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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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Lutz Becker reads a text, seated cross legged on a platform, against a blank wal
20 January 2012
CCA

Kino Beleske (Film Notes)

Lutz Becker

Recently rediscovered but still very pertinent, Kino Beleške presents a series of speech acts and performative gestures by protagonists of the new artistic practice in former Yugoslavia: each a personal take on the role of art in society.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
A rectangle of red light, one of green light and a beam of white light
13 April 2007
DCA

Wave Formations

William Raban

Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
18 – 21 November 2024
ATLAS Arts

Karrabing at ATLAS Arts

Karrabing Film Collective

As part of Karrabing’s visit to Scotland, the collective will be hosted for three days in the Isle of Skye by The School of Plural Futures.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Jarrod planting seeds in little cardboard plant pots, with a pink watering can
28 February 2010
DCA

Jarrod Fowler

Jarrod Fowler

What is the radical concept at the core of ‘rhythm’, expanded from simply musical or mathematical notions to encompass personal, social, collective rhythms?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Gary Smith playing a guitar at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Gary Smith

Gary Smith

Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Three women pose in front of a home made banner "Get the Body of a God"
28 September 2014
Tramway

Dance Workshop

Glasgow Open Dance School Miss Prissy

A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
A film still shows an interior view along a hospital corridor
14 April 2019
Performance Space New York

After…After…(Access)

Jordan Lord

A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.

I wanna be with you everywhere
A person in a flesh coloured catsuit, bends into a crab shape
24 May 2013
Tramway

(M)IMOSA | Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M)

Cecilia Bengolea François Chaignaud Marlene Monteiro Freitas Trajal Harrell

What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Inure Takehashi playing a snare drum among buddleia
15 July 2007
The former Abbeyhill Station

Shadowed Spaces Edinburgh

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

The site of the former Abbeyhill Station on the 1903 Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith railway, overgrown and leading to as yet un-regenerated ‘wasteland’; taxi’s for 80 people, each instructed to take different routes between locations and; a slice of land concealed behind corporate business park branding off the Wester Approach Rd, apparently of no conceivable use and named ‘Chateaux de Scum’ by those who use it anyway.

Shadowed Spaces
Storyboard P and Project X dancing on stage
18 November 2017
Tramway

Speech Captions Body Language

Storyboard P

In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Multiple versions of several mythical looking characters look up at the camera
19 October 2003
DCA

Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

Ira Cohen

Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03