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.
Equal parts spectacle, installation and performance, his set for us is a specially developed work, ‘turning’, which features an orchestra of multiple turntables, 4 projections and a collection of old, and, quite probably, misfiring analogue kit.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
An open conversation around the history and practices of the Ueinzz Theatre Company – a radical Brazilian schizoscenic theatre company of carers, so-called psychotic patients and philosophers.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops & analogue synthesizers
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
A bodiless treatise on narration, bored speakers, audience misbehaviour and police megaphones, but: is anybody listening?
How do poetry and maths stitch together pictures of our fractured situation from its wreckage and relics, from the debris of hope and the well of residues that make us what we are?
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
