ICA Bulletin
February – April 2016
Contents Exhibitions
Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic Art into Society – Society into Art Dennis Morris: PiL – First Issue to Metal Box
Talks & Events
Highlights p.9 Culture Now p.13
Associate Artists
Poetry p.15 Music p.16
Artists’ Moving Image
Artists’ Film Club STOP PLAY RECORD AMIN (Artists’ Moving Image Network)
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Learning
Gallery Tours Friday Salons ICA Post-16 ICA Student Forum Performance Management Talk Series: Decommissioned
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Cinema
Special Events p.31 Festivals p.32 Main Feature Highlights p.34
More from the ICA
Support Us p.38 Membership p.39 Editions p.40 Café Bar p.41 Bookshop p.41 Venue Hire p.42 Information p.43
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We're delighted to welcome American artist Betty Woodman for a major solo exhibition taking place in the ICA Lower and Upper Galleries. Having worked in ceramics for several decades, Woodman's individual sculptures and installations see out the winter months with a burst of colour. Featuring pioneering artists Joseph Beuys and Hans Haacke, the landmark exhibition Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists, held at the ICA in 1974, becomes the focus of a Fox Reading Room display. Thereafter comes an examination of the Dennis Morris designed Metal Box album by Public Image Ltd (PiL). We also welcome Kayo Chingonyi as ICA Associate Poet, live audio stream JUST JAM and the Decommissioned talks series. The ICA Cinema presents Essay Film Festival, Frames of Representation (FoR) and Kinoteka Polish Film Festival alongside our regular cinema programme. Enjoy!
Gregor Muir Executive Director, ICA
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3 Feb 2015 – 10 Apr 2016
Lower & Upper Galleries
Betty Woodman Theatre of the Domestic
The ICA presents the first solo institutional exhibition in the UK by Betty Woodman, one of the most important contemporary artists working with sculpture, painting and ceramics. The exhibition focuses on work Woodman has created in the last ten years, including new mixed media pieces made especially for the ICA. Betty Woodman began making work in the 1950s with clay as her principle medium, and throughout her practice has constantly explored new directions and introduced diverse techniques and media. Woodman's conceptual boldness and her ambitious experimentation, particularly how she combines ceramics and painting in her recent three-dimensional pieces, resonates with younger generations of artists today. All her work relates to her ceramics, their decorative design, imagery and unusual use of various media, and can be seen as a way of exploring her painterly sensibility. For many years she has focused on the vase, which can be a vessel, a human body, and animal figure, a metaphor, or an art-historical reference. Her later
Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis with the ICA
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works include large, colourful drawings and paintings on handmade paper or canvas that combine graphite, ink and paint with terra sigillata and wax. The ICA exhibition follows her solo museum show in Italy at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence, in the vicinity of which she has been living and working for six months of every year for over fifty years. Over the course of her lengthy career, Betty Woodman (b. 1930, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA) has had numerous solo exhibitions at museums and galleries internationally, including her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006. Woodman will also participate in the Liverpool Biennial in July 2016. She currently lives and works in New York and Antella, Italy. Related events: p. 9 Artist’s Talk: Betty Woodman p. 9 Medium-specific: Ceramics in Contemporary Art p. 25 Gallery Tours
Supported by the Betty Woodman Exhibition Supporters Circle including Shane Akeroyd, David Kordansky Gallery, Salon 94 and the Zabludowicz Collection.
