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.
Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Vajra are a Japanese psychedelic rock supergroup, hewn from the collective consciousness of Fushitsusha’s Keiji Haino, folk radical Kan Mikami and percussionist Toshiaki Ishitsuka.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
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.
