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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 film still. In the foreground is the hand of a person lying on the ground in a wooded area that is covered in leaves. The hand is painted white, palms down in a slightly clawed resting on the leaves.

16 November 2024

Tramway Live Stream

The Ancestral Present

Karrabing Film Collective Elwood Jimmy

Watching films and chatting with Karrabing members about those films: as they attend to the memory and practice of the ancestral present and the ancestral catastrophe that Karrabing and their more-than-human world find themselves facing.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It

Beams of light fanning out across an audience from different directions

29 November 2008

BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Light Trap

Greg Pope Norbert Möslang

Out of a dark haze, shafts of light emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour

12 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Box & Nimrod 33

Box Nimrod 33

Dundee. Progressive rhythmical guitar squall vs. post-highland discorporate dusk-jockey.

INSTAL 05

Camisha Jones stands at the mic looking down at her phone and laughing

14 April 2019

Performance Space New York

Dispatches from the Intersection of Hurting & Joy

Camisha L. Jones

Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.

I wanna be with you everywhere

20 March 2009

Extra Friday Set

Klaus Filip Radu Malfatti Sean Meehan Taku Unami

Quartet improvisation by Klaus Filip – laptop, Radu Malfatti – trombone, Sean Meehan – snare & cymbals, Taku Unami – rice and dish.

INSTAL 09

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

13 October 2005

The Universal

Stalled at Universal – Una MacGlone, Peter Nicholson & Aileen Campbell

Aileen Campbell Peter Nicholson Una MacGlone

Glasgow. Free-playing quartet of bass/ cello/ voice from The Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and Age Of Wire & String.

INSTAL 05

Ikuro Takahashi & Yoko Muronoi standing by a wall

12 May 2007

The Sage Gateshead

Anoyonodekigoto

Ikuro Takahashi Yoko Muronoi

A collaborative duo performance, Anoyonodekigoto sets up a sort of negotiation between a musician, a dancer, the audience and the space we’re all sharing.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07

A tape recorder on a piece of paper that reads play, stop, pause and record

12 November 2010

Tramway

Arika delivers a manifesto

Arika

Three (thankfully short) chats wherein we try and get at what’s eating us with regards to experimental music, and what we think might be worth salvaging.

INSTAL 10

Rhodri Davies and Terry Day performing at MLFC 07

13 May 2007

The Sage Gateshead

Rhodri Davies & Terry Day

Rhodri Davies Terry Day

Terry is one of the most entertaining and unpredictable musicians in the London free improvising music scene. Rhodri Davies extends his instrument under a battery of techniques creating sound colours and textures quite alien to the harp.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07

Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

14 April 2007

DCA

EM No.3 and Round Trip

Kanta Horio

Kanta is a young Japanese artist with a home-made, short circuited take on electronics and physical phenomena which he uses in performance to produce close circuit systems of audio / video feedback.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07

Vanessa Place listening while Mark Sanders talks

13 November 2010

Tramway

Consequences and complicities of conceptualism

Mark Sanders Vanessa Place

Conceptual writer and practicing lawyer Vanessa Place performs and talks with Mark Sanders, author of the brilliant “Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid”