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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 table with three microphones, chairs and named placards. The seats are empty
24 March 2012
Tramway

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

Andrea Geyer Ashley Hunt David Thorne Sharon Hayes Katya Sander

Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.

Episode 3: Copying without Copying
Mirror performing in front of a projection at KYTN 04
10 December 2004
DCA

Mirror with a film by Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison Mirror

Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann return with their diaphanous, impressionistic drone duo; their slowly evolving and enthralling works flutter and quiver with elegantly restrained, miniature sound events.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Kyoaku No Intention on stage at MLFC 05
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Kyoaku No Intention

Kyoaku No Intention

Munehiro Narita’s Kyoaku No Intention (Worst Intentions) fired out some of the most compelling no-wave improvised rock of the 80s.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
13 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Jazzfinger

Jazzfinger

Lo-fidelity sheets of parinirvanic mangled tone get driven into oblivion by two longstanding gurus of the Northern England primitivist noise.

INSTAL 06
Heads of musicians silhouetted against a film projected on a wall
11 December 2004
DCA

Tower Recordings

Tower Recordings

The Tower performance at KYTN throws into that mix the 70’s fluxus light shows and films of Jeff Perkins and other filmic interventions tuned to their unique frequency.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Taku Unami looks moodily at a computer screen darkness all around
22 March 2009
The Arches

A Signature of the Room

Jean-Luc Guionnet Taku Unami

Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.

INSTAL 09
Arika_Episode8_RefusePowersGraspClub-6
21 October 2016
The Art School

Refuse Powers’ Grasp – Club

boychild Elysia Crampton Juliana Huxtable Joe Heffernan

All ticket income goes directly to We Will Rise – a group of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their allies who have come together to End Immigration Detention in the UK.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
A shadow crouches on the floor amongst mic stands and boxes, one light source
28 February 2010
DCA

Taku Unami

Taku Unami

Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Image with the words: Robert Lippock
9 December 2001
The Arches

Robert Lippock

Robert Lippock

To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.

INSTAL 01
Storyboard P and Project X dancing on stage
18 November 2017
Tramway

Speech Captions Body Language

Storyboard P

In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
A silhouette of Delany in front of screen where a room is lit with green light
16 November 2017
Tramway

The Motion of Light

Samuel R. Delany

Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Still from Hope and Prey screening
14 April 2007
DCA

Hope and Prey

Daniel Menche Vanessa Renwick

Life and death dramas unfold in the snowy American North, using three-screen documentary footage and a soundtrack by KYTN favourite, vocalist Daniel Menche.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07