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.
For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.
A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.
