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.
Live in person at Performance Space New York and live-streamed everywhere! Watching Storyboard P dance feels like glimpsing into another world.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Dead Labour Process drool-tape farmer, squeaking/creaking Usurper brother and Peeesseye’s yodelling traps-man hold a real OUT splutter party.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
