ICA Bulletin
June – September 2016
Contents Exhibitions
Judy Blame: Never Again Artistic Differences Olivetti: Beyond Form and Function Detroit: Techno City ICA Off-Site: Art Night Alasdair McLellan & Lev Tanju: The Palace
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Talks & Events
Highlights ASP2: Artist Self-Publishing Fair Culture Now Technology Now
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Music
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Artists’ Moving Image
Artists’ Film Club AMIN (Artists’ Moving Image Network) STOP PLAY RECORD
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Learning
Gallery Tours Friday Salons Highlights ICA Student Forum MA in the Contemporary Young ICA
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Special Events Main Feature Highlights Festivals
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Support Us Membership Editions Café Bar Bookshop Venue Hire Information
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We are thrilled to be staging two exhibitions dedicated to legendary jewellery and accessory designer Judy Blame, known to many as 'Ziggy Stylist'. We also have a display dedicated to Italian typewriter manufacturer Olivetti and the exhibition Detroit: Techno City in our Fox Reading Room. On the night of 2 July, the ICA takes-over Art Night, an extraordinary event taking place across ten central London venues, with performances by artists including Cecilia Bengolea, Linder, and Joan Jonas with Jason Moran, also exhibitions by Nina Beier, Celia Hempton, and Laure Prouvost. Venues include Admiralty Arch and a disused platform at Charing Cross. See you on the tour! Later this season we welcome the exhibition Alasdair McLellan & Lev Tanju: The Palace, mixing skateboard culture with art, fashion, music and design. For Young ICA we have summer workshops culminating in CTRL, a one-day festival. We welcome Masāfāt: London | Cairo to the music programme, presented by ThirtyThree ThirtyThree in partnership with VENT, as well as associate music events with Just Jam and Warp. Our talks programme continues with Arseny Zhilyaev (supported by our Russian Talks Circle), The Legacy of Bas Jan Ader, and Technology Now. The Safar, London Indian Film Festival and Open City Documentary Festival return to the ICA Cinema. David Lamelas joins us as part of Artists’ Film Club, and we look forward to ICA Cinematheque: Changing London, and Focus Season: Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
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29 Jun – 4 Sep 2016
Lower Gallery
Judy Blame Never Again
The first major solo exhibition by accessories designer, art director and fashion stylist Judy Blame. In the early 1980s Blame’s nonconformist attitude and desire to distinguish himself within the London club scene motivated him to produce jewellery. His modest resources shaped his DIY approach and led him to incorporate found objects; early creations questioned material hierarchies and were testimony to the harsh realities of industrial and economic decline. During this period he encountered a range of creative individuals including Derek Jarman, Anthony Price, John Maybury and Leigh Bowery who championed his inventive approach to making fashion accessories. In 1985 Blame helped John Moore set up The House of Beauty and Culture in Dalston, London, a craft collective of like-minded artists. This collective experience proved to be the first of many collaborations as a consultant for various designers including John Galliano, Rifat Ozbek, Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons, Gareth Pugh, Marc Jacobs and Kim Jones at Louis Vuitton. His work as a fashion stylist has produced iconic editorials with 4
photographers including Mark Lebon, Mark Mattock, Jean Baptiste Mondino and Juergen Teller for publications such as i-D, BLITZ and The Face. His instinctive ability to create images that embodied radical elements of popular culture and fashion led to an extensive career in the music industry as an art director and image consultant for iconic figures such as Boy George, Neneh Cherry, Massive Attack and Bjork. The exhibition is presented as a montage rather than a chronology that brings together an arrangement of artefacts, including clothing, collage, jewellery, fashion editorials, sketchbooks and T-shirts alongside unique commissions that bear witness to Blame’s tactile, thought-provoking, approach to fashion and his propensity towards collaboration and experimentation. The exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition zine compiled by Judy Blame. Related events: p. 31 Educator's Tour led by curator Matt Williams
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Photo: Jean-Baptiste Mondino
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Upper Gallery
Artistic Differences
To coincide with the Lower Gallery exhibition Judy Blame: Never Again, Artistic Differences celebrates Judy Blame’s life and work with the aim to present Blame’s work within a wider artistic context, drawing on connections in the art and design worlds in the UK from the 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition brings together artists and designers that have been directly linked to Blame throughout his career, and those who have been influenced by his work and share his distinct artistic approach and style. Participants include Charles Atlas, Dave Baby, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Derek Jarman, Jim Lambie, Mark Lebon, Linder, John Maybury, Jamie Reid, Peter Saville, Juergen Teller, Nicola Tyson and Tim Noble & Sue Webster. If Charles Atlas’ film Hail the New Puritan (1987) evokes a particular moment 6
in British cultural history associated with Blame and his work during 1980s London, it also provides context to contributions by other artists and designers of that time such as Dave Baby, Mark Lebon, Linder, John Maybury, Trojan and Jamie Reid. Other works in the exhibition show a direct personal and artistic relationship with Blame such as a previously lost film by Derek Jarman featuring Blame, or indeed the film Judy Blame on Southwark Bridge (1983) by Nicola Tyson, and the intimate photographs by Juergen Teller of Blame in his studio. Artistic Differences will also feature an interview with Judy Blame by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir, which provides a unique insight into Blame’s significant life and work.
