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.
Craig will give a guided reading of his handbook of exemplary instances of literary listening and will be joined by one of the selected authors, Vanessa Place.
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.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.
US percussionist, poet, sound artist and instrument maker performing on self-made instruments constructed from industrial materials such as stainless steel, titanium, PVC plastics and various kinds of pipe.
From really simple, open instructions, An Unrhymed Chord creates a kind of half-way point between composition and improvisation.
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.