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Betty Woodman, Fra Angelico's Room, 2012. Courtesy the artist
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19 Jan – 6 Mar 2016
ICA Fox Reading Room
Art into Society – Society into Art
Cover of catalogue for exhibition Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists
This archival display documents the 1974 ICA exhibition Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists (29 October – 24 November 1974). A key part of a season called the German Month that was staged at the ICA and which featured film screenings, talks, performances and exhibitions showcasing the wide-ranging cultural developments emerging from West Germany at that time. Organised by ICA Curator Sir Norman Rosenthal and writer and curator Christos M. Joachimides, Art into Society – Society into Art included artists Albrecht D., Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker, Gustav Metzger, Klaus Staeck and photographer Michael Ruetz. At a time of pivotal change both within broader social and political structures as well as the field 6
of art production, the exhibition sought to show the increasingly close relationship between artistic expression and politics coming from West Germany. From the planning stages to the final display, the exhibition drew on the notion of an ‘active’ process. Both curators and artists alike sought to move away from an individualistic approach to art and exhibition-making, and towards a more democratic system. Related events: p. 25 Gallery Tour led by curators p. 26 Friday Salon
The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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Dennis Morris PiL – First Issue to Metal Box
A full box of Pil(s) the first band shot “Chelsea – Gunter Grove”. Copyright Dennis Morris
The ICA presents rarely seen photographs and ephemera relating to the early stages of the band Public Image Ltd’s (PiL) design from 1978–79 with a focus on the design of the album Metal Box. Original band members included John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten – vocals), Keith Levene (lead guitar), Jah Wobble (bass) and Jim Walker (drums). Working closely with photographer and designer Dennis Morris, the display explores the evolution of the band’s identity, from their influential journey to Jamaica in 1978 to the design of the iconic Metal Box. The years 1978–79 marked a period that hailed the end of the Sex Pistols and the subsequent shift from Punk to New Wave. Morris sought to capture this era by creating a strong visual identity for the
band. His subsequent designs further aligned PiL with a style and attitude that announced a new chapter in music history. The related programme of events including a special collaboration with the nightclub Fabric. These events will encompass broader topics such as the revival of analogue musical formats and packaging, including vinyl as well as the relationship between popular music and technology and the development of alternative digital formats. Related events: p. 13 Culture Now: Dennis Morris p. 25 Gallery Tour led by Carl Williams The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation
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ks Ta l Ceramics in Contemporary Art Date TBC, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members The demise of medium specificity is located around the same time as the demise of modernist art – towards the end of the 1960s. Since that time artists have resisted conforming to the perceived conventions of a medium, or being confined to one discipline. Additionally making art today does not necessitate a break from the past, and many artists create new forms of art through complex and fluent merging of past idioms, styles and formats. Yet amongst such pluralism, it is noticeable that ceramics has recently proven fertile territory for experimentation and creative speculation within contemporary art. To coincide with our solo exhibition of Betty Woodman’s work, a panel of artists and curators will debate why one of the oldest forms of art practice is being increasingly utilised by contemporary artists.
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Highlights
Betty Woodman in her studio, Italy, 2012. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Stefano Porcinai
Artist’s Talk: Betty Woodman Wed 3 Feb, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members ICA exhibiting artist Betty Woodman is in conversation with Curator Vincenzo de Bellis, discussing her new work and long-standing practice on the occasion of her ICA exhibition Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic.
Medium-specific: Ceramics in Contemporary Art Tue 16 Feb, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members Ceramics has recently proven fertile territory for experimentation and creative speculation within contemporary art. To coincide with our solo exhibition of Betty Woodman’s work, a panel of artists and curators including Jenni Lomax (Camden Arts Centre), Caroline Achatraine, Aaron Angell and Tommaso Corvi-Mora debate why one of the oldest forms of art practice is being increasingly utilised by contemporary artists.
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Highlights
JODI, What is Your Value? Wed 27 Jan, 6.30pm Pay-What-You-Can Art duo JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) give a presentation in response to the question: Artists, what is your value? JODI pioneered Net.art in the mid-1990s. Based in The Netherlands, JODI were among the first artists to investigate and subvert conventions of the Internet, computer programs, and games. Radically disrupting the very language of these systems, including interfaces, commands, errors and code.
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This event is presented as part of ICA Talks Series: Artists, what is your value? Replicating productivist injunctions for creative practitioners to serve as entrepreneurs, repeatedly proving and performing their own worth, these talks goad artists, critics and theorists to make estimations of the worth of art and artists in the current age. Watch previous talks in the series, including presentations by artists, writers and curators Jan Verwoert, The AIRBNB Pavilion, Goldin+Senneby, KERNEL, The Temporary Separatists, Angela Dimitrakaki, Catherine Elwes, Margaret Harrison, Johanna Gustavsson and Zachary Cahill here: www.youtube.com/user/ICALondon
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Highlights Fiktion: New Writing Group
Fiktion: New Writing Workshop
Wed 24 Feb A day of events presented by Fiktion. The Fiktion project operates on several levels: the digital publication of German- and English-language literature that does not fit the current criteria of the market; all titles are distributed free of charge; the creation of an international network of writers that is seeking out manuscripts for Fiktion and supports them after publication; the advancement of the debate about copyright law; the development of a new reading format that encourages concentration, which is currently being researched at the Freie Universität Berlin.
