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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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Colorful leather bound books line a wooden shelf, with writing on their spine in Arabic, one booklet entitled “3 Scores and The People’s Mic Khutba” in Urdu, is slipping into the company of the books or out into the hands of a seeker.

14 November 2024

Tramway Live Stream

Bring a Witness

Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato

Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It

28 May 2015

Artists Space Books & Talks

No Total

Amalle Dublon Arias Abbruzzi Davis Constantina Zavitsanos Emma Hedditch Jordan Lord Morgan Bassichis

Three days of discussions, performances, actions, dancing and food – continuing No Total’s ongoing contemplation of ways of being together and the ways Arika have been entangled in those, ever since Episode 4.

14 April 2007

DCA

Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa

Eric La Casa Ken Jacobs

Ken presents his Nervous Magic Lantern, wherein film itself is forsaken for an investigation of hypnotic and trancelike crystaline forms. Eric La Casa works with recordings of everyday occurrences: the background hum of place.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

11 March 2022

Online

Prisoner Solidarity in Practice

Prisoner Solidarity Network Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity

How do people both inside and outside of prison work together to dismantle the criminal justice system and build a society based on collective care?

Mutual Aid

10 October 2008

DCA

Micro Notions

Judith Goddard Mike Leggett Mineo Aayamaguchi Peter Donebauer Tony Sinden

Screening of films by Duvet Brothers, David Critchley, David Hall, John Latham, Judith Goddard, Mike Leggett, Tony Sinden

Kill Your Timid Notion 08

19 November 2017

Tramway

Lonely and Hungry

Jackie Wang

Heat-mapped bodies, found porn films, Korean psyche-folk, creepy police intrusion and self-defence.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist

A man crouching before an audience operating a projector

13 April 2007

DCA

Keith Evans & Coelacanth

Keith Evans Loren Chasse

A system in which film is projected onto copper strips, captured again and then re-projected as video, somehow transforming the original imagery into molasses-slow, molten and incredibly tactile flickers of colour and light.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

in a dark arched room an audience watches a screen showing nylon being melted

15 February 2008

The Arches

Self Cancellation – Acid/Nylon

Gustav Metzger

A recreation of one of Gustav Metzger’s celebrated auto destructive performances.

INSTAL 08

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

Peach and pink gradient with black text: Revolution is not a one-time event

3 – 24 August 2020

Online

Revolution is not a one-time event

Join activists, academics and artists as they reflect on abolitionist praxis and thought, exploring covergences with gender, poetry, technology, performance, speculation, aesthetics, film and culture. This series of events commemorates Black August and is for anyone who wishes to answer the abolitionist call to action and thought.

26 February 2010

SpeedDataRadio

Resonance Radio Orchestra

A changing pool of people (40 or so at a time – artists, audiences, etc) talk for 90 minutes in a simultaneous series of open-ended round-table discussions, structured like speed dating, and mixed live as both a concert and for radio broadcast.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

10 October 2008

DCA

Salon and Q&A

Kjell Björgeengen William Bennett Zoe Irvine

A day of presentations and discussions on the theme of audio visual perception in the context of experimental music, film and art.