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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 blue and mauve background with black text that reads System Errors
17 August 2020
Online

System Errors: Abolitionist Technologies and Aesthetics

American Artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Juliana Huxtable Legacy Russell

A panel exploring the radical potential of technologies through fugitivity and opacity: their ability to obscure, to make it impossible for us to be known, to render us untraceable by every arm of the state even under the all-consuming spectre of surveillance capital.

Revolution is not a one-time event
Film still from A Plot, A Scandal. A person is sits on top of a thick fur blanket or rug. They are sat on their bottom, their right hand and leg are raised up. In their hand they hold a what looks like a wooden pole. They are dressed in lilac silk and wear a wig of light curly hair, like a judge’s wig. It is a staged environment with a cast of yellow light highlighting the figure.
14 November 2024
Tramway

A Plot, A Scandal

Ligia Lewis

Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Ben Chasney standing against a wall in a t shirt
16 October 2004
The Arches

Six Organs of Admittance

Six Organs of Admittance

Pitching Fahey inspired, eastern-infused folk vibrations, sad elliptical drones and oracle chants into one kaleidoscopic sound.

INSTAL 04
Kill Your Timid Notion 04 brochure cover
10 – 12 December 2004
DCA

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

A celebration of risk taking and adventure from some of the boldest pioneers of the past 40 years, melding avant garde and underground forms of music and moving image to create new experiments and experiences in sight and sound.

the_flicker
18 February 2006
DCA

Tony Conrad: The Flicker

Tony Conrad

One of the most startling cinematic debuts on record, The Flicker is more a hallucination than a film, an out of body experience and riotous celebration of visual harmonics frequencies. An experiment in perception, come with your mind and eyes open.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Other Worlds Already Exist: text in pink on blue background
16 – 19 November 2017
Tramway Kinning Park Complex Many Studios

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist

4 days of performances, discussions, workshops, screenings with mutant dancers, prison abolitionist poets, transfeminist revolutionaries, haunted noise, science fiction, sex worker resistance, crip erotics, radical pornography and militant fiction.

theeyeandtheear
15 April 2007
DCA

Film Programme 6: Contrast

Various Artists Guy Sherwin

Includes: tamed TV snow, video feedback of racing particles, a remake of a polish photogram film destroyed in WWII, a visual and aural representation of Gestalt theory, hole-punched film and Guy Sherwin’s Cycles 3 double-projection.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
Peter Evans backstage at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Peter Evans

Peter Evans

A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
People playing instruments, some of them on the floor
15 October 2005
The Arches

Directing Hand

Directing Hand

A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.

INSTAL 05
Silhouette of a person in front of a blue background overlaid with blurry light
24 November 2019
Tramway

Something Said

Jay Bernard

Haunted by the archive of the New Cross Fire, Jay Bernard presents a film and poetry reading that undertakes a queer exploration of black British history, reconstructed from archives and apparent debris.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Steve McCaffery sits at a round table and reads into a microphone
21 March 2009
The Arches

Carnival

Steve McCaffery

Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.

INSTAL 09
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