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Linder, It's The Buzz, Cock!, 2015, duratrans on light box, 251 x 153 x 10cm, 98 7/8 x 60 1/4 x 4ins. Edition 1 of 5 + 2Aps. Courtesy of Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
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25 May – 17 Jul 2016
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Olivetti Beyond Form and Function
Detroit Techno City
Olivetti Lettera 22, poster by Giovanni Pintori (1954). Courtesy Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti, Ivrea – Italy
Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit (1988). Courtesy Neil Rushton and 10 Records LTD
Founded in 1908 in Italy as a typewriter manufacturing company, Olivetti recognised the importance of design over pure functionalism. The company produced some of the most iconic hand-typing devices and early computers of the 20 th century: from the Lettera 22 (1950) and Valentine (1969) typewriters, to the Elea 9003 (1959), Italy’s first computer, and the Programma 101 (1965), the first commercially produced desktop computer. This display presents photographs, films and ephemera relating to Olivetti’s graphic and spatial design, as well as architecture. Focusing largely on the industrial boom of the post-war era, the display covers a key period in Olivetti’s history, which saw the creation of the iconic Valentine typewriter. Throughout its history, Olivetti commissioned writers, 8
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designers, architects and artists: from Le Corbusier to Gae Aulenti, Herbert Bayer, Giovanni Pintori and Ettore Sottsass. The display will create a historical lineage and show the progressive cultural ideals at the heart of the company’s ethos, a model which still resonates today. Related events: p. 17 Architecture and Industry: from Olivetti to today p. 31 Gallery Tours
This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti, Ivrea – Italy and is part of the London Festival of Architecture 2016 londonfestivalofarchitecture.org The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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This display looks at the evolution of ‘Detroit Techno music’. Coined in the 1980s, the term reflects the musical and social influences that informed this distinct music genre. For the first time in the UK, Detroit Techno City will chart a timeline from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Originating in the disco parties of Ken Collier with influence from local radio stations and DJs, such as Electrifying Mojo and The Wizard (aka Jeff Mills), the exhibition explores how a generation was inspired to create a new kind of electronic music. This is evidenced in the formative UK compilation: Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit. Using inexpensive analogue technology, DJs and producers including Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter, Eddie Fowlkes, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, formed this seminal genre.
The display also focuses on Underground Resistance, a collection of DJs and artists whose ambition was to challenge commercial mainstream entertainment industry and re-establish the genre’s authenticity with an emphasis on the city as a source of inspiration. The ICA will present a season of online programmes featuring Detroit artists, past and present, on NTS Radio. Related events: p. 31 Educators' tour led by ICA curator Matt Williams p. 32 Friday Salon: Sounding Dark Media Partners:
The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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2 Jul 2016
ICA Off-Site Art Night
Art Night is a new annual contemporary arts festival that transforms London for one summer night. From The Duke of York Steps at the ICA, via Admiralty Arch, the disused Jubilee line platform in Charing Cross Underground station, and a luxury flat on the Strand, ten buildings and public spaces form the stage for a series of site-specific projects, installations and performances. Festivals have played a unique role historically as a site for artistic experimentation, outside the formal setting of the gallery or museum – ranging from the street theatre of the Renaissance; Bauhaus festivals in the early twentieth century that combined music, theatre, dance and design; and happenings in the 1960s and 70s. Art Night builds on this rich history of experimentation by combining unusual spaces with artistic experimentation. Ten international artists' projects, including six new site-specific commissions, feature in a crossdisciplinary programme of art, architecture, dance, design and music – forming a unique trail across central London, from 5pm until the early hours. From 5pm, free, booking required for indoor events. Supported by
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Alexandra Bachzetsis: Two Temple Place Nina Beier: 190 Strand Cecilia Bengolea: East Piazza, Covent Garden Celia Hempton: 180 Strand Koo Jeong A: Disused Jubilee line, Charing Cross Underground Station Joan Jonas and Jason Moran: Southwark Cathedral Linder: Duke of York Steps, ICA Laure Prouvost: Admiralty Arch Jennifer West: St Mary Le Strand Xu Zhen/Madeln Company: Somerset House Supported by
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The festival is conceived and organised by Unlimited Productions who, each year, will invite an institution and curator to work in a different area of London. The first edition is curated by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) with curator Kathy Noble.
