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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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Tony Conrad wearing a shirt and orange t shirt looks forlorn
17 February 2006
DCA

Symposium: ACCESS: SOUND FILE

Dan Norton Dr Cathy Lane Dr Martin Parker Rob Gawthrop Stephen Partridge Tony Conrad Zoe Irvine

ACCESS: SOUND FILE A day-long salon accompanying KYTN focusing on sound art.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
John Butcher and Michael Moser playing saxophone and cello at MLFC 07
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Polwechsel

Burkhard Beins John Butcher Martin Brandlmayr Michael Moser Werner Dafeldecker

With a signature spartan sound and long term preoccupation in structural tactics (subtle shifts in density, drawn out stasis) Polwechsel blur the boundaries between individual instruments.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
TV monitors in a dark room showing white screens
20 September – 12 October 2008
DCA

Figment Light – Kjell Björgeengen

Kjell Björgeengen

The reknowned artist Kjell Bjørgeengen works collaboratively with innovative musicians to make complex installations. Channels of flickering light are produced in response to and from sound.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Kazuo Imai playing an acoustic guitar on stage at MLFC 05
21 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Kazuo Imai

Kazuo Imai

One of the most arresting and unique improvisers in Japan, creating an original and powerful body of free music.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
A microphone wrapped in white paper on a mic stand on stage
20 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

MICRO 1

Takehisa Kosugi

MICRO 1 – Wrap a live microphone with a very large sheet of paper. Make a light bundle. Keep the microphone live for another 5 minutes. T. Kosugi – (1961)

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
An abstract pattern against a black background
17 February 2006
DCA

Christmas Tree Stand

Bruce McClure

A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
A shot of a boldly decorated bedroom, red walls, fairy lights, myriad flowers
28 February 2010
DCA

Film Programme 6: Production

Ken Jacobs Various Artists

The production of moving image (film) by the mechanically, unfalteringly repetitive manipulation of mass-produced materials (film), in order to explore three different allegorical representations (films) of repetitive human actions and labour under capital.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Kenny Goldsmith holds a microphone wearing a white spotted jumper
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Achim Wollscheid Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.

INSTAL 08
Several rows of audience members smile and one has a hand raised
17 April 2014
The New School

Ballroom Town Hall Meeting

Various Artists

Open community meeting to discuss some of the prevalent concerns impacting the ballroom community.

Master Ballstar Weekend
2 October 2025

Workshop on Mutual Aid with Dean Spade

Dean Spade

In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.

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