Residency, May–July 2021
Trans Femme Futures
Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.
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.
Suggested Searches
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead
Shuji Inaba
Shuji Inaba
A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Gateshead 21
Northern Sinfonia Radu Malfatti
We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
22 March 2009
The Arches
Century FC
Phil Minton
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
INSTAL 09
29 November – 7 December 2008
BFI IMAX
BFI Southbank
ICA
Spike Island
Arnolfini
CCA
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
In 2008 we toured our Kill Your Timid Notion festival of experimental sound and image to London, Bristol and Glasgow, bringing audiences a taste of the previous 5 festival editions.
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
BFI IMAX
ICA
Spike Island
Arnolfini
CCA
Shutter Interface
Paul Sharits
Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
14 April 2007
DCA
Brian Dillon Talk
Brian Dillon
Join Brian as he ruminates on the history of how experimental filmmakers and sound artists have drifted into and taken over galleries in order to show their work.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
15 October 2005
The Arches
Directing Hand
Directing Hand
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
INSTAL 05
21 March 2009
The Arches
Free-form hook up
Ruaraidh Sanachan Karen Constance
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
INSTAL 09
12 October 2008
cloud _to_air
Seth Cluett
Like walking through the abstracted amalgamation of 30 or so storms, trays of water shaken by thunder, light bouncing off pools.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
15 April 2007
DCA
Film Programme 4: Beyond Image
Various Artists
Includes: a classic of innovative computer graphics, ex-pat Scot McLaren on form, a riotous psychedelic oil show with a Soft Machine accompaniment, subtle manipulation of data feedback, a colourful road movie and a reworking of a lost Paul Sharits film.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
15 February 2008
The Arches
Self Cancellation – Asymptotic Freedom / Feedback Wire Drawing
Benedict Drew John Butcher
John Butcher plays and manipulates a feeding back saxophone. Benedict Drew on electronics, broken cables and standing waves.
INSTAL 08