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.
Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.
How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?
The first of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.
