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.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
INSTAL’s third outing saw performances by AMM, Cosmos (Sachiko M & Ami Yoshida), Voreboms, Vibracathedral Orchestra with Matthew Bower and John Godbert, Paragon Ensemble, Merzbow and Ryoji Ikeda.
Noise music for the eyes: projectors turned into instruments, B&W film loops into a thrumming riot of colour, motion and sound.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.
Hijokaidan rapidly built a following due to the overwhelmingly physical intensity of their live performances, often involving destructive onstage rituals of vomit, urine, mangled guitars and ear shredding volume.
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!
A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.
A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.
