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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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A blackboard with chalk lined box shapes and orange post-it notes by a wall

14 November 2010

Tramway

Evacuation of The Great Learning

Mattin Ray Brassier

Three workshops lead up to an open invitation to improvise with the festival as concert. The last four hours of the Sunday 14 at Instal 10 were devoted to presentations devised during the three workshops. The material conditions (time, space, facilities…) were the instruments. From there anything could happen.

INSTAL 10

26 February 2010

Video Times

Kevin Atherton

Conceived of as a dual publication, video cassette and booklet, to be presented as an installation. The content of the videotape is the artist watching television.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

Projection of a purple toned image onto a wall

19 February 2006

DCA

Jennifer Reeves & Anthony Burr

Anthony Burr Jennifer Reeves

An immersive live performance for multiple 16mm film and bass clarinet, taking in the whole gallery, submerging the audience.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

An actor looks off stage left, his eyes seem scared and wary

19 February 2006

DCA

Film Programme 5: Drama

Christian Marclay Ian Helliwell Various Artists

Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

14 October 2006

The Arches

Jazkamer (metal music machine line-up)

Jazkamer

A black hole of dense heaviosity, full of slow motion riffage, tectonic pummel and massive planet destroying rock.

INSTAL 06

21 March 2009

CCA

Encuentro Glasgow

Ultra-red

A public gathering that brings together local artists, musicians, activists, and community organisers.

INSTAL 09

A view down a long underground corridor with lockers and a few seated figures

24 February 2010

DCA

Lunch Break

Sharon Lockhart

A slowed down single tracking shot along a corridor as workers at the Bath Iron Works, (Maine, USA) take their lunch break.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

A seated figure playing a drum screams, a flautist stands and a figure kneels

9 February 2012

Kinning Park Complex

Concert 2

Emilia Muller-Ginorio Fritz Welch Iain Campbell F-W Jean-Luc Guionnet Julia Letitia Scott Liene Rozite Neil Davidson

Performances of compositions by Jean-Luc Guionnet and others, with Julia Letitia Scott, Iain Campbell F-W, Neil Davidson, Fritz Welch, Liene Rozite, Emilia Muller Ginorio.

Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet

Thuja performing among tree branches at DCA Dundee

10 December 2004

DCA

Thuja & Keith Evans

Keith Evans Thuja

Thuja specialise in a unique and abstract folk music, a devoutly organic tapestry deeply rooted in the sway and bow of nature.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

Arika_Instal08_BryonyMcIntyre_Translation - A Campbell - D Nyoukis - JunkoIMG_3857

16 February 2008

The Arches

Translation

Aileen Campbell Dylan Nyoukis Junko

Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.

INSTAL 08

A drawing of a circular shape made in graphic pencil

5 February 2012

Glasgow University Chapel

Concert 1: Organ Solo

Jean-Luc Guionnet

Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.

Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet

a close up of a music box and stylus surrounded by acoustic padding

10 December 2004

The Music Box (2004)

Petteri Nisunen Tommi Grönlund

Finnish duo Grönlund Nisunen are known for their extraordinary work fusing incredible sounds with stunning objects in large scale sculptural installations.