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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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Man with long hair and glasses and headphones sits on a bed singing
18 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 2: Sound

Various Artists Burkhard Stangl Werner Dafeldecker

The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
30 July 2026

Collective Art Workshop

Scotland for Decrim

Join Sex Workers For Decrim for a sex worker only collective art workshop and be part of creating a massive visual timeline of sex worker resistance in Scotland.

A shadow crouches on the floor amongst mic stands and boxes, one light source
28 February 2010
DCA

Taku Unami

Taku Unami

Taku’s actions strip back musical performance to one of its original proposals: what is an action and how does it create a situation for spending time together, for paying attention?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
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16 October 2005
The Arches

Tom Bruno

Tom Bruno

Bruno’s liberated improvisational approach stretches beyond the lyrical, tough as nails rhythmic bursts and expressive, swinging attack of his drumming.

INSTAL 05
Several tables covered in white paper have blue chairs around them.
5 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Fred Moten Ultra-red

For day four of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Fred Moten.

A survey is a process of listening
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 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
Projection of an orange rectangle along with shards of light
11 October 2008
DCA

Sound Cuts

Guy Sherwin

Noise music for the eyes. A 6 screen 16mm projection performance of intense audio and visual stimulus.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
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17 April 2015
Tramway

Poethical Readings/Intuiting the Political

Denise Ferreira da Silva Valentina Desideri

Three intimate 45 minute sessions, readings of your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.

Disco lights on festoons on a wall
17 November 2017
Kinning Park Complex

Party & Unity Fundraiser

DJ D-Harsh Dj@Christelle Moor Mother Nena Etza

Social and party with all proceeds going to the Unity Centre, featuring DJ SETS with Dj@Christelle, DJ D-Harsh, Nena Etza & Moor Mother.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
a Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician nonbinary femme with curly brown silver and purple hair and an undercut, wearing a “talk to plants, not cops” navy and turquoise crop top, tiny black denim shorts and a hot pink KN95 mask, takes a mirror selfie with a phone with glitter and many kinda of brightly colored animals and plants on it.
21 June 2023

Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost Introduction

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
A circle of chairs in a room
24 February 2010

Investigation – Loïc Blairon & Marc Baron

Loïc Blairon Marc Baron

Loïc and Marc are proposing a series of investigations into the tension between improvisation and recording and how it can be used to engage with different spaces and environments around Dundee

Kill Your Timid Notion 10