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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 close up of  trombone horn
14 October 2006
The Arches

Creative Music Workshop

David Dove

Dave will lead a session created for teenagers and designed to stimulate a supportive environment for artistic exploration through music improvisation.

INSTAL 06
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
A film still of a set of a living room filled with pictures and a couple
18 October 2003
DCA

Corpus Callosum

Michael Snow

Part old-fashioned Renaissance man, part hardcore avant-gardist, the Canadian painter-photographer-filmmaker-musician gives full vent to his genius in the exhilarating perceptual vaudeville, named after the ‘central region’ of tissue that acts as a conduit between the brain’s two hemispheres.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Whitehouse shirtless on stage in the arches waving their arms
23 November 2003
The Arches

Whitehouse

Whitehouse

Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”

INSTAL 03
Several bands of colour in blue pink and turquoise
18 October 2003
DCA

Short Film Programme 1: Retrospective

Various Artists

The first 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 focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
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
A cutting from the New York Times, showing a man in a blue jumper
21 January 2012
CCA

Argument

Andrew Tyndall Anthony McCall

Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
six red umbrellas on a white background
4 March 2018
MoMA PS1

Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance NYC

For this day-long festival, sex workers and their allies from New York, the tri-state area, and Europe will gather at MoMA PS1 to debate, perform, dance, strategize & share knowledge.

Arika_Episode5_Photo_AlexWoodward-31
25 May 2013
Tramway

We have something to say about… Pt1

Ann Cvetkovich Eboni Marshall Turman Frank Roberts Michael Roberson Robert Sember Terre Thaemlitz Vogue’ology

A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
In shadow in the foreground a woman with long hair and glasses reads into a mic
24 February 2012
Tramway

Only Your Pre Formance Is Cult

Amanda Monfrooe Iain Campbell F-W

A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
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