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.
Former street performer, organist, performance artist, circus performer, harpist, accordion player, tree surgeon and tricyclist performing solo.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
HEAVY Japanese super group, featuring the sundown delta blues of Kan Mikami, Toshi Ishizuka’s heavy, time folding drumming and Masayoshi Urabe on sax, harmonica and chains.
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.
