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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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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

Three cats peer out, intensely curious, soft, and wise. Black eyes and chiseled features inviting, calling us into their world. Their lavender, bright blue, and white bodies shine against the sky blue background. A bright blue line outlines each cat and one, yes, is that right?

21 June 2024

I wanna be with you everywhere Solstice Gathering 2024

Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June

Akio Suzuki blowing into a small object in an ice house

25 June 2006

Tugnet Ice House

Akio Suzuki John Butcher

Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a large multi chambered industrial ice house.

Resonant Spaces

Two frames from a 16mm film with blocks of red, green, pink and yellow

11 December 2004

DCA

Film Programme 1: Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

This programme is a celebration of Charlemagne Palestine; passionate, extravagant, visceral. Including two sections from Ritual dans le Vide, an extension of his ‘running camera’ works of the 70’s and Pip Chodorov’s vibrant workout of a live version of Strumming Music.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

Miss Prissy dances fiercely during a solo dance

28 September 2014

Tramway

Mutual Instruments

Fred Moten Miss Prissy

Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way

Film still from Oriana. In the foreground a person stands at the top of a grassy hill clearing in a wooded area. They are wearing a silver geometric mask made from triangle shaped mirrors; it covers the head and eyes and is tied under the chin with grey fabric ties. They stand with their arms crossed and leaning back slightly and are wearing a dark all in one suit. Blurred in the background stands another person looking towards the top of the grassy hill.

15 November 2024

Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow School of Art Friday Event

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Beatriz will explore her thinking, on film as translation, plural subjectivity or land-based militancy. Discussion will centre around her work Oriana and its companion piece Oenanthe, which will be screened in full.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It

14 April 2007

DCA

Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa

Eric La Casa Ken Jacobs

Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

16 May 2010

Two Dots over a Vowel

Christian Bök

Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.

UNINSTAL

A group a six sit at a sunny picnic style table in a green landscape. They gesture to each other with their arms and hands.

18 – 21 November 2024

ATLAS Arts

Karrabing at ATLAS Arts

Karrabing Film Collective

As part of Karrabing’s visit to Scotland, the collective will be hosted for three days in the Isle of Skye by The School of Plural Futures.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It

A line of people in white masks hold a pink banner "Non a la Discrimination"

26 May 2019

Kinning Park Complex

How to Ally with Sex Workers on Decriminalisation of Sex Work

Join Scot-PEP, SWARM and Decrim Now for a day of panel discussions focusing on: sex worker’s labour rights, how decriminalisation can help in the struggle for sex worker safety, sex work & migration with a film screening of Crossings.

Daniel Carter, Andrew Barker & Sabir Mateen performing at MLFC 07

13 May 2007

The Sage Gateshead

Daniel Carter, Andrew Barker & Sabir Mateen

Daniel Carter Sabir Mateen

Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07

Two rectangular forms of white light against black on a screen

14 April 2007

DCA

Surface Tension

William Raban

Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.