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.
Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
A programme of discontinuity between narration, text and image. Including Manual Saiz’s employment of John Malkovich’s Spanish dubbing double and Peter Rose’s absurdly hilarious concrete poetry subtitling chaos.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
This session focuses in on the defiant mutual aid practices of early and DIY feminist movements in the UK, that attempted to shift and radicalise care and kinship away from the domain of the nuclear family.
A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.
A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
