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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 portrait of Fred Moten wearing sunglasses and a cheeky smile

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Fred Moten
Chuquimamani-Condori performing. Their face tilts downwards. They are wearing a wide brimmed hat, the background is dark and their face is lit dramatically by the cast of a red light

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Music Performance
under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs

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Body | Disembody

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Portrait of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard
16 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Rehearsals for Living

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Robyn Maynard Harry Josephine Giles

Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
From a flat roof top, a pigeon flys to the right. on the roof are metal canisters weighted with brick, metal poles and frames and wires. In the distance we see the blurred outline of a city located in a dry desert like landscape.
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Toward Nakba as a Planetary Process

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri Houria Bouteldja Avery F. Gordon Amirah Silmi Françoise Vergès Additional Contributors

An assembly to try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality, in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A film still image is distorted, turning the image of a couple into liquid
11 December 2004
DCA

Film Programme 2: Celluloid

Bill Morrison Guy Sherwin Jürgen Reble Thomas Köner Various Artists William Basinski

Each film in this programme celebrates process; the decay of emulsion, the properties of dust and dirt, the manipulation of time. Post the dawn of the digital age, we reflect on our love of the film form, celluloid as an object, a medium and a physical entity.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
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
A metallic form projected on a screen
29 November 2008
BFI IMAX Spike Island CCA BFI Southbank ICA

Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa

Eric La Casa Ken Jacobs

Jacobs’ pulsing and abstract 3D Nervous Magic Lantern performance grounded by Eric La Casa’s manipulated recordings of everyday locations.

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
Amiri Baraka reads poetry at a mic and Henry Grimes plays a double bass bass
21 April 2013
Tramway

WordMusic

Amiri Baraka Henry Grimes

A dialogical meeting of Baraka’s radical poetry and Grimes’ free jazz syncopation.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Pony Zion in a red shirt and cap tenses their hands and arms in a gesture
27 September 2014
Tramway

You’ve Never Seen Pain Expressed Like This

Danielle Goldman Kia Labeija Miss Prissy Pony Zion

A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Ryoji Ikeda pictured against a dark background
1 December 2002
The Arches

Formula [ver 1.1]

Ryoji Ikeda

Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting

INSTAL 02
A pencil drawing of a spherical shape drawn with rough impressionistic strokes
5 – 9 February 2012
Glasgow University Chapel Glasgow Uni Music Dept Kinning Park Complex

Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet

What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?

Several bands of colour in blue pink and turquoise
18 October 2003
DCA

Short Film Programme 1: Retrospective

Various Artists

The first of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Jandek's silouhette against a blue wall
28 August 2005
Scottish Rite Theatre

Austin 05

Jandek

Jandek performing at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas with Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn.

Peter Evans backstage at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Peter Evans

Peter Evans

A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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