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Photographer Alasdair McLellan will be presenting a collection of archive and unseen images of Palace Skateboards’ renowned team and its extended family in the London skate gang, the Palace Wayward Boys Choir (PWBC). McLellan has been documenting the scene around Palace since its launch in 2009. The exhibition pictures offer a fascinating insight into the characters orbiting the beloved brutalist home of skateboarding on London’s Southbank. This will be accompanied by a new video installation from Palace 12
Skateboards' founder, Lev Tanju. With an idiosyncratically British edge, Tanju’s anarchic videography and McLellan's tender portraits will come together to provide a dynamic picture of London and skateboarding. The show is a celebration of the deep camaraderie found amongst skaters at the Southbank. It is a testament to friendship, nonconformity and a doing-it-yourself attitude. A full survey of McLellan’s work with Palace and the PWBC will be published by IDEA this summer.
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Highlights
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Bas Jan Ader, Pitfall on the way to a new Neo Plasticism, Westkapelle, Holland, 1971, C-type print, 40 x 29.5cm. Copyright the Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Mary Sue Ader Andersen, 2016 / The Artist Right’s Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles and Simon Lee Gallery, London
Charles Jencks, The Madonna of the Future, 1967 Courtesy the artist
The Legacy of Bas Jan Ader Sat 25 Jun, 2pm £10 / £7 ICA Members
A screening of four of Bas Jan Ader’s Falling films, introduced by curator Pedro de Llano, is followed by contributions from Nick Baker, Jan Verwoert, Janice Kerbel, Mary Sue Ader Anderson and Erik Ader, all examining the enduring legacy of this influential Dutch artist. Forty years after the end of his incredibly brief career, conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader's concise body of work continues to inspire artists, writers, curators and critical thinkers.
Charles Jencks: Adhocism Wed 13 Jul, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members
Charles Jencks delivers a lecture on Adhocism, his 1972 manifesto for a generation that took pleasure in doing things ad-hoc, using materials at hand to solve real-world problems. With this lecture, the theorist reflects on the past forty years of adhocism, emphasising its continuing relevance. Jencks is a world-renowned cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural critic and historian, and co-founder of the Maggies Cancer Care centres.
Presented in association with Simon Lee Gallery. This event is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Highlights Artist’s Talk: Arseny Zhilyaev Thu 23 Jun, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members Moscow-based Russian artist Arseny Zhilyaev is in conversation with Francesco Manacorda (Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool) ahead of his presentation of work at the Liverpool Biennial 2016. Using artistic, political, scientific, and museological histories to uncover and propose potential futures, Zhilyaev’s work explores the space between fiction and non-fiction. Within his recent projects, the artist casts a revisionist lens on the heritage of soviet museology, examining the meaning of museums in the history of Russian Cosmism. Supported by ICA Russian Talks Circle
Architecture and Industry: from Olivetti to today Wed 6 Jul, 6.30pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members This panel explores the legacy of pioneering Italian typewriter manufacturer Olivetti. The talk focuses on the founder’s son, Adriano Olivetti, and his progressive ideas around architecture, urban planning and industry in the mid-20th century as explored in his seminal book L'Ordine Politico delle Comunità (The Political Order of Communities), 1945. Central to the discussion will be the Olivetti site itself in Ivrea, Northern Italy and explores similar contemporary models today. Speakers include Fabrizio Ballabio and Tommaso Franzolini.
Neo Naturists cheerleaders with Leigh Bowery and Michael Clark, Royal Opera House, London, 1986. Courtesy of Neo Naturists Archive.
A Night With The Neo Naturists Wed 24 Aug, 7pm £5 / £3 ICA Members A Night With The Neo Naturists will celebrate the subversive 1980s performance group founded by Christine Binnie, Jennifer Binnie and Wilma Johnson, on the occasion of their retrospective at Studio Voltaire, 8 July – 28 August 2016. The Neo Naturists were part of London’s subculture that arose in the aftermath of Punk, the emergence of the New Romantic club scene and advent of Thatcherism. Combining ideas of ancient rituals with contemporary life, they 16
performed wearing little more than body paint in nightclubs, galleries and festivals. A night with the Neo Naturists will include film, performance and music evoking the spirit of the works original anarchic innocence.
Presented by Studio Voltaire in partnership with the ICA. This event has been generously supported by Yana & Stephen Peel. Additional support from Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation and the Neo Naturists supporters circle
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Arseny Zhilyaev, Cradle of Humankind, 2015. Installation view. Photo: Alex Maguire Courtesy of the V-A-C Foundation and private collections
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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 Fridays at 1pm
Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair The Sequel Sat 10 Sept, 11am–7pm Following on from the success of the inaugural Artist Self Publishers' Fair in 2015, this year ASP2 will host over 70 UK and international independent artist self-publishers for a one-day fair. This second edition will continue to avoid the restrictions and market dominance of much of contemporary arts culture.
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The publications are still the art works; affordable and available, and remain free from the fetter of the institution or gallery, the ideas images and text are produced and published by artists who understand the restrictions and freedoms of the printed page. In addition to those selected for the fair, 10 places will be allocated through open submission. ASP seeks to celebrate and promote artist self-publishers and their work.
