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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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15 November 2024

Tramway Live Stream

More Than Perfect

Denise Ferreira da Silva Arissana Pataxó Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Geni Núñez Ailton Krenak (by video)

A conversation between influential figures thinking through Blackness and Indigeneity, asking: what if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may be coming to an end? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come?

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It

A person sits on a bench in a relaxed position in a dimly lit room. They are wearing a lace bra.

Book

Truth and Lies – An Anthology of Writing and Art by Sex Workers

Lib Lobberson Marin Scarlett Payola E ZuZu Gabrielli Chardonnay Bella Violet Quinn Rab Green Chao-Ying Betty Rao Heather Ashleigh Williams (BABEWORLD) Jet Moon Estella Clarke

The Truth and Lies book project emerges as part of a rising tide of sex worker art and organised struggle to end criminalisation and stigmatisation of sex work.

Arika_Whitney_ASIAPOL_EvanCalderWilliams-11

6 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

Dr. Mabuse dispassionately recites communist theory over found footage of riots

Evan Calder Williams

A bodiless treatise on narration, bored speakers, audience misbehaviour and police megaphones, but: is anybody listening?

A survey is a process of listening

Angharad and Rhodri performing in St Giles in the Fields on violin and harp

18 October 2005

St Giles in the Fields, London

St Giles in the Fields, London 05

Angharad Davies Jandek Rauhan Orkesteri Rhodri Davies

Performances at St Giles in the Fields, London by Jandek, Rhodri Davies & Angharad Davies, Rauhan Orkesteri.

A view looking down a stone spiral staircase. A pair of trainers is on a step.

14 February 2008

Glasgow Uni Music Dept

Personal Space

Aileen Campbell Neil Davidson

Personal Spaces: inversion of a territorial bell, confusing the realms between rehearsal and performance, public and private space.

INSTAL 08

Inure Takehashi playing a snare drum among buddleia

15 July 2007

The former Abbeyhill Station

Shadowed Spaces Edinburgh

Ikuro Takahashi Sean Meehan Tamio Shiraishi Denis Wood

The site of the former Abbeyhill Station on the 1903 Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith railway, overgrown and leading to as yet un-regenerated ‘wasteland’; taxi’s for 80 people, each instructed to take different routes between locations and; a slice of land concealed behind corporate business park branding off the Wester Approach Rd, apparently of no conceivable use and named ‘Chateaux de Scum’ by those who use it anyway.

Shadowed Spaces

A still from Aluminium, glass morphing into green steel

21 January 2012

CCA

Aluminium: Beauty, Incorruptibility, Lightness and Abundance, the Metal of the Future

Graham Harwood

Taking The Futurist Cinema’ manifesto and turning it into software to track ‘aluminium’ online, tracing relationships companies with interests in aluminum had to each other and other agencies.

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

A man looks through camcorder viewfinder in the reflection in a mirror

21 February 2010

DCA

Hotel Diaries 1-8

John Smith

These simple, one-take videos, relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East via the most basic of means (a hotel room, a camcorder, John’s personal thoughts, concerns and convictions).

Kill Your Timid Notion 10

Three women pose in front of a home made banner "Get the Body of a God"

28 September 2014

Tramway

Dance Workshop

Glasgow Open Dance School Miss Prissy

A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies. Move with us!

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way

Craig Dworkin standing by a microphone giving a talk

16 May 2010

FACT

Craig Dworkin

Dworkin asks: What would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion?

UNINSTAL

B&W film still of a boy jumping from one roof to another, taken from below

26 September 2014

Tramway

Killer of Sheep

Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking and one of the most poetic, perceptive dramas ever made about family and community.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way

Sunik Kim performing. They are sat at a desk with a laptop and mic, there is a cast of blue glowing light.

17 November 2024

Tramway Live Stream

Performance

Sunik Kim

A dense materialist experience at the limits of contemporary computer music, drawing on Korean Shamanism and Communism; striving to create a strange new vibration to the world that seems to contain the seed of everything.