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.
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
One of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation discusses practices of Indigenous Resurgence drawn from Nishnaabeg poetic knowledge.
The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
