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 miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
Performance of a Sudoko based graphic score giving rise to a process of self cancellation.
Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
