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.
Three iconic figures from the Japanese underground assembled as a trio to stand in for the advertised duo of Junko and Jerome Noetinger who was unable to attend the festival due to illness.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’
Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.
