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.
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
This programme is a celebration of Charlemagne Palestine; passionate, extravagant, visceral. Including two sections from Ritual dans le Vide, an extension of his ‘running camera’ works of the 70’s and Pip Chodorov’s vibrant workout of a live version of Strumming Music.
An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
John Mullarkey sets in a wider context our understanding of Alain Badiou and Francois Laruelle, two of the most radical philosophers in Europe today.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
A carefully thought out, simple but rich performance using just a turntable, teach yourself foreign language LP’s, the impeccable timing of a percussionist, and an idea.
Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.
