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.
Grouped here are performances and talks about or exploring sociality, and performances and talks that involve lots of people (thematically or literally). For example: the second part of a wide ranging and vital conversation between Amiri Baraka, Fred Moten, Sonia Sanchez and Wadada Leo Smith. The Ueinzz Theatre Company discuss the relationship between their creative practice and care. Or the sets and performances from the Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight Club night.
Individual experience separated by physical boundaries (of space, time or ability) suggested as communities of collective experience by (perhaps voyeuristic) artists.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
For musical chameleon Richard Youngs both his creative and family life are focused in the room that many of us consider the centre piece of our lives.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.