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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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A blackboard with chalk lined box shapes and orange post-it notes by a wall
14 November 2010
Tramway

Evacuation of The Great Learning

Mattin Ray Brassier

Three workshops lead up to an open invitation to improvise with the festival as concert. The last four hours of the Sunday 14 at Instal 10 were devoted to presentations devised during the three workshops. The material conditions (time, space, facilities…) were the instruments. From there anything could happen.

INSTAL 10
A medieval woodcut of the cosmos with the sun, stars and heavens
5 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

Cosmic Pessimism

Eugene Thacker

A performed lecture concerned with Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic who put forward the notion of the “disharmony of the world”

A survey is a process of listening
A drawing of a circular shape made in graphic pencil
5 February 2012
Glasgow University Chapel

Concert 1: Organ Solo

Jean-Luc Guionnet

Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.

Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet
22 March 2009
The Arches

Sean Meehan & Taku Unami

Sean Meehan Taku Unami

Sean and Taku share an interest in structure, space and time. A spartan, abstract, considered and surprisingly musical set.

INSTAL 09
Denise Fererria Da Silva holds both hands in the air as she talks to the group
28 September 2014
Tramway

Realness

Charlene Sinclair Fred Moten Icon Ayana Christian Michael Roberson Tourmaline

A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
21 April 2025

Week Seven: Reframing Trauma

Lisa Fannen Sapna Agarwal

We’ll be looking at reframing trauma, how we might understand trauma in the bodymindsoul, taking a look at the physiology of trauma, forms of trauma, and at ways to mitigate and heal trauma.

In Our Hands 2025
An abstract pattern against a black background
17 February 2006
DCA

Christmas Tree Stand

Bruce McClure

A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Birds of Delay & Nackt Insecten

Birds of Delay Nackt Insecten

Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.

INSTAL 06
The panel members at a rectangular table listen to a question
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
A panel of four folks sit as one wearing a dark jacket and specs speaks
18 April 2014
The New School

Literary Reflections of Ballroom

Various Artists

A celebration of the release of four books written by members of, and focused on about the House and Ballroom scene.

Master Ballstar Weekend
Beams of light fanning out from the right in bands of green and white
15 April 2007
DCA

Light Trap

Greg Pope Norbert Möslang

Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
20 – 24 November 2019
Tramway Online

Episode 10: A Means Without End

Complex ways of understanding our complex times. Maths & Poetics. Gesture & Physics. Collectivist Struggle & Desire. 5 days of performances, discussions, screenings and study sessions.

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