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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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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
Exias J playing guitars and double bass on stage at INSTAL 04
17 October 2004
The Arches

Exias-J

Exias-J

The Experimental Improvisers Association of Japan, [EXIAS-J] are a loose collective of musicians and dilettantes who seem to represent an entire and self sufficient scene in one band.

INSTAL 04
John Blum & Jackson Krall performing on piano and drums at MLFC 07
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

John Blum & Jackson Krall

Jackson Krall John Blum

Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

A Handbook of Protocols for Literary Listening

Craig Dworkin Vanessa Place

Craig will give a guided reading of his handbook of exemplary instances of literary listening and will be joined by one of the selected authors, Vanessa Place.

A survey is a process of listening
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
The Museum of Non Participation written on a wall in English and Arabic
20 January 2012
CCA

The Museum of Non-Participation

Brad Butler Karen Mirza Nabil Ahmed

This performance brings together film, text and speech and temporarily constructs a filmic space to think through questions of resistance, and the choice and consequence of action vs. inaction: what does it mean to choose to not take part?

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement
Ryoji Ikeda pictured against a dark background
1 December 2002
The Arches

Formula [ver 1.1]

Ryoji Ikeda

Exploring the interplay between punk sinewave aggression, high-speed video sequences and stroboscopic lighting

INSTAL 02
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
Image with the words: Koji Asano
9 December 2001
The Arches

Koji Asano

Koji Asano

Koji Asano, Japanese composer and sound-artist performing slow groaning burbling tones, moaning echoes and drones.

INSTAL 01
Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Mijke van der Drift sit at black table in a black box theatre. There is audience to the right of the image and behind Mijke & Elizabeth are two screens for live captioning.
15 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Analytics of Existence

Elizabeth A. Povinelli Mijke van der Drift

Elizabeth’s writing pulls apart toxic settler colonialism and the worldview used to justify it; working towards an alternative distribution of powers, so that ways of being otherwise can endure.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Ultra-red George Lewis

For day one of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by George E. Lewis.

A survey is a process of listening
Topias Tiheäsalo fanning a guitar at MLFC 07
11 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Topias Tiheäsalo

Topias Tiheäsalo

A guitar solo of frugal wringing, of notes in the dark, an attitude of making everything count.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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