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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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Tens of silken knotted ropes in shades of gold and blue hang vertically
22 November 2019
Tramway

Exhibition: Gravitational Feel

Fred Moten Wu Tsang

How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
13 October 2005
The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Usurper

Usurper

Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.

INSTAL 05
Amiri Baraka reads poetry at a mic and Henry Grimes plays a double bass bass
21 April 2013
Tramway

WordMusic

Amiri Baraka Henry Grimes

A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
24 March 2025

Week Three: Gender in the Body

Tripod

An introduction to gender and embodiment for cisgender folk (i.e. those whose experience aligns with their assigned gender). This will look at the ways our embodied experiences are shaped by our gender, and explore what it means to support trans siblings in practice. This session will be led by Tripod.

In Our Hands 2025
Ann Cvetkovich gesticulates as she stands and talks by a flipchart
26 May 2013
Tramway

An Archive of Feelings

Ann Cvetkovich

The queer archiving of traumatic cultural memory from one of the leading voices working with queer archives.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Kan Mikami playing guitar and singing at INSTAL 04
17 October 2004
The Arches

Kan Mikami

Kan Mikami

A voice that can vault from an elegantly whispered insinuation to asphyxiated and murderous barks or squalls in a heartbeat.

INSTAL 04
An audience seated and wearing eye masks
12 October 2008
DCA

Live Immersive Performance

A Performance exploring the nature of acousmatic listening; sound removed from visual context and understood for it’s own properties.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Two abstract images merge. Earth coloured circles. Traces of particle decay.
24 November 2019
Tramway

The utterly in common, or bodies of colour in the flesh

James Goodwin Nisha Ramayya

“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
A row of people in uniforms, pinafores, hats
19 January 2012
CCA

An introductory salon

Hartmut Bitomsky

Hartmut led “a workshop in the old-fashioned way of discussion, mutual exploration of ideas and samples; trying out what can be shared and where the fault lines show.”

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Red Kites

Red Kites

Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.

INSTAL 06
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
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