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.
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.
A multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Conceived of as a dual publication, video cassette and booklet, to be presented as an installation. The content of the videotape is the artist watching television.
