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.
In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.
Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage
A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
2 days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil.
Dois dias de discussões e apresentações online de artistes explorando as práticas cosmológicas, decoloniais e sensoriais de coletivoas de arte, dança e música de base negra e indígena no Brasil.
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.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
A talk entitled ‘The Conquest of the Universe’: which delves into the connections between the underground filmmakers and musicians in New York in the early 1960s
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
