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.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Could cruising and random public sex be the basis of an ethically organised society? A discussion with Jackie Wang, Samuel R. Delany and Huw Lemmey.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
