen to (or maybe better, how I listen).”
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.
For day three of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Nancy Nevárez.
The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.
Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
