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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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Terre Thaemlitz lies on the ground, next to a motorcycle, posing provocatively
25 May 2013
Tramway

Soulnessless – Cantos I-IV

Terre Thaemlitz

An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
A black screen with the word, "words" written in large letters
23 February 2010
DCA

So Is This

Michael Snow

Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
A packing case with the word ALIVE painted on it sits on stage
16 October 2004
The Arches

Baby Dee

Baby Dee

Former street performer, organist, performance artist, circus performer, harpist, accordion player, tree surgeon and tricyclist performing solo.

INSTAL 04
22 August 2026, 10:30

Sex Worker Breakfast

Scotland for Decrim

A chill sex worker only breakfast hang, hosted by Scotland for Decrim, with delicious vegan, vegetarian, meaty, gluten free options & fresh coffee. (Both present & past lived experience welcome).

Hard Labour
21 August 2026, 18:30

How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution

Chaoying Rao Madi Awadalla

An excavation of the 1805 Lock Hospital in Glasgow. Its official function was to support ‘unfortunate females with venereal disease’, but really what happened was that women and girls were marched in, experimented on, and often never released.

Hard Labour
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
A guitarist and a drummer performing on stage
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Aufgehoben

A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
A performer with a small parrot on his finger, props on the floor
18 April 2015
Tramway

No Ready Made Men – Open Rehearsal

Ueinzz

Inhabiting a different kind of energy, Ueinzz’s open rehearsals reveal a glimpse into their ongoing daily theatrical modes of caring – multiplying the ways in which their plays are meant to be felt, rather than understood.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
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?

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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
Loic Blairon Sits at a table
15 May 2010
Tramway

It Doesn’t Say What It Says

Loïc Blairon

Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…

UNINSTAL
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