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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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17 March 2025

Week Two: White Resilience: Embodied Anti-Racism

Tripod

The session – aimed specifically at white people – will be run by Tripod. We will explore and address whiteness, embodied responses to racial tension and somatic techniques to build resilience for practicing anti-racist action. It will be a space to learn and transform together and look at further anti-racist resources and work.

In Our Hands 2025
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Opaque

Opaque

Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.

INSTAL 06
a banner with painted letters saying sex work is work
20 April 2017
Terrence Higgins Trust

Community Discussion: LGBTQI People & Sex Worker’s Rights

Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people’s rights and sex worker’s rights.

Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance
Multiple versions of several mythical looking characters look up at the camera
19 October 2003
DCA

Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

Ira Cohen

Beat poet Ira Cohen’s now infamous and wildly psychedelic film odyssey feeds one’s own seeing apparatus through beautifully warped and distorting mylar mirrors, resulting in a film dense and rich with visual arcana and poetry.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Jean Philippe Gross sitting at a small table covered in electronics
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Jean-Philippe Gross

Jean-Philippe Gross

Solo by Jean-Philippe Gross, a French electro-acoustic improviser, working with mixing board, cheap mics, small speakers and an analog synth, built around a honed interest in feedback.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Image with the words: Icebreaker International
9 December 2001
The Arches

Icebreaker International

Icebreaker International

An audio report for the NATOarts board of directors that seeks to promote global security and stability through the exhibition of works of conceptual art.

INSTAL 01
boychild raises hands to the air open palm toward ceiling, head tilted upwards
23 November 2019
Tramway

Untitled Hand Dance

boychild

“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild

Episode 10: A Means Without End
A layers image of several frames from a video by R. Kelly
28 February 2010
DCA

Film Programme 5: Catalogues

Various Artists

Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Close up of a radio with a glowing fluorescent tube on top
12 April 2007
DCA

Chord of the Fifth Force

Barry Weisblat

A drone installation populated by flourescent strip lights working in complicity with analogue radios – “all the lights just do their thing”.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
A man holding a guitar with a strip of film in the strings
19 February 2006
DCA

Emma Hart & Benedict Drew

Benedict Drew Emma Hart

An original and beautifully simple performed installation forging a direct link between sound and image.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
A man in garden looks at the screen - "We're here among ourselves…"
16 April 2015
Tramway

Every Little Thing

Dir. Nicolas Philibert

Documentary of La Borde clinic in France and its radical politics of experimentation, in which residents and staff reciprocate in a kind of entanglement, an opening up amongst themselves.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
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