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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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Lots of tiny paper and wire sails moving in sympathy with air currents
10 October 2008
DCA

It’s in the Air

Felix Hess is a unique crosser of the boundaries between science and art. He wrote his doctorial thesis on the aerodynamics of the boomerang

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
A gloomy corridor
27 September 2014
Tramway

Fugitivity and Waywardness

Fred Moten Saidiya Hartman

An open conversation hosted by Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten around ‘fugitivity’ and ‘waywardness’ and what it means to be in flight, excessive or ungovernable.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelly playing saxophone and trumpet
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Nmperign

Nmperign

Boston duo of saxophonist Bhob Rainey and trumpeter Greg Kelley approach their improvisations with a slew if extended techniques and pregnant silences.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Episode_9_Eduardo_Restrepo_Still
16 November 2017
Tramway

Films Installed in the Foyer

Eduardo Restrepo Castaño SWARM

In the Foyer at the Tramway we will screen a documentary from the Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance 2017 and La Llamada by Eduardo Restrepo Castaño.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
B&W film still of a boy jumping from one roof to another, taken from below
26 September 2014
Tramway

Killer of Sheep

Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
a Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician nonbinary femme with curly brown silver and purple hair and an undercut, wearing a “talk to plants, not cops” navy and turquoise crop top, tiny black denim shorts and a hot pink KN95 mask, takes a mirror selfie with a phone with glitter and many kinda of brightly colored animals and plants on it.
21 June 2023

Altar: Odes to the Lost/ never lost Introduction

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Introducing and setting intentions for a crip grief transformation and witness altar. A place to sit and breathe, remember our dead, wash our hands and leave offerings to and for loved ones we’ve lost – and for ourselves.

I wanna be with you everywhere 2023
StevenAnderson_Part1_AW_5
13 November 2010
Tramway

Steven Anderson

Steven Anderson

Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)

INSTAL 10
Sondra Perry in a stairwell wearing a Steadicam harness
22 October 2016
Tramway

Resident Evil

Sondra Perry

Jumping off from Sun Ra’s thoughts on evil, and the Alien films, this performance will explore how the sociality Sondra wants to visualise and participate in has no interest in respectability.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
A portrait of Fred Moten wearing sunglasses and a cheeky smile
19 April 2013
Tramway

Fred Moten – Reading

Fred Moten

African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Text super-imposed on two people
21 October 2016
Tramway

Queer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders

Dean Spade Hope Dector Tourmaline

A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Four folks sit around a table looking out of frame to someone asking a question
20 April 2013
Tramway

The Experiment: Pt. 2

Amiri Baraka Fred Moten Sonia Sanchez Wadada Leo Smith

How does this practice, that simultaneously resists and honours the distinctions between these genres, materials and senses, determine the inhabitation of another: a convergence of aesthetic and social experimentation?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Otomo Yoshihide seated between two upright pianos their interiors exposed
22 March 2009
The Arches

Filament: Sachiko M & Otomo Yoshihide

Otomo Yoshihide Sachiko M

Sachiko’s very simple, pure sine tones and structures. Otomo on double pianos. Filament’s music isn’t composed and it isn’t improvised: it’s a hybrid of the two.

INSTAL 09
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