21 August 2026, 17:00
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Scotland for Decrim
A welcoming intermission between events, open to the public.
Hard Labour
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 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
23 October 2016
Tramway
Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Work-station
Sondra Perry
A celebration of our overabundant social entanglement and complicity, that remind us of how we can see ourselves, stripped of powers’ attempts to grasp us.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp
14 October 2006
The Arches
Infest – Red Kites
Red Kites
Brother and sister stumble over the early morning horizon in a spectral haze of emotionally devastating lunar vocals and oblique, lithium-soaked folk.
INSTAL 06
14 October 2006
The Arches
See Noise Hear Light Saturday
Jazkamer Keiji Haino Kiyoharu Kuwayama Lee Patterson Matt Hulse Ravi Padmanabha Steve Baczkowski The Bohman Brothers Tony Conrad
Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Saturday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.
INSTAL 06
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Peter Evans
Peter Evans
A sound of buzzing and flickering metallic drones, glottal stops and guttural growls, and also an explosiveness and purity of sound that reminds you as much of Bill Dixon as anyone else.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
19 April 2015
Tramway
Cartography of Exhaustion
Peter Pál Pelbart
If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.
Episode 7:
We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
21 November 2019
Tramway
In the Sign of Jonah: Around Moby-Dick
Laura Harris Fernando Zalamea
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
12 December 2004
DCA
Film Programme 5: Form
Thomas Köner Tony Conrad Various Artists alva.noto
Reveling in the geometric, mathematical and perceptual relationship between sound and form, this programme features a landmark work of experimental film in Kubelka’s Arnulf Rainer; a complex, enduring and expressive of structuralist or flicker films.
Kill Your Timid Notion 04
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
16 November 2017
Tramway
The Motion of Light
Samuel R. Delany
Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
19 November 2017
Tramway
Beyond Transgression
Samuel R. Delany
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist