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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 blue and mauve background with black text that reads System Errors

17 August 2020

Online

System Errors: Abolitionist Technologies and Aesthetics

American Artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Juliana Huxtable Legacy Russell

A panel exploring the radical potential of technologies through fugitivity and opacity: their ability to obscure, to make it impossible for us to be known, to render us untraceable by every arm of the state even under the all-consuming spectre of surveillance capital.

Revolution is not a one-time event

Projection of a pink and gold form above a man operating another projector

12 December 2004

DCA

La Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine

Metamkine

Adamantly analogue, inspiring and frequently chaotic in performance, Metamkine draw no distinction between image and sound; during their intuitively improvised performances music and images are created simultaneously and equitably.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

A microphone cable coiled on a grey floor

28 February 2010

DCA

Unstable, fragile but daring together

Emma Hedditch Howard Slater Laurie Pitt Liam Casey Mattin

Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

27 June 2006

Wormit Reservoir

Akio Suzuki John Butcher

Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.

Resonant Spaces

Someone hands are bound in maybe 15 different, irregularly knotted ropes

21 November 2019

Tramway

Gravitational Feel: Opening Performance

Fred Moten Wu Tsang

Gravitational Feel is an engine for intensifying the differentiation of our entanglement, which you continually reprogramme in the mutual rub, shift and lap of its sonic, wooden, steel, textile and human material.

Episode 10: A Means Without End

27 March 2022

CCA Annex (Online)

Part Two | Parte II

Turmalina Chama Denise Ferreira da Silva Camilla Rocha Campos

A Breath to Follow | Um sopro a se seguir

Camisha Jones stands at the mic looking down at her phone and laughing

14 April 2019

Performance Space New York

Dispatches from the Intersection of Hurting & Joy

Camisha L. Jones

Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.

I wanna be with you everywhere

A cactus and coffee cup and a sheet of paper sit on a table

28 February 2010

DCA

Poetic Justice

Hollis Frampton

A cinema of the mind, a film to take place in the viewers’ imagination(s).

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

Mijke point to a white board their face is reflected in a tv screen to their lef

24 November 2019

Tramway

Multilogics and Poetics of Radical Transfeminism

Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

Underlying radical transfeminism, as an urgent critique of binary essentialism and fixed identities, is the call for a new kind of thinking that can move between and integrate the truths of all lives in their transformations.

Episode 10: A Means Without End

Two shafts of light, one red, one blue come from two 16mm projectors

12 December 2004

DCA

Tabula Smaragdina

Jürgen Reble Thomas Köner

Dual projections of pulsating shards of film, treated in crystallized salts and dyes merge with the whirring of projectors, distilled into particles of sound.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

19 October 2003

DCA

Short Film Programme 2: Contemporary

Billy Roisz Various Artists William Basinski

The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03

Several bands of colour in blue pink and turquoise

18 October 2003

DCA

Short Film Programme 1: Retrospective

Various Artists

The first of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.