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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.

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A film still image is distorted, turning the image of a couple into liquid

11 December 2004

DCA

Film Programme 2: Celluloid

Bill Morrison Guy Sherwin Jürgen Reble Thomas Köner Various Artists William Basinski

Each film in this programme celebrates process; the decay of emulsion, the properties of dust and dirt, the manipulation of time. Post the dawn of the digital age, we reflect on our love of the film form, celluloid as an object, a medium and a physical entity.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

15 May 2010

Tramway

It Doesn’t Say What It Says

Loïc Blairon

Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…

UNINSTAL

Two performers silhouetted against a projection of blue light

18 October 2003

DCA

Silophone

[the user]

Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03

Black background with outlines of map contour lines in blue

20 – 29 June 2006

Various

Resonant Spaces

A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.

Jandek performing on stage at Anthology Film Archives NY 05

6 September 2005

Anthology Film Archives, New York 05

Alan Licht Chris Corsano Jandek Loren Mazzacane Connors MV & EE Matt Heyner

Performances at Anthology Film Archives NY by Jandek, Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht, and MV & EE.

Matthew Saladin wearing a suit gesticulates as he talks and holds a paper

12 November 2010

Tramway

Eject & No Disc

Matthieu Saladin

French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.

INSTAL 10

A dark room and Tone is performing at a laptop.

4 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

Paramedia

Yasunao Tone

A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.

A survey is a process of listening

Tony Conrad wearing a shirt and orange t shirt looks forlorn

17 February 2006

DCA

Symposium: ACCESS: SOUND FILE

Dan Norton Dr Cathy Lane Dr Martin Parker Rob Gawthrop Stephen Partridge Tony Conrad Zoe Irvine

ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

Emma Hart lit from the glare of a projector as she adjusts a camera

17 February 2006

DCA

Emma Hart & Benedict Drew

Benedict Drew Emma Hart

An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

A man crouching before an audience operating a projector

13 April 2007

DCA

Keith Evans & Coelacanth

Keith Evans Loren Chasse

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.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

14 October 2006

The Arches

Infest – Polly Shang Kuan Band

Polly Shang Kuan Band

Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.

INSTAL 06

Two shafts of light, one red, one blue come from two 16mm projectors

12 December 2004

DCA

Tabula Smaragdina

Jürgen Reble Thomas Köner

Dual projections of pulsating shards of film, treated in crystallized salts and dyes merge with the whirring of projectors, distilled into particles of sound.