2–5pm £5 / Free to ICA Members Writers Ann Cotten and Ingo Niermann lead a writing workshop. This is presented as part of the work of Fiktion, a network of German- and English-speaking writers, investigating the opportunities afforded by the digital to spark a new euphoria in fiction writing, publishing, and reading.
Fiktion is a project of Fiktion e.V., developed in cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt with support from the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
Fiktion: New Writing 6.30pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members Readings from writers Rajeev Balasubramanyan and Sophie Jung, followed by a panel discussion with Ingo Niermann, Ann Cotten and Adam Thirlwell.
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Highlights The Legacy of Helen Chadwick Wed 9 Mar, 6.30pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members Louisa Buck chairs this panel discussion examining the legacy and influence of British artist Helen Chadwick (1953– 1996), with speakers including artists Cathy de Monchaux and Gavin Turk, curator Frances Morris and writer Marina Warner. This event marks the 20th anniversary of Chadwick's untimely death. Chadwick appeared at the intersection of conceptual-performative art and feminist thinking. Her innovative and provocative use of a rich variety of materials, such as flesh, flowers, chocolate and fur, was hugely influential on a younger generation of British artists. Her work came to prominence with her ICA solo exhibition Of Mutability (1986–87), a large installation involving sculpture and photography. In 1987, Chadwick became one of the first women artists to be nominated for the Turner Prize, her sudden death in 1996 shocked the art world, interrupting the brilliant life of the artist at the apex of her career. Chadwick influenced and taught an entire generation of contemporary British artists through her teaching posts at Goldsmiths College, London; Chelsea College of Art & Design, London; and Central St. Martin's, London. Her work can be found in many major international collections including the Tate Collection, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and MoMA, New York.
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Portrait of Helen Chadwick, 1994. Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery. Photo: Kippa Matthews
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Culture Now
Informal Friday lunchtime conversations for the culturally curious, with key figures from the contemporary arts scene. Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members
Hajra Waheed Fri 11 Mar, 1pm Artist Hajra Waheed discusses her practice on the occasion of her first UK presentation of the ‘first chapter’ from Sea Change – an on-going visual novel and multimedia archive, commenced in 2011 (The Mosaic Rooms, London). Hajra Waheed’s oeuvre seeks to address personal, national and cultural identity formation in relation to political history, popular imagination and the broad impact of colonial power globally.
Myvillages Company Drinks Fri 26 Feb, 1pm Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks is an art project in the shape of a community drinks enterprise. Artist Kathrin Böhm (Myvillages) and writer Miranda Pope (both editors of the recently published Company: Movements Deals and Drinks book), together with contributors and partners map out the project's ambitions, its status as an artwork and the practical reclaiming of the term ‘company’.
Dennis Morris Fri 1 Apr, 1pm British photographer and designer Dennis Morris created the logo for the band Public Image Limited (PiL) and the innovative Metal Box album packaging.
Watch our archive of Culture Now talks on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/ICALondon
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Poetry ICA Associate Poet: Kayo Chingonyi Kayo Chingonyi curates a programme of talks, readings and performances as part of his ICA Associate Poet residency (November 2015 – April 2016). The ICA Associate Poet programme continues a long-standing interest and engagement with language and poetry throughout the ICA’s history. Kayo Chingonyi is a writer, editor, events producer and creative writing tutor. In 2013 Kayo was awarded a writing residency at Cove Park (Scotland) as well as the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize from the Poetry Society. He represented Zambia at Poetry Parnassus, is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity in British Poetry, and has been invited to give readings and performances across the UK and further afield in Ireland, Mexico, Abu Dhabi and South Africa. Kayo is currently working on his first full-length collection entitled Kumukanda and a new pamphlet from the African Poetry Book Fund, in collaboration with Brooklyn-based independent publisher Akashic Books.
Upcoming events:
The Poetics of Grime Wed 16 Mar, 6.30pm £8 / £7 Concessions and ICA Members This panel discussion and series of performances explores the poetic significance of grime lyricism. Participants include Eklipse, Debris Stevenson and Kayo Chingonyi. The talk will be followed by DJ sets in the ICA Bar.
