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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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Sachiko performing in blue light at INSTAL 06
15 October 2006
The Arches

Sachiko

Wordless, reverb drenched voice, ghosted electronics, seething and ferocious electronic damage and Patty Waters style vocal mania.

INSTAL 06
An actor looks off stage left, his eyes seem scared and wary
19 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 5: Drama

Christian Marclay Ian Helliwell Various Artists

Whether drawing their own fractured, abstract narrative, or re-contextualising, chewing up and spitting out someone else’s, each of the films here take a dramatic arc as their starting point and throw it to the wind.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
Henri Chopin on stage smiling and operating a tape recorder
16 October 2005
The Arches

Henri Chopin

Henri Chopin

Renouncing the bind of the written word, Chopin’s sound poetry is a magical evocation of the pure powers of the voices, stripped bare of language.

INSTAL 05
A broken c90 cassette spews a ribbon of tape onto a concrete slab
15 April 2007
DCA

Lost Sound: Graeme Miller + John Smith

Various Artists

Ever wondered about the roadside festoons which are the innards of discarded cassette tapes? All will be revealed in this methodical and insightful documentary by UK luminary John Smith and sound artist cohort Graeme Miller.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
A close up of  trombone horn
13 October 2006
The Bridge

Symphony for Swimmers

David Dove Nmperign

During their time in Scotland for Instal 06 Dave Dove, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly did some improvisation workshops and performances in and around Glasgow.

INSTAL 06
Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio in a yellow jumpsuit dances whist a B&W film plays
20 April 2013
Tramway

Ni ‘mamita’ Ni ‘mulatita’

Teresa María Díaz Nerio

A performed film lecture exploring how the ‘Rumberas’ of Caribbean cinema of the 40’s and 50’s subverted demeaning images of themselves through dance, sound and a sociality that insisted on blackness as being a cultural performance, not simply due to skin colour.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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17 April 2015
Tramway

Ueinzz Context

Ueinzz

An open conversation around the history and practices of the Ueinzz Theatre Company – a radical Brazilian schizoscenic theatre company of carers, so-called psychotic patients and philosophers.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Three performers on stage, two on electronics and one sings
15 February 2008
Stereo

Blood Stereo

Blood Stereo Heather Leigh Murray

Goofily deformed, deeply thought vocal jams: like the sound of your own breath rushing through your head.

INSTAL 08
Script papers are strewn across a black floor
20 April 2013
Tramway

No Total

What kind of listening and acknowledging do we offer each other? What is it to listen to an ‘elsewhere’, and do we ever do anything else when we listen to music?

Jimmy Robert sits at the edge of a lit square on the floor, one leg bent up
26 May 2013
Tramway

Suspended closure, suspended

Jimmy Robert

When we look, how do we objectify the body; how can we reflect on our (self) image as a construction?

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
A flyer that says NYC Rumble Ball 66 The Road to Master. In black and red.
20 April 2014
Club Escuelitas

The Road to Mastery Rumble Ball

Various Artists

This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.

Master Ballstar Weekend
15 November 2024
Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow School of Art Friday Event

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Beatriz will explore her thinking, on film as translation, plural subjectivity or land-based militancy. Discussion will centre around her work Oriana and its companion piece Oenanthe, which will be screened in full.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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