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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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A store front after Hurrican Katrina, chairs are scattered about in the street
23 March 2012
Tramway

Notes on the Emptying of a City

Ashley Hunt

A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.

Episode 3: Copying without Copying
Sondra Perry in a stairwell wearing a Steadicam harness
22 October 2016
Tramway

Resident Evil

Sondra Perry

Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Colorful leather bound books line a wooden shelf, with writing on their spine in Arabic, one booklet entitled “3 Scores and The People’s Mic Khutba” in Urdu, is slipping into the company of the books or out into the hands of a seeker.
14 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Bring a Witness

Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato

Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A screen showing a cross of light with some green shade in the foreground
18 February 2006
DCA

Hototogisu & Bruce McClure

Bruce McClure Hototogisu

A collaboration bringing together artists with a shared gravitational heft to their work; an intense and concentrated accumulation of detail and power.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Four musicians play some sitting on the floor, a recorder player stands
22 March 2009
The Arches

Free-form hook up

Ben Knight Hannah Ellul Neil Davidson

Two-parts Helhesten spit strangled shanties and cracked reeds from under a net of the Glasgow Improv Orchestra’s six-strings and one moustache.

INSTAL 09
Octante & Margarita Garcia standing in a group smiling
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Octante

Alfredo Costa Monteiro Ferran Fages Margarida Garcia Ruth Barberán

Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Portrait of John Mullarkey in black and white
22 February 2010
DCA

John Mullarkey

John Mullarkey

John Mullarkey sets in a wider context our understanding of Alain Badiou and Francois Laruelle, two of the most radical philosophers in Europe today.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
A woman looks towards the camera from the a low angle, there are trees behind
19 April 2015
Tramway

Standing in the Flesh

Hortense J. Spillers

In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Image with the word: Rhomboi
9 December 2001
The Arches

Rhomboi

Rhomboi

Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.

INSTAL 01
Oshiri Penpenz singer lit from above at INSTAL 06
13 October 2006
The Arches

Oshiri Penpenz

Oshiri Penpenz

No Wave, damaged garage jams and crazed instant vocal shrieks.

INSTAL 06
M NourbeSe Philip is congratulated by Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez
21 April 2013
Tramway

Zong!

M. NourbeSe Philip

Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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