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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 mesmerising shot of light reflecting, golden, off many hundreds of thin wires
21 November 2019
Tramway

Corpus Infinitum

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Do ideas emerging from particle physics help to re-think of blackness as a mode of life in which it’s possible to practice difference without separation?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
A woman in a white dress jogs across a frame screened on a wall
27 February 2010
DCA

Film Programme 2: Repetitive Actions

Emma Hart Guy Sherwin Morgan Fisher Various Artists

Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Video Interview, Nov 2024

To Give Up This World, To Have Many Others – In Conversation with Ailton Krenak

Ailton Krenak (by video) Denise Ferreira da Silva Amilcar Packer

A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Lee Patterson sitting next to a projection of himself, pensive
10 October 2008
DCA

North West from Chester Hill, Composition – 10 (1960)

Lee Patterson Luke Fowler

A delicate and detailed walk through the urban and rural landscape around Dundee; a poetic focus on the details found. A performance for 16mm projection and live amplified objects (maybe pine cones, maybe a coke bottle).

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
Projected images of black and white textures and green forms on a screen
11 October 2008
DCA

Charles Curtis & Raha Raissnia

Charles Curtis Raha Raissnia

A beautifully crisp, slowly evolving duo for cello and projected images. Abstract but still figurative; change only noticeable after the fact.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
John Tilbury plays a piano whilst Wadada Leo Smith plays a trumpet
19 April 2013
Tramway

Wadada Leo Smith & John Tilbury

John Tilbury Wadada Leo Smith

How might two of the great musicians working within contrasting traditions of freedom collaborate? What might this produce: musically, socially, allegorically?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Jandek and Richard Youngs onstage at MLFC 05
22 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

Jandek

Jandek Alex Neilson Richard Youngs

Jandek’s second ever live performance, and the first to be advertised in advance.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Poster for Episode 8 Refuse Powers' Grasp
20 – 23 October 2016
Tramway The Art School

Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp

Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.

Laps Performs in Blue Light
18 November 2017
Tramway

Every Book is Dead

Hal Duncan LAPS

Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Arika_Episode5_Photo_AlexWoodward-31
25 May 2013
Tramway

We have something to say about… Pt1

Ann Cvetkovich Eboni Marshall Turman Frank Roberts Michael Roberson Robert Sember Terre Thaemlitz Vogue’ology

A historical narrative of the black and Latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions.

Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight
Steve McCaffery sits at a round table and reads into a microphone
21 March 2009
The Arches

Carnival

Steve McCaffery

Leading language/ action/ sound poet performed his groundbreaking concrete poem, a dizzying mandala of text, symbols and rubber stamps; a kind of book as reading machine.

INSTAL 09
silmukka06
19 October 2003
DCA

Short Film Programme 2: Contemporary

Billy Roisz Various Artists William Basinski

The second of two short film programmes featuring works that blur the boundaries between music and film from artists who cross and redefine those long held divisions. This programme highlights contemporary works.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03
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