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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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Three figures are silhouetted by a large window in the shape of a parallelogram
4 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

Is a survey a process of listening?

Barry Esson Jay Sanders

A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.

A survey is a process of listening
A shot of a boldly decorated bedroom, red walls, fairy lights, myriad flowers
28 February 2010
DCA

Film Programme 6: Production

Ken Jacobs Various Artists

The production of moving image (film) by the mechanically, unfalteringly repetitive manipulation of mass-produced materials (film), in order to explore three different allegorical representations (films) of repetitive human actions and labour under capital.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Phill Niblock backstage at INSTAL 02
1 December 2002
The Arches

Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock

Slowly evolving ultra-subtle harmonics and multi-tracked, otherworldly drones that only reveal their true power at high volume.

INSTAL 02
Ann Cvetkovich sitting at a table speaking into a microphone
26 May 2013
Tramway

Public Feelings

Ann Cvetkovich

The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Joe Kubera Kate Thompson David Murray Alan Fearon & Simon Passmore at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Evil Nigger

Julius Eastman

Julius Eastman’s Evil Nigger for 4 pianos performed by Joe Kubera, Kate Thompson, David Murray, Alan Fearon and Simon Passmore.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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
A store front after Hurrican Katrina, chairs are scattered about in the street
23 March 2012
Tramway

Notes on the Emptying of a City

Ashley Hunt

A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.

Episode 3: Copying without Copying
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.

The sun low in the sky above Easterhouse, an audience at a performance
10 July 2007
The old public library in Easterhouse

Shadowed Spaces Easterhouse

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

Location: Around and about the old public library in Easterhouse; disinvested in and left to rot by the council but which was shamelessly, hastily and superficially cleaned by them in expectation of our event.

Shadowed Spaces
Ingar Zach & John Butcher playing drums and saxophone at INSTAL 04
17 October 2004
The Arches

John Butcher & Ingar Zach

Ingar Zach John Butcher

Originally billed as a duo of Ingar Zach and Derek Bailey, John Butcher stood in for Bailey at the last minute.

INSTAL 04
22 March 2009
The Arches

Sean Meehan & Taku Unami

Sean Meehan Taku Unami

Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.

INSTAL 09
A spiral form made of shoes and boots is laid out on a purple and red lit floor
13 November 2010
Tramway

Overheard (Installation)

Resonance Radio Orchestra

The worlds leading radio art station brings you: a performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test.

INSTAL 10
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