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 program of composed music including Feldman’s Instruments III, Ligeti’s piece for 100 Metronomes Poeme Sympathetique, and Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis.
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
Droner responsible for Fordell Research Unit, Muscletusk’s murk manipulator and Metzian concrete-mixer cement international relations and yr heids.
How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
A festival hewn from passions for experimental music, film and visual art and for a passion in figuring out how they can relate to, cross-fertilise and inspire and each other.
Ken Jacobs chats to Edwin Carels: Edwin is a curator based in Ghent, responsible for some fantastic programmes of experimental film and art at the Rotterdam Film festival (amongst others).
A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.
