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 poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Mirror and Phantom Engineer performing an improvised soundtrack to Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 horror film prototype, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
