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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.

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Paul Sharits' Shutter Interface projected on a wall: three bands of colour

29 November 2008

BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Shutter Interface

Paul Sharits

Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour

Projection of a pink and gold form above a man operating another projector

12 December 2004

DCA

La Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine

Metamkine

Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

Two figures boxing in front of an audience

27 February 2010

DCA

Overheard (Suspension of Belief Sketch 4)

Resonance Radio Orchestra

There are core ways in which our listening to the radio differs from other kinds of listening. What happens when we pay attention to how we pay attention?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

2 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

Temporary outpost for an auditory figure

Brandon LaBelle

A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.

A survey is a process of listening

A view of Kylie Minoise's bare back with a red bandand tied around their head

16 February 2008

The Arches

Personal Space

Kylie Minoise

Thirty lucky Instal punters experience Kylie’s pre-match aggro workout one-on-one in the darkness of an Arches dressing room.

INSTAL 08

Lee Patterson adds a spoon of powder to a large glass of water

15 February 2008

The Arches

Self Cancellation – Vessels

Lee Patterson

In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.

INSTAL 08

13 March 2022

Online

Support Not Separation

Ubuntu Women Shelter Legal Action for Women Recovering Justice

How do grassroots feminist organisations strategise relationships between mothers, parents, carers and their children based on respect and empowerment, in resistance to the practice of putting children in often the most uncaring of places – care.

Mutual Aid

Emma Hart lit from the glare of a projector as she adjusts a camera

17 February 2006

DCA

Emma Hart & Benedict Drew

Benedict Drew Emma Hart

An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

Computer screen revealing some data and a green shape

17 October 2003

DCA

Cyclo

Carsten Nicolai Ryoji Ikeda

Two figureheads of the minimalist electronica pulse, Ikeda and Nicolai have been responsible for some of the most innovative and ground-breaking music of the last decade, redefining experimental electronica.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03

Kjell Björgeengen, Keith Rowe & Philipp Wachsmann with equipment and screens

29 November – 7 December 2008

ICA Spike Island CCA

Kjell Björgeengen, Keith Rowe & Philipp Wachsmann

Keith Rowe Kjell Björgeengen Philipp Wachsmann

An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour

A woman looks towards the camera from the a low angle, there are trees behind

19 April 2015

Tramway

Standing in the Flesh

Hortense J. Spillers

In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives

A film still of a set of a living room filled with pictures and a couple

18 October 2003

DCA

Corpus Callosum

Michael Snow

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.