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.
These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
With Taku we’ll carry out some simple proposals for doing almost nothing, for re-thinking sound with whatever comes to hand.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
An immersive live performance for multiple 16mm film and bass clarinet, taking in the whole gallery, submerging the audience.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
