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.
60 minutes of hard ass minimal film, projected onto a weather balloon and accompanied by the inspired poetic rant of a visionary Frenchman.
An improvisation that may or may not involve (typical) improvisation.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.
An immersive environment where sound is looped through oscillators, radio, guitar pick-ups and video amps to create dense strobing images and colours
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.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
