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.
The production of moving image (film) by the mechanically, unfalteringly repetitive manipulation of mass-produced materials (film), in order to explore three different allegorical representations (films) of repetitive human actions and labour under capital.
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?
A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).
‘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.
Veterans of the psych-infused UK free noise scene, the Vibracathedral Orchestra is a hypnotic ur-drone group hailing from Leeds.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
A glance at both analogue and digital processes; the clarity and precision of digital colour or the yawning, endless depth of dye and emulsion, our programme celebrates how both approaches revel in colour, saturation, hue and tone.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
