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.
The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.
Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.
Electronic music, time, thought, the word, and consecutive matters
Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.
A silent collage of found film footage partially layered with computer graphics to provide a framework in which live music can develop.
A Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
For day two of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by the Vogue’ology collective.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
