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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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16 April 2015
Tramway

Ode to 1 & more than 1

Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur

The first of two workshops that highlight correspondence as a way of working. Somewhere between song, speech, and logistical arrangement, these workshops invite participants to consider care as infrastructure.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
A large industrial fan is backlit
21 April 2013
Tramway

Unfree Improvisation / Compulsive Freedom

Mattin Ray Brassier

How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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
13 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Hockyfrilla & Muscletusk

Hockyfrilla Muscletusk

Ex-Decaer Pinga and CKDH rodeo queens; regular ladynoise hoedown gets gatecrashed by sonic chunder-huffing remedial clatter boys.

INSTAL 06
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
Two performers silhouetted against a projection of blue light
18 October 2003
DCA

Silophone

[the user]

Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
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
Otomo Yoshihide seated between two upright pianos their interiors exposed
22 March 2009
The Arches

Filament: Sachiko M & Otomo Yoshihide

Otomo Yoshihide Sachiko M

Sachiko’s very simple, pure sine tones and structures. Otomo on double pianos. Filament’s music isn’t composed and it isn’t improvised: it’s a hybrid of the two.

INSTAL 09
Arika_Instal08_BryonyMcIntyre_Translation - A Campbell - D Nyoukis - JunkoIMG_3857
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Aileen Campbell Dylan Nyoukis Junko

Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.

INSTAL 08
Two abstract images merge. Earth coloured circles. Traces of particle decay.
24 November 2019
Tramway

The utterly in common, or bodies of colour in the flesh

James Goodwin Nisha Ramayya

“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
White text over an advert showing a man on a boat
21 January 2012
CCA

Argument – We would argue: an ante/post discussion group

Gil Leung Ian White

Ian and Gil will host a discussion on the Argument project’s social and political commentaries, and with you try and maybe think through whether and how they might still have some currency today: what’s changed and what’s stayed the same?

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
A blurry crowd mill on dance floor in the centre of a theatre space
13 November 2010
Tramway

Speculative Solution

Florian Hecker

A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.

INSTAL 10
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