26 May 2013
Tramway
#untitled lipsync 3
boychild
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
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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14 April 2019
Performance Space New York
Dispatches from the Intersection of Hurting & Joy
Camisha L. Jones
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.
I wanna be with you everywhere
3 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
What is the Sound of Freedom?
Ultra-red Vogue’ology
For day two of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by the Vogue’ology collective.
A survey is a process of listening
5 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art
In Passing
Brandon LaBelle
A silent performance of (musical) reverberation.
A survey is a process of listening
21 November 2019
Tramway
In the Sign of Jonah: Around Moby-Dick
Laura Harris Fernando Zalamea
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
7 February 2008
The Arches
Personal Space
Nackt Insecten
Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.
INSTAL 08
14 February 2008
The old public library in Easterhouse
Personal Space
Blood Stereo
Avant-wrongdoers Blood Stereo performing in Garthamlock the town spawned them.
INSTAL 08
12 – 14 November 2010
Tramway
INSTAL 10
The final iteration of Arika’s INSTAL festivals, the 2010 edition was an experimental festival of experimental music – 3 days of events at the Tramway that explored un-average ideas about sound and music.
13 November 2010
Tramway
Consequences and complicities of conceptualism
Mark Sanders Vanessa Place
Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”
INSTAL 10
3 August 2020
Online
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: Abolitionist Feminist Futures
Akwugo Emejulu Gail Lewis Hortense J. Spillers Miss Major Zoé Samudzi
A panel exploring how to dismantle the master’s house — its material edifices and ideological architecture — and the construction of abolitionist futures in the present.
Revolution is not a one-time event
21 June 2023
Collective writing
Yo-Yo Lin 林友友
Coming to us from Taipei, Yo-Yo sends us elsewhere while bringing us back with her to the timezone of tomorrow. A dancer, media artist, and choreographer who makes multi-dimensions and realms, Lin’s amplification of energies and connections across bodies devolves the separations we are taught to abide.
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
16 – 19 November 2017
Tramway
Kinning Park Complex
Many Studios
Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
4 days of performances, discussions, workshops, screenings with mutant dancers, prison abolitionist poets, transfeminist revolutionaries, haunted noise, science fiction, sex worker resistance, crip erotics, radical pornography and militant fiction.