Arika  Archive Menu
Accessibility Settings

text size

colour options

monochrome muted color dark

reading tools

isolation ruler

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.

Filter the Archive
Suggested Searches

All Archive (704)

Order by
Colorful leather bound books line a wooden shelf, with writing on their spine in Arabic, one booklet entitled “3 Scores and The People’s Mic Khutba” in Urdu, is slipping into the company of the books or out into the hands of a seeker.
14 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Bring a Witness

Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato

Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A microphone cable coiled on a grey floor
28 February 2010
DCA

Unstable, fragile but daring together

Emma Hedditch Howard Slater Laurie Pitt Liam Casey Mattin

Instead of the one-way monologue of normal performance, what would be the result of an actual collective dialogue? Where would it go?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
boychild raises hands to the air open palm toward ceiling, head tilted upwards
23 November 2019
Tramway

Untitled Hand Dance

boychild

“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild

Episode 10: A Means Without End
A layers image of several frames from a video by R. Kelly
28 February 2010
DCA

Film Programme 5: Catalogues

Various Artists

Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
AMM in a hallway or a hotel foyer leather jackets and smiles
23 November 2003
The Arches

AMM

Eddie Prevost John Tilbury Keith Rowe

AMM have undoubtedly been among the most important contributors to the UK free improv scene for nearly 40 years and we are extremely proud to be able to be working with such distinguished musicians who still rarely play live in the UK.

INSTAL 03
Alice is centre stage in her manual wheelchair, arms raised, crutches extended
13 April 2019
Performance Space New York

Where Good Souls Fear

Alice Sheppard

An occasion for commotion, and a chorus of motions. Choreography rotating your revolutions and then some.

I wanna be with you everywhere
A close up of  trombone horn
13 October 2006
The Bridge

Symphony for Swimmers

David Dove Nmperign

During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.

INSTAL 06
Ellen fullman's long string instrument : many strings strung across a long room
13 October 2006
The Arches

Ellen Fullman & Sean Meehan

Ellen Fullman Sean Meehan

Long Stringed Instrument performance involving up to 100 wires strung in tension over a 40m arch.

INSTAL 06
A record deck with an old record on another record with a blue label to the side
13 November 2010
Tramway

Pascal le Gall

Pascal le Gall

A carefully thought out, simple but rich performance using just a turntable, teach yourself foreign language LP’s, the impeccable timing of a percussionist, and an idea.

INSTAL 10
Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio in a yellow jumpsuit dances whist a B&W film plays
20 April 2013
Tramway

Ni ‘mamita’ Ni ‘mulatita’

Teresa María Díaz Nerio

A performed film lecture exploring how the ‘Rumberas’ of Caribbean cinema of the 40’s and 50’s subverted demeaning images of themselves through dance, sound and a sociality that insisted on blackness as being a cultural performance, not simply due to skin colour.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
twelve rectangular images projected on a long screen
10 October 2008
DCA

After Leonardo

Keith Rowe Malcolm Le Grice

A poetic multi-screen performance about “the inadequacy of the arbitrary passing moment and the impossibility of permanence”. About time and change.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Michiyo Yagi is bent over a large koto stringed instrument in a pink light
15 February 2008
Stereo

Michiyo Yagi

Michiyo Yagi

Sometimes delicate, sometimes harsh and jarring, Yagi’s koto solos are as much inspired by Nancarrow or Cage as they are traditional.

INSTAL 08
?
This site uses cookies for analytics. See our Privacy Policy for more. OK Opt out
×