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.
Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”
A performance of Ueinzz’s new play. Each Ueinzz performance is a process of reinvention, between exhaustion and a fleeting vision: singular, collective, anonymous, plural, suspensive, intensive, unworking life.
Poems are kisses, fists, and underground rivers. For all these reasons and many more, I am a poet.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
Miniscule free-noise hissy-fits and broken instrument scrape/ squeal jams from the fools what brought you Giant Tank.
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.
Durational group-mind drone and clatter: bamboo, electronics, the contents of your local ironmongers bin. A 3-hour set from this legendary Japanese improvisation group.
