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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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Tamio Shiraishi approaches an audience among grasses and concrete forms

12 July 2007

A concrete walkway ending in mid air

Shadowed Spaces Newcastle

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

A concrete walkway ending in mid air, a ridiculously tight squeeze between three office buildings and various other sites of Labour politician and council leader T. Dan Smith’s modernist regeneration projects and ‘slum clearances’ of the 1950’s and 60’s.

Shadowed Spaces

12 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Kylie Minoise

Kylie Minoise

Glasgow. Power electronic klutz behaviour by Kovorox sound head-honcho. Bruised bodies and broken microphones.

INSTAL 05

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2 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Ultra-red George Lewis

For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.

A survey is a process of listening

Junko singing into a microphone & Masayoshi Urabe playing a saxophone

13 May 2007

The Sage Gateshead

Junko & Masayoshi Urabe

Junko Masayoshi Urabe

Junko’s screaming vocal in a nuanced, piercing duo with Urabe’s fuming and convulsive saxophone, far removed from the codes of musical tradition.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07

Three performers sit on a red lit stage, a tuba player, a singer and a guitarist

16 February 2008

Stereo

Neil Davidson, Aileen Campbell & Robin Hayward

Aileen Campbell Neil Davidson Robin Hayward

Sparse and miniature free thought workouts involving guitar, vocals and tuba.

INSTAL 08

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

13 March 2022

Online

Support Not Separation

Ubuntu Women Shelter Legal Action for Women Recovering Justice

How do grassroots feminist organisations strategise relationships between mothers, parents, carers and their children based on respect and empowerment, in resistance to the practice of putting children in often the most uncaring of places – care.

Mutual Aid

Two legs wearing black high heeled boots stick up above the edge of dark stage

18 November 2017

Tramway

Moved by the Motion

boychild TOTAL FREEDOM Wu Tsang

Sci-fi. After the club. Underground. Counter-narrative. Narrated movement. Cultural resistance. Wu Tsang and boychild’s collaborative performance series, will continue its evolution at Episode 9 with the addition of TOTAL FREEDOM.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist

A person in a flesh coloured catsuit, bends into a crab shape

24 May 2013

Tramway

(M)IMOSA | Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M)

Cecilia Bengolea François Chaignaud Marlene Monteiro Freitas Trajal Harrell

What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene going on in Harlem had travelled downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight

The Museum of Non Participation written on a wall in English and Arabic

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

Rhodri Davies and Terry Day performing at MLFC 07

13 May 2007

The Sage Gateshead

Rhodri Davies & Terry Day

Rhodri Davies Terry Day

Terry is one of the most entertaining and unpredictable musicians in the London free improvising music scene. Rhodri Davies extends his instrument under a battery of techniques creating sound colours and textures quite alien to the harp.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07

A view looking down a stone spiral staircase. A pair of trainers is on a step.

14 February 2008

Glasgow Uni Music Dept

Personal Space

Aileen Campbell Neil Davidson

Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.