21 August 2026, 17:00
Drinks and Nibbles
Scotland for Decrim
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
Hard Labour
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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10 October 2008
DCA
Benedict Drew & Sachiko M
Benedict Drew Sachiko M
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
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
26 September 2014
Tramway
Waywardness
Saidiya Hartman
A socio-poetic reading on wayward communities – The wayward create upheavals, incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are fugitive; they are in open rebellion against society.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
22 October 2016
Tramway
#BlackExcellenceTour
CeCe McDonald Joshua Allen
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
28 May 2015
Artists Space Books & Talks
No Total
Amalle Dublon Arias Abbruzzi Davis Constantina Zavitsanos Emma Hedditch Jordan Lord Morgan Bassichis
Three days of discussions, performances, actions, dancing and food – continuing No Total’s ongoing contemplation of ways of being together and the ways Arika have been entangled in those, ever since Episode 4.
23 October 2016
Tramway
Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Work-station
Sondra Perry
A celebration of our overabundant social entanglement and complicity, that remind us of how we can see ourselves, stripped of powers’ attempts to grasp us.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Mondays, 10 March to 5 May, 6-9pm
In Our Hands 2025
In Our Hands is a nine week programme of workshops exploring radical approaches to health and collective care in the movement for liberation and social justice.
22 October 2016
Tramway
Resident Evil
Sondra Perry
Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
30 July 2022
CCA
Book Launch: Truth and Lies – an anthology of writing and art by sex workers
An evening of live performances, readings & saucy rococo cakes celebrating the launch of Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers.
16 April 2015
Tramway
Assemblages
Dir: Maurizio Lazzarato & Angela Melitopoulos
A filmic constellation exploring Felix Guattari’s anti-patriarchal, anti-colonialist, anti-psychiatric, animist ideas of care and the self. And an Introduction to the Episode.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
18 February 2006
DCA
Word Processor
Derek Lodge The Duty Managers
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.
Kill Your Timid Notion 06