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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.

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Beams of light fanning out across an audience from different directions

29 November 2008

BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Light Trap

Greg Pope Norbert Möslang

Out of a dark haze, shafts of light emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour

A microphone wrapped in white paper on a mic stand on stage

20 May 2005

The Sage Gateshead

MICRO 1

Takehisa Kosugi

MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05

Guy sherwin holding a mirror showing a projection of himself with another mirror

10 October 2008

DCA

Man With a Mirror

Guy Sherwin

A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08

An audience assembled inside a cave a pool of water between them and performers

23 June 2006

Smoo Cave

Akio Suzuki John Butcher

Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.

Resonant Spaces

A dark room and Tone is performing at a laptop.

4 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

Paramedia

Yasunao Tone

A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.

A survey is a process of listening

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16 February 2008

The Arches

Translation

Jarrod Fowler

Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.

INSTAL 08

An actor playing a reporter at a trial sits in front of a drawered wall

23 March 2012

Tramway

Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb

Andrea Geyer

A performed installation by one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt

Episode 3: Copying without Copying

A projection of a blue circle, an infinite loop or a frequency analysis

13 November 2010

Tramway

SOLITON(E) STAR, RESONANCE REGION 1A [ZERO-TIME SONIC MIRROR]

Catherine Christer Hennix

Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.

INSTAL 10

13 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – CKDH & Dora Doll

CKDH Dora Doll

Edinburgh. Sinewave manipulating Giant Tank-ette goes head-to-head with Decaer Pinga’s first lady of noise.

INSTAL 05

Robin Hayward sits whilst playing a tuba with a ball of sand at the horn

15 February 2008

The Arches

Self Cancellation – Sand

Robin Hayward

Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.

INSTAL 08

A scanned picture of a B-52 and its ordinance laid out in the desert

22 January 2012

GFT

B-52

Hartmut Bitomsky

Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

A small room with a table with white paper on it and several green chairs

6 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Ultra-red

For day five of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will review the previous work undertaken together, and perhaps draw up a summary of reflections and pose some future questions.