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.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.
We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
