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.
Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.
A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Includes: tamed TV snow, video feedback of racing particles, a remake of a polish photogram film destroyed in WWII, a visual and aural representation of Gestalt theory, hole-punched film and Guy Sherwin’s Cycles 3 double-projection.
An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Dir: Maurizio Lazzarato & Angela Melitopoulos
A filmic constellation exploring Felix Guattari’s anti-patriarchal, anti-colonialist, anti-psychiatric, animist ideas of care and the self. And an Introduction to the Episode.
