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.
Reveling in the geometric, mathematical and perceptual relationship between sound and form, this programme features a landmark work of experimental film in Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; a complex, enduring and expressive of structuralist or flicker films.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.
The Cube is a 6 hour performed installation in which sound and image are treated as independent but equal, where musicians and filmmakers sit alongside each other, improvise to and feed off both projected image and amplified and acoustic sound.
