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.
CCI Sound system: a performance in which new material will be mixed and phased between two huge PA’s, one a precise Meyer system, the other a huge wall of Marshall amps
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
