PERFORMANCES, LABS & COLLABS

Subversive, immersive, and partially submerged, Arka Kinari’s title performance is staged from the deck of the ship for audiences gathered on a dock or waterfront. It is a voyage through a world of distress and possibility, expressed through evocative live music and cinematic visual projection mapping.

In an intimate documentary performance combining narration, live music and video mixing, Arka Kinari’s founding artists Nova Ruth & Grey Filastine tell the story behind the story. Together we’ll cross the oceans, peak behind the fences of seedy ports, and survive in deserted radioactive atolls. Truth can be stranger than fiction.

The crew of Arka Kinari welcomes visitors - students, researchers, or the general public - onboard for a guided tour, focusing on the ship's systems for technical autonomy. How can we sustain life in a tiny floating world? And how can these methods be scaled up for life on spaceship Earth?

Laut Loud documents rare musics and music-driven rituals from across the Nusantara archipelago. Ranging from the traditional to the avant-garde, Laut Loud repositions underground sounds atop the sea and amplifies hyper-local music genres in a free online archive.

Visual artists are transforming the storied sails of Arka Kinari into a suite of massive artworks. Each of the six retired sails are being pained by an artist from one of the six continents that the ship has visited, in a creative process that brings artists onto the sea and into collaboration with coastal peoples. The completed works can tour and exhibit independently from ship’s voyage.

Artists, activists, and researchers are invited to live aboard Arka Kinari for short residencies. Embedded within the crew and our voyage, the experience can be a sea change.