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.
Performing with hand built radio transmitters, which react to interference in the atmosphere and the electrical impedance of his hands, his radio art is a form of social practice; a statement in opposition to mass media.
One of the great experimental films. A 60 minute, three part riddle that maybe approximates our intellectual development by moving from imageless words to the recognition of silent images and the learning of simple tasks and finally a serenity and acceptance of death.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.
“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
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
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.
