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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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Portrait of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard
16 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Rehearsals for Living

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Robyn Maynard Harry Josephine Giles

Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle Poster Graphic
17 – 21 April 2013
Tramway

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Do art forms like black radical poetry, free jazz and improvisation create a space for the performance of freedom? Did they ever? And can they still do so now?

Image with the words: Music Electronica
9 December 2001
The Arches

Musica Electronica

Musica Electronica

A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.

INSTAL 01
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
Lutz Becker reads a text, seated cross legged on a platform, against a blank wal
20 January 2012
CCA

Kino Beleske (Film Notes)

Lutz Becker

Recently rediscovered but still very pertinent, Kino Beleške presents a series of speech acts and performative gestures by protagonists of the new artistic practice in former Yugoslavia: each a personal take on the role of art in society.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
B&W film still of a boy jumping from one roof to another, taken from below
26 September 2014
Tramway

Killer of Sheep

Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
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
Two speakers on stage surrounded by audience and red cushions
19 November 2017
Tramway

Discourse or Intercourse: Group Action

Maxine Meighan Robert Softley Gale

How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
A metallic form projected on a wall
14 April 2007
DCA

Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa

Eric La Casa Ken Jacobs

Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
Otomo Yoshihide seated between two upright pianos their interiors exposed
22 March 2009
The Arches

Filament: Sachiko M & Otomo Yoshihide

Otomo Yoshihide Sachiko M

Sachiko’s very simple, pure sine tones and structures. Otomo on double pianos. Filament’s music isn’t composed and it isn’t improvised: it’s a hybrid of the two.

INSTAL 09
Ann Cvetkovich gesticulates as she stands and talks by a flipchart
26 May 2013
Tramway

An Archive of Feelings

Ann Cvetkovich

The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
A wooden carved monkey smokes a pipe
20 March 2009

Extra Friday Set

Klaus Filip Radu Malfatti Sean Meehan Taku Unami

Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.

INSTAL 09
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