Poetry and Sound Fri 5 Feb, 6.30pm £5 / Free to ICA Members A series of performances featuring poets who use the sounds of words and their textures, as well as their meaning, to inform the composition and performance of their work. Participants include Anthony Joseph, David J The Vocal Pugilist and Holly Pester.
Initiation[s] workshop Sun 9 Apr, 2pm Free event, booking required A cross-arts workshop led by Kayo Chingonyi for 16-19 year-olds. The workshop will look at the uses of poetry and visual art in the initiation ceremonies that are the inspiration for Chingonyi's recent work.
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Music
ICA Associates: JUST JAM present House of Trax: The Last One Thu 28 Jan, 8pm ÂŁ5 / ÂŁ3 ICA Members ICA Theatre House Of Trax will celebrate and close an outstanding four year run, of a much needed injection to London's club culture. The vital club night was created by Matthew Thomas [Rushmore] and Benedict Bull [Fools] back in 2012 with a penchant for the most unique UK and US club music spanning ghetto house, ballroom, grime, footwork and more. Their line-ups read like a poignant case study of club culture history, featuring OG's like Tyree Cooper, Traxman, Paul Johnson, Slimzee and Spooky through to modern icons like MikeQ, Venus X, 16
Vjuan Allure, DJ Sliink and DJ Earl many of whom played their first ever UK gigs at House of Trax. This celebration of the last four years will bring together new and previous guests in an even more majestic context than usual, by partnering with close friends, JUST JAM to celebrate the genres and cultures they have represented. The ICA will be transformed to bring you the live artistic visual enhancements expected with JUST JAM, featuring music by Timbo [Tim&Barry] following on from his previous ICA outing where he and Barry premiered their excellent footwork documentary I'm tryna tell ya. Also providing the sounds will be J-Cush, founding member of Future Brown [who previously performed at ICA], and owner of pivotal music label Lit City Trax.
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ICA Associates 2016 We are pleased to announce the ICA Associates music programme for 2016, which includes on-going collaboration with NTS Radio and Warp Records, and new partnerships with JUST JAM, PAN, Thirty Three Thirty Three (formerly known as St John’s Sessions) and The Wire.
The ICA Associates music programme seeks to evolve and develop new relationships with established and emerging music organisations who have a shared interest in experimentation and examination of current themes in contemporary music. Please see our website for full details.
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Artists’ Film Club The Artists’ Film Club programme of screenings and events features new and rarely seen works by emerging and established artists. Fostering dialogues between artists and audiences, Artists’ Film Club enables discussion and debate around recent moving image practice, with many of the programme artists giving presentations and Q&As.
Frieze Video: New Technology, Old Media Tue 23 Feb, 6.30pm In light of a number of recent articles and exhibitions exploring the relationship between painting and the digital, or sculpture and screen media, this event asks why artists continue to cling to traditional artistic disciplines even as they explore themes of technological change? This event will centre around four frieze films and a panel discussion.
Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members
Frieze Video, Surround Audience, 2015, video still. Courtesy Frieze Publishing
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Mark Wallinger, Angel, 1997, SD video, colour, sound, 7 min 30 sec. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Mark Wallinger
Coming soon...
Wed 23 Mar, 8.30pm Moving image has formed a significant aspect of Mark Wallinger’s practice throughout his career. This screening draws together single screen works made between 1993 and 2011 and is presented alongside a conversation with the artist.
Artists’ Film Biennial 2016 26 – 29 May 2016 The ICA Artists’ Film Biennial 2016 is a four-day celebration of artists’ film and moving image. The Biennial’s comprehensive series of screenings and talks extends the ICA’s Artists’ Film Club, our regular programme of artists’ film, which profiles and debates the best international artists’ moving image. This edition features ambitious retrospectives, artist selected programmes, programmes selected by international curators, a programme selected from an international curatorial open, a programme selected from an artist-filmmaker open call; and a series of talks, symposium and seminar groups examining the context and concerns for moving image practices today.
Jerwood/FVU Awards Sat 19 Mar, 2pm Jerwood/FVU Awards 2016 recipients Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams present a selection of their work in discussion with Film and Video Umbrella Director Steven Bode, sharing the influences and inspirations behind their new work on show as part of the exhibition Borrowed Time at Jerwood Space, London, 9 Mar – 24 Apr 2016.
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STOP PLAY RECORD is a programme open to anyone interested in making experimental short films and being introduced to a range of professionals from different creative sectors who work with the moving image.
