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.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Slapstick comedy, monologue, and a kind of live sculpture transformed through video, props, musical instruments and make-up.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
TEST is a collective creative improvising quartet based out of the NYC Underground (figuratively and literally). Their street-hardened, spatial Jazz is riotous and intense: is also makes us think about collective organization, and different ideas of responsibility and liberty.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
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.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
