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.
Ken Jacobs chats to Edwin Carels: Edwin is a curator based in Ghent, responsible for some fantastic programmes of experimental film and art at the Rotterdam Film festival (amongst others).
Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.
A talk entitled ‘The Conquest of the Universe’: which delves into the connections between the underground filmmakers and musicians in New York in the early 1960s
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing by the Stones of Stenness, instead of the Ring of Brodgar, because of bad weather.
Jean-Luc Guionnet will be giving a talk as part of the music department’s ongoing series of colloquia.
Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.
One-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.
A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
