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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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24 March 2025

Week Three: We Take Care Of Each Other

River Molloy Zinzi Buchanan River MacAskill

This trans-exclusive workshop, co-facilitated by River McAskill, River Molloy and Zinzi Buchanan, offers body-focused exercises and creative practices for a trans-exclusive space, situated within the present local and global climate. We will bring an array of offerings related to the question: how can we take care of ourselves and one another, when we can’t trust state systems to take care of us? Come as you are and bring anything that adds to your comfort.

In Our Hands 2025

Arika_Instal08_BryonyMcIntyre_Translation - A Campbell - D Nyoukis - JunkoIMG_3857

16 February 2008

The Arches

Translation

Aileen Campbell Dylan Nyoukis Junko

Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.

INSTAL 08

Colourful collage of drawings and photographs, showing support don’t punish messages and activists.

11 March 2022

Online

Gesturing to What is Possible: Drugs Users Supporting Each Other

Peter Krykant Aura Roig Juan Fernández Ochoa

Rather than asking the state for services, what kinds of change are made possible when we prioritise people supporting each other?

Mutual Aid

In a bedroom filled with daylight, Kyla, a mixed heritage woman in her 30s, sits on a raised bed and looks intently through a digital video camera. She films Lou, a white woman in her 20s who sits in Kyla’s power chair for the first time. Lou looks focused as she tries to reverse.

12 March 2022

Online

Watch What Happens Live with Kyla Harris and Lou Macnamara

Lou Macnamara Kyla Harris

In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.

Mutual Aid

Charlemagne Palestine seated at two pianos surrounded by soft toys

21 May 2005

The Golden Mean

Charlemagne Palestine

An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05

A B and W film still of several people crossing a street in 1960's london

14 April 2007

DCA

Film Programme 2: Humans

Ken Jacobs Various Artists John Smith

Includes: street portraits of kids in 1930’s Dakota, a mysterious foggy pilgrimage, a swarm of time-lapsed consumers, a stereoscopic analysis of mill life, up close and personal in a Lighting Bolt mosh pit.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

A guitarist and a drummer performing on stage

13 May 2007

The Sage Gateshead

Aufgehoben

A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07

Alice is centre stage in her manual wheelchair, arms raised, crutches extended

13 April 2019

Performance Space New York

Where Good Souls Fear

Alice Sheppard

An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.

I wanna be with you everywhere

Diagrams and drawings on a wall in the DCA Dundee

26 February 2010

DCA

Investigation – Summing Up

Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

Emma Hart lit from the glare of a projector as she adjusts a camera

17 February 2006

DCA

Emma Hart & Benedict Drew

Benedict Drew Emma Hart

An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

Ultra-red & Nancy Nevarez seated around a large table with audience members

4 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Nancy Nevárez Ultra-red

For day three of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Nancy Nevárez.

A survey is a process of listening

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).