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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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The blurry figure of a dog crosses the camera, entering a doorway
26 May 2013
Tramway

My Dog Is My Piano

Antonia Baehr

An audio/ video, lecture/ performance exploring the queer and companionly inter-activity of human-animal relations.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
A survey is a process of listening
2 – 6 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

A survey is a process of listening

A performative survey of listening, as we managed to find it being used as a tool in different practices, disciplines and communities in North America (music, poetry, film, philosophy, activism…).

21 – 23 August 2026

Hard Labour

All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!  Workshops, talks and visual art, hosted by Scotland for Decrim.

Joshua Allen speaks to participants at a workshop
22 October 2016
Tramway

#BlackExcellenceTour

CeCe McDonald Joshua Allen

A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Kill Your Timid Notion 07 publicity flyer
3 – 15 April 2007
DCA

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

Investigating the border between the audible and the visible means looking at the margins, the edges of creativity where artists test out new boundaries and define them anew.

A rectangle of red light, one of green light and a beam of white light
13 April 2007
DCA

Wave Formations

William Raban

Wave Formations is a 5 screen work in which each screen runs through a series of fades and then stroboscopic flashes of colour, to create a series of visual harmonics.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
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26 September 2014
Stereo

Make a Way Out of No Way: Club

Kia Labeija MikeQ Miss Prissy Pony Zion

Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Matthew Saladin Adjusts a movement sensor in Tramway's studio space
14 November 2010
Tramway

Noises Off

Matthieu Saladin

A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.

INSTAL 10
A woman rides a motorcycle against a sunset lit sky
21 January 2012
CCA

Nina Power discussing November

Hito Steyerl Nina Power

Nina’s going to talk about November, by Hito Steyerl: what and how the film thinks, or about what and how it might makes us think (which is connected, but not the same thing), by watching, and it discussing (with you?).

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
Jack Halberstam speaking into a microphone
25 May 2013
Tramway

No Church in the Wild

Jack Halberstam

Can we find ideas of queer anarchism, failure and low theory in popular culture?

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Nate is shown from the waist up, leaning against a fence, wearing a navy t-shirt
24 November 2019
Tramway

Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey

“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub

Episode 10: A Means Without End