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?
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
A chorister attempting to sing Vivaldi, with live accompaniment, while trampolining for 20 minutes.
Thuja specialise in a unique and abstract folk music, a devoutly organic tapestry deeply rooted in the sway and bow of nature.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.
