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.
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Elizabeth’s writing pulls apart toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify it; working towards an alternative distribution of powers, so that ways of being otherwise can endure.
The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.
Robin Hayward – exploring the micro-sounds of a tuba, filling slowly with sand.
Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
