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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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Publication, Nov 2024

IN OUR LIFETIME – A New Anti-Imperialist Resource

Hussein Mitha

IN OUR LIFETIME, is an anti-imperialist resource, edited by Hussein Mitha, produced by Arika for Episode 11, featuring poetry, essays, questions, prompts, letters and works of anti-colonial imaginary.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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
2 October 2025

Workshop on Mutual Aid with Dean Spade

Dean Spade

In this interactive workshop, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid, will share key principles, explore common challenges in mutual aid work, and offer tools for working through them.

Two speakers on stage surrounded by audience and red cushions
19 November 2017
Tramway

Discourse or Intercourse: Group Action

Maxine Meighan Robert Softley Gale

How do people living with disability see themselves in today’s sexualised culture? How do we imagine our crip sexual selves despite society wanting to reduce us to non-erotic bodies?

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Up-Tight on stage at INSTAL 05 lit from behind in high contrast
14 October 2005
The Arches

UP-TIGHT

UP-TIGHT

Black-clad with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams.

INSTAL 05
Octante & Margarita Garcia standing in a group smiling
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Octante

Alfredo Costa Monteiro Ferran Fages Margarida Garcia Ruth Barberán

Acoustic turntable, engines, trumpet and accordion joined by Bassist Magarida Garcia: build long-form quietly detailed pieces that clatter and rumble, that expand and contract with the tension and release of deeply held breath.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Miss Prissy dances fiercely during a solo dance
28 September 2014
Tramway

Mutual Instruments

Fred Moten Miss Prissy

Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
A B and W film still of several people crossing a street in 1960's london
14 April 2007
DCA

Film Programme 2: Humans

Ken Jacobs Various Artists John Smith

Includes: street portraits of kids in 1930’s Dakota, a mysterious foggy pilgrimage, a swarm of time-lapsed consumers, a stereoscopic analysis of mill life, up close and personal in a Lighting Bolt mosh pit.

Kill Your Timid Notion 07
Film still of lit sparklers in close up
15 October 2006
The Arches

See Noise Hear Light Sunday

Arrington de Dionyso Eye Contact Kiyoharu Kuwayama Maryanne Amacher Matt Hulse Rina Kijima Tetsuya Umeda

Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.

INSTAL 06
Two frames from a 16mm film with blocks of red, green, pink and yellow
11 December 2004
DCA

Film Programme 1: Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

This programme is a celebration of Charlemagne Palestine; passionate, extravagant, visceral. Including two sections from Ritual dans le Vide, an extension of his ‘running camera’ works of the 70’s and Pip Chodorov’s vibrant workout of a live version of Strumming Music.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
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