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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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In shadow in the foreground a woman with long hair and glasses reads into a mic
24 February 2012
Tramway

Only Your Pre Formance Is Cult

Amanda Monfrooe Iain Campbell F-W

A series of reality dramas happening over the course of the weekend.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Total Music Meeting

David Keenan

Discussion with David Keenan: an author, critic and musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for the reviews and features he has contributed to The Wire.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Three slashes of colour in a black film frame, blues, pinks, reds
19 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 3: Retro

Various Artists

Birthed from the collective stagger in global consciousness of the late 50’s and 60’s, this programme celebrates epochal, groundbreaking films that all address sound in their own way and that have opened pathways to experimentation.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
10 October 2008
DCA

Micro Notions

Judith Goddard Mike Leggett Mineo Aayamaguchi Peter Donebauer Tony Sinden

Screening of films by Duvet Brothers, David Critchley, David Hall, John Latham, Judith Goddard, Mike Leggett, Tony Sinden

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
A silhouette of Delany in front of screen where a room is lit with green light
16 November 2017
Tramway

The Motion of Light

Samuel R. Delany

Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
My Cat Is An Alien at MLFC 05 Gateshead
21 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

My Cat Is An Alien

My Cat Is An Alien

Italian duo of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio utilising an array of acoustic and electric guitars, various toy-instruments and toy-microphones.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Tetsuya Umeda operating a machine next to an audience
15 October 2006
The Arches

Tetsuya Umeda

Tetsuya Umeda

Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.

INSTAL 06
Rashad Becker on stage, performing at a desk with sound and audio equipment. The background is dark and a pinkish red light highlights Rashad
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Based on a True Story – 1986

Rashad Becker

The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Work Care Making Health Work For You and a list of healthcare jobs
18 April 2015
Tramway

Work Care Class 2 – Care & Therapy

Howard Slater

The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Christof Migone with a tresses, wood and stopwatch
22 February 2010

Investigation – Christof Migone

Christof Migone

Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
An old photograph of a group looking direct to camera
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
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16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Jarrod Fowler

Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.

INSTAL 08