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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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Wadada Leo Smith thanks the audience, hand on his heart, trumpet by his sideide
19 April 2013
Tramway

Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Two legs wearing black high heeled boots stick up above the edge of dark stage
18 November 2017
Tramway

Moved by the Motion

boychild TOTAL FREEDOM Wu Tsang

Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Tens of silken knotted ropes in shades of gold and blue hang vertically
22 November 2019
Tramway

Exhibition: Gravitational Feel

Fred Moten Wu Tsang

How do we sense entanglement? Can the knotting of ropes according to a poem’s rhythm make the social pulse of language matter?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Amiri Baraka reads poetry at a mic and Henry Grimes plays a double bass bass
21 April 2013
Tramway

WordMusic

Amiri Baraka Henry Grimes

A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ben Chasney standing against a wall in a t shirt
16 October 2004
The Arches

Six Organs of Admittance

Six Organs of Admittance

Pitching Fahey inspired, eastern-infused folk vibrations, sad elliptical drones and oracle chants into one kaleidoscopic sound.

INSTAL 04
Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses
15 October 2006
The Arches

Maryanne Amacher

Maryanne Amacher

A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.

INSTAL 06
Eddie George & Dhanveer sit next to each other facing an audience
22 November 2019
Tramway

The Strangeness of Dub

Dhanveer Brar Edward George

Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
A lined journal from February 2019 with entries from each day with a circular diagram to the right
21 June 2023

Collective writing

Yo-Yo Lin 林友友

Coming to us from Taipei, Yo-Yo sends us elsewhere while bringing us back with her to the timezone of tomorrow. A dancer, media artist, and choreographer who makes multi-dimensions and realms, Lin’s amplification of energies and connections across bodies devolves the separations we are taught to abide.

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
Paragon Ensemble on stage in the arches at INSTAL 03
23 November 2003
The Arches

Paragon Ensemble

Paragon Ensemble

Glasgow based contemporary music group Paragon Ensemble performing an improvisation with Pete Dowling, Nick Fells, Robert Irvine and others.

INSTAL 03
A section of exposed 16mm film stock covered in small abrasions
14 April 2007
DCA

Film Programme 3: Earth

Various Artists Ian Helliwell

Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
Publicity image of a man with blood coming from his ear
9 December 2001
The Arches

INSTAL 01

The first INSTAL festival (programmed by Barry Esson of Arika and Tiernan Kelly) featured a line-up including Robert Lippock, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, Paragon Ensemble, Icebreaker International, Defaalt and Rhomboi.

Image with the word: Defaalt
9 December 2001
The Arches

Defaalt

Defaalt

Glasgow based artist Defaalt invites the audience to collaborate fully in his performance by means of a generative graphical interface.

INSTAL 01
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