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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 flyer in black and grey that says Master BallStar Weekend

15 – 20 April 2014

MoMA PS1 The New School Holiday Inn Club Escuelitas

Master Ballstar Weekend

A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.

AMM in a hallway or a hotel foyer leather jackets and smiles

23 November 2003

The Arches

AMM

Eddie Prevost John Tilbury Keith Rowe

AMM have undoubtedly been among the most important contributors to the UK free improv scene for nearly 40 years and we are extremely proud to be able to be working with such distinguished musicians who still rarely play live in the UK.

INSTAL 03

Makoto Kawabata playing electric guitar in front of a projection

19 October 2003

DCA

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

Acid Mothers Temple

Freak-out group for the 21st century perform a live soundtrack to Ira Cohen’s infamous psychedelic masterpiece ‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’

Kill Your Timid Notion 03

Guitar player silhouetted against projection of a film

11 December 2004

DCA

Text of Light and Films by Stan Brakhage

Alan Licht Lee Ranaldo Stan Brakhage Tim Barnes Ulrich Krieger

As opposed to suggesting soundtrack’s to Brakhage’s works [which are almost entirely silent] Text of Light use his works to stimulate improvisation, enveloping them into the structure of the group much like an additional musician.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04

12 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Kylie Minoise

Kylie Minoise

Glasgow. Power electronic klutz behaviour by Kovorox sound head-honcho. Bruised bodies and broken microphones.

INSTAL 05

Beams of light fanning out from the right in bands of green and white

15 April 2007

DCA

Light Trap

Greg Pope Norbert Möslang

Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights are picked out from the surface of film. Out of the black silence, noise, audible scratches bloom into a bright drone of broken and cracked objects.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

Layers of projection on a screen, a man's face with wig to the right

15 April 2007

DCA

LEVOX

eriKm Etienne Caire Gaëlle Rouard

Imagery, drawn from what seems like hundreds of different films is overlaid and combined in a promissory rainbow of new meanings and impossible scenarios, with the unsettling feel of daylight shadows.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

26 February 2010

Video Times

Kevin Atherton

Conceived of as a dual publication, video cassette and booklet, to be presented as an installation. The content of the videotape is the artist watching television.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

16 May 2010

Kinning Park Complex

In The Shadow of Shadow – Listening Session

The Strickland Distribution Ultra-red

Strickland Distribution and Ultra-red give a practical sound workshop bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk

UNINSTAL

Charlemagne Palestine seated at two pianos surrounded by soft toys

21 May 2005

The Golden Mean

Charlemagne Palestine

An extravagant debauch of huge pianos, plush toys, cognac and ritual.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05

18 February 2006

DCA

Word Processor

Derek Lodge The Duty Managers

Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

A circle of light from a projector circles audience members

12 December 2004

DCA

Sachiko M & Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall Sachiko M

Film and sound stripped of ‘content’ and experienced spatially, to be looked at not on the screen but in the space of the gallery