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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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Loren and Alan playing electric guitars
16 October 2005
The Arches

Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht

Alan Licht Loren Mazzacane Connors

An utterly deep introspection told in aching, weeping guitar lines; melodic, simple, always minimal but somehow entirely epic.

INSTAL 05
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
Image with the word: Defaalt
9 December 2001
The Arches

Defaalt

Defaalt

Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.

INSTAL 01
A bare chested man with a bandana of their face writhes on a floor with a torch
16 February 2008
Stereo

KMVSNI

KMVSNI

Kylie Minoise Vs Nackt Insecten feedback/ vocal physical threat ‘vs’ ecstatic electronic cloudbursts

INSTAL 08
Robin Hayward and Radu Malfatti play brass instruments at the far end of a room
16 February 2008
The Arches

Wandelweiser

Antoine Beuger Manfred Werder Radu Malfatti

Expansive and considered, inclusive and deeply human minimalism: Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder.

INSTAL 08
A design with a yellow background featuring a bottle of Chubz poppers
19 November 2017
Tramway

Chubz

Huw Lemmey

Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
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16 April 2015
Tramway

Ode to 1 & more than 1

Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur

The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Three folks sit around a table looking at Sonia Sanchez as she gesticulates
20 April 2013
Tramway

The Experiment: Pt. 1

Amiri Baraka Fred Moten Wadada Leo Smith Sonia Sanchez

What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ultra-red & Nancy Nevarez seated around a large table with audience members
4 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Nancy Nevárez Ultra-red

For day three of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Nancy Nevárez.

A survey is a process of listening
Emma Hart lit from the glare of a projector as she adjusts a camera
17 February 2006
DCA

Emma Hart & Benedict Drew

Benedict Drew Emma Hart

An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Eddie George & Dhanveer sit next to each other facing an audience
22 November 2019
Tramway

The Strangeness of Dub

Dhanveer Brar Edward George

Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
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