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.
Bringing together artists working with music, sound, film and the moving image, KYTN 2008 saw performances, improvisations, screenings and installations over three days at DCA.
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?
Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
Paul Sharits’ Shutter Interface is a multi screen installation born of an intent to reveal the material substance of cinema in its purest form: spatially.
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
