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.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
Now a two day festival, INSTAL 04 was borne of a desire to open eyes, challenge audiences and expand musical horizons. This was also the year in which a certain representative from Corwood Industries made his first ever live appearance.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
How do we gesture to the invisible, the trans or the obscure? A performative conversation between boychild and Fernando, a sharing of gestures, and a bodily back and forth between mathematician and dance artist.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
