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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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Still from animated film ‘shit’s totally fucked! What can we do? A mutual aid explainer’ – text and illustrations on paper and wood, that spells out “something really important about all this is that Mutual Aid is not Charity”
9 March 2022

Mutual Aid on the Road to Abolition

Dean Spade Abolitionist Futures

How do we make the connections between the mutual aid practices of our daily lives and anti-capitalist efforts to dismantle wider systems of exploitation?

Mutual Aid
Jerome Noetinger's hand twiddling a knob on a mixing desk is in the foreground
22 March 2009
The Arches

Jean-Philippe Gross & Jerome Noetinger

Jean-Philippe Gross Jerome Noetinger

Duo performance by two great French musique concrète improvisers using feedback, contact mics, tape, an old Revox tape machine, a vintage synth…

INSTAL 09
Tam Dean Burn in hat, jacket and rucksack gestures with outstretched arms
14 November 2010
Tramway

Overheard (Performance Part 2)

Resonance Radio Orchestra

A performance, a radio show, an installation, an endurance test. A game of chance. Constantly broadcasting live, actor Tam Dean Burn will leave Tramway at the start of INSTAL and walk away from it, in an ever increasing spiral, for a day. Then he’ll walk back.

INSTAL 10
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
Denis Wood talking to an audience seen through the aperture of an orange hole
14 July 2007
The Megastructure

Shadowed Spaces Cumbernauld

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

A series of badly felted lock-ups and garages + multiple locations within the Megastructure – a purpose built town centre in one building, comprising (in the 50’s at least) of housing (never occupied), shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities

Shadowed Spaces
text reading Decriminalised Futures on a colourful banner on a blue and purple background
31 August 2019 – 1 April 2023

Decriminalised Futures

Arika is working in partnership with Decriminalised Futures on a multi year collaboration featuring multiple creative projects exploring sex worker lives, experiences and movement struggles.

Tony Conrad, Angarad Davies, Nikos Veliotis and Mark Wastel performing
17 February 2006
DCA

Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plane

Angharad Davies Mark Wastell Nikos Veliotis Tony Conrad

A trance inducing, flickering investigation of structural and minimalist droning from one of the key thinkers in sound and image over the last 50 years

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Two smashed mirrors with shards of glass here and there
25 February 2012
Tramway

Rehearsal after Reflect Soft Matte Discourse

Clara López Imri Sandström Malin Arnell

A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
People huddled around a speaker on a street in Glasgow
9 May 2010
George Square

In The Shadow of Shadow – Walk

The Strickland Distribution Ultra-red

A public walk from George Square to the Barras market bringing contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis

UNINSTAL
Fred Moten in a black and red shirt prepares for a discussion
21 April 2013
Tramway

Fred Moten – Chat

Fred Moten

In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
A close up of  trombone horn
13 October 2006
The Bridge

Symphony for Swimmers

David Dove Nmperign

During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.

INSTAL 06
Ruins drummer at KYTM 03
19 October 2003
DCA

Ruins & Ian Halliwell

Ian Helliwell

Giants of the Japanese avant-rock scene Ruins are a hardcore prog rock bass + drums duo led by drummer extraordinaire Tatsuya Yoshida and joined in Dundee by Sasaki Hisashi.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
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