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.
What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.
Los Glissandinos work with clarinet and sine tones beating and thrumming in your middle ear, all beautifully paced and serene, but with just enough steely menace broiling under the surface to keep you on edge.
In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.
Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Percussion used to explore the social construction of space
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Brain boiling duo improvisation by great Japanese no input mixing desk pioneer Toshi Nakamura and french organ philosopher Jean-Luc Guionnet.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
