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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.

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A drawing of skull has the numbers 21 - 87 in a serif font written over the eyes
12 October 2008
DCA

Film Programme: Sonic Landscapes

Various Artists

Can a musician create a sonic photograph; something with a depth of field, where you can hear sounds and their interconnections, much as you see objects and their relationships in a photo? Could a filmmaker use musical concepts to represent landscape?

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Sondra Perry in a stairwell wearing a Steadicam harness
22 October 2016
Tramway

Resident Evil

Sondra Perry

Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Octante & Margarita Garcia standing in a group smiling
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Octante

Alfredo Costa Monteiro Ferran Fages Margarida Garcia Ruth Barberán

Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Paul Sharits' Shutter Interface projected on a wall: three bands of colour
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Shutter Interface

Paul Sharits

Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
Ali Robertson Hunches over a table with lots of small metal objects on it
21 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Ali Robertson Euan Currie Fritz Welch

Dead Labour Process drool-tape farmer, squeaking/creaking Usurper brother and Peeesseye’s yodelling traps-man hold a real OUT splutter party.

INSTAL 09
Three folks sit around a table looking at Sonia Sanchez as she gesticulates
20 April 2013
Tramway

The Experiment: Pt. 1

Amiri Baraka Fred Moten Wadada Leo Smith Sonia Sanchez

What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
13 October 2005
The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Usurper

Usurper

Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.

INSTAL 05
Several rows of audience members smile and one has a hand raised
17 April 2014
The New School

Ballroom Town Hall Meeting

Various Artists

Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.

Master Ballstar Weekend
Pools of light show music stands holding large books
24 February 2012
Tramway

De Musicorum Infelicitate

Esther Ferrer Walter Marchetti

‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
14 May 2010
Tramway

Used Sound

Jean-Luc Guionnet Ray Brassier Seijiro Murayama

A full-blooded, emotional attempt to reinvigorate improvisation from a musically inclined philosopher and two philosophically inclined improvisers.

UNINSTAL
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Polly Shang Kuan Band

Polly Shang Kuan Band

Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.

INSTAL 06
Tony conrad bowing a violin in the foreground, Keiji Haino singing behind
14 October 2006
The Arches

Keiji Haino & Tony Conrad

Keiji Haino Tony Conrad

Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.

INSTAL 06
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