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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 black screen with the word, "words" written in large letters
23 February 2010
DCA

So Is This

Michael Snow

Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
boychild performs prostrate bathed in a blue light a red light in their mouth
26 May 2013
Tramway

#untitled lipsync 3

boychild

The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.

A wooden carved monkey smokes a pipe
20 March 2009

Extra Friday Set

Klaus Filip Radu Malfatti Sean Meehan Taku Unami

Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.

INSTAL 09
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Ben Reynolds

Ben Reynolds

An LSD trip gone right via dense explorations of post-Fahey steel and low level drone.

INSTAL 06
14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Birds of Delay & Nackt Insecten

Birds of Delay Nackt Insecten

Out holler/ howl of English pukenoise posterboys exploded by incessant insect chatter of Northern fug dweller.

INSTAL 06
Jandek, Chris Corsano and Matt Heyner performing at Issue Project Room 05
7 September 2005
Issue Project Room

Issue Project Room, New York 05

Alan Licht Chris Corsano Jandek Loren Mazzacane Connors Matt Heyner

Performances at Anthology Film Archives by by Loren Mazzacane Connors, Alan Licht & Jandek.

An actor looks off stage left, his eyes seem scared and wary
19 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 5: Drama

Christian Marclay Ian Helliwell Various Artists

Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Takehisa Kosugi bowing a violin between two screens showing waves
21 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Catch-Wave ’05

Takehisa Kosugi

A new interpretation of Kosugi’s Catch-Wave, producing a cloud of fluctuating, hypnotic drones, in front of a backdrop of projected waves.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Working on Transfeminism
Residency, May–July 2021

Trans Femme Futures

Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift undertake two intensive writing residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden and Hospitalfield in Arbroath.

Lee Patterson adds a spoon of powder to a large glass of water
15 February 2008
The Arches

Self Cancellation – Vessels

Lee Patterson

In this response to the Self Cancellation project, Lee Patterson dissolves medicine in glasses of water and explores the sonic content.

INSTAL 08
A hand frames the word Panther written on a brick in pen
11 October 2008
DCA

Film Programme: Zorns Lemma

Hollis Frampton

One of the great experimental films. A 60 minute, three part riddle that maybe approximates our intellectual development by moving from imageless words to the recognition of silent images and the learning of simple tasks and finally a serenity and acceptance of death.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Rolf Julius leans forward over a large white box and mixer and performs
22 March 2009
The Arches

Music for a Long Time

Rolf Julius

Julius’ “small music” features simple snatches of found sound, played back through small speakers, often set in bowls of pigment and dirt which shimmies in the vibrations.

INSTAL 09
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