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.
As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
The Echo project is an installation as audio guide for a crowd. And at the same time it’s a private conversation: with you, as one of 20 people in a room, a sort of public intimacy.
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
A fulcrum to the Japanese noise scene, JOJO Hiroshige has been responsible for much of the explosion of free music coming from Japan in the last 30 years.
“Introduction to Protactile Theory” is a legendary seminar that facilitator John Lee Clark has designed to bring diverse communities into conversation with the Protactile movement.
A kind of an informal overview of INSTAL.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
