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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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Two men in suits and ties ride exercise bikes whilst reading from books
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Simon Morris

Simon Morris is joined by Nick Thurston as they attempt to read aloud whilst peddling on exercise bikes.

INSTAL 08
Two people standing by a door, one is wearing a purple cloak
21 October 2016
Tramway

Criminal Queers

Chris Vargas Eric A Stanley

Criminal Queers visualises a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex, working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs
25 May 2013
Tramway

#untitled lipsync 2

boychild

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

Two rectangular forms of white light against black on a screen
14 April 2007
DCA

Surface Tension

William Raban

Relative patterns of occlusion and exposure occupy two screens. Each exposure fires a stroboscopic flash of colour: yellow for one screen; blue for the other, filling the centre of both screens with colour, haloed with after-images.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
17 November 2024
Tramway

Trans Breakfast at the End of the World

Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

An informal conversation, over breakfast, about how abolition and movement work structures Mijke and Nat’s approach to transfeminism, ahead of their new book Trans Femme Futures.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A whirl of blurred coloured lights make an abstract pattern
12 December 2004
DCA

Film Programme 4: Pop

Various Artists

A riot of 60’s psychedelia, magick, ritual and tight black leather, this programme highlights underground innovators who use and subvert pop music for their own experimental ends; and be warned, in Anger, there’s real darkness.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Tony conrad bowing a violin in the foreground, Keiji Haino singing behind
14 October 2006
The Arches

Keiji Haino & Tony Conrad

Keiji Haino Tony Conrad

Although Tony had visited Haino in Japan, and they played together in private, this was the first time anyone other that Haino’s cat saw them perform together.

INSTAL 06
Robert Softley Gale working at a computer next to a bath robe
18 November 2017
Tramway

Discourse or Intercourse: One on One

Robert Softley Gale

Ten short intimate one-on-one conversations with Robert Softley Gale – We all want to see ourselves reflected in the world around us—in society, in art, in culture… in porn?

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Shuji Inaba playing acoustic guitar and singing on stage at MLFC 05
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Shuji Inaba

Shuji Inaba

A confrontational and somehow shamanic stance; introspective silences shattered by savage jabs at the strings, whirlwind strums dying into spartan chords

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
21 June 2023

Open Stage/ Screen/ Mic

Our Zooms are unmuted, our mics are open, and our hearts and bodyminds are receptive. We give the floor online and in person to you…

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
Several bands of colour in blue pink and turquoise
18 October 2003
DCA

Short Film Programme 1: Retrospective

Various Artists

The first of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme focuses on the forebearers of filmic and musical innovation over the last 70 years.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
a man in green clothes is wrapped to a drum kit by red tape
18 October 2003
DCA

Sunburned Hand of the Man

Sunburned Hand of the Man

First live show outside the USA featuring one-off film pieces and live theatre from the ringleaders of the ‘weird new America’ psych folk explosion.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
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