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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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M NourbeSe Philip is congratulated by Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez
21 April 2013
Tramway

Zong!

M. NourbeSe Philip

Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
A woman passenger reaches over and speaks to the driver in the convertible car
12 October 2008
DCA

Film Programme: The Last Clean Shirt

Alfred Leslie

A parody of a (Manhattan) road movie and meditation on bifurcation, in paths traveled between the seen and the heard; a road trip played over and over from different perspectives.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Jandek and Richard Youngs onstage at MLFC 05
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Jandek

Jandek Alex Neilson Richard Youngs

Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
A small room with a table with white paper on it and several green chairs
6 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Ultra-red

For day five of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will review the previous work undertaken together, and perhaps draw up a summary of reflections and pose some future questions.

A survey is a process of listening
Pools of light show music stands holding large books
24 February 2012
Tramway

De Musicorum Infelicitate

Esther Ferrer Walter Marchetti

‘Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations’ for piano, an impossible score that looks like a grapeshot musical stave, a text of barbed loathing and doubt – an anti-composition.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
An abstract texture against a black background
18 February 2006
DCA

Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder & Daniel Menche

Luis Recoder Sandra Gibson Daniel Menche

A collaborative performance where sound and image are created, performed and mediated by light, water and glass.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Projection of a purple toned image onto a wall
19 February 2006
DCA

Jennifer Reeves & Anthony Burr

Anthony Burr Jennifer Reeves

An immersive live performance for multiple 16mm film and bass clarinet, taking in the whole gallery, submerging the audience.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Steve Roden seated on stage at DCA Dundee
17 October 2003
DCA

Steve Roden

Steve Roden

By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Two smashed mirrors with shards of glass here and there
25 February 2012
Tramway

Rehearsal after Reflect Soft Matte Discourse

Clara López Imri Sandström Malin Arnell

A performed reflection on Malin’s previous re-enacting of a super influential landmark of performance art from the French feminist and artist Gina Pane.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
A publication called Video Times and a tape sat next to each other on table
26 February 2010

Video Times

Kevin Atherton

Conceived of as a dual publication, video cassette and booklet, to be presented as an installation. The content of the videotape is the artist watching television.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Ulrike Flaig operating equipment by a cathode ray television
11 December 2004
DCA

Perlonex & Ulrike Flaig

Burkhard Beins Ignaz Schick Joerg Maria Zeger Ulrike Flaig

Real-time video feedback loops submerged in laminal sheets of sound soaked in gauzy timbral detail and multi-valenced, buzzing overtones.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
2 October 2025

Workshop on Mutual Aid with Dean Spade

Dean Spade

In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.