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.
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
A changing pool of people (40 or so at a time – artists, audiences, etc) talk for 90 minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, structured like speed dating, and mixed live as both a concert and for radio broadcast.
Blood Stereo & Ludo Mich: linking past and present generations of DIY intuitive expression in a post fluxus ‘big mess’.
Philip Jeck creates slowly evolving symphonies that are as much about the crackling hiss of old vinyl as the actual ‘musical’ material.
Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.
Guy Sherwin gives a kind of annotated, chat through his optical sound films
Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.
When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
The program of composed music including Feldman’s Instruments III, Ligeti’s piece for 100 Metronomes Poeme Sympathetique, and Rebonds B by Iannis Xenakis.
A live installation of the ‘Film Ist’: projected on 4 huge screens and an improvised soundtrack from 4 figureheads of the Austrian experimental music scene.
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
