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.
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
Taking our festivals south of the border to The Sage Gateshead we set out to offer a few cardinal pointers in the vast array of experimental music practices.
Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
Italian duo of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio utilising an array of acoustic and electric guitars, various toy-instruments and toy-microphones.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
