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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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Taku Unami looks moodily at a computer screen darkness all around
22 March 2009
The Arches

A Signature of the Room

Jean-Luc Guionnet Taku Unami

Simple maths and stringent scored instructions move precise frequencies and clicks to create a dense, fluctuating environment of standing waves and physical sound.

INSTAL 09
Several frames of different saturated colours of a horse in motion
12 December 2004
DCA

Film Programme 6: Perception

Malcolm Le Grice Paul Sharits Various Artists

Psychedelic and intense, and featuring some of the most visually stunning, mesmerizing and transcendent experiences you can imagine, batten down the hatches for some of the boldest, most immersive and abrasive works in experimental cinema.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Portrait of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Robyn Maynard
16 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Rehearsals for Living

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Robyn Maynard Harry Josephine Giles

Reading their letters to each other, and chatting about prefigurative politics as the practice of relentlessly building worlds through unspeakable violence and loss; of building worlds and living in them anyway.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Keiji Haino's face and hands blurred in circular movement on stage at MLFC 05
20 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

The Secret of Music

Keiji Haino

Haino exceeds expectation with a 4 hour solo performance on a collection of more than forty instruments from all over the world.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Arika_Episode2_RayBrassier_ThomasMetzinger_TheViewFromNowherePart1_AWoodward-6
25 February 2012
Tramway

The View From Nowhere Part 1

Ray Brassier Thomas Metzinger

Ray and Thomas talking about how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.

Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
A B&W shot of M Lamar prostrate and seemingly screaming
27 September 2014
Tramway

Speculum Orum

M Lamar

A queer black operatic requiem for piano and voice that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship, that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
Two Bain brothers look down at a lit mixer in a dark space
15 February 2008
The Arches

Self Cancellation – Archisonic

John Bain Mark Bain

A system in which oscillators shake The Arches, seismographs pick up the harmonics that are then amplified through massive sub-bass PA.

INSTAL 08
Sgaire Wood wearing a large green and grey witch mask
19 November 2017
Tramway

Sgàire Wood

Sgàire Wood

A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Film still from A Plot, A Scandal. A person is sits on top of a thick fur blanket or rug. They are sat on their bottom, their right hand and leg are raised up. In their hand they hold a what looks like a wooden pole. They are dressed in lilac silk and wear a wig of light curly hair, like a judge’s wig. It is a staged environment with a cast of yellow light highlighting the figure.
14 November 2024
Tramway

A Plot, A Scandal

Ligia Lewis

Conceptual choreography as critique, in Ligia’s film of Caribbean plots and scandals, and the possibilities of anti-colonial revenge, rest and repair.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
A flyer that says NYC Rumble Ball 66 The Road to Master. In black and red.
20 April 2014
Club Escuelitas

The Road to Mastery Rumble Ball

Various Artists

This mini, late-night ball will include categories inspired by the events earlier in the weekend.

Master Ballstar Weekend
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