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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 June 2026

Collective Art Workshop

Scotland for Decrim

Sex worker only Collective Art Workshop led by the Hard Labour project from Scotland for Decrim.

Image with the word: Defaalt
9 December 2001
The Arches

Defaalt

Defaalt

Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.

INSTAL 01
Miss Major waves regally from an open top car at a Pride parade, she is surrounded by other Pride marchers with banners and placards.
13 March 2022
Online

Chosen Kin: Making Our Loyalties

Mai’a Williams Miss Major Claricia Revlon

How do communities formed under the duress of violent othering and the joy of solidarity – such as ballroom culture, Black diasporas, Zapatistas – reform bonds of kinship?

Mutual Aid
Joan La Barbara sings mouth open, eyes closed, hand up
21 March 2009
The Arches

Joan La Barbara

Joan La Barbara

Joan La Barbara presents works exploring the colour spectrum of a single pitch resonating in her skull, an evocation of bird song and circular singing.

INSTAL 09
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19 April 2015
Tramway

TLRS

Laurence Rassel Terre Thaemlitz

The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
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18 April 2015
Tramway

Poethical Readings/Intuiting the Political

Denise Ferreira da Silva Valentina Desideri

A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.

Ken Jacobs portrait against a brick wall
15 April 2007
DCA

Ken Jacobs & Edwin Carels Talk

Edwin Carels Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs chats to Edwin Carels: Edwin is a curator based in Ghent, responsible for some fantastic programmes of experimental film and art at the Rotterdam Film festival (amongst others).

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
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19 October 2003
DCA

Short Film Programme 2: Contemporary

Billy Roisz Various Artists William Basinski

The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Script papers are strewn across a black floor
20 April 2013
Tramway

No Total

What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?

A sequence of stills of a lady getting out of a car
22 January 2012
CCA

Data as Documentary: Graham Harwood

Graham Harwood

Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
12 March 2022
Online

Love Hangover

Hil Malatino Eli Clare Nat Raha

A joyful conversation discussing disability, gender transition and care labour as expressions of virtuosic and innovative skills that make care – good care – possible.

Mutual Aid
Pauline Oliveros holding an accordion while reading information from a laptop
16 October 2005
The Arches

Pauline Oliveros & David Dove

David Dove Pauline Oliveros

Since the 1960’s Oliverios has had a profound influence on generations of musicians through her work with myth and ritual, improvisation and meditation.

INSTAL 05