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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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A broken c90 cassette spews a ribbon of tape onto a concrete slab
15 April 2007
DCA

Lost Sound: Graeme Miller + John Smith

Various Artists

Ever wondered about the roadside festoons which are the innards of discarded cassette tapes? All will be revealed in this methodical and insightful documentary by UK luminary John Smith and sound artist cohort Graeme Miller.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
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
8 – 9 November 2025

Class (in the arts) Workshop

ARC (A Revolting Class) SAU (Scottish Artist Union) Common Treasury Scottish Working Class Network

A 2-day workshop to deconstruct our classed experiences and the ways in which we reproduce the same class system we fight against, in order to create a stronger, more egalitarian Scottish art sector.

still from country ball Jacob satterwhite
17 November 2017
Tramway

Screening Programme

Jacolby Satterwhite Paul Kindersley Samuel R. Delany Tiona McClodden

Emotional fantasies, towers of cakes, identity troubles, collapsed distance and time and Samuel R. Delany’s rarely seen 1971 film The Orchid.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
A 40ish mixed race Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician nonbinary femme with curly brown silver and purple hair, lying on a couch looking at the viewer horizontally. They have rose gold aviator frames, thick eyebrows, red lipstick and sand colored skin, and are looking at the viewer with a kind of tired but hopefully crip wonder. They wear a blue denim vest with a pin that says Neurodivergent Universe above a pink and blue image of a ringed planet, and a black tank top with yellow lettering that read Talk To Plants, Not Cops is barely visible. They have a tattoo of the words "We begin by listening" in magenta cursive script on their left arm.
21 June 2023

Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost with ASL Centered Hang

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Offering a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves. Expect fire and a little bit of smoke. Concluding with a D/deaf centered social space with conversational interpreters available for those who do not speak ASL.

 

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
Two abstract images merge. Earth coloured circles. Traces of particle decay.
24 November 2019
Tramway

The utterly in common, or bodies of colour in the flesh

James Goodwin Nisha Ramayya

“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Image with the words: Icebreaker International
9 December 2001
The Arches

Icebreaker International

Icebreaker International

An audio report for the NATOarts board of directors that seeks to promote global security and stability through the exhibition of works of conceptual art.

INSTAL 01
A pink and mauve background with black text reads The Poetics of Abolition
10 August 2020
Online

Poetry is Not a Luxury: The Poetics of Abolition

Canisia Lubrin Christina Sharpe Nat Raha Saidiya Hartman Nydia A. Swaby

A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”

Revolution is not a one-time event
Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection
14 April 2007
DCA

EM No.3 and Round Trip

Kanta Horio

Kanta is a young Japanese artist with a home-made, short circuited take on electronics and physical phenomena which he uses in performance to produce close circuit systems of audio / video feedback.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
A masked figure holds a microphone in stark lighting
15 October 2005
The Arches

Sun City Girls

Sun City Girls

Perhaps the paradigm of America’s covert musical subculture, Sun City Girls operate just over the border of raucous delirium.

INSTAL 05
Black and white image of clouds from above showing a fractal pattern
23 November 2019
Tramway

Vorticity in the Eternal Hum

Alexander Moll Jackie Wang

What’s the relationship between the eternal hum of the oceanic beloved and the persistence of vorticity in fluid dynamics? And how does Alice Coltrane’s harp help us stay there?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
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