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.
Emotional fantasies, towers of cakes, identity troubles, collapsed distance and time and Samuel R. Delany’s rarely seen 1971 film The Orchid.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
What to do about a telethon other than fuck it up? Poet, tarotist, artist, and librarian Cyrée Jarelle Johnson returns to IWBWYE to read the 1980s and ’90s for what those decades were: practice for now.
What’s the relationship between the eternal hum of the oceanic beloved and the persistence of vorticity in fluid dynamics? And how does Alice Coltrane’s harp help us stay there?
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
The Tower performance at KYTN throws into that mix the 70’s fluxus light shows and films of Jeff Perkins and other filmic interventions tuned to their unique frequency.
Seven women recite monologues composed from texts from the vibrant years of the Weimar Republic. A kind of cultural echo: an experience of histories brought to the present.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
A sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?
