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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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Jerron stands head tilted to one side, he is wearing a silver shimmery jumpsuit
13 April 2019
Performance Space New York

Relative

Jerron Herman

A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.

I wanna be with you everywhere
Brown Background with Bold Block text reads Instal 06 Brave New Music
13 – 15 October 2006
The Arches

INSTAL 06

The 2006 INSTAL festival saw a broad selection of artists that included Blood Stereo and Ludo Mich, Ellen Fullman and Sean Meehan, Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad and a specially created performance by Maryanne Amacher.

Text super-imposed on two people
21 October 2016
Tramway

Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders

Dean Spade Hope Dector Tourmaline

A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Dream-like landscape doubly exposed, clouds seem to be on top of ocean on top of land.Three deer turn away from the camera into the diffracted horizon.
14 November 2024
Tramway

BARRUNTO

Emilia Beatriz

A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
An alto saxophone lying on a red cloth along with various small objects
22 March 2009
The Arches

Seymour Wright

Seymour Wright

A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.

INSTAL 09
21 – 23 August 2026

Hard Labour

All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!  Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.

Some people looking into camera through a mesh of lights
19 November 2017
Tramway

The Cybernetic Cop

Jackie Wang

A prison abolitionist punk video-poetry-music mash up about our fucked-up dystopian society, RoboCop, kids toys and criminality.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
A medium close up of the side and back of one person hugging and lifting another
17 April 2015
Tramway

It’s Sorta Like a Big Hug

Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur

How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
A B&W shot of M Lamar prostrate and seemingly screaming
27 September 2014
Tramway

Speculum Orum

M Lamar

A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Fritz Welch and Neil Davidson playing a string quartet on drums and guitar
13 November 2010
Tramway

String Quartet

Neil Davidson

Three different performances variously featuring: Fritz Welch, loud drums, guitar, local collaborators, paper, memories, Roland Barthes, string quartets

INSTAL 10