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.
Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.
Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.
A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.
Includes: street portraits of kids in 1930’s Dakota, a mysterious foggy pilgrimage, a swarm of time-lapsed consumers, a stereoscopic analysis of mill life, up close and personal in a Lighting Bolt mosh pit.
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.
Droner responsible for Fordell Research Unit, Muscletusk’s murk manipulator and Metzian concrete-mixer cement international relations and yr heids.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.
A performative survey of listening, as we managed to find it being used as a tool in different practices, disciplines and communities in North America (music, poetry, film, philosophy, activism…).
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.
