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.
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.
Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Looking at and listening to different ideas about sound and music, INSTAL 09’s collection of artists included Tetsuo Kogawa, vocalist Joan La Barbara, Phil Minton (and his Century FC feral choir), Austrian Actionist Hermann Nitsch, Steve McCaffery and many more.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Los Glissandinos work with clarinet and sine tones beating and thrumming in your middle ear, all beautifully paced and serene, but with just enough steely menace broiling under the surface to keep you on edge.
