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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 portrait of Fred Moten wearing sunglasses and a cheeky smile

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Fred Moten
Portrait of Chuquimamani-Condori, they are wearing an off-white cowboy style hat and white casual top.

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Music Performance
under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs

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Body | Disembody

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24 March 2025

Week Three: We Take Care Of Each Other

River Molloy Zinzi Buchanan River MacAskill

This trans-exclusive workshop, co-facilitated by River McAskill, River Molloy and Zinzi Buchanan, offers body-focused exercises and creative practices for a trans-exclusive space, situated within the present local and global climate. We will bring an array of offerings related to the question: how can we take care of ourselves and one another, when we can’t trust state systems to take care of us? Come as you are and bring anything that adds to your comfort.

In Our Hands 2025
Dream-like landscape doubly exposed, clouds seem to be on top of ocean on top of land.Three deer turn away from the camera into the diffracted horizon.
14 November 2024
Tramway

barrunto

Emilia Beatriz

A speculative narrative film informed by poetry and theories of quantum entanglement across diasporic distance. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
An old photograph of a group looking direct to camera
26 September 2014
Tramway

Waywardness

Saidiya Hartman

A socio-poetic reading on wayward communities – The wayward create upheavals, incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are fugitive; they are in open rebellion against society.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
B&W cutout props of a large mushroom, some Russian building and 3 men
25 March 2012
Tramway

The Russian Woods

Chto Delat

A spectacular musical show which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history. A learning play on myth construction and its reproduction.

Episode 3: Copying without Copying
A dark room and Tone is performing at a laptop.
4 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

Paramedia

Yasunao Tone

A dense, hard, immersive, chaotic spatial performance in sound: a momentary gap in consciousness, free of order or decision.

A survey is a process of listening
A flyer in black and grey that says Master BallStar Weekend
15 – 20 April 2014
MoMA PS1 The New School Holiday Inn Club Escuelitas

Master Ballstar Weekend

A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.

A cutting from the New York Times, showing a man in a blue jumper
21 January 2012
CCA

Argument

Andrew Tyndall Anthony McCall

Argument is a provocative, multi-layered film essay, a trenchant analysis of the media and remains a critically relevant and critically inflammatory tract.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
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2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Ultra-red George Lewis

For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.

A survey is a process of listening
Daniel Carter plays a saxophone and William Parker plays a bamboo flute
20 April 2013
Tramway

Daniel Carter & William Parker

Daniel Carter William Parker

What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Topias Tiheäsalo fanning a guitar at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Topias Tiheäsalo

Topias Tiheäsalo

A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Joe Kubera Kate Thompson David Murray Alan Fearon & Simon Passmore at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Evil Nigger

Julius Eastman

Julius Eastman’s Evil Nigger for 4 pianos performed by Joe Kubera, Kate Thompson, David Murray, Alan Fearon and Simon Passmore.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Ahya Simone performs on Harp in support of Juliana Huxtable
23 October 2016
Tramway

Juliana Huxtable

Ahya Simone Joe Heffernan Juliana Huxtable

Juliana’s performances chart the dissonant space and discrepancy between the presumed fixed norms of social life and the fluid lived experience those norms don’t allow for.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
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