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.
Brain boiling duo improvisation by great Japanese no input mixing desk pioneer Toshi Nakamura and french organ philosopher Jean-Luc Guionnet.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
A chat with Rashad about the communist, conceptual methodology that informs his ground-breaking synthetic music—a form of speculative sonic fiction writing to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Seven women recite monologues composed from texts from the vibrant years of the Weimar Republic. A kind of cultural echo: an experience of histories brought to the present.
