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.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
What would a world and an ethics look like free from the destructive consequences of the Western mind?
A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years
Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.
The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.
MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)
Journalist and underground music champion Alan Cummings talks to Keiji Haino about his career and his performance the previous evening.
Temporary Outpost for an Auditory Gesture is a kind of performed installation that explores how sonic phenomena (like feedback, vibration, resonance, echo, rhythm) condition our experience.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
