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.
The Tower performance at KYTN throws into that mix the 70’s fluxus light shows and films of Jeff Perkins and other filmic interventions tuned to their unique frequency.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival
A performance for projectionist, musicians and audience, which plays with references to Oscar Levant and Gershwin: apparently a series of small doses of chaos.
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
