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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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Pink text saying the words ‘Drinks & Nibbles’ on a pale pink gradiented background.

21 August 2026, 17:00

Drinks and Nibbles

Scotland for Decrim

A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.

Hard Labour

Two men in hats in a black and while film still look warily off screen

27 February 2010

DCA

Noir & Perfect Film

Ken Jacobs Mirko Martin

A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

Tens of strips of 16mm film, visible are hundreds of frames, black or white

12 December 2004

DCA

Film Programme 5: Form

Thomas Köner Tony Conrad Various Artists alva.noto

Reveling in the geometric, mathematical and perceptual relationship between sound and form, this programme features a landmark work of experimental film in Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; a complex, enduring and expressive of structuralist or flicker films.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

John is sitting on the stage, surrounded by people, all touching each other

14 April 2019

Performance Space New York

John Lee Clark

An invitation into languages field of touch; to speak in feeling together.

I wanna be with you everywhere

Still from animated film ‘shit’s totally fucked! What can we do? A mutual aid explainer’ – text and illustrations on paper and wood, that spells out “something really important about all this is that Mutual Aid is not Charity”

9 March 2022

Mutual Aid on the Road to Abolition

Dean Spade Abolitionist Futures

How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?

Mutual Aid

Tam Dean Burn in a hat reads from a paper into a microphone

12 November 2010

Tramway

Overheard (Performance Part 1) and Festival Introduction

Resonance Radio Orchestra

The first performative part in a game of chance and endurance as actor Tam Dean Burn constantly broadcasts for 24hrs.

INSTAL 10

Layers of projection on a screen, a man's face with wig to the right

15 April 2007

DCA

LEVOX

eriKm Etienne Caire Gaëlle Rouard

Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07