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.
Stripping back the domesticated ‘meaning’ of (everyday, mundane, kitchen) tools to reveal “a lexicon of rage and frustration.” Plus an allegorical use of mundane, everyday things as an examination of how meaning is constructed in film.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.
