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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 portrait of Fred Moten wearing sunglasses and a cheeky smile

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Fred Moten
Chuquimamani-Condori performing. Their face tilts downwards. They are wearing a wide brimmed hat, the background is dark and their face is lit dramatically by the cast of a red light

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Music Performance
under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs

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Body | Disembody

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Paul Sharits' Shutter Interface projected on a wall: three bands of colour
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Shutter Interface

Paul Sharits

Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
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19 April 2015
Tramway

No Ready Made Men – Performance

Ueinzz

A performance of Ueinzz’s new play. Each Ueinzz performance is a process of reinvention, between exhaustion and a fleeting vision: singular, collective, anonymous, plural, suspensive, intensive, unworking life.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Nikos Veliotis in safety goggles chips wood, cello and a projection in the back
21 March 2009
The Arches

Cello Powder

Nikos Veliotis

Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.

INSTAL 09
A large white circular form hovers in the mid distance at the end of a long room
11 October 2008
DCA

L’Anticoncept

Gil Wolman

60 minutes of hard ass minimal film, projected onto a weather balloon and accompanied by the inspired poetic rant of a visionary Frenchman.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Black background with outlines of map contour lines in blue
20 – 29 June 2006
Various

Resonant Spaces

A tour with John Butcher and Akio Suzuki that set out to allow the audience to experience (and to listen to) the enviroment around them in different way.

AMM in a hallway or a hotel foyer leather jackets and smiles
23 November 2003
The Arches

AMM

Eddie Prevost John Tilbury Keith Rowe

AMM have undoubtedly been among the most important contributors to the UK free improv scene for nearly 40 years and we are extremely proud to be able to be working with such distinguished musicians who still rarely play live in the UK.

INSTAL 03
13 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee

Cask-strength electrohypnol/ shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder responsible for recent Tremors blowouts.

INSTAL 06
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.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
William Parker talking during his performance at MLFC 07
13 May 2007

William Parker

William Parker

William cradles, hammers, and rains down blows, plucking and using 2 bows to attack the strings above and below the bridge, all in the service of a fiery and passionate creativity.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Kiyoharu Kuwayama & Rina Kijima with friend at INSTAL 06
15 October 2006
The Arches

Kuwayama & Kijima

Kiyoharu Kuwayama Rina Kijima

Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.

INSTAL 06
Steve Roden seated on stage at DCA Dundee
17 October 2003
DCA

Steve Roden

Steve Roden

By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Leah stands, gazing upwards in white horn-rimmed spectacles
11 April 2019
Performance Space New York

Solo Performances

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.

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