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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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A portrait of Fred Moten wearing sunglasses and a cheeky smile

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Fred Moten
Portrait of Chuquimamani-Condori, they are wearing an off-white cowboy style hat and white casual top.

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Music Performance
under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs

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Body | Disembody

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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
People huddled around a speaker on a street in Glasgow
9 May 2010
George Square

In The Shadow of Shadow – Walk

The Strickland Distribution Ultra-red

A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis

UNINSTAL
17 March 2025

Week Two: White Resilience: Embodied Anti-Racism

Tripod

The session – aimed specifically at white people – will be run by Tripod. We will explore and address whiteness, embodied responses to racial tension and somatic techniques to build resilience for practicing anti-racist action. It will be a space to learn and transform together and look at further anti-racist resources and work.

In Our Hands 2025
a figure bathed in red writhes as they perform with a red light in their mouth
24 May 2013
Stereo

Hidden in Plain Sight: Club

boychild DJ Sprinkles Vjuan Allure Pony Zion

The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
13 October 2005
The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee

Edinburgh. Cask-strength electrohypnol and shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder.

INSTAL 05
Image with the word: Defaalt
9 December 2001
The Arches

Defaalt

Defaalt

Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.

INSTAL 01
William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gold table to the fore
16 October 2004
The Arches

William Basinski

William Basinski

Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.

INSTAL 04
A group gather as Tetsuo Kogawa shows folks how to make a radio
17 March 2009
CCA

Radio Party

Tetsuo Kogawa

A simple hands on workshop with micro-radio theorist and pioneer Kogawa.

INSTAL 09
Guitar player silhouetted against projection of a film
11 December 2004
DCA

Text of Light and Films by Stan Brakhage

Alan Licht Lee Ranaldo Stan Brakhage Tim Barnes Ulrich Krieger

As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
A chorus in white boiler suits stand behind a concrete frieze of Russian workers
22 January 2012
CCA

The Songspiels of Chto Delat?

Chto Delat

The Songspiels take on a mode of musical theatre developed by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill in the early twentieth century, presenting political and social concerns through the accessible and (often funny) form of song.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
Loren and Alan playing electric guitars
16 October 2005
The Arches

Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht

Alan Licht Loren Mazzacane Connors

An utterly deep introspection told in aching, weeping guitar lines; melodic, simple, always minimal but somehow entirely epic.

INSTAL 05
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