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 pieces in the programme switch between silent film/ imageless sound, but we wanted to have a think about how ideas can take up residency on either side of the sound/ image border, without having to inhabit both at the same time.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences.
Sachiko’s very simple, pure sine tones and structures. Otomo on double pianos. Filament’s music isn’t composed and it isn’t improvised: it’s a hybrid of the two.
Chip’s written some of the greatest of all Sci-Fi and Fantasy—page turning character driven diamond-hard novels and short stories: each a lens that refracts our real-life struggles and desires.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Ellis’s processional, precessional cessation and continuation of movement and music comes to us via his forthcoming release Aster of Ceremonies (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
How do communities practice being one another’s means, addressing their material problems facing them replicating the state’s violent logic of who is disposable.
Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.
