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.
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
Sarah Washington uses electronics and wind-up radios, running out of charge to repsond to the festivals’ Self Cancellation provocation.
ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Recently rediscovered but still very pertinent, Kino Beleške presents a series of speech acts and performative gestures by protagonists of the new artistic practice in former Yugoslavia: each a personal take on the role of art in society.
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.
An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.
Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
