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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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Several 16mm film frames of a stairway covering both image and sound areas

19 February 2006

DCA

Film Programme 4: Space

Guy Sherwin Thomas Köner Various Artists Takehisa Kosugi

A programme looking at landscape, filmic or architectural spaces and at how the fixed stare of a camera frame only captures so much reality; here we focus on how filmmakers structure our relationship with that reality and at how they relate it to or interpret it through sound.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

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 street in Egypt, during the day time, filled with people going about

22 January 2012

CCA

Too Soon, Too Late

Opening with one of the most memorable shots ever filmed, and screened a year after the initial successes of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Too Soon, Too Late is a search for the traces left on the landscape of past revolutions in France and Egypt.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

14 October 2006

The Arches

Infest – Polly Shang Kuan Band

Polly Shang Kuan Band

Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.

INSTAL 06

twelve rectangular images projected on a long screen

10 October 2008

DCA

After Leonardo

Keith Rowe Malcolm Le Grice

A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08

16 April 2015

Tramway

TLRS Morning Show

Laurence Rassel Terre Thaemlitz

(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives

Ali Robertson Hunches over a table with lots of small metal objects on it

21 March 2009

The Arches

Free-form hook up

Ali Robertson Euan Currie Fritz Welch

Dead Labour Process drool-tape farmer, squeaking/creaking Usurper brother and Peeesseye’s yodelling traps-man hold a real OUT splutter party.

INSTAL 09

24 March 2025

Week Three: Gender in the Body

Tripod

An introduction to gender and embodiment for cisgender folk (i.e. those whose experience aligns with their assigned gender). This will look at the ways our embodied experiences are shaped by our gender, and explore what it means to support trans siblings in practice. This session will be led by Tripod.

In Our Hands 2025

21 October 2016

The Art School

Refuse Powers’ Grasp – Club

boychild Elysia Crampton Juliana Huxtable Joe Heffernan

All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp

12 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Box & Nimrod 33

Box Nimrod 33

Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.

INSTAL 05

A man crouching before an audience operating a projector

13 April 2007

DCA

Keith Evans & Coelacanth

Keith Evans Loren Chasse

A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

An abstract pattern against a black background

17 February 2006

DCA

Christmas Tree Stand

Bruce McClure

A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.