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 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…).
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
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.
Is there a link between the ways we’re caged and exiled by the prison-industrial complex and the ways people’s bodies are violently categorised and segregated by race, class, gender or ability?
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
A solo improvisation using just the situation of the concert: a space, a PA, Mattin’s own thoughts, you, the audience.
UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.
Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Post consideration and post rationalisation… How do we think about experimental music and film after the performance?
Kanta is a young Japanese artist with a home-made, short circuited take on electronics and physical phenomena which he uses in performance to produce close circuit systems of audio / video feedback.
A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.
