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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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22 August 2026, 14:30

Tell Me About It – Human Library®

Scotland for Decrim The Human Library®

Imagine entering a library where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books. Then select a book stack that specialises in sex work.

Hard Labour
A still frame from a film. A sheepdog barks and the words Bottoms Sup are shown
11 October 2008
DCA

Film Programme: Bleu Shut

A kind of audience activating, structured film guessing game in the manipulation of time, sound and image. “At 11:15, weiners. At 21:05, pornography. At 23:30, a duet. Watch the Clock.”

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Two men move things around on the floor
16 February 2008

Usurper

Usurper

This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.

INSTAL 08
John Tilbury plays a piano whilst Wadada Leo Smith plays a trumpet
19 April 2013
Tramway

Wadada Leo Smith & John Tilbury

John Tilbury Wadada Leo Smith

How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Black and white image of clouds from above showing a fractal pattern
23 November 2019
Tramway

Vorticity in the Eternal Hum

Alexander Moll Jackie Wang

What’s the relationship between the eternal hum of the oceanic beloved and the persistence of vorticity in fluid dynamics? And how does Alice Coltrane’s harp help us stay there?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Jandek, Chris Corsano and Matt Heyner performing at Issue Project Room 05
7 September 2005
Issue Project Room

Issue Project Room, New York 05

Alan Licht Chris Corsano Jandek Loren Mazzacane Connors Matt Heyner

Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.

A section of exposed 16mm film stock covered in small abrasions
14 April 2007
DCA

Film Programme 3: Earth

Various Artists Ian Helliwell

Includes: solar flares, insect fireworks, a new film from Ian Helliwell, pulsating glaciers, an apple being eaten alive, sea ravaged stock, crushed blackberries and film that has literally risen from the grave.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
People playing instruments, some of them on the floor
15 October 2005
The Arches

Directing Hand

Directing Hand

A life force of ecstatic clarity capable of loquacious bursts of affirmation.

INSTAL 05
Christian Bok's blackboard diagram
16 May 2010

Two Dots over a Vowel

Christian Bök

Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.

UNINSTAL
Colorful leather bound books line a wooden shelf, with writing on their spine in Arabic, one booklet entitled “3 Scores and The People’s Mic Khutba” in Urdu, is slipping into the company of the books or out into the hands of a seeker.
14 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Bring a Witness

Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato

Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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