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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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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
Projection of Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) in a corner of DCA Dundee
19 September – 12 October 2008
DCA

Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976)

Paul Sharits

Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
A cutting from the New York Times, showing a man in a blue jumper
21 January 2012
CCA

Argument

Andrew Tyndall Anthony McCall

Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
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.

INSTAL 08
Wormit reservoir: a concrete columns and pools of water in a large sunless room
27 June 2006
Wormit Reservoir

Wormit Reservoir

Akio Suzuki John Butcher

Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an old underground reservoir in Fife.

Resonant Spaces
six red umbrellas on a white background
4 March 2018
MoMA PS1

Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance NYC

For this day-long festival, sex workers and their allies from New York, the tri-state area, and Europe will gather at MoMA PS1 to debate, perform, dance, strategize & share knowledge.

Sanjah: Kan Mikami, Masayoshi Urabe & Toshiaki Ishizuka at MLFC 07
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Sanjah: Kan Mikami, Masayoshi Urabe & Toshiaki Ishizuka

Kan Mikami Masayoshi Urabe Toshiaki Ishizuka

HEAVY Japanese super group, featuring the sundown delta blues of Kan Mikami, Toshi Ishizuka’s heavy, time folding drumming and Masayoshi Urabe on sax, harmonica and chains.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
A Special Form of Darkness Poster Graphic
24 – 26 February 2012
Tramway

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness

A festival asking how ideas of nihilism, darkness, subjectivity and abjection play out in experimental music, performance art, horror, neuroscience and philosophy?

Inure Takehashi playing a snare drum among buddleia
15 July 2007
The former Abbeyhill Station

Shadowed Spaces Edinburgh

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

The site of the former Abbeyhill Station on the 1903 Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith railway, overgrown and leading to as yet un-regenerated ‘wasteland’; taxi’s for 80 people, each instructed to take different routes between locations and; a slice of land concealed behind corporate business park branding off the Wester Approach Rd, apparently of no conceivable use and named ‘Chateaux de Scum’ by those who use it anyway.

Shadowed Spaces
Text reads Episode 12 Save the Dates 11-15 November 2026. Background is blue with a red and an orange circle
11 – 15 November 2026

Episode 12

Save the dates for Episode 12.

Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 November 2026

Moor Mother performs at Episode 9, back lit with pale golden light
16 November 2017
Tramway

Moor Mother

Moor Mother

Moor Mother is a musician, Philadelphian housing activist and black quantum futurist.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Eddie George & Dhanveer sit next to each other facing an audience
22 November 2019
Tramway

The Strangeness of Dub

Dhanveer Brar Edward George

Dub is strange. A conversation with Edward George and Dhanveer Brar.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
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