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.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
A sung-through Nubian musical ballet. A darkly humorous take on sexual trauma and what magical and ancestral tools might heal it.
A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
Hijokaidan rapidly built a following due to the overwhelmingly physical intensity of their live performances, often involving destructive onstage rituals of vomit, urine, mangled guitars and ear shredding volume.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.
For day three of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Nancy Nevárez.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
