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.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
One-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.
Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.