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Celia Hempton 1 Jul Artist Celia Hempton is in conversation with curator Linsey Young, discussing her practice including a new sitespecific installation presented as part of Art Night, London. Hempton makes abstract and figurative paintings, sculptures and installations and sound works that often explore the human form and the places and landscapes it inhabits. Much of her work plays with the display, exposure and performance of the body in our social encounters and relationships – both online and in person – turning the human form into a type of landscape in itself.
Susan Cianciolo 22 Jul New York artist and designer Susan Cianciolo presents on her practice. Bridging the gap between art and fashion for over 20 years, Cianciolo has amassed a body of work that wilfully evades categorisation, exploiting the false dichotomies of art and design, event and document.
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Technology Now
Wed 6 Jul, 6.30pm Writer, financial trader and author of The Blank Swan Elie Ayache is joined in conversation by artist Ami Clarke. The pair consider writing and the market through her act of copying chapter 4 of his book.
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Wed 22 Jun, 6.30pm Artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas discusses his new work and recent practice, considering how the art-industrial complex could be imaginatively repurposed.
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Continuing the ICA’s long-standing enquiry into the influence of new technologies on art and culture, this talks series examines the impacts, progression and trajectory of technological advances. Experimental presentations offer opportunity for engagement with new research and original understandings of radical culture in the digital age. Proposing possible futures for technologies and new ways of relating to the technical means that permeate our lives, society and environment, this series presents critical ideas from the most significant artists, writers and thinkers engaging with the field today.
Eva and Franco Mattes Tue 19 Jul, 6.30pm New York-based duo and net art pioneers Eva & Franco Mattes discuss their practice.
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As part of our programme, artists, musicians, writers and poets join us as ICA Associates. During their residencies, they collaborate with us to deliver an exciting and unique series of events. ica.org.uk/associates
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Left to right: Famifox, Nervoso, Marfox, and Firemeza. Courtesy of Tim & Barry.
ICA Associates: JUST JAM present Sons do Gueto Thu 28 Jul, 6.30pm £11 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members Film and photography duo Tim & Barry aka JUST JAM will premiere Sons do Gueto, their much anticipated follow up to I’m Tryin To Tell Ya, which depicted an oral history of the ground-breaking Chicago based dance and music genre. Sons do Gueto continues their ongoing investigation into musical sub-genres and communities with a focus on PRÍNCIPE, the bedrock of the underground dance and electronic music scene predominantly created by Lisbon’s afro-lusophone diaspora communities. A Q&A with Tim & Barry and Márcio & Nelson from PRÍNCIPE will follow the screening.
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ICA Associates: WARP + JUST JAM present PRINCIPE DISCOS Thu 28 Jul, 8pm £8 / £7 Concessions / £5 ICA Members ICA ASSOCIATES WARP and JUST JAM unite to present a night of 100% contemporary dance music courtesy of Lisbon based record label PRÍNCIPE. The event will take place within a unique installation featuring artwork by Márcio Matos, which will be accompanied by JUST JAM’s trademark live visuals. Multi-buy ticket offer available.
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ICA Associates: Thirty Three Thirty Three in partnership with VENT present Masāfāt: London | Cairo
Gaskarth, Abyusif, Ramallah Collective, Zuli, Deena, Karen Gwyer, Rezzett, Ola Saad, Mark Fell and Ismael. Please check our website for further information.
1–4 Sep The ICA, Thirty Three Thirty Three in partnership with VENT are pleased to present Masāfāt, a two-part festival that will take place in London from the 1-4 September and then Cairo from the 23-26 September. The festival is designed to create an open-ended international platform to foster artistic and professional exchange between independent artists and professionals across Middle East & North Africa and the UK. The programme will consist of four days of performance, installations, talks and workshops in both territories featuring Lee Gamble & Dave
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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.
David Lamelas, A Study of Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space, 1969, 16mm, black& white, sound, 24 min
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David Lamelas: Part 1 + Q&A Wed 15 Jun, 6.45pm
Argentinean artist David Lamelas is a pioneer of conceptual and installed film works. Studying in London in the 1960’s he made some of his first installed moving image works including the well-known Study of Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space (1969) and To Pour Milk into a Glass (1972) while beginning his ongoing series of studies Time As Activity in multiple European cities. In late 1970’s he moved to Los Angeles, making several collaborative works with artist Hildegarde Duane. This multi-part programme is a comprehensive selection of these moving image works, screened in the presence of the artist.
David Lamelas: Part 2 Sat 18 Jun, 12pm David Lamelas: Part 3 Sun 19 Jun,12pm David Lamelas: Part 4 Sat 25 Jun, 12pm David Lamelas: Part 5 Sun 26 Jun, 12pm
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Lucy Beech and Marinella Senatore
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Wed 20 Jul, 6.45pm This screening features new and recent work by artists Lucy Beech and Marinella Senatore. Profiling both practices, the screening will be followed by a discussion with the artists exploring the variances and similarities in approaches to their work. Working with the body, performance is a central reference point to both artists and is explored to different effect on and off screen.