Throughout the year an ongoing series of STOP PLAY RECORD events will take place across London. From screenings and talks, to workshops and practical sessions, emerging talent can access a range of expert-led opportunities to establish and develop their skills.
Aged 16–24? Live in London? Want to make Films?
Application opens 18 January 2016 Apply via stopplayrecord.ica.org.uk
Each year STOP PLAY RECORD supports the planning and production of 24 short films with young people aged 16–24 based in London.
STOP PLAY RECORD forms part of a joint initiative between Arts Council England and Channel 4, which sees the Institute of Contemporary Arts lead a London Network in partnership with Bloomberg New Contemporaries, the Chisenhale Gallery, DAZED, Kingston University and SPACE to provide a range of activities across the capital.
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Upcoming events: STOP PLAY RECORD launch event Sun 7 Feb, 1pm Through a range of presentations, including advice from filmmakers from the first year of the programme, this event will provide potential applicants for STOP PLAY RECORD the opportunity to get a greater understanding of the programme and the application process. Topsafe Event Wed 17 Feb, 6pm topsafe.tv is a new platform aimed at showcasing independent art films. Some of their favourite directors will be showing a selection of their work followed by a Q&A. 22
STOP PLAY RECORD Drop in Pitching Sessions Thu 25 Feb, 11am, Kingston University Sat 12 Mar, 1pm, ICA Studio Have an idea for a film for STOP PLAY RECORD? This is an opportunity to discuss it with members of the selection panel. The sessions will be free to drop in from the above times. Writing Workshop with Mick Jackson Wed 2 Mar, 6pm Booker nominated author Mick Jackson leads a workshop on developing ideas and writing processes. Ideal if you have an idea for STOP PLAY RECORD. All events free, booking required.
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Artists’ Moving Image Network The ICA’s national network of venues committed to showing a regular programme of artists’ moving image, with support from the Foyle Foundation and Arts Council England.
Regular screenings are taking place at: MK Gallery (Milton Keynes) Tramway (Glasgow) Spike Island (Bristol) ICIA (Bath) Peninsula Arts (Plymouth) Exeter Phoenix (Exeter) Phoenix (Leicester) mima (Middlesbrough) Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool) ICA (London) HOME (Manchester) Artists included: Ursula Mayer, Wu Tsang, Duncan Campbell, Mattieu K. Abonnenc, Hito Steyerl, Ryan Trecartin, Steven Claydon, Laure Prouvost, Keren Cytter Supported by
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Gallery Tours
Gallery Tour Art into Society – Society into Art led by co-curators Juliette Desorgues and Lucy Bayley
Thu 28 Jan, 6.30pm
Educators’ Tour Betty Woodman and Art into Society – Society into Art led by ICA Head of Programme Katharine Stout and ICA Curator Juliette Desorgues
Wed 10 Feb, 5pm
Gallery Tour Betty Woodman led by Emma Hart
Thu 17 Mar, 6.30pm
Gallery Tour Dennis Morris: PiL – First Issue to Metal Box led by Carl Williams
Thu 28 Apr, 6.30pm
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Friday Salons
This series of talks presents the latest research on current cultural phenomena. £5 / Free to ICA Members
Art into Society Fri 12 Feb, 3pm Chaired by writer and curator Jo Melvin, this discussion explores the legacy of the seminal 1974 ICA exhibition Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists and looks at current curatorial practices and pedagogical models that attempt to democratise beyond established structures.
ICA Post-16 A programme of events developed specifically for ages 16+. Group and Matinee Screenings
A regular programme of films and talks for young audiences. £3–£6 tickets / Educators go free
Workshop: Kayo Chingonyi Initiation[s] Workshop Sun 9 Apr, 2pm Free event, booking required A cross-arts workshop led by Kayo Chingonyi for 16-19 year-olds. The workshop will look at the uses of poetry and visual art in the initiation ceremonies that are the inspiration for Chingonyi's recent work.
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ICA Student Forum
"chocolate para mis retinas" by Sili[k] is licensed under CC BY 2.0
The ICA Student Forum offers students the opportunity to shape and develop a public programme of events in response to ICA exhibitions, films, performances and public events.
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Text2Speech Reading Group Thu 25 Feb, 6pm Free, booking required A series of free reading groups responding to the ICA’s programme of exhibitions and events, discussing the latest contemporary art theory.
