Merzbow
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
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.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.
Voguing, drag, clubbing, and the politics of communities making different performances of gender and sexuality visible.
Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.
A Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Glasgow. Power electronic klutz behaviour by Kovorox sound head-honcho. Bruised bodies and broken microphones.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.