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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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Fred Moten
Chuquimamani-Condori performing. Their face tilts downwards. They are wearing a wide brimmed hat, the background is dark and their face is lit dramatically by the cast of a red light

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under a dramatic spotlight boychild wrapped in string is hunched and performs

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Beams of light fanning out across an audience from different directions
29 November 2008
BFI Southbank BFI IMAX ICA Spike Island Arnolfini CCA

Light Trap

Greg Pope Norbert Möslang

Out of a dark haze, shafts of light emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone.

Kill Your Timid Notion on Tour
Wadada Leo Smith thanks the audience, hand on his heart, trumpet by his sideide
19 April 2013
Tramway

Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

A performance bearing witness to a struggle built upon patience and collective action from the great multi-instrumentalist and member of the AACM.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
A pencil drawing of a spherical shape drawn with rough impressionistic strokes
5 – 9 February 2012
Glasgow University Chapel Glasgow Uni Music Dept Kinning Park Complex

Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet

What’s the best way to spend time with a musician when they visit a city to perform? And when the musician in question has a great deal to say, what sort of concert do you organise to do justice to that?

A shot of murky green and brown water with several rectangular bricks submerged
20 November 2019
Tramway

All and at once

Arjuna Neuman Denise Ferreira da Silva Fred Moten Wu Tsang

Why won’t the idea of the particle or individual go away? Is the measurement problem in physics a documentary film issue? What can a human be without its crutches of life-time and measure?

Episode 10: A Means Without End
Tetsuya Umeda operating a machine next to an audience
15 October 2006
The Arches

Tetsuya Umeda

Tetsuya Umeda

Umeda is a Japanese artist who is as fascinated in setting up interesting situations to observe, as he is in creating performances.

INSTAL 06
Two frames from a 16mm film with blocks of red, green, pink and yellow
11 December 2004
DCA

Film Programme 1: Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

This programme is a celebration of Charlemagne Palestine; passionate, extravagant, visceral. Including two sections from Ritual dans le Vide, an extension of his ‘running camera’ works of the 70’s and Pip Chodorov’s vibrant workout of a live version of Strumming Music.

Kill Your Timid Notion 04
Ultra-red & Nancy Nevarez seated around a large table with audience members
4 May 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art

What is the Sound of Freedom?

Nancy Nevárez Ultra-red

For day three of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will take up protocols for listening to the sound of freedom composed and facilitated by Nancy Nevárez.

A survey is a process of listening
A portrait of Fred Moten wearing sunglasses and a cheeky smile
19 April 2013
Tramway

Fred Moten – Reading

Fred Moten

African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The porcelain head of a doll stands out from a black background.
30 September 2020

Not Going Back to Normal

Arika is proud to be one of several arts organisations in Scotland supporting the commissioning of a radical new manifesto, by and for disabled artists working in Scotland.

Nikos Veliotis in safety goggles chips wood, cello and a projection in the back
21 March 2009
The Arches

Cello Powder

Nikos Veliotis

Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.

INSTAL 09
a large crowd wearing evening wear are sat at tables applauding
19 April 2014
Holiday Inn

Icon’s Lunch

Various Artists

This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.

Master Ballstar Weekend
Image with the word: Rhomboi
9 December 2001
The Arches

Rhomboi

Rhomboi

Ex Ganger guitarist’s solo performance for guitar and fx, featuring breathless processed guitar, complex in structure and melody.

INSTAL 01
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