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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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29 November – 7 December 2008
BFI IMAX BFI Southbank ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour

In 2008 we toured our Kill Your Timid Notion festival of experimental sound and image to London, Bristol and Glasgow, bringing audiences a taste of the previous 5 festival editions.

Sparklers mounted on stands with microphones being lit with a gas burner
14 October 2006
The Arches

Sparklers and Table Top Set

Lee Patterson

Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.

INSTAL 06
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
9 – 13 March 2022
Online

Mutual Aid

4 days of workshops, discussions and artists presentations exploring the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

Cardboard boxes suspended in bunches from cords
15 May 2010
Tramway

Inferno Quiz Show

Taku Unami

Cardboard boxes, metal guitar, critical homage, attempts to describe things you can’t describe. A one-man Grand Guignol school play.

UNINSTAL
Bhob Rainey, Jason Lescalleet & Greg Kelley backstage at INSTAL 06
13 October 2006
The Arches

Nmperign + Jason Lescalleet

Jason Lescalleet Nmperign

Music is full of refracted brass and wind tones, distorted tape loops, dead silent air and the occasional piercing shard of sound.

INSTAL 06
Ikuro Takahashi & Yoko Muronoi standing by a wall
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Anoyonodekigoto

Ikuro Takahashi Yoko Muronoi

A collaborative duo performance, Anoyonodekigoto sets up a sort of negotiation between a musician, a dancer, the audience and the space we’re all sharing.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Robin Hayward and Radu Malfatti play brass instruments at the far end of a room
16 February 2008
The Arches

Wandelweiser

Antoine Beuger Manfred Werder Radu Malfatti

Expansive and considered, inclusive and deeply human minimalism: Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder.

INSTAL 08
Hannah Proctor stands on stage in front of a lectern delivering their performed reading. Behind Hannah is a project image of a crowd in a smoke filled city street, giving the impression of a conflict or war environment.
13 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Four Endings to Begin

Masa Nazzal River MacAskill Hannah Proctor Gracie Mae Bradley Joel White

Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Steve Roden seated on stage at DCA Dundee
17 October 2003
DCA

Steve Roden

Steve Roden

By focusing on the things that most people don’t notice or pass by uncaring – Steve Roden crafts gentle, sparse and metaphorically loaded compositions.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
Silhouette of man with wild hair
19 April 2015
Tramway

Cartography of Exhaustion

Peter Pál Pelbart

If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
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