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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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14 October 2006
The Arches

Infest – Opaque

Opaque

Low-end drone guitarage army since 1997: nobody has done more on this occasion by a gaggle of sludge-lovers from the Scottish underground.

INSTAL 06
Jandek's silouhette against a blue wall
28 August 2005
Scottish Rite Theatre

Austin 05

Jandek

Jandek performing at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas with Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn.

a figure bathed in red writhes as they perform with a red light in their mouth
24 May 2013
Stereo

Hidden in Plain Sight: Club

boychild DJ Sprinkles Vjuan Allure Pony Zion

The club as a community and a site for performed politics: deep/ queer house, vogue femme, lipsync and ballroom.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Copying without Copying Poster Graphic
23 – 25 March 2012
Tramway

Episode 3: Copying without Copying

Copying without Copying is 3 evenings of events that are about what happens when we speak, or when we hear someone speak on our behalf, when we share a collective moment of hearing and maybe understanding.

William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gold table to the fore
16 October 2004
The Arches

William Basinski

William Basinski

Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.

INSTAL 04
Side profile portrait of Rashad Becker wearing a peaked baseball cap.
15 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Subversive Strategies in Sound and Music

Rashad Becker Sunik Kim

A chat with Rashad about the communist, conceptual methodology that informs his ground-breaking synthetic music—a form of speculative sonic fiction writing to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Loic Blairon Sits at a table
15 May 2010
Tramway

It Doesn’t Say What It Says

Loïc Blairon

Open-ended, paradoxical and performed investigations into: misunderstanding, language games, form saturated with sense, and consecutive matters…

UNINSTAL
Silhouette of man with wild hair
19 April 2015
Tramway

Cartography of Exhaustion

Peter Pál Pelbart

If life is assaulted by power, where do we find spaces for living? A conversation with Peter Pál Pelbart.

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
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26 September 2014
Stereo

Make a Way Out of No Way: Club

Kia Labeija MikeQ Miss Prissy Pony Zion

Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Phil Minton conducts a large choir
22 March 2009
The Arches

Century FC

Phil Minton

A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.

INSTAL 09
A silhouette of Delany in front of screen where a room is lit with green light
16 November 2017
Tramway

The Motion of Light

Samuel R. Delany

Autobiographical detail becomes a lens to reflect and refract the deepest aspects of personal and social life in Delany’s ground-breaking non-fiction writing.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Untitled-2
17 November 2017
Kinning Park Complex

Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex

Storyboard P

During Episode 9 we made this clip with Storyboard P at Kinning Park Complex. Video by Ash Reid.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist