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.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
Three workshops lead up to an open invitation to improvise with the festival as concert. The last four hours of the Sunday 14 at Instal 10 were devoted to presentations devised during the three workshops. The material conditions (time, space, facilities…) were the instruments. From there anything could happen.
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
Radical transfeminism aims to hold the space for finding relations between the ruins of the everyday. Emerging from the debris, spaces for politics find form as poetics to carry understandings, actions and be/longings.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.
I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.
During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.
Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.
Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.
