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.
Junko’s screaming vocal in a nuanced, piercing duo with Urabe’s fuming and convulsive saxophone, far removed from the codes of musical tradition.
Taking over the gallery spaces at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first Kill Your Timid Notion presented a 3 day programme of live immersive experiences and specially curated film programmes.
Sound as it is endured by space and the body: 15 participants lie face down and pound the floor with a microphone one thousand times, each person choosing their own rhythm and intensity.
Underground movement legend boychild hosts this workshop—on improvisation, cosmetics, movement and lip-sync.
Solo performance on bass clarinet, jaw harp & voice by Arrington De Dionyso.
Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
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.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
