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Arika 12 Episode 3 Copying Without Copying

Arika Episode 3
Arika 12
3 Episodes in January, February and March 2012
 
Arika used to organise INSTAL and Kill Your Timid Notion, two of the UK’s leading experimental music and/ or film festivals. This year they’re replacing them with a kind of expanded festival, in three weekend-long Episodes, spread over 10 weeks. A festival in 3 parts, with more space for performances, screenings and events and for the ideas they propose. They used to organise the leading festivals of experimental music and film; now they organise experimental festivals of experimental music and film.
 
Episode 3
How do we understand a situation: read about it, watch something? What if we just repeat it/ ourselves verbatim: embody it?  Or: 3 days of copying and simulacra, replication, repetition, re-inscription and reanimation…in performed installations or film-lectures, learning plays or readings. Featuring Andrea Geyer, Ashley Hunt, a new learning play by Chto Delat? and Combatant Status Review Tribunal pp. 002954–003064: A Public Reading.
 
 

The programme of events include:

  • Friday 23 March starting at 7.30pm – FREE, just turn up

Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb - A performed installation by Andrea Geyer, one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt. She will also be discussing her work with Mike Sperlinger from the Lux

and Notes on the Emptying of a City - A dismantled, performed film, where filmmaker and activist Ashley Hunt pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.

  • Saturday 24 March starting at 7.00pm - FREE, just turn up

Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064: A Public Reading -  Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even: a public hearing.  A four-hour public reading of unedited transcripts from 18 Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nine local people have been invited to read the transcripts, rotating through eight juridical positions during the evening. The piece was conceived by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer

  • Sunday 25 March starting at 7.30pm - FREE, just turn up

The Russian Woods - a new learning play on myth construction and its reproduction by Chto Delat? with twenty local participants; a spectacular musical show (complete with chorus) which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history.

For loads more information and the full schedule please go to www.arika.org.uk

 

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