21 May 2005
The Golden Mean
Charlemagne Palestine
An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
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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21 October 2016
Tramway
Criminal Queers
Chris Vargas Eric A Stanley
Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
14 October 2005
The Arches
Jandek
Jandek
Jarringly beautiful and often maniacal expression of hallucinatory and very personal visions.
INSTAL 05
26 September 2014
Tramway
Waywardness
Saidiya Hartman
A socio-poetic reading on wayward communities – The wayward create upheavals, incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are fugitive; they are in open rebellion against society.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
19 October 2003
DCA
Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Ira Cohen
Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.
Kill Your Timid Notion 03
12 March 2022
Online
Constantina Zavitsanos and Carolyn Lazard in Conversation
Carolyn Lazard Constantina Zavitsanos
Discussion: If we approach “care as an event” rather than as a “contract of exchange” then what becomes possible in how we know, care for, and appreciate each other?
Mutual Aid
13 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Nimrod 33 & Shareholder
Nimrod 33 Shareholder
West Coast drone-age guitar grumbler/ consumer electronic reclaimer meets free-thinking clang/ chime/ drone bluesman of The East.
INSTAL 06
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
20 January 2012
CCA
The Museum of Non-Participation
Brad Butler Karen Mirza Nabil Ahmed
This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
19 April 2015
Tramway
TLRS
Laurence Rassel Terre Thaemlitz
The weeks previous TLRS daily radio shows, after-hours conversations, radio booths and special guests reassembled as a live electroacoustic performance.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
12 July 2007
A concrete walkway ending in mid air
Shadowed Spaces Newcastle
Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood
A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.
Shadowed Spaces
26 May 2013
Tramway
Boudry/Lorenz
Pauline Boudry Renate Lorenz
Trans-temporal drag, sexuality and the re-staging of illegible moments in history.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight