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.
We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
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.
A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.
A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.
Austrian guitarist who specialises in a warm digital deconstruction of guitar noise
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.
One of the most influential groups in improvised music, with the collective understanding that comes from listening keenly to each other for decades
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
