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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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Inure Takehashi performing in a back corner of Dundee
8 July 2007
Bell Street Car Park

Shadowed Spaces Dundee

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

Location: between: the abandoned site of Parker House (ex-council office building) that became a student accommodation regeneration project, off the Dudhope roundabout; Bell Street Car Park entrance ramp and; the awkward (and otherwise used/ used otherwise) space left over between the back of Tesco’s and DW Sports on the Murraygate.

Shadowed Spaces
in a dark room Karen Constance plays a mixer on a yellow table
21 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Ruaraidh Sanachan Karen Constance

Polly Shang Kuan Band coven leader and Sick Head’s psychedelic shaman Nackt Insecten make hex ritual to birth a new astral being….. Smack Insecten.

INSTAL 09
A still frame from a film. A sheepdog barks and the words Bottoms Sup are shown
11 October 2008
DCA

Film Programme: Bleu Shut

A kind of audience activating, structured film guessing game in the manipulation of time, sound and image. “At 11:15, weiners. At 21:05, pornography. At 23:30, a duet. Watch the Clock.”

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Vajra : Kan Mikami & Keiji Haino on stage at INSTAL 04
17 October 2004
The Arches

Vajra

Kan Mikami Keiji Haino Toshiaki Ishizuka

Vajra are a Japanese psychedelic rock supergroup, hewn from the collective consciousness of Fushitsusha’s Keiji Haino, folk radical Kan Mikami and percussionist Toshiaki Ishitsuka.

INSTAL 04
boychild performs prostrate bathed in a blue light a red light in their mouth
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.

10 March 2025

Week One: Welcome Session

Lisa Fannen Sapna Agarwal

In this welcoming first session we will look at the basics of using plant medicine – things you might have in your kitchen or easily to hand. We will introduce preparation methods, contraindications, dosages & remedies for common ailments.

In Our Hands 2025
at the end of a dark gallery a screen throbs with layers rectangles of red
12 October 2008
DCA

Declarative Mode (1976 – 1977)

Paul Sharits

Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
People milling around with sheets of paper, passing them
14 November 2010
Tramway

Paper Piece: Secrets

Brandon LaBelle

Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd

INSTAL 10
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18 April 2015
Tramway

Poethical Readings/Intuiting the Political

Denise Ferreira da Silva Valentina Desideri

A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.

A 16mm film in has detailed instructions printed on its lid
22 February 2010
DCA

Urban Peasants

Ken Jacobs

Do almost nothing: re-present (unaltered and arranged by chance) silent family home movies handed down to Flo, (Ken’s wife) and follow them with a “teach yourself Yiddish” cassette tape.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
A sequence of stills of a lady getting out of a car
22 January 2012
CCA

Data as Documentary: Graham Harwood

Graham Harwood

Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly playing saxophone and trumpet
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Nmperign

Nmperign

Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
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