11 – 15 November 2026
Episode 12
Save the dates for Episode 12.
Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026
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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4 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
Comrades of Time
Andrea Geyer
Seven women recite monologues composed from texts from the vibrant years of the Weimar Republic. A kind of cultural echo: an experience of histories brought to the present.
A survey is a process of listening
15 April 2007
DCA
Light Trap
Greg Pope Norbert Möslang
Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
21 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
18 April 2014
The New School
Literary Reflections of Ballroom
Various Artists
A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.
Master Ballstar Weekend
21 June 2023
Open Stage/ Screen/ Mic
Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
15 February 2008
Stereo
Blood Stereo
Blood Stereo Heather Leigh Murray
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
INSTAL 08
21 June 2023
Performance in the spirit and celebration of Aster of Ceremonies
JJJJJerome Ellis
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
11 October 2008
DCA
Film Programme: Sets
Christof Migone Various Artists Hollis Frampton
A programme that looks at how sound and image can be treated as variants in a collection of ordered objects; at how to create meaning from the similar, and to notice difference.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
12 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Box & Nimrod 33
Box Nimrod 33
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
INSTAL 05
20 March 2009
Glasgow University Chapel
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
INSTAL 09
21 – 28 February 2010
DCA
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
A mixture of investigation groups, live performances, screenings and installations at DCA; the festival looked to strip back music, sound, film and moving image to their core ideas and explore them with artists and audiences.