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.
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
A panel exploring how to dismantle the master’s house — its material edifices and ideological architecture — and the construction of abolitionist futures in the present.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
In Our Hands is a ten week programme of workshops facilitated by Lisa Fannen, Omikemi and Clay. The sessions explore radical approaches to health and collective care in the context of movement for liberation and social justice.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
