21 June 2023
Break/Open Meetup time*
Take a break and/ or hang in an Open Meet Up in IRL and URL
I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
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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12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Polwechsel
Burkhard Beins John Butcher Martin Brandlmayr Michael Moser Werner Dafeldecker
With a signature spartan sound and long term preoccupation in structural tactics (subtle shifts in density, drawn out stasis) Polwechsel blur the boundaries between individual instruments.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
27 February 2010
DCA
Screening Room & Teatro Amazonas
Morgan Fisher Sharon Lockhart
A double bill. A simple first person, Dundee-specific tracking shot that approaches the cinema/ screen/ space the film will eventually be shown in and in Brazilian opera house, a fixed camera gazes at a local audience from the stage: a choir, hidden in the orchestra pit, sings and gradually fades to silence.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
20 January 2012
CCA
The Museum of Non-Participation
Brad Butler Karen Mirza Nabil Ahmed
This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
16 November 2017
Tramway
The Body is a Sanctuary That Floats
Storyboard P
A performance by Storyboard P – one of the greatest Afrofuturist dancers on the planet.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
22 March 2009
The Arches
Century FC
Phil Minton
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
INSTAL 09
26 May 2013
Tramway
We have something to say about… Pt2
Emma Hedditch Frank Roberts Michael Roberson Pony Zion Robert Sember Terre Thaemlitz Vjuan Allure Vogue’ology
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight
27 February 2010
DCA
Noir & Perfect Film
Ken Jacobs Mirko Martin
A double bill of A (imageless) film of nothing but a sound recording and its transcription and a found film of news interviews about Malcolm X’s assasination, where the filmmaker decided to add nothing to it, except our attention.
Kill Your Timid Notion 10
20 April 2014
Club Escuelitas
The Road to Mastery Rumble Ball
Various Artists
This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.
Master Ballstar Weekend
13 November 2024
Tramway
Live Stream
Four Endings to Begin
Masa Nazzal River MacAskill Hannah Proctor Gracie Mae Bradley Joel White
Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
23 August 2026, 15:30
Badgemaking Workshop
Hank Ahmad aka Green Bananas
Create your own badge designs, with collaging, drawings, stickers and more! Whether your badge is playful, political, expressive or just for fun this is a space to create something that feels like you.
Hard Labour
13 October 2005
The Universal
Stalled at Universal – Usurper
Usurper
Edinburgh. Nigh-inaudible improv jams with disabled instruments from the makers of Giant Tank and Pizza Boy Delivery.
INSTAL 05