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: a classic of innovative computer graphics, ex-pat Scot McLaren on form, a riotous psychedelic oil show with a Soft Machine accompaniment, subtle manipulation of data feedback, a colourful road movie and a reworking of a lost Paul Sharits film.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.
Final workshop exploring work, care and class. Does the ‘care industry’ summon forth its own class? Can this ‘affective class’, in their ability to care for others, militate against the carelessness of self-interest?
Complexly interacting colossal drones by the creator of some of the most legendary yet least heard music of the 70’s.
Munehiro Narita’s Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intentions) fired out some of the most compelling no-wave improvised rock of the 80s.
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
