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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
Chuquimamani-Condori performing. Their face tilts downwards. They are wearing a wide brimmed hat, the background is dark and their face is lit dramatically by the cast of a red light

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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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Nikos and Rhordi wood chipping a cello near a projector
17 – 22 March 2009
The Arches

World Music Documentary

Eva-Maria Houben Fritz Welch Hermann Nitsch Jean-Luc Guionnet Jean-Philippe Gross Jerome Noetinger Joan La Barbara Klaus Filip Michael Pisaro Mico Nikos Veliotis Otomo Yoshihide Phil Minton Radu Malfatti Rhodri Davies Sachiko M Sean Meehan Seymour Wright Steve McCaffery Taku Unami Tamio Shiraishi Tetsuo Kogawa Toshimaru Nakamura

Greek TV company Onos Productions came to INSTAL 09 to document the festival and report on Nikos Veliotis’ Cello Powder performance.

Octante & Margarita Garcia standing in a group smiling
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Octante

Alfredo Costa Monteiro Ferran Fages Margarida Garcia Ruth Barberán

Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
A layers image of several frames from a video by R. Kelly
28 February 2010
DCA

Film Programme 5: Catalogues

Various Artists

Are artists powerless in the face of technology? These often whimsical and amusing films are minimal technological interventions and appropriations but maybe also rigorous takes on the role of popular media and culture in our hyper-technological world.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Mirror performing in front of a projection at KYTN 04
10 December 2004
DCA

Mirror with a film by Bill Morrison

Bill Morrison Mirror

Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann return with their diaphanous, impressionistic drone duo; their slowly evolving and enthralling works flutter and quiver with elegantly restrained, miniature sound events.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
A large industrial fan is backlit
21 April 2013
Tramway

Unfree Improvisation / Compulsive Freedom

Mattin Ray Brassier

How do you know what you want? Should freedom be doing what you ought, not doing what you want? How might a philosopher and artist turn this thinking into an enabling condition in the context of noise and improvisation?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Wadada Leo Smith thanks the audience, hand on his heart, trumpet by his sideide
19 April 2013
Tramway

Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Snapchat of street at night lit with white polythene covered boards
16 November 2017
Many Studios

Anal Panopticon

Huw Lemmey

Two bottomless brunch writing workshops—with readings—speculating the relationship between space, infrastructure, technologies and sex.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Nat and Mijke pose in front of a sign that reads working on transfeminism.
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
Cyrée, a black trans person, in a mirror. He’s wearing a hat and a leopard print shirt. He’s surrounded by tarot cards and plants.
21 June 2023

Performance after the telethon

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

What to do about a telethon other than fuck it up? Poet, tarotist, artist, and librarian Cyrée Jarelle Johnson returns to IWBWYE to read the 1980s and ’90s for what those decades were: practice for now.

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
A design with a yellow background featuring a bottle of Chubz poppers
19 November 2017
Tramway

Chubz

Huw Lemmey

Politicised fan-fiction chronicling working class gay urban space and fantasy.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Two performers silhouetted against a projection of blue light
18 October 2003
DCA

Silophone

[the user]

Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
A colorful pencil drawing of a figure, one tattoed arm is clenched in a fist
10 – 14 April 2019
Performance Space New York

I wanna be with you everywhere

I wanna be with you everywhere was a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wanted to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy.

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