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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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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
Arika_Instal05_Bruno BW 3
16 October 2005
The Arches

Tom Bruno

Tom Bruno

Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.

INSTAL 05
V∞redoms on stage at INSTAL 03 amidst at least three drum kits
23 November 2003
The Arches

V∞redoms

Rare UK performance by legendary Japanese post punk group during their 4 drummers + synth / vocals phase.

INSTAL 03
An overlaid image of a coastline with foamy waves and tree bark
16 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

If there is a future to imagine, it is ancestral

Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó Geni Núñez

A Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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
Hands holding a deck of cards.
15 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

More Than Perfect

Denise Ferreira da Silva Arissana Pataxó Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Geni Núñez Ailton Krenak (by video)

A conversation between influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity, asking: what if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Someone hands are bound in maybe 15 different, irregularly knotted ropes
21 November 2019
Tramway

Gravitational Feel: Opening Performance

Fred Moten Wu Tsang

Gravitational Feel is an engine for intensifying the differentiation of our entanglement, which you continually reprogramme in the mutual rub, shift and lap of its sonic, wooden, steel, textile and human material.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Stephan Mathieu backstage at Instal 02
1 December 2002
The Arches

Stephan Mathieu

Stephan Mathieu

Work that focuses in on the static hiss and background noise of recording and pushes it to the fore.

INSTAL 02
Vanessa Place reading from white papers in a black room
12 November 2010
GFT

Notes on Conceptualism Lecture

Vanessa Place

Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.

INSTAL 10
Projection of Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) in a corner of DCA Dundee
19 September – 12 October 2008
DCA

Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976)

Paul Sharits

Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Three slashes of colour in a black film frame, blues, pinks, reds
19 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 3: Retro

Various Artists

Birthed from the collective stagger in global consciousness of the late 50’s and 60’s, this programme celebrates epochal, groundbreaking films that all address sound in their own way and that have opened pathways to experimentation.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
AMM in a hallway or a hotel foyer leather jackets and smiles
23 November 2003
The Arches

AMM

Eddie Prevost John Tilbury Keith Rowe

AMM have undoubtedly been among the most important contributors to the UK free improv scene for nearly 40 years and we are extremely proud to be able to be working with such distinguished musicians who still rarely play live in the UK.

INSTAL 03