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.
Sound as it is endured by space and the body: 15 participants lie face down and pound the floor with a microphone one thousand times, each person choosing their own rhythm and intensity.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Droner responsible for Fordell Research Unit, Muscletusk’s murk manipulator and Metzian concrete-mixer cement international relations and yr heids.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.
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.
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
