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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 woman bends over with a stick, in the background a man is hitting a gong
21 March 2009
The Arches

Ki: Mico, Tamio Shiraishi & Fritz Welch

Fritz Welch Mico Tamio Shiraishi

A trio of Tamio’s screaming and immovable slabs of sound; Mico’s dance/ performance/ piano; Fritz’s absurd, flailing percussion/ voice.

INSTAL 09
Tetusi Akiyama sitting with a guitar surrounded by audience
15 October 2005
The Arches

Tetuzi Akiyama

Tetuzi Akiyama

An contradictory guitarist, he’s equally at home in slow, halting acoustic improvisation or piercing minimal examinations of electric guitar.

INSTAL 05
1 December 2002
The Arches

John Wall

John Wall

Tiny fragments of sound recombined and woven into spare and precise, violent yet beautiful pieces

INSTAL 02
Junko singing into a microphone & Masayoshi Urabe playing a saxophone
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Junko & Masayoshi Urabe

Junko Masayoshi Urabe

Junko’s screaming vocal in a nuanced, piercing duo with Urabe’s fuming and convulsive saxophone, far removed from the codes of musical tradition.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
Man with long hair and glasses and headphones sits on a bed singing
18 February 2006
DCA

Film Programme 2: Sound

Various Artists Burkhard Stangl Werner Dafeldecker

The films in the programme take the essential and fundamental building blocks of cinema (combining sound and image through time) screw about with them, interrogate them and cast them anew.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
17 November 2024
Tramway

Trans Breakfast at the End of the World

Mijke van der Drift Nat Raha

An informal conversation, over breakfast, about how abolition and movement work structures Mijke and Nat’s approach to transfeminism, ahead of their new book Trans Femme Futures.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
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
Three people hold a banner: "Rights Not Rescue Our Choice"
21 April 2017
Kinning Park Complex

Party & Performances

Marianne Chargois MC Ray St. Ray Sex Workers’ Opera

A party and fundraiser to support Sex Workers’ struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers’ community and allies, plus DJ’s and dancing.

Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance
Make A Way Out of No Way Poster Graphic
26 – 28 September 2014
Tramway Stereo

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way

A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.

A packing case with the word ALIVE painted on it sits on stage
16 October 2004
The Arches

Baby Dee

Baby Dee

Former street performer, organist, performance artist, circus performer, harpist, accordion player, tree surgeon and tricyclist performing solo.

INSTAL 04
at the end of a dark gallery a screen throbs with layers rectangles of red
12 October 2008
DCA

Declarative Mode (1976 – 1977)

Paul Sharits

Paul Sharits is one of our all time heroes, and one of the great artist filmmakers of the 20th Century.

Kill Your Timid Notion 08
A performer plays instruments in a suitcase on a subway carriage
7 February 2008
The Arches

Personal Space

Nackt Insecten

Where we join Nackt Insecten’s disembodied spectral howls and heavyweight locomotive drones about SPT’s Subway.

INSTAL 08
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