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.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
The 2006 INSTAL festival saw a broad selection of artists that included Blood Stereo and Ludo Mich, Ellen Fullman and Sean Meehan, Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad and a specially created performance by Maryanne Amacher.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.
