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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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Shadowed Spaces Tour brochure cover with names of artists
5 – 15 July 2007
Union Terrace Gardens Bell Street Car Park The old public library in Easterhouse A concrete walkway ending in mid air The Megastructure The former Abbeyhill Station

Shadowed Spaces

There exist places in our towns and cities that are created not by design, but by circumstance. Shadowed Spaces was a tour of overlooked, bypassed and unconsidered nooks and crannies with 3 musicians.

Metzger and students seated at table
17 February 2008
The Arches

Self Cancellation – A project for voices

Gustav Metzger Kenneth Goldsmith Simon Morris

A performed self-cancelling discussion, with artists from the festival, invited speakers and local artists talking at once, over each other, or straining to be heard over the din.

INSTAL 08
A white star painted on a black oil tank or similar metal container
21 June 2006
Lyness Oil Tank

Lyness Oil Tank

Akio Suzuki John Butcher

Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.

Resonant Spaces
Arika_Episode2_RayBrassier_AlexiKukuljevich_TheViewFromNowherePart2_AWoodward-6
25 February 2012
Tramway

The View From Nowhere Part 2

Alexi Kukuljevic Mark Fisher Ray Brassier

Has neoliberal capitalism locked down social experience? Are our seemingly subjective desires, our identities, pre-packaged by dominating social structures?

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Peach and pink gradient with black text: Revolution is not a one-time event
3 – 24 August 2020
Online

Revolution is not a one-time event

Join activists, academics and artists as they reflect on abolitionist praxis and thought, exploring covergences with gender, poetry, technology, performance, speculation, aesthetics, film and culture. This series of events commemorates Black August and is for anyone who wishes to answer the abolitionist call to action and thought.

Working on Transfeminism
Residency, May–July 2021

Trans Femme Futures

Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.

1 December 2002
The Arches

John Wall

John Wall

Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces

INSTAL 02
Junko singing into a microphone against a dark background
25 February 2012
Tramway

Junko

Junko

Harrowing but musical confrontations with the very real, physical and aural trauma of a woman screaming.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Eric La Casa walking with a microphone on a boom stand
13 May 2010
Tramway

House

Eric La Casa Jean-Luc Guionnet

One-shot sonic portraits of 4 houses, their inhabitants and their relationship to sound, from 2 of the most deep-thinking field-recording artists around.

UNINSTAL
Northern Sinfonia performing Radu Malfatti at MLFC 07
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Gateshead 21

Northern Sinfonia Radu Malfatti

We commissioned Radu Malfatti to write a new piece for the 21-piece string section of the Northern Sinfonia: Music striving to discover the exact point at which sound resonates the clearest amidst long drawn out silences.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Packing tubes stand on their ends. two blurred figures are sitting in the back
12 November 2010
Tramway

The Borders Play Sunno(((

Christian Kesten Lucio Capece

Intriguing, underground, Berlin based musicians interested in the borders between music and theatre, language, the visual arts, politics.

INSTAL 10
Paul Sharits' Shutter Interface projected on a wall: three bands of colour
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Shutter Interface

Paul Sharits

Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece: a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
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