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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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Shadowed Spaces Tour brochure cover with names of artists
5 – 15 July 2007
Union Terrace Gardens Bell Street Car Park The old public library in Easterhouse A concrete walkway ending in mid air The Megastructure The former Abbeyhill Station

Shadowed Spaces

There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.

13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Total Music Meeting

David Keenan

Discussion with David Keenan: an author, critic and musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for the reviews and features he has contributed to The Wire.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
A woman looks towards the camera from the a low angle, there are trees behind
19 April 2015
Tramway

Standing in the Flesh

Hortense J. Spillers

In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
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
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
A man in a cat mask operates musical equipment
15 October 2005
The Arches

Birchville Cat Motel

Birchville Cat Motel

Blissed-out sun-dappled drone ragas of the highest order, with a metal-tinged signature sound of plucked and bowed strings.

INSTAL 05
Black serif font reads Kill Your Timid Notion on a mottled white background
17 – 19 February 2006
DCA

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

A festival hewn from passions for experimental music, film and visual art and for a passion in figuring out how they can relate to, cross-fertilise and inspire and each other.

Several brightly coloured abstract square forms are complexly layered
18 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 1: Colour

Jennifer Reeves Various Artists Ian Helliwell Yasunao Tone

A glance at both analogue and digital processes; the clarity and precision of digital colour or the yawning, endless depth of dye and emulsion, our programme celebrates how both approaches revel in colour, saturation, hue and tone.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Leah stands, gazing upwards in white horn-rimmed spectacles
11 April 2019
Performance Space New York

Solo Performances

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.

I wanna be with you everywhere
Two men in suits and ties ride exercise bikes whilst reading from books
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Simon Morris

Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.

INSTAL 08
Four musicians play some sitting on the floor, a recorder player stands
22 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Ben Knight Hannah Ellul Neil Davidson

Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.

INSTAL 09
13 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Nimrod 33 & Shareholder

Nimrod 33 Shareholder

West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.

INSTAL 06
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