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.
Temporary Outpost for an Auditory Gesture is a kind of performed installation that explores how sonic phenomena (like feedback, vibration, resonance, echo, rhythm) condition our experience.
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.
Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
