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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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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

Sparklers mounted on stands with microphones being lit with a gas burner

14 October 2006

The Arches

Sparklers and Table Top Set

Lee Patterson

Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.

INSTAL 06

People milling around with sheets of paper, passing them

14 November 2010

Tramway

Paper Piece: Secrets

Brandon LaBelle

Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd

INSTAL 10

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

A man sits at a desk with a large timer clock on it and speaks to camera

28 February 2010

DCA

Morgan Fisher – Screening and Chat

Morgan Fisher

Morgan Fisher is a filmmaker of great wit and charm who uses the tools of experimental film to dissect the basic presuppositions of commercial cinema.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

Alan cummings wearing a cardigan and talking at MLFC 07

12 May 2007

The Sage Gateshead

Talk by Alan Cummings: A personal history of the Japanese Underground

Alan Cummings

Talk charting the radical history of experimental music in Japan + the lowdown into the careers of many of the artists appearing at MLFC.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07

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

Samuel R. Delany white hair and beard reading on stage at EPISODE 9

19 November 2017

Tramway

Beyond Transgression

Samuel R. Delany

Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist

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

A row of people in uniforms, pinafores, hats

19 January 2012

CCA

An introductory salon

Hartmut Bitomsky

Hartmut led “a workshop in the old-fashioned way of discussion, mutual exploration of ideas and samples; trying out what can be shared and where the fault lines show.”

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

17 March 2025

Week Two: White Resilience: Embodied Anti-Racism

Tripod

The session – aimed specifically at white people – will be run by Tripod. We will explore and address whiteness, embodied responses to racial tension and somatic techniques to build resilience for practicing anti-racist action. It will be a space to learn and transform together and look at further anti-racist resources and work.

In Our Hands 2025

An abstract pattern against a black background

17 February 2006

DCA

Christmas Tree Stand

Bruce McClure

A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors.