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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 blackboard with chalk lined box shapes and orange post-it notes by a wall

14 November 2010

Tramway

Evacuation of The Great Learning

Mattin Ray Brassier

Three workshops lead up to an open invitation to improvise with the festival as concert. The last four hours of the Sunday 14 at Instal 10 were devoted to presentations devised during the three workshops. The material conditions (time, space, facilities…) were the instruments. From there anything could happen.

INSTAL 10

Tens of strips of 16mm film, visible are hundreds of frames, black or white

12 December 2004

DCA

Film Programme 5: Form

Thomas Köner Tony Conrad Various Artists alva.noto

Reveling in the geometric, mathematical and perceptual relationship between sound and form, this programme features a landmark work of experimental film in Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; a complex, enduring and expressive of structuralist or flicker films.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

Cyrée, a black trans person, in a mirror. He’s wearing a hat and a leopard print shirt. He’s surrounded by tarot cards and plants.

21 June 2023

Performance after the telethon

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

What to do about a telethon other than fuck it up? Poet, tarotist, artist, and librarian Cyrée Jarelle Johnson returns to IWBWYE to read the 1980s and ’90s for what those decades were: practice for now.

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023

The porcelain head of a doll stands out from a black background.

30 September 2020

Not Going Back to Normal

Arika is proud to be one of several arts organisations in Scotland supporting the commissioning of a radical new manifesto, by and for disabled artists working in Scotland.

A white star painted on a black oil tank or similar metal container

21 June 2006

Lyness Oil Tank

Akio Suzuki John Butcher

Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.

Resonant Spaces

A dome of a white observatory in front of a dark blue sky

29 November 2008

BFI Southbank CCA

Location Location Location

Various Artists Guy Sherwin

Experience a sense of being in the world, in a specific space and time. Including Jeanne Liotta’s recordings of the ionosphere and Walter Ruttmann’s radical 35mm precursor to musique concrète.

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour

Leah stands, gazing upwards in white horn-rimmed spectacles

11 April 2019

Performance Space New York

Solo Performances

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.

I wanna be with you everywhere

24 February 2010

Investigation – Loïc Blairon & Marc Baron

Loïc Blairon Marc Baron

Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

A projected image reads "decriminalise sex work" on a red banner. Four people are sat underneath the image on a stage talking with an audience.

19 November 2017

Tramway

Sex, Work, Justice

SWARM

The struggle for sex workers’ rights and how we can understand it in the continuum of care work and other forms of invisibilised and precarious work.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist

The Museum of Non Participation written on a wall in English and Arabic

20 January 2012

CCA

The Museum of Non-Participation

Brad Butler Karen Mirza Nabil Ahmed

This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

Beams of light fanning out from the right in bands of green and white

15 April 2007

DCA

Light Trap

Greg Pope Norbert Möslang

Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

A scanned picture of a B-52 and its ordinance laid out in the desert

22 January 2012

GFT

B-52

Hartmut Bitomsky

Hartmut is going to talk a little about his work at large and the politics of how his films are constructed. And we’ll screen one of his best films: B-52.