25 May 2013
Tramway
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boychild
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
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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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.
21 April 2017
Kinning Park Complex
Party & Performances
Marianne Chargois MC Ray St. Ray Sex Workers’ Opera
A party and fundraiser to support Sex Workers’ struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers’ community and allies, plus DJ’s and dancing.
Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance
5 February 2012
Glasgow University Chapel
Concert 1: Organ Solo
Jean-Luc Guionnet
Each organ is unique. The project is to find out what makes it unique.
Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet
18 April 2015
Tramway
Poethical Readings/Intuiting the Political
Denise Ferreira da Silva Valentina Desideri
A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.
20 March 2009
Glasgow University Chapel
Jean-Luc Guionnet & Toshimaru Nakamura
Jean-Luc Guionnet Toshimaru Nakamura
Brain boiling duo improvisation by great Japanese no input mixing desk pioneer Toshi Nakamura and french organ philosopher Jean-Luc Guionnet.
INSTAL 09
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
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
CCA
Location Location Location
Various Artists Guy Sherwin
Experience a sense of being in the world, in a specific space and time. Including Jeanne Liotta’s recordings of the ionosphere and Walter Ruttmann’s radical 35mm precursor to musique concrète.
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
17 April 2015
Tramway
TLRS Morning Show
Laurence Rassel Terre Thaemlitz
(Cyber)feminist, non-essentialist transgender and queer daily radio shows using the formula of morning radio as an arch way of thinking about the scripted behaviour and controlled empathy of systematic care.
10 October 2008
DCA
Benedict Drew & Sachiko M
Benedict Drew Sachiko M
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
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
16 October 2005
The Arches
Henri Chopin
Henri Chopin
Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.
INSTAL 05