Wed 27 Jul, 6.45pm Berlin-based artist and writer Hannah Black presents a series of her moving image work, accompanied by readings. In many of Black’s works, the written or oral word appear to narrate and guide the viewer through unfamiliar terrains. Sinkholes become orifices, Pop music becomes reconciled and the body depicts an explicit relationship with the social, commercial and political world.
Forthcoming... K8 Hardy Outfitumentary Wed 21 Sep, 6.45pm In 2001, artist and filmmaker K8 Hardy set out to document her daily outfits on video. Over an eleven-year period, until the camera broke, she captured these outfits and outfitting on a fairly consistent, if not daily basis.
Artists’ Moving Image Network The ICA’s national network of venues committed to showing a regular programme of artists’ moving image, with support from Arts Council England.
Regular screenings are taking place at: MK Gallery (Milton Keynes) Tramway (Glasgow) Spike Island (Bristol) Exeter Phoenix (Exeter) Phoenix (Leicester) mima (Middlesbrough) Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool) ICA (London) HOME (Manchester)
Artists included: Neïl Beloufa, Keren Cytter, Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Mattieu K. Abonnenc, Ursula Mayer, Naeem Moheimen, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers, Hito Steyerl, Ryan Trecartin, Wu Tsang
Hannah Black, The Fall of Communism, 2014, HD video, colour, sound, 6 min
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Workshop Smartphone Film-making with Eye Want Change
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 free 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.
Tue 12 Jul, 2pm Free, booking required Turn your smartphone videos into engaging short films with Eye Want Change, an organisation that empower people to create films that relate to social matters and are shot on a smartphone, webcam or tablet. Designed for 16-19 year olds, this workshop will show you how to storyboard, frame, and edit your ideas using just your smartphone. Eye Want Change was started by students for students amidst cuts to public funding for the arts. They hope to inspire others to think creatively about societal issues that interest them.
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Film School Overdraft: How to make films on a shoestring Each year STOP PLAY RECORD supports the planning and production of 24 short films with young people aged 16–24 based in London. Filmmakers have the opportunity for their films to be shown as part of the Random Acts strand. To see some of the films made as part of STOP PLAY RECORD, visit: randomacts.channel4.com 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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3–5 Aug Free, apply online by 15 Jul, 12pm This summer we're excited to be working with emerging directors platform Topsafe TV to deliver an intensive and engaging three day film school for young aspiring artists and filmmakers aged 16-24. Working alongside some of London's most exciting up and coming directors, Frank Lebon, Bafic and Raf Fellner + Tegen Williams each day will evolve around creating ideas and gaining an understanding of the directors creative processes and how to make films with no budget. You will learn new skills with the aim of inspiring you to shoot and edit your own film for consideration by Topsafe TV to go online exclusively on the channel and screened at the ICA.
Workshop Girls In Film: Learning Curve Tue 19 Jul, 2pm Free, booking required Join this inspiring screening and presentation from London's most exciting young female filmmakers, Mollie Mills and Jenn Nkiru, who share their unique approach to aesthetics, storytelling and characters, as well as discussing their chosen career path. GIF (Girls In Film) is a new community platform encouraging open conversation that brings together young people who are excited by the creative opportunities offered by making, curating or watching film.
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Educators’ Tour: Olivetti: Beyond Form and Function led by Juliette Desorgues
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Educators’ Tour Detroit: Techno City led by ICA Curator Matt Williams
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Gallery Tour Olivetti: Beyond Form and Function led by Juliette Desorgues and Valerio Di Lucente, member of the London-based design studio Julia
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Friday Salons Refugee Tales Fri 8 July, 6:30pm Pay what you can In June 2015 the Refugee Tales project walked in solidarity with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees, from Dover to Crawley along the North Downs Way. From July 3 to July 8 2016, Refugee Tales will walk again, starting in Canterbury, moving north to Gravesend and then along the Thames into central London. The closing event will take place at the ICA, with a presentation of the Refugee Tales collection, featuring Patience Agabi and Ali Smith.
This series of talks presents the latest research on current cultural phenomena. £5 / Free to ICA Members
Sounding Dark 9 Sep, 2pm In response to current exhibition, Detroit: Techno City, Sounding Dark examines the ways that darkness is often recontextualised as blackness, with a particular focus on voice. Through a panel discussion on literature, film, and music, Sounding Dark explores how perceptions of voice are imbued with a centuries old colonial philosophy, and speculates how we may co-opt ‘dark’ discourses in order to read blackness as an accomplishment.
Towards a New Publishing House 17 Jun, 2pm This symposium will discuss the case for the creation of a new publishing house. A core group of participants accompanied by invited guests, all with a great wealth of experience in art and publishing, will address questions relating to the production and distribution through to conception, design, editing and funding structure of contemporary publishing.
