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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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17 November 2024
Tramway
Live Stream
Sunik Kim 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.
Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
25 May 2013
Tramway
Soulnessless – Cantos I-IV
Terre Thaemlitz
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
Episode 5:
Hidden in Plain Sight
28 September 2014
Tramway
Dreams are Colder than Death
Arthur Jafa
A landmark film on black life – a poetic filmic constellation of meditations, fragments and interviews on what it means to be black in America in the 21st century, from one of its great cinematographers.
Episode 6:
Make a Way Out of No Way
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
15 – 19 April 2015
Tramway
Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
In a moment of social exhaustion, we want to ask how we might care for each other differently. We Can’t Live Without Our Lives is a 5-day exploration of care as a form of struggle and resistance, with communities who embody it.
12 November 2010
Tramway
Tim Goldie
Tim Goldie
Three intense solo performances for drums (both played and screamed through), cymbal, voice, credit card, bird whistle, and guitar amplifier/leads.
INSTAL 10
22 January 2012
CCA
Data as Documentary: Graham Harwood
Graham Harwood
Databases carry the same seeds of creativity that early documentary makers saw in film. Both can empower people by helping them to master information, both can be claimed to represent some kind of reality or truth.
Episode 1:
A Film is a Statement
12 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead
Los Glissandinos
Kai Fagaschinski Klaus Filip
Los Glissandinos work with clarinet and sine tones beating and thrumming in your middle ear, all beautifully paced and serene, but with just enough steely menace broiling under the surface to keep you on edge.
Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
12 March 2022
Online
Watch What Happens Live with Kyla Harris and Lou Macnamara
Lou Macnamara Kyla Harris
In true reality television style, this in-depth artist talk will tackle all the hardest-hitting questions and juiciest details about care, creative collaboration, and disability justice.
Mutual Aid
9 February 2012
Kinning Park Complex
Concert 2
Emilia Beatriz Fritz Welch Iain Campbell F-W Jean-Luc Guionnet Julia Letitia Scott Liene Rozite Neil Davidson
Performances of compositions by Jean-Luc Guionnet and others, with Julia Letitia Scott, Iain Campbell F-W, Neil Davidson, Fritz Welch, Liene Rozite, Emilia Beatriz.
Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet
22 October 2016
Tramway
#BlackExcellenceTour
CeCe McDonald Joshua Allen
A collaborative social justice project that uses art, activism and awareness to combat the systemic oppression facing young, trans, queer & gender nonconforming people of colour.
Episode 8:
Refuse Powers’ Grasp