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Performance Management Masterclass
Panel Discussion
Fri 19 Feb, 11.15am–4pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members Performance Management will be a provocative day-long performance master-class that explores the notion of invention within performance. Led by Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, the session will be based at the ICA and possibly extend out into the city. Throughout the day there will be opportunities for debate and discussion on the politics of performance, the architecture that often houses it, and the limitations that often inform it.
Fri 19 Feb, 5.30–7pm £8 / £6 Concessions / £5 ICA Members In his latest book In Praise of Theatre Alain Badiou writes 'the theatre attempts to make a previously unseen possibility emerge'. For him, there is a precariousness about theatre, which not only responds to our present crisis in global capitalism, but which, through its provocation, enables the spectator to orientate him or herself in the present day. This event will interrogate the notion of self-orientation within performance. It will begin with a brief presentation outlining Vito Acconci’s departure from performance art into architecture and the session will conclude with invited speakers including Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lois Rowe.
Performance Management is part CCW Graduate School’s public programme, and will launch Acts Re-Acts 3, a month long series exploring performance and new media, with workshops, discussions, events, interventions, seminars and installations taking place at Wimbledon Space between 22 February and 18 March 2016.
In partnership with UAL, CCW Graduate School
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Decommissioned
In a series of ten lectures, Decommissioned seeks to address how strategies of disavowal, inactivity and transition are employed in contemporary art and design. When encountering cultural bias, uncertainty and co-option across the arts, how can the dominant flows of information, language, policy and ideology be circumvented? Curators, sociologists, artists, politicians, academics, queer-thinkers, bio-designers, film-theorists and others will respond through diverse fields of exciting and critical research.
Lisa Le Feuvre Sophie Berrebi Başak Ertür Sook-Kyung Lee El Ultimo Grito Onkar Kular Mick Wilson Michael McMillan
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The talks take place on Wednesdays from 2–4pm in Cinema 1. This series is curated and convened by Dr. Stephen Wilson and is staged in collaboration with the Chelsea College of Arts Postgraduate Community and the University of the Arts London, CCW Graduate School.
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Cinema Cinema Cinema Cinema Cinema Cinema Cinema Cinema Tickets £11 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members Tuesday Cinema: £6 / £3 ICA Members 30
Free Day Membership with all cinema tickets
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Special Events
Uncertain
Frames of Representation 20 – 27 Apr 2016 In spring 2016, the ICA hosts the inaugural programme of Frames of Representation (FoR). FoR is a curatorial platform through which new forms of documentary cinema can be experienced and discussed. The first edition will focus on the idea of the ‘New Periphery’, and cinema’s role in bringing the excluded and the elsewhere to the centre of conversation. A unique focus of the festival is its interdisciplinary nature, recognising documentary as an evolving artform, with an ongoing interest in cinematic hybrids of fiction and documentary that bring us closer to the ambiguous and multiple frames of reality.
The first edition of FoR features new work from Roberto Minervini, Zhao Liang, Pietro Marcello, Betzabé García, Wojciech Staroń, Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands among others. Each film screening event is framed by additional engaging context from director Q&As to workshops and essays. Each film in the programme will take the audience on a unique aesthetic and ethical journey to the edges of the contemporary anthropocene; from the politically disenchanted of America's deep South to the industrial underbelly of Mongolia, from palatial ruins in Italy to a submerged village in rural Mexico. Visit www.framesofrepresentation.com #FoR
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The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky
Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 5 – 11 Feb 2016 Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s iconic 1952 film Ikiru (“To Live”), this year’s Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme provides an exciting collection of films looking at the way in which Japanese filmmakers have been observing and capturing people’s lives, and how people across the ages persevere, negotiate and reconcile with the environment and situation they live in. From the newly released work, A Farewell to Jinu (2015) by Suzuki Matsuo to the classic A Japanese Tragedy (1953) by master Keisuke Kinoshita, and from anime feature films to, for the very first time, documentary, this programme showcases a variety of real lives of Japanese people 32
in a manner that is as entertaining as it is informative. It will feature female director Yuki Tanada’s cosplay-infused infidelity drama The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012) and Noriben – The Recipe for Fortune (2009), a tale of a single mother and her quest to be independent by opening a lunch box shop.