Agim Sulaj, Freedom, 2006
In partnership with University of Kent, School of English
Symposium: Frank O’Hara and Friends Sun, 24 Jul, 11:30am £10 / £8 concessions / £6 ICA Members This one-day colloquium will bring together poets, academics and members of the public to celebrate the life and work of Frank O’Hara, the New York poet, art critic, filmmaker and MoMA curator, who died 50 years ago on 25 July, 1966. Organised by the North American Poetics Network of CHASE (Consortium for the Humanities and Arts South-East England), speakers include: Geoff Ward, Daniel Kane, Redell Olsen, Andrea Brady, Prue Chamberlain, Kayo Chingonyi, Sophie Robinson, Caitlin Docherty, Jeff Hilson, Peter Gizzi and Anne Waldman.
In partnership with Kingston University Portrait of Frank O’Hara
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ICA Student Forum
MA in the Contemporary
The MA in the Contemporary is an interdisciplinary programme exploring contemporary culture. Students are able to choose from a wide variety of modules in the areas of contemporary practice including: Literature, Creative Writing, Film, Drama, History and Philosophy of Art. Jointly taught by academics and practitioners in the School of English, School of Arts and School of Music and
Art at the University of Kent, as well as ICA curators, the programme allows students to enrich their academic knowledge and undertake an internship at the ICA. Applications are currently open for MA in the Contemporary and MA in the Contemporary – Paris, 2016/17. For further information on the programme please contact: englishpg@kent.ac.uk
'This has changed how I operate within my own painting practice and has made me question the social responsibility of art more generally.' – Eimear F. Friers Carys Briggs, Untitled #3, 2015. Image copyright the artist. Courtesy the artist.
We do not speak but confine ourselves briefly to the surface (a dramaturgy of interiority) Wed 22 Jun, 6pm Free, booking required Named after a quote taken from J. W. Goethe’s seminal Theory of Colours, 1982, We do not speak but confine ourselves briefly to the surface explores interiority as a collective experience and the affective potential of the surface. Reflecting back on the work of artist Betty Woodman, this live event builds on the format of a film screening and oscilates between theatre and exhibition, interlacing films, objects, movements, singing, and speaking. The evening aims to think through femininised expectations and through a conglomeration of disparate voices, brings 34
into focus modes of address and subject matters such as the decorative, the sentimental, the silly, the private, the irrational, the trivial or the talkative – to unfold the ways in which vulnerability, intimacy, and unguarded emotion can act as biopolitical gestures to recuperate historically diminished cultural value. There will be contributions by artists including: Chantal Akerman, Tamara Henderson, Quinn Latimer & Paolo Thorsen-Nagel, Natalie Häusler, Hanne Lippard, Sarah Kathryn Arledge, Laida Lertxundi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Chalmers, Rose O'Gallivan, Olga Pedan, Nina Wakeford, Laura Morrison, Katie Schwab, Carys Briggs, Lauren Godfrey and Susanna Davies-Crook.
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CTRL Sat 23 Jul, 1–10pm Free, booking required. We’re excited to announce the inaugural Young ICA Festival CTRL, a free day-long celebration of underground music, fashion and film with live performances, art workshops, screenings, and talks led by an exciting range of leading influencers. Curated by and for young people, CTRL offers opportunities to explore and respond to ideas in contemporary culture and experiment across a range of disciplines. The day includes an interactive session in response to Beyonce’s Lemonade curated by multimedia platform Skin Deep, an alternative art school and screen-printing workshops hosted by students from the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Kingston University and a documentary film screening followed by a Q&A hosted by Tim & Barry aka JUST JAM.
CTRL will be hosted in partnership with Reprezent Radio 107.3FM who will be broadcasting live across the day from the ICA Theatre. Reprezent will be bringing together some of today’s most exciting young music producers, performers, and influencers. Presenters will explore youth culture and DJs will showcase the best in UKG, Bass and electronic music, with live sets from Black Butter’s SYV, New Movement collective, and more to be announced! CTRL also provides an opportunity for young Londoners to volunteer alongside creatives, musicians and artists to gain professional experience. Find out about how you can participate in this year's festival: ica.org.uk/ctrl
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Summer Workshops Booking is now open for our Summer Workshops. If you’re aged 16-19 years, come and share your ideas through film, design, poetry, and photography. Designed by and for young people, Young ICA workshops invite contemporary artists to work collaboratively with young people in the dedicated ICA Studio. Participants will explore materials and creative processes, develop their skills, and learn about what it takes to be a professional artist.
The Poetics of Grime with Kayo Chingonyi Wed 6 Jul, 2pm Free, booking required Join this spoken word workshop inspired by Grime. ICA Associate Poet Kayo Chingonyi returns to share his unique literary approach to performing and writing Grime lyrics. This workshop will enable you to bring your thoughts, ideas and experiences to life with tips on how to improve your writing, and exercises that will improve your delivery of spoken word. Kayo Chingonyi is a writer, editor, and events producer. His poems have been published in a range of magazines and anthologies and in a debut pamphlet entitled Some Bright Elegance (Salt Publishing, 2012).
