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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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A gender queer performer sits in a chair on stage, smoking, flanked by plants
26 May 2013
Tramway

Boudry/Lorenz

Pauline Boudry Renate Lorenz

Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Polly Shang Kuan Band

Polly Shang Kuan Band

Ever changing coven of feedback worshipping witches led by Blood Stereo/ Smack Music 7 shrieker Karen Constance spit audio hexes through yr skulls.

INSTAL 06
Three women pose in front of a home made banner "Get the Body of a God"
28 September 2014
Tramway

Dance Workshop

Glasgow Open Dance School Miss Prissy

A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Guitar player silhouetted against projection of a film
11 December 2004
DCA

Text of Light and Films by Stan Brakhage

Alan Licht Lee Ranaldo Stan Brakhage Tim Barnes Ulrich Krieger

As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Akio Suzuki blowing into a small object in an ice house
25 June 2006
Tugnet Ice House

Tugnet Ice House

Akio Suzuki John Butcher

Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.

Resonant Spaces
Hijokaidan on stage performing with intensity and strong lighting
15 October 2005
The Arches

Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan rapidly built a following due to the overwhelmingly physical intensity of their live performances, often involving destructive onstage rituals of vomit, urine, mangled guitars and ear shredding volume.

INSTAL 05
A woman bends over with a stick, in the background a man is hitting a gong
21 March 2009
The Arches

Ki: Mico, Tamio Shiraishi & Fritz Welch

Fritz Welch Mico Tamio Shiraishi

A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.

INSTAL 09
Phil Minton conducts a large choir at DCA
9 October 2008
DCA

Feral Choir

Phil Minton

A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
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
A gloomy pond with dark rushes reflect a grey light. A pink lens flare
24 November 2019
Tramway

aspects caught in the headspace we’re in

James Goodwin

Goodwin’s writing emanates from the social life of poetry, from a condition of entanglement before historically racially-specific forms of representation. Another word for this emanation is breath.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Two men in suits and ties ride exercise bikes whilst reading from books
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Simon Morris

Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.

INSTAL 08
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