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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 film frames has the words "Scene Missing" displayed

25 February 2010

DCA

Standard Gauge & ()

Morgan Fisher

A double bill of Morgan Fisher films that ask what can be achieved by a simple structural method of commenting on scraps of 35mm film, re-shot on 16mm film and what happens to meaning (if anything) when ‘insert shots’ are relieved of their original duty of providing crucial plot development for a variety of other movies?

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

2 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

Temporary outpost for an auditory figure

Brandon LaBelle

A temporary archive and research space tracing the ways in which sound and audition move through everyday life.

A survey is a process of listening

Kazuo Imai and Astuhiro Ito on stage with guitar and light bulb

19 February 2006

DCA

Kazuo Imai & Atsuhiro Ito

Atsuhiro Ito Kazuo Imai

A loud, buzzing stew of electrical light as noise and convulsive electric guitar squall.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06

A B&W shot of M Lamar prostrate and seemingly screaming

27 September 2014

Tramway

Speculum Orum

M Lamar

A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way

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

Black and white photo of Argyll taken from event poster

4 September 2007

Various

Half-Life

Angharad Davies Lee Patterson Luke Fowler Rhodri Davies Toshiya Tsunoda

NVA asked Arika to curate and programme the sound aspects of their 2007 Half-Life production in Kilmartin Glen. Arika worked with Toshiya Tsunoda, Lee Patterson, Rhodri Davies and Angharad Davies.

A figure in leather and studded cuffs wears a large visor with the word SHADE

20 April 2014

MoMA PS1

Respect the Runway: The Red Carpet to Mastery

Various Artists

Organised by Twiggy Pucci Garcon and Pony Zion, The Masters Ball focuses on the work of 50 individuals designated within the scene as ‘masters’ in their respective performance categories, which include Vogue, Runway, and Face.

Master Ballstar Weekend

Two people sit on a sofa facing each other, they are licking cakes in an exaggerated manner. There is text on the image. It reads "If words are magic, and therefore speaking is akin to weaving spells, then what is lying?"

25 November 2023

Conway Hall

Book Launch: Truth and Lies (London)

Marin Scarlett Lib Lobberson ZuZu Gabrielli Maedb Joy Black Venus Chaoying Rao

An evening extravaganza celebrating the London launch of Truth & Lies: an Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers

Expect slutty DJs, playful performances, stripper poles, rococo cakes, union broads and intimate readings…

12 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – FRU

Fordell Research Unit

Edinburgh. Beer and smoke befuddled drone/ deadly efforts by Pjorn72 kingpin.

INSTAL 05

A film still shows an interior view along a hospital corridor

14 April 2019

Performance Space New York

After…After…(Access)

Jordan Lord

A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.

I wanna be with you everywhere

A group of people on a stage, they move quickly. One has their hands in the air

22 October 2016

Tramway

[b]reach: The Fugitive Chronicles – an open rehearsal

Gallery of the Streets Glasgow Open Dance School Kai Lumumba Barrow

The ongoing development of [b]reach, an abolitionist black queer retelling of Marge Piercy’s incredible feminist utopian novel Woman on the Edge of Time.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp

Jo Jo plays a guitar with equipment visible & knees bent

14 October 2005

The Arches

JOJO Hiroshige

JO JO Hiroshige

A fulcrum to the Japanese noise scene, JOJO Hiroshige has been responsible for much of the explosion of free music coming from Japan in the last 30 years.