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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 film still shows an interior view along a hospital corridor
14 April 2019
Performance Space New York

After…After…(Access)

Jordan Lord

A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.

I wanna be with you everywhere
A blue and mauve background with black text that reads System Errors
17 August 2020
Online

System Errors: Abolitionist Technologies and Aesthetics

American Artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Juliana Huxtable Legacy Russell

A panel exploring the radical potential of technologies through fugitivity and opacity: their ability to obscure, to make it impossible for us to be known, to render us untraceable by every arm of the state even under the all-consuming spectre of surveillance capital.

Revolution is not a one-time event
Ayreen Anastas seated at a kitchen table in the evening
21 January 2012
CCA

Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri

Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri

An open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
Laps Performs in Blue Light
18 November 2017
Tramway

Every Book is Dead

Hal Duncan LAPS

Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Hijokaidan on stage performing with intensity and strong lighting
15 October 2005
The Arches

Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan rapidly built a following due to the overwhelmingly physical intensity of their live performances, often involving destructive onstage rituals of vomit, urine, mangled guitars and ear shredding volume.

INSTAL 05
A shot of murky green and brown water with several rectangular bricks submerged
20 November 2019
Tramway

All and at once

Arjuna Neuman Denise Ferreira da Silva Fred Moten Wu Tsang

Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
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16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Jarrod Fowler

Jarrod Fowler creates a social space where layered one-to-one live encounters with the audience become sonic material.

INSTAL 08
theeyeandtheear
15 April 2007
DCA

Film Programme 6: Contrast

Various Artists Guy Sherwin

Includes: tamed TV snow, video feedback of racing particles, a remake of a polish photogram film destroyed in WWII, a visual and aural representation of Gestalt theory, hole-punched film and Guy Sherwin’s Cycles 3 double-projection.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
Three folks sit around a table looking at Sonia Sanchez as she gesticulates
20 April 2013
Tramway

The Experiment: Pt. 1

Amiri Baraka Fred Moten Wadada Leo Smith Sonia Sanchez

What happens when you are engaged in a deep and extended artistic practice that intersects between literature and music, notation and improvisation, sight and sound?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
13 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee

Cask-strength electrohypnol/ shroom damaged folk croonings by Lapsed Electronics empire builder responsible for recent Tremors blowouts.

INSTAL 06
Daniel Carter plays a saxophone and William Parker plays a bamboo flute
20 April 2013
Tramway

Daniel Carter & William Parker

Daniel Carter William Parker

What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Diamanda Galas singing at a piano on stage at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás

Solo performance by Diamanda Galás one of the great artists of the last forty years. Hers is an emotional expressionism of demonic shrieks, operatic falsettos, glottal clicks and diabolical growls.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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