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 poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Free-jazz chat with Sabir Mateen, Daniel Cater, Andrew Barker – hosted by Byron Coley.
Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
The first of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.
Michael Colligan pressing white hot metal into dry ice, causing the metal to sing and scream.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