Street Photography with Yemisi Blake Fri 1 Jul, 2pm Free, booking required How do you take your photographs to the next level? How do you use your local environment to create great images? Come and work with photographer Yemisi Blake in this workshop, designed for 16-19 year olds, to bring a professional edge to your photography, taking sub-cultures, street style and urban architecture as your inspiration. Yemisi Blake is a writer, photographer and artist. His work explores urban life, people and place.
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[Re]presentations, with BORN n BREAD Sat 18 Jun, 2pm Free, booking required Come and create your own hand-made magazine with zine-makers, DJ collective, BORN n BREAD. Use drawings, magazines, text and found images to communicate what really matters, and explore how identity is represented in media and culture today. BORN n BREAD are a creative collective of five friends, who share their experiences of everyday life with the world. They produce zines, host a show on NTS Radio, and celebrate their imperfections. 38
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LIFE MATTERS Zine & Poetry making with Sorryyoufeeluncomfortable
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ICA Learning Partnership 2016 SE1 United
Wed 13 Jul, 2pm Free, booking required Drawing on everything from social media, contemporary culture to political and personal events; engage, create and discuss about what really matters to you with spoken word collective sorryyoufeeluncomfortable. sorryyoufeeluncomfortable are a collective of thinkers and makers interrogating inequality in the art world and contemporary society.
We’re proud to introduce our new learning partnership with SE1 United, a peer-led youth group with an award winning leadership programme, who will be working collectively with artists and influencers to curate and host events for other young people across the coming year. Visit our website for further information on upcoming events.
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ICA Cinematheque Changing London 28 Jun – 9 Aug 2016 This ICA Cinematheque season of screenings explores the changing landscape of London, celebrating the city’s resilience and diversity, while also reflecting the damaging impact of rising rents and redevelopment on its residents. Focusing on the stories of those directly affected by the changes, the films look beyond the headlines to offer intimate and sharply-observed portraits of a city in flux. The ICA Cinematheque is a strand of programming that incorporates classic art house titles, film seasons, director retrospectives and 35mm repertory screenings into the weekly cinema events.
Estate, A Reverie + Q&A with director and Owen Jones Tue 28 Jun, 6.20pm Public House + Q&A with director Tue 12 Jul, 6.15pm London Tue 26 Jul, 6.45pm Battle of Soho Tue 9 Aug, 6.30pm
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Focus Season Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Main Feature Highlights
A Moment of Innocence + Q&A with Mohsen Makhmalbaf Fri 12 Aug, 6.30pm
12–21 Aug A film season celebrating the work of leading Iranian director, writer and human rights activist Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Makhmalbaf began working as a director after five years as a political prisoner in Iran. He has since produced numerous films that have gained accolades worldwide, while facing censorship in his home country. Films in the season include sharply-observed political allegory The President, the semi-autobiographical A Moment of Innocence and Daddy's School, a documentary on how Makhmalbaf went from political prisoner to awardwinning filmmaker. Renowned for his lyrical style, unflinching engagement with pressing social issues and willingness to expose the suffering caused by oppressive regimes, his work is testament to the political power of cinema. Makhmalbaf will join us for a Q&A on 12 August.
Behemoth
Salam Cinema Sat 13 Aug, 4.30pm Time of Love Sun 14 Aug 4.30pm The Gardener Thu 18 Aug, 6.30pm Daddy's School Sat 20 Aug, 4.30pm The President Sun 21 Aug, 4.30pm
From Afar
From Afar (Desde Allá) From 1 Jul ICA exclusive Wealthy middle-aged Armando lures young men to his home with money. He doesn’t want to touch, only watch from a strict distance. He also follows an elderly businessman with whom he seems to have had a traumatic relationship. Armando’s first encounter with street thug Elder (Luis Silva) is violent, but this doesn’t discourage the lonely man’s fascination with the tough handsome teenager. Financial interest keeps Elder visiting him regularly and an unexpected intimacy emerges. But Armando’s haunted past looms large, and Elder commits the ultimate act of affection on Armando’s behalf. Winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 2015 Venice International Film Festival, From Afar is the shattering feature debut from Venezuelan writer-director Lorenzo Vigas. Set in Caracas’ chaotic lower class communities, Vigas’ turbulent story reveals the complex bond between two men worlds apart. On 30 June, a preview screening and Director's Q&A will be held at the ICA.
From 19 Aug ICA exclusive Premiered in the UK as part of the Frames of Representation Film Festival, this film is a literary reflection on the industrialisation of the Mongolian prairies. In the Old Testament, the mountains are the domain of a monster named Behemoth; in modern times the vast mining industry has taken this monster’s place. The silence of the dreamlike Chinese landscapes is broken only by the thundering cacophony of explosions set to create a new entrance to the mine. Sheep farmers and their herds have been driven from bright green pastures to make way for the ever-expanding mining industry; sick miners with ruined lungs lay dying in the local hospitals. A mountain paradise is mutated into an industrial zone surrounded by ghost towns of brandnew, deserted apartment blocks.
