Arika  Archive Menu
Accessibility Settings

text size

colour options

monochrome muted color dark

reading tools

isolation ruler

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.

Filter the Archive
Suggested Searches

All Archive (712)

Order by
Two abstract images merge. Earth coloured circles. Traces of particle decay.
24 November 2019
Tramway

The utterly in common, or bodies of colour in the flesh

James Goodwin Nisha Ramayya

“Beginning where you and me ends, where we don’t so much come but are already here.” Join James and Nisha to talk about breath, erotics and flesh, about our social, poetic cosubstantiality.

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Pony Zion in a red shirt and cap tenses their hands and arms in a gesture
27 September 2014
Tramway

You’ve Never Seen Pain Expressed Like This

Danielle Goldman Kia Labeija Miss Prissy Pony Zion

A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – with the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics and the rising star of Vogue Women’s Performance.

Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way
18 February 2006
DCA

Word Processor

Derek Lodge The Duty Managers

Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.

Kill Your Timid Notion 06
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
Daniel Carter plays a saxophone and William Parker plays a bamboo flute
20 April 2013
Tramway

Daniel Carter & William Parker

Daniel Carter William Parker

What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
My Cat Is An Alien at MLFC 05 Gateshead
21 May 2005
The Sage Gateshead

My Cat Is An Alien

My Cat Is An Alien

Italian duo of brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio utilising an array of acoustic and electric guitars, various toy-instruments and toy-microphones.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 05
Arika_ASIAPOL_Whitney2012_CraigDworkin_VanessaPlace_Photo_BMcIntyre-3
2 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

A Handbook of Protocols for Literary Listening

Craig Dworkin Vanessa Place

Craig will give a guided reading of his handbook of exemplary instances of literary listening and will be joined by one of the selected authors, Vanessa Place.

A survey is a process of listening
A Film is a Statement Poster Graphic
19 – 22 January 2012
CCA GFT

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement

Every aspect of every film is always about more than just film. Or, as Godard said: a tracking shot is a moral issue. A cross between a festival, magazine and discussion about experimental artists’ films.

Arika_Instal08_BryonyMcIntyre_Translation - A Campbell - D Nyoukis - JunkoIMG_3857
16 February 2008
The Arches

Translation

Aileen Campbell Dylan Nyoukis Junko

Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.

INSTAL 08
Leah stands, gazing upwards in white horn-rimmed spectacles
11 April 2019
Performance Space New York

Solo Performances

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Come for the crip ingenuity; stay for the smooth feels of what it is to be each other’s everything.

I wanna be with you everywhere
Matthew Saladin Adjusts a movement sensor in Tramway's studio space
14 November 2010
Tramway

Noises Off

Matthieu Saladin

A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, when it starts or ends or even who it’s for.

INSTAL 10
William Basinski in shirt and tie, blue screen behind, gold table to the fore
16 October 2004
The Arches

William Basinski

William Basinski

Improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, Basinski creates works of great melancholic depth and fragile beauty.

INSTAL 04
?
This site uses cookies for analytics. See our Privacy Policy for more. OK Opt out
×