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.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.
Black Boned Angel’s is a rock sound, stripped of all extraneous detail right down to its core, stretched out and nailed to the ceiling.
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
