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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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Ikuro Takahashi & Yoko Muronoi standing by a wall
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Anoyonodekigoto

Ikuro Takahashi Yoko Muronoi

A collaborative duo performance, Anoyonodekigoto sets up a sort of negotiation between a musician, a dancer, the audience and the space we’re all sharing.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Birds of Delay & Nackt Insecten

Birds of Delay Nackt Insecten

Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.

INSTAL 06
Image with the words: Paragon Ensemble / David Fennessy
9 December 2001
The Arches

Paragon Ensemble / David Fennessy

Paragon Ensemble

The Scottish based Paragon Ensemble has commissioned David Fennessy to compose music for Instal, which will be performed during the evening.

INSTAL 01
Fernando stands facing boychild who holds grasps elbow with opposite hand
23 November 2019
Tramway

Borders between Mathematics, Gestures and Dance

boychild Fernando Zalamea

How do we gesture to the invisible, the trans or the obscure? A performative conversation between boychild and Fernando, a sharing of gestures, and a bodily back and forth between mathematician and dance artist.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
A gloomy corridor
27 September 2014
Tramway

Fugitivity and Waywardness

Fred Moten Saidiya Hartman

An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
12 March 2022
Online

Constantina Zavitsanos and Carolyn Lazard in Conversation

Carolyn Lazard Constantina Zavitsanos

Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange”  then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?

Mutual Aid
A medium shot black & white portrait of Sonia Sanchez, head leaning on hand
21 April 2013
Tramway

Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez

A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Inter title from the film Haxan
18 October 2003
DCA

Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

Mirror Phantom Engineer

Mirror and Phantom Engineer performing an improvised soundtrack to Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 horror film prototype, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Sunik Kim Performance

Sunik Kim

A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
An overlaid image of a coastline with foamy waves and tree bark
16 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

If there is a future to imagine, it is ancestral

Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó Geni Núñez

A Study Session focused on the thinking of Ailton Krenak – one of the great leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement – led by curators and artists Amilcar Packer Arissana Pataxó.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Instal 04 publicity flyer
16 – 17 October 2004
The Arches

INSTAL 04

Now a two day festival, INSTAL 04 was borne of a desire to open eyes, challenge audiences and expand musical horizons. This was also the year in which a certain representative from Corwood Industries made his first ever live appearance.

Richard Youngs standing with a microphone at INSTAL 04
16 October 2004
The Arches

Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs

One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest

INSTAL 04
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