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme is produced and organised by the Japan Foundation.
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Festivals Essay Film Festival
18 – 24 Mar 2016 The second edition of the Essay Film Festival returns at Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the ICA. This annual festival showcases the best in essay filmmaking from around the world, past and present. This year features a focus on Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik, including his latest film, a study of artist and activist Stuart Marshall, and contributions from Miranda Pennell, Sarah Wood, and many others.
Kidlat Tahimik
KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival
Cosmos
12 – 17 Apr 2016 KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival comes back for its 14th edition presenting the new talents in Polish cinema and a retrospective of Europe’s top maverick filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski. The cult director of erotically charged psychosexual provocations such as Possession and La femme publique will be presenting in person the UK premiere of his latest film Cosmos, which won Best Director award at Locarno Film Festival alongside older titles including newly restored version of Devil which has been banned in Poland for over 15 years.
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Main Feature Highlights
The Club
The Club
From 25 Mar Shot in Chile, The Club is a powerful drama that follows four priests who live together in a secluded house in a small, seaside town. Aiming to absolve themselves of past sins, they live according to a strict regime under the watchful eye of a female caretaker. When the fragile stability of their routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth man, a newly-disgraced companion brings with him the past they thought they had left behind. Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2015, The Club is director’s Pablo Larraín fifth feature-length film. Previous films from the renowned director include Fuga,
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Tony Manero, Post Mortem and NO, which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Rams
A Bigger Splash
From 5 Feb Grímur Hákonarson received international acclaim with his short film Wrestling which premiered at Locarno Film Festival in 2007 and went on to win 25 prizes around the world. Rams, winner of the prestigious ‘Un Certain Regard’ at Cannes and Iceland’s official entry for the 2016 Oscars, is his second feature film. In a secluded valley in Iceland, estranged brothers Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep and the entire valley comes under threat, the two brothers must come together to save the special breed passed down for generations, and themselves, from extinction.
From 12 Feb Rock legend Marianne Lane is recuperating on the volcanic island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul when iconoclast record producer and old flame Harry unexpectedly arrives with his daughter Penelope and interrupts their holiday, bringing with him a blast of nostalgia from which there can be no rescue. Starring, Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts and Ralph Fiennes, A Bigger Splash is a sensuous portrait of desire, jealousy and rock and roll, under the Mediterranean sun.
A Bigger Splash
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Hitchcock-Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Anomalisa
From 4 Mar In 1962, François Truffaut persuaded Alfred Hitchcock to sit with him for a week-long interview in which the great British auteur would share with his young admirer the secrets of his cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the seminal book Hitchcock/ Truffaut—this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plunges us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds and Vertigo.
From 11 Mar From the mind of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) comes Anomalisa, a tender, touching and achingly funny black-comedy, filmed entirely in breath-taking stop-motion animation. Michael Stone, a husband, father and successful motivational speaker, is crippled by the mundanity of his life. On another dull business trip a chance meeting with Lisa, an unassuming baked goods sales rep from Akron, Ohio, throws the dullness into disarray…
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Son of Saul
Our Little Sister
From 29 Apr László Nemes’ stunning debut, which received a rapturous critical reception at Cannes 2015 where it was awarded the Grand Prix, is an unflinching depiction of the Auschwitz death camps, presenting the horrors of the holocaust in a kinetic and utterly unique manner, reinvigorating the need to remember this harrowing historical moment. With break-neck pacing, immersive sound design, a riveting central performance from newcomer Géza Röhrig and a truly distinctive visual style, this is essential art house cinema.
From 15 Apr The latest family drama from Japanese master Hirokazu Koreeda (Still Walking and I Wish), Our Little Sister sees the veteran director revisiting familiar subjects of family, love and cooking, all delivered in his tender and understated cinematic style. Based on the beloved manga series Umimachi Diary, this luscious adaptation was shot on location in the beautiful coastal town of Kamakura, boasts standout performances from the four eccentric sisters and, in typical Koreeda fashion, features an abundance of traditional Japanese cuisine that will leave the mouth-watering long after the credits roll.
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Betty Woodman, From Nina’s Room, 2016 Archival pigment print on Japanese Mulberry paper, 91 x 73 cm. Edition of 45 Please see our website for full details
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Guan Xiao In association with K11 Art Foundation 20 April – 19 June 2016 Lower Gallery
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