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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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27 September 2014
Tramway

Touching the Imperceptible

Arthur Jafa Kara Keeling

A performed filmic conversation on queer and black world making.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Mijke van der Drift sit at black table in a black box theatre. There is audience to the right of the image and behind Mijke & Elizabeth are two screens for live captioning.
15 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Analytics of Existence

Elizabeth A. Povinelli Mijke van der Drift

Elizabeth’s writing pulls apart toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify it; working towards an alternative distribution of powers, so that ways of being otherwise can endure.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Ultra-red George Lewis

For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.

A survey is a process of listening
A medium close up of the side and back of one person hugging and lifting another
17 April 2015
Tramway

It’s Sorta Like a Big Hug

Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur

How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Two men in suits and ties ride exercise bikes whilst reading from books
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Simon Morris

Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.

INSTAL 08
Howard Slater is in conversation at a table with Barry Esson in a black room
21 April 2013
Tramway

Listener as Operator

Howard Slater

Our favourite Lancashire-born autodictact asks what’s political about the tension between the individual and the collective in free jazz.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
9 – 13 March 2022
Online

Mutual Aid

4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

Film still of lit sparklers in close up
15 October 2006
The Arches

See Noise Hear Light Sunday

Arrington de Dionyso Eye Contact Kiyoharu Kuwayama Maryanne Amacher Matt Hulse Rina Kijima Tetsuya Umeda

Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.

INSTAL 06
Image with the words: Robert Lippock
9 December 2001
The Arches

Robert Lippock

Robert Lippock

To Rococo Rot member Robert Lippok performing for the first time in the UK with his solo project.

INSTAL 01
James Whitehead standing by a blackboard
16 May 2010
Tramway

JILAT

JLIAT / James Whitehead

UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.

UNINSTAL
Richard Youngs standing with a microphone at INSTAL 04
16 October 2004
The Arches

Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs

One of the most incessantly experimental musicians in the UK, Youngs’ aesthetic is entirely unique, never really part of any scene [whilst influencing many], steadfastly unafraid and honest

INSTAL 04
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