18 June 2026
Collective Art Workshop
Scotland for Decrim
Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.
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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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
12 April 2007
DCA
Beyond 6281
ARTIFICIEL
Audio signals pass through light bulbs, causing the filaments of the bulbs to sing and crackle in a chorus of electronic static.
Kill Your Timid Notion 07
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
29 November 2008
BFI IMAX
Spike Island
CCA
BFI Southbank
ICA
Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa
Eric La Casa Ken Jacobs
Jacobs’ pulsing and abstract 3D Nervous Magic Lantern performance grounded by Eric La Casa’s manipulated recordings of everyday locations.
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
12 – 14 November 2010
Tramway
INSTAL 10
The final iteration of Arika’s INSTAL festivals, the 2010 edition was an experimental festival of experimental music – 3 days of events at the Tramway that explored un-average ideas about sound and music.
17 October 2004
The Arches
Masayoshi Urabe
Masayoshi Urabe
Tormented and drawn-out high-pitched yelps and drones, all interleaved with periods of torpid silence.
INSTAL 04
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
13 – 17 November 2024
Tramway
Glasgow School of Art
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
5 days of film, music, discussion and study of our collective incompleteness—arrayed against the colonial ordering of how we come to know the world—practicing how we might exist otherwise, right here and now. Can we start to know and practice the world to come?
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.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06
24 November 2019
Tramway
aspects caught in the headspace we’re in
James Goodwin
Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Hisato Higuchi
Hisato Higuchi
Some of the most breathtaking, delicate and smoke filled guitar playing this side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07