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.
How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Solo organ performance by German composer Eva-Maria Houben, which focuses on ‘nearly nothing’ to expand the way we listen.
With lo-fi dreams and high-def humor, Bande brings MC vibes to the day. Interluding music with spoken performance, the live extimacy of Bande’s presence reaches out via emo-techno-bridges.
What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?
