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.
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
A simple, gracefully bold set-up to allow Loïc to trace connections: of comments upon comments upon comments, of sounds next to sounds next to sounds.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.
60 cycle hums, jagged static cracklings, and clipped electron pinpricks, mutating them into sublime, post-techno grooves
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
