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.
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Brain boiling duo improvisation by great Japanese no input mixing desk pioneer Toshi Nakamura and french organ philosopher Jean-Luc Guionnet.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
First live show outside the USA featuring one-off film pieces and live theatre from the ringleaders of the ‘weird new America’ psych folk explosion.
Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.
