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.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Transfeminist and revolutionary poetry, voice and timbral abstraction: a sounding and spatialising of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.
A changing pool of people (40 or so at a time – artists, audiences, etc) talk for 90 minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, structured like speed dating, and mixed live as both a concert and for radio broadcast.
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Guitar and voice. Keening, droning and mourning. Be ready to release and bring your dis-ease.
Kanta is a young Japanese artist with a home-made, short circuited take on electronics and physical phenomena which he uses in performance to produce close circuit systems of audio / video feedback.
