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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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Portrait of Chuquimamani-Condori, they are wearing an off-white cowboy style hat and white casual top.

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under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs

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Body | Disembody

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24 March 2025

Week Three: We Take Care Of Each Other

River Molloy Zinzi Buchanan River MacAskill

This trans-exclusive workshop, co-facilitated by River McAskill, River Molloy and Zinzi Buchanan, offers body-focused exercises and creative practices for a trans-exclusive space, situated within the present local and global climate. We will bring an array of offerings related to the question: how can we take care of ourselves and one another, when we can’t trust state systems to take care of us? Come as you are and bring anything that adds to your comfort.

In Our Hands 2025
Still from Robert Nelson's film Bleu Shut 'Bottoms Up'
15 May 2010
Tramway

Bleu Shut

Bleu Shut reveals, and allows us to enjoy, our gullibility within the pervasive absurdity of modern life.

UNINSTAL
multiple overlays of the words intifada and revolution overlapping each other in serif font
15 November 2024
Tramway

IN OUR LIFETIME Workshop

Hussein Mitha

A workshop for educators, activists and young people to think about radical, anti-imperialist pedagogy, and what fighting for the Palestinian cause looks like for young people in the imperial core. PDF of the resource available soon.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A broken c90 cassette spews a ribbon of tape onto a concrete slab
15 April 2007
DCA

Lost Sound: Graeme Miller + John Smith

Various Artists

Ever wondered about the roadside festoons which are the innards of discarded cassette tapes? All will be revealed in this methodical and insightful documentary by UK luminary John Smith and sound artist cohort Graeme Miller.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses
15 October 2006
The Arches

Maryanne Amacher

Maryanne Amacher

A rare live performance which, although not a full installation, made use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle the audience and help it locate its third ear.

INSTAL 06
Merzbow: Masami Akita looking at a computer screen
23 November 2003
The Arches

Merzbow

Merzbow takes the junk of sound and transforms it into blistering noise assaults with an incredible spectrum and impact.

INSTAL 03
Arika_Episode2_RayBrassier_ThomasMetzinger_TheViewFromNowherePart1_AWoodward-6
25 February 2012
Tramway

The View From Nowhere Part 1

Ray Brassier Thomas Metzinger

Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Nikos Veliotis in safety goggles chips wood, cello and a projection in the back
21 March 2009
The Arches

Cello Powder

Nikos Veliotis

Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.

INSTAL 09
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
The sun low in the sky above Easterhouse, an audience at a performance
10 July 2007
The old public library in Easterhouse

Shadowed Spaces Easterhouse

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

Location: Around and about the old public library in Easterhouse; disinvested in and left to rot by the council but which was shamelessly, hastily and superficially cleaned by them in expectation of our event.

Shadowed Spaces
Sgaire Wood wearing a large green and grey witch mask
19 November 2017
Tramway

Sgàire Wood

Sgàire Wood

A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Gary Smith playing a guitar at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Gary Smith

Gary Smith

Guitar solo where inscrutable, minute electric sounds are excavated by palms that smother and strangle, that wring sound from the fretboard, from behind the bridge.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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