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.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Sachiko’s very simple, pure sine tones and structures. Otomo on double pianos. Filament’s music isn’t composed and it isn’t improvised: it’s a hybrid of the two.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
The Scottish based Paragon Ensemble has commissioned David Fennessy to compose music for Instal, which will be performed during the evening.
A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.
Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.
