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.
For day five of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will review the previous work undertaken together, and perhaps draw up a summary of reflections and pose some future questions.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
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.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.
