9 December 2001
The Arches
Fennesz
Fennesz
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
INSTAL 01
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.
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22 March 2009
The Arches
Free-form hook up
Grant Smith Jean-Philippe Gross Fraser Burnett
Droner responsible for Fordell Research Unit, Muscletusk’s murk manipulator and Metzian concrete-mixer cement international relations and yr heids.
INSTAL 09
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Los Glissandinos
Kai Fagaschinski Klaus Filip
Los Glissandinos work with clarinet and sine tones beating and thrumming in your middle ear, all beautifully paced and serene, but with just enough steely menace broiling under the surface to keep you on edge.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
15 October 2006
The Arches
Tetsuya Umeda
Tetsuya Umeda
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
INSTAL 06
26 February 2010
DCA
Mattin
Mattin
Taking a scalpel to the relationship between performer and audience: cutting something out to see what’s left, a drastic subtraction and shift of emphasis.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Aufgehoben
A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
23 November 2019
Tramway
Untitled Hand Dance
boychild
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
28 September 2014
Tramway
Dreams are Colder than Death
Arthur Jafa
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Anoyonodekigoto
Ikuro Takahashi Yoko Muronoi
A collaborative duo performance, Anoyonodekigoto sets up a sort of negotiation between a musician, a dancer, the audience and the space we’re all sharing.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
23 February 2010
DCA
So Is This
Michael Snow
Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
23 November 2019
Tramway
Borders between Mathematics, Gestures and Dance
boychild Fernando Zalamea
How do we gesture to the invisible, the trans or the obscure? A performative conversation between boychild and Fernando, a sharing of gestures, and a bodily back and forth between mathematician and dance artist.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
20 March 2009
Glasgow University Chapel
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
INSTAL 09