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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.

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A B&W portrait of four members of TEST, all smiling
6 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

TEST featuring Fred Moten

Daniel Carter Matt Heyner Sabir Mateen Tom Bruno Fred Moten

TEST is a collective creative improvising quartet based out of the NYC Underground (figuratively and literally). Their street-hardened, spatial Jazz is riotous and intense: is also makes us think about collective organization, and different ideas of responsibility and liberty.

A survey is a process of listening
Three performers stand next to each other whilst singing and using their voices
21 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Aileen Campbell Dylan Nyoukis Phil Minton

GIO’s bottomless throat, Blood Stereo’s slobber gobbler and the Mouth Of The South tangle tonsils over Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival

INSTAL 09
Arika_Instal08_BryonyMcIntyre_TM - Incapacitants 467
15 February 2008
Stereo

Incapacitants

Incapacitants Junko Kazuo Imai

Ecstatic, scalding and ludicrously heavy, nobody matches Incapacitants for live noise energy. One of the most exhilarating live acts in underground music.

INSTAL 08
People milling around with sheets of paper, passing them
14 November 2010
Tramway

Paper Piece: Secrets

Brandon LaBelle

Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd

INSTAL 10
Tetsuya Umeda operating a machine next to an audience
15 October 2006
The Arches

Tetsuya Umeda

Tetsuya Umeda

Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.

INSTAL 06
Sunik Kim performing. They are sat at a desk with a laptop and mic, there is a cast of blue glowing light.
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Performance

Sunik Kim

A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Poster for Episode 8 Refuse Powers' Grasp
20 – 23 October 2016
Tramway The Art School

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp

Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.

Paul Klee's Angelus Novus painting is framed by box shapes with black borders
22 November 2019
Tramway

Poetry, Mathematics, Debris

Fred Moten Nathaniel Mackey Fernando Zalamea

How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
A screen showing a cross of light with some green shade in the foreground
18 February 2006
DCA

Hototogisu & Bruce McClure

Bruce McClure Hototogisu

A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
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