21 June 2024
I wanna be with you everywhere Solstice Gathering 2024
Summer Solstice hang out IRL and URL on 21 June
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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18 November 2017
Tramway
Every Book is Dead
Hal Duncan LAPS
Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.
Episode 9:
Other Worlds Already Exist
21 April 2013
Tramway
Fred Moten – Chat
Fred Moten
In many ways, this Episode is our attempt to engage with Fred’s incredible writing: with his proposal that all black performance (culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself) is improvisation.
Episode 4:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
20 – 23 October 2016
Tramway
The Art School
Episode 8: Refuse Powers’ Grasp
Over 3 days Episode 8 celebrates all the unruly ways we escape attempts to constrain us, tear down the walls of normative culture and build joy in flight.
23 November 2019
Tramway
Untitled Hand Dance
boychild
“Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch.” – boychild
Episode 10:
A Means Without End
11 October 2008
DCA
Film Programme: Events
Benedict Drew Takehisa Kosugi Various Artists
Everyday objects and materials (rubber bands, paper, a sink, microphones) disabused of their inertia and made to speak for themselves in a kind of focusing in on the tiny, repetitive, almost unobserved (sonic/ visual) potential of everyday things put into motion.
Kill Your Timid Notion 08
24 March 2012
Tramway
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Andrea Geyer Ashley Hunt David Thorne Sharon Hayes Katya Sander
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
Episode 3:
Copying without Copying
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank
CCA
Arnolfini
Out of Sight Out of Synch
Various Artists Hollis Frampton John Smith
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, the programme includes (in London at least) a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia) with a live narration by Michael Snow.
Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
13 November 2010
Tramway
Speculative Solution
Florian Hecker
A multi-speaker, electronic, spacious and spatial performance from Florian Hecker.
INSTAL 10
22 March 2009
The Arches
Seymour Wright
Seymour Wright
A saxophone. Handheld fans. Shrill squeaks. Splutters, gargling. An incredible diversity of sounds, intensely focused by an inventive musician.
INSTAL 09
9 December 2001
The Arches
Musica Electronica
Musica Electronica
A sound diffusion piece by Glasgow University’s Musica Electronica, and a further selection of electroacoustic performances.
INSTAL 01
10 August 2020
Online
Poetry is Not a Luxury: The Poetics of Abolition
Canisia Lubrin Christina Sharpe Nat Raha Saidiya Hartman Nydia A. Swaby
A panel exploring the poetics of abolition. “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change.”
Revolution is not a one-time event