Arika  Archive Menu
Accessibility Settings

text size

decrease increase

colour options

monochrome muted color dark

reading tools

isolation ruler

other

no motion large cursor
reset all

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.

Filter the Archive
Suggested Searches

type

All Multievents

collection

Episodes
A portrait of Fred Moten wearing sunglasses and a cheeky smile

artist

Fred Moten
Chuquimamani-Condori performing. Their face tilts downwards. They are wearing a wide brimmed hat, the background is dark and their face is lit dramatically by the cast of a red light

Type

Music Performance
under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs

Theme Pair

Body | Disembody

All Archive (704)

Order by
A–Z
Date
Random
26 – 27 March 2022
CCA Annex (Online)

A Breath to Follow | Um sopro a se seguir

2 days of online discussions and artists presentations exploring the cosmological, decolonial, sensorial practises of Black and Indigenous grass roots art, dance and music collectives in Brazil.

Dois dias de discussões e apresentações online de artistes explorando as práticas cosmológicas, decoloniais e sensoriais de coletivoas de arte, dança e música de base negra e indígena no Brasil.

still from country ball Jacob satterwhite
17 November 2017
Tramway

Screening Programme

Jacolby Satterwhite Paul Kindersley Samuel R. Delany Tiona McClodden

Emotional fantasies, towers of cakes, identity troubles, collapsed distance and time and Samuel R. Delany’s rarely seen 1971 film The Orchid.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio in a yellow jumpsuit dances whist a B&W film plays
20 April 2013
Tramway

Ni ‘mamita’ Ni ‘mulatita’

Teresa María Díaz Nerio

A performed film lecture exploring how the ‘Rumberas’ of Caribbean cinema of the 40’s and 50’s subverted demeaning images of themselves through dance, sound and a sociality that insisted on blackness as being a cultural performance, not simply due to skin colour.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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
Several brightly coloured abstract square forms are complexly layered
18 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 1: Colour

Jennifer Reeves Various Artists Ian Helliwell Yasunao Tone

A glance at both analogue and digital processes; the clarity and precision of digital colour or the yawning, endless depth of dye and emulsion, our programme celebrates how both approaches revel in colour, saturation, hue and tone.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
An actor playing a reporter at a trial sits in front of a drawered wall
23 March 2012
Tramway

Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb

Andrea Geyer

A performed installation by one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt

Episode 3: Copying without Copying
A B&W collage of workers with a list of healthcare jobs as the background
15 April 2015
Tramway

Work Care Class 1 – Care & Work

Howard Slater

First in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. Does work that asks us to be attentive to the needs of others force us to sell our capacity for kindness?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Yellow swirls on red: Still from Matt Hulse Film: See Noise Hear Light - Friday
13 October 2006
The Arches

See Noise Hear Light Friday

Blood Stereo Ellen Fullman Jason Lescalleet Ludo Mich Matt Hulse Nmperign Oshiri Penpenz Sean Meehan

Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Friday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.

INSTAL 06
Mujeres Creando red banner says creativity is an instrument for social struggle
22 October 2016
Tramway

Recipes to Change Society

Mujeres Creando

A sort of prayer and conference, a sort of scream and dialogue – a monologue and declaration at the time, addressing how we can build complicity with one another.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Portrait photo of Houria Boutelja. They wear a checked blazer and are seated in library.
16 November 2024
Tramway

The We of revolutionary love

Houria Bouteldja

The practice of North African Indigenous revolutionary love, in the face of European capitalist violence and settler colonialism, with one of the most vital anti-colonial thinkers in Europe.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Jerron stands head tilted to one side, he is wearing a silver shimmery jumpsuit
13 April 2019
Performance Space New York

Relative

Jerron Herman

A dance party love letter to our community, expressing the joy of relation in the abstract and through actual physical proximity.

I wanna be with you everywhere
?
This site uses cookies for analytics. See our Privacy Policy for more. OK Opt out
×