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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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text reading Decriminalised Futures on a colourful banner on a blue and purple background
31 August 2019 – 1 April 2023

Decriminalised Futures

Arika is working in partnership with Decriminalised Futures on a multi year collaboration featuring multiple creative projects exploring sex worker lives, experiences and movement struggles.

A close up, black & white portrait of John Tilbury, in a large fedora hat
19 April 2013
Tramway

John Tilbury

John Tilbury

What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.

Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
23 August 2026, 11:00

Coffee, Croissants and Massage

Five Rivers Massage

Coffee, Croissants & Massage – a welcoming breakfast for all with massage by qualified massage therapists present to give hand & head massages.

 

 

Hard Labour
Film still of lit sparklers in close up
15 October 2006
The Arches

See Noise Hear Light Sunday

Arrington de Dionyso Eye Contact Kiyoharu Kuwayama Maryanne Amacher Matt Hulse Rina Kijima Tetsuya Umeda

Freeform Super 8mm documentation of Sunday at Instal 06 by filmmaker Matt Hulse.

INSTAL 06
a man stands behind a red table
21 February 2010
DCA

Festival Launch

Christof Migone Jarrod Fowler

Jarrod Fowler and Christof Migone kick things off with performances involving edible plants, a saw, dandruff, and Christof responding to the prompt: “as far as you can for as long as you can.”

Kill Your Timid Notion 10
Daniel Carter, Andrew Barker & Sabir Mateen performing at MLFC 07
13 May 2007
The Sage Gateshead

Daniel Carter, Andrew Barker & Sabir Mateen

Daniel Carter Sabir Mateen

Daniel Carter & Sabir Mateen’s trio with percussionist Andrew Barker; incessantly driving forward through sweat-drenched bursts of pure ecstatic freedom.

Music Lover’s Field Companion 07
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18 April 2015
Tramway

Poethical Readings/Intuiting the Political

Denise Ferreira da Silva Valentina Desideri

Three intimate 45 minute sessions, reading your political questions – using Tarot, Palmistry, Reiki, Astrology, and Philosophy, and the invented methods of Fake and Political Therapy.

A medium close up of the side and back of one person hugging and lifting another
17 April 2015
Tramway

It’s Sorta Like a Big Hug

Constantina Zavitsanos Park McArthur

How can we imagine bodies not as an end in themselves, but as a medium through which we can become one another’s means?

Episode 7: We Can’t Live Without Our Lives
Side profile portrait of Rashad Becker wearing a peaked baseball cap.
15 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Subversive Strategies in Sound and Music

Rashad Becker Sunik Kim

A chat with Rashad about the communist, conceptual methodology that informs his ground-breaking synthetic music—a form of speculative sonic fiction writing to produce hyperreal non-representational auditive experiences.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Klaus sits at a table and plays electronics whilst Radu plays trombone
21 March 2009
The Arches

Klaus Filip & Radu Malfatti

Klaus Filip Radu Malfatti

Radu plays a trombone, Klaus creates pure sine waves: they sound on their own, or sometimes together and often with considerable space and silence.

INSTAL 09
Portrait of Geni Núñez smiling wearing a red robe with a red orange wall behind.
14 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Against a monoculture of thought

Geni Núñez Amilcar Packer

Thinking against the monoculturalism of Western thought—of faith, affection, sexuality and gender—which completely lacks any utility to, or descriptive value of Indigenous worldviews.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It