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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 flyer in black and grey that says Master BallStar Weekend

15 – 20 April 2014

MoMA PS1 The New School Holiday Inn Club Escuelitas

Master Ballstar Weekend

A series of events organised by the Vogue’ology collective from the House Ballroom community in New York grounded in the scenes history of autonomous, self-organised struggle and a shared investment in collective art practices and how those intersect with the multiple and often divergent struggles for freedom.

9 December 2001

The Arches

Koji Asano

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

INSTAL 01

Storyboard P and Project X dancing on stage

18 November 2017

Tramway

Speech Captions Body Language

Storyboard P

In which Storyboard P and members of Project X pick a song, freestyle to it, chat with us about what dancing means to them, then pick another song, freestyle, chat, repeat…

Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist

Ailton Krenak wears a dark blue shirt and sits in a chair in front of a grey background.

Video Interview, Nov 2024

To Give Up This World, To Have Many Others – In Conversation with Ailton Krenak

Ailton Krenak (by video) Denise Ferreira da Silva Amilcar Packer

A recorded a conversation that grounds the Episode, exploring Ailton Krenak’s thinking and distinct poetics of life; as it work against capitalism and fascism, as a denunciation of political alliances, and maybe even of ‘politics’.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It

23 November 2003

The Arches

INSTAL 03

INSTAL’s third outing saw performances by AMM, Cosmos (Sachiko M & Ami Yoshida), Voreboms, Vibracathedral Orchestra with Matthew Bower and John Godbert, Paragon Ensemble, Merzbow and Ryoji Ikeda.

a man in green clothes is wrapped to a drum kit by red tape

18 October 2003

DCA

Sunburned Hand of the Man

First live show outside the USA featuring one-off film pieces and live theatre from the ringleaders of the ‘weird new America’ psych folk explosion.

Kill Your Timid Notion 03

Three figures are silhouetted by a large window in the shape of a parallelogram

4 May 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art

Is a survey a process of listening?

Barry Esson Jay Sanders

A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.

A survey is a process of listening

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