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.
Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.
A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
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 specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
