ICA Bulletin
November 2015 – January 2016
Contents Exhibitions
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 Smiler: Photographs of London by Mark Cawson Radical Disco: Architecture and Nightlife in Italy, 1965 – 1975 Art into Society – Society into Art ICA Touring fig-2
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Talks & Events
Talk Series Highlights Culture Now
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Associate Artists
Poetry Music
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Artists’ Moving Image
Artists’ Film Club STOP PLAY RECORD AMIN (Artists’ Moving Image Network)
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Learning
Gallery Tours Friday Salons ICA Student Forum ICA Post-16 Talk Series: Decommissioned Symposia
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Cinema
Luis Buñuel: Aesthetics of the Irrational Main Feature Highlights Festivals & Ongoing Seasons
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Support Us Membership Editions Café Bar Bookshop Venue Hire Information
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The ICA continues to support recent graduates from British art schools through its engagement with Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015. Featuring thirty-seven artists, the exhibition brings us into direct contact with the concerns of a new generation. The ICA Fox Reading Room takes a look at Italian disco design of the 60s and 70s, followed by a focus on the seminal ICA exhibition Art into Society - Society into Art of 1974. Boiler Room celebrate their fifth birthday at the ICA, while Ninja Tune present a live show in the ICA Theatre to mark their twenty-fifth anniversary. The ICA welcomes new ICA Associates, poet Kayo Chingonyi and live stream music programmers Just Jam. During this period, we also see the final weeks of the extraordinary fig-2 project in the ICA Studio. ICA Cinema highlights include a Luis Buñuel season, the UK Portuguese Film Festival and the 13th London Short Film Festival. Please join us.
Gregor Muir Executive Director, ICA
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25 Nov 2015 – 24 Jan 2016
Lower & Upper Galleries
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015
The ICA welcomes back Bloomberg New Contemporaries to its galleries for the sixth year running. Selectors Hurvin Anderson, Jessie Flood-Paddock and Simon Starling have chosen works by 37 of the most outstanding artists emerging from UK art schools from a record number of applicants. Previous New Contemporaries include Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, David Hockney and Mike Nelson as well as more recent emerging artists including Ed Atkins, Peles Empire, Nathaniel Mellors, Haroon Mirza and Laure Prouvost. The Bloomberg New Contemporaries for 2015 are Sïan Astley, Kevin Boyd, Lydia Brockless, U. Kanad Chakrabarti, James William Collins, Andrei Costache, Julia Curtin, Abri de Swardt, Melanie Eckersley, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Justin Fitzpatrick, Hannah Ford, Sophie Giller, Richard Hards, Juntae T.J. Hwang, Jasmine Johnson, Tomomi Koseki, Hilde Krohn Huse, Pandora Lavender, Jin Han Lee, Hugo López Ayuso, Beatrice-Lily Lorigan, Scott Lyman, Hanqing Ma & Mona Yoo, Scott Mason, Oliver McConnie, Mandy Niewöhner,
Hamish Pearch, Neal Rock, Conor Rogers, Katie Schwab, Tim Simmons, David Cyrus Smith, Francisco Sousa Lobo, Aaron Wells, Morgan Wills and Andrea Zucchini. This year the themes of gender, labour, value and consumption are present in the final selection, as well as an interest in process, the act of making, materiality and modes of production. Complementing this year’s annual national touring exhibition is a public programme of talks and live events that bring together differing viewpoints. The exhibition is also accompanied by a fully illustrated 105-page colour catalogue, available online, in venue and through Cornerhouse Distribution priced at £10. Related events: p.16 New Contemporaries: 1945 to Now p.24 BNC / AFC: Rigid Structure to Liberate Yourself p.25 Stop Play Record: Meet the BNC artist filmmakers p.28 Gallery Tours
Oliver McConnie, Factory Town, 2015. Courtesy of the artist
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Supported by the Art Fund
With additional support by AB Associates, London, Portview Universal Fit-Out Specialists and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York
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12 Oct – 29 Nov 2015
ICA Fox Reading Room
Smiler Photographs of London by Mark Cawson
Dixon House, Squat (16 th Floor), Latimer Road, 1980 C-Print Photograph
An exhibition of unseen photographs by Smiler (aka Mark Cawson) of London squats from the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The content of the exhibition focuses on a body of black and white photographs that Smiler mainly shot between West London and Kings Cross. Against the backdrop of social and political upheaval, young people across the city were drawn to squats by the prospect of a place to live, but also by an identity and a sense of community. Smiler’s photographs document the people who lived in squats across the city, at a time when salvage culture was the norm. With the housing crisis dominating the headlines today, this exhibition serves as a timely reminder of how the city has 6
transformed and poses questions about the direction it is taking. Smiler’s compelling analogue photographs are a lens on London as a hotbed of rebellious antiestablishment sentiment and brings into focus how dramatically different the city feels today. Smiler: Photographs of London by Mark Cawson is curated by Gareth McConnell & Matt Williams. The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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Radical Disco Architecture and Nightlife in Italy, 1965 – 1975
Interior of L’Altro Mondo, designed by Pietro Derossi, Giorgio Ceretti and Riccardo Rosso, Rimini, 1968. © Pietro Derossi
Radical Disco: Architecture and Nightlife in Italy, 1965 – 1975 is an archival exhibition exploring the relationship between architecture, design and nightlife in post-war Italy. These years saw a number of discotheques open across the country, including several designed by architects of Radical Design, a movement active in the 60s and 70s populated by architects such as Gruppo 9999, Superstudio and UFO. Dissatisfied by the limitations and ineffectiveness of post-war modern design, these architects sought to use their profession as a tool for societal change and to challenge the idea of architects’ role in society. In a period of change and contestation in Italy more generally, these socially orientated