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.
This programme takes human subjects as the focus for sound and image construction. And it includes a couple of masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.
We asked Christoph to come and give a sort of informal talk, raising some of his ideas about sound and image, and playing/ showing a few examples.
A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.
What’s the relationship between the eternal hum of the oceanic beloved and the persistence of vorticity in fluid dynamics? And how does Alice Coltrane’s harp help us stay there?
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
In this workshop we will imagine ourselves as time travellers from a glorious and chaotic neurodivergent-led future.
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.
A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.
