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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 wooden carved monkey smokes a pipe
20 March 2009

Extra Friday Set

Klaus Filip Radu Malfatti Sean Meehan Taku Unami

Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.

INSTAL 09
A long distance shot of a dark theatre stage piled high with cardboard boxes
26 February 2012
Tramway

Inhuman Grand-Guignol Theatre

Taku Unami

Inspired by the supernatural horror of H. P. Lovecraft, black metal and a sense of worry as to what constitutes an object, or a world.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Jack Halberstam speaking into a microphone
25 May 2013
Tramway

No Church in the Wild

Jack Halberstam

Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
A woman rides a motorcycle against a sunset lit sky
21 January 2012
CCA

Nina Power discussing November

Hito Steyerl Nina Power

Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
Jandek on stage wearing a hat & playing an electric guitar
17 October 2004
The Arches

Jandek

Alex Neilson Jandek Richard Youngs

Jandek’s first ever live performance. Unannounced, the performance was a total surprise for everybody at the festival.

INSTAL 04
Three men play instruments in various stages of dismantlement
22 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Ali Robertson Malcy Duff Seymour Wright

Usurper luddite twins’ disabled instruments play a game of pick-up-sticks with the deconstructed horn of a young Derby opponent.

INSTAL 09
John is sitting on the stage, surrounded by people, all touching each other
14 April 2019
Performance Space New York

John Lee Clark

John Lee Clark

An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.

I wanna be with you everywhere
Mujeres Creando red banner says creativity is an instrument for social struggle
22 October 2016
Tramway

Recipes to Change Society

Mujeres Creando

A sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Charlemagne Palestine seated at two pianos surrounded by soft toys
21 May 2005

The Golden Mean

Charlemagne Palestine

An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
21 June 2023

Break/Open Meetup time*

Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
Side profile portrait of Rashad Becker wearing a peaked baseball cap.
15 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Subversive Strategies in Sound and Music

Rashad Becker Sunik Kim

A chat with Rashad about the communist, conceptual methodology that informs his ground-breaking synthetic music—a form of speculative sonic fiction writing to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Work Care Making Health Work For You and a list of healthcare jobs
18 April 2015
Tramway

Work Care Class 2 – Care & Therapy

Howard Slater

The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
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