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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.

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People playing instruments, some of them on the floor
15 October 2005
The Arches

Directing Hand

Directing Hand

A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.

INSTAL 05
Four folks sit around a table looking out of frame to someone asking a question
20 April 2013
Tramway

The Experiment: Pt. 2

Amiri Baraka Fred Moten Sonia Sanchez Wadada Leo Smith

How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

aquasomatics

Nat Raha Ailie Ormston

Transfeminist and revolutionary poetry, voice and timbral abstraction: a sounding and spatialising of reparative sonic and somatic practices that can speak back to violent histories of expropriation and ecocide.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A spiral form made of shoes and boots is laid out on a purple and red lit floor
13 November 2010
Tramway

Overheard (Installation)

Resonance Radio Orchestra

The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.

INSTAL 10
A Film is a Statement Poster Graphic
19 – 22 January 2012
CCA GFT

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.

Colorful leather bound books line a wooden shelf, with writing on their spine in Arabic, one booklet entitled “3 Scores and The People’s Mic Khutba” in Urdu, is slipping into the company of the books or out into the hands of a seeker.
14 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Bring a Witness

Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato

Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Matthew Saladin wearing a suit gesticulates as he talks and holds a paper
12 November 2010
Tramway

Eject & No Disc

Matthieu Saladin

French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.

INSTAL 10
Moor Mother performs at Episode 9, back lit with pale golden light
16 November 2017
Tramway

Moor Mother

Moor Mother

Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Two Bain brothers look down at a lit mixer in a dark space
15 February 2008
The Arches

Self Cancellation – Archisonic

John Bain Mark Bain

A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.

INSTAL 08
John Tilbury plays a piano whilst Wadada Leo Smith plays a trumpet
19 April 2013
Tramway

Wadada Leo Smith & John Tilbury

John Tilbury Wadada Leo Smith

How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Four people on stage have a discussion. A screen projects images behind them
21 October 2016
Tramway

Life In Flight From Every Prison

Dean Spade Joshua Allen Tourmaline We Will Rise

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?

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
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