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Notes on Blindness
Weiner
From 1 Jul In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, writer and academic John Hull went blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Over three years he recorded over sixteen hours of material, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal. Published in 1991, the diaries were described by author and neurologist Oliver Sacks as, ‘A masterpiece... The most precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read.’ Premiering at Sundance Film Festival in January 2016, Notes on Blindness is a multi-platform project based on John’s original audio recordings. The project includes a feature length documentary and virtual reality project released alongside the film.
From 8 Jul Anthony Weiner was a young congressman on the cusp of higher office when a sexting scandal forced a humiliating resignation. Just two years later, he ran for mayor of New York City, betting that his ideas would trump his indiscretions. He was wrong. With unprecedented access to Weiner, his family, and his campaign team, Weiner is a thrilling look inside a political comeback-turned-meltdown. What begins as an unexpected surge to the top of the polls takes a sharp turn once Weiner is forced to admit to new sexting allegations. Weiner walks the line between political farce and personal tragedy. With the city of New York as a loud and bustling backdrop, this documentary charges through an increasingly baffling political campaign with unflinching clarity, humour, and pathos.
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Chevalier
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Author: The JT LeRoy Story
From 22 Jul For her highly-anticipated follow-up to Attenberg, Athina Rachel Tsangari conducts a thorough dissection of the male ego. Shot in a palette of greys, the film has an absurd style that gets under your skin even as you’re laughing. In the middle of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared, measured and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals, but at the end of the voyage, when the game is over, the winner will wear the victorious signet ring: the “Chevalier”.
From 29 Jul New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn’t actually exist. He was dreamt up by 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator, Laura Albert. Author: The JT LeRoy Story takes us down the fascinating rabbit hole of how Laura Albert breathed not only words, but life, into her avatar for a decade. Albert’s epic and entertaining account plunges us into a glittery world of rock shows, fashion events, and the Cannes red carpet where LeRoy becomes a mysterious sensation. As she recounts this astonishing odyssey, Albert also reveals the intricate web spun by irrepressible creative forces within her.
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Festivals Open City Documentary Festival 22–26 June 2016 Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers, providing a platform for emerging as well as established talents working within the documentary form. In addition to a variety of special screenings, this year, the festival is thrilled to welcome American filmmaking duo the Ross brothers to present their Americana trilogy. Their work is some of the most exciting to emerge from the US in the past few years and Open City are pleased to be able to provide audiences in London with the opportunity to see the trilogy in full.
The Clan
The Clan From 2 Sep Argentina in the early eighties. Within a typical family home in the traditional neighborhood of San Isidro, a sinister clan makes its living off kidnap and murder. Arquímedes, the patriarch, heads and plans the operations. Alejandro, his eldest son, is a star rugby player at CASI—a prestigious local club—and the Argentine national team Los Pumas. The son gives in to his father’s will and identifies possible candidates for kidnapping; his popularity shields him from suspicion.
The programme also features French filmmaker and artist Vincent Moon who will be premiering a live audio-visual performance titled Rituals. Best known for his Take Away Shows, Open City will be celebrating its tenth year anniversary at the festival with a special screening.
To a greater or lesser extent, the members of the family are accomplices in this dreadful venture as they live off the benefits yielded by the large ransoms paid by the families of their victims. Based on the true story of the Puccio family, this film takes place in the context of the final years of the Argentine military dictatorship and incipient return to democracy.
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Safar: A Celebration of Contemporary Arab Cinema 14–18 Sep The only festival in the UK dedicated to showcasing Arab cinema, Safar returns to the ICA for its third edition with a selection of UK premieres spanning from Morocco all to Kuwait. Organised by The Arab British Centre and curated by Rasha Salti, this edition of the festival will celebrate contemporary films that are singularly defiant of stereotypes, social taboos and self-censorship. In the past decade, an increasing number of Arab films have garnered critical and popular acclaim, received
international awards and competed in prestigious festivals. Potentially the herald of a new golden age, these remarkable accomplishments are a testament to the vitality, versatility and creativity of filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, cinematographers, composers, editors and actors. In spite of censorship, the most admirable virtue of filmmakers and film professionals is their fearless and tenacious safeguarding of film’s artistic mission, its ability to capture aspirations and forge a new poetic language.
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London Indian Film Festival 15–20 Jul London Indian Film Festival, Europe's largest South Asian film festival returns to ICA with a packed UK premiere line-up of independent films. This year's offering centres around the experiences of young people set against dramatic backdrops, be they a Nepalese Maoist up-rising in Black Hen, mafia clans of Bangladesh in Jalals Story, or powerful issues such as the challenges of childhood indentured labour in South India in award-winning The Trap, or a story of transgender empowerment in I am Not He… She. Modern corporate Mumbai is highlighted in the Black comedy Island City, while For The Love of A Man documents fanatical fans of Tamil super-star-god Rajnikanth.
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Bengali based features Ramsingh Charlie and Cinemawalla sensitively depict everyday people struggling to survive in a rapidly changing India. Also featured is a one off screening of this year’s Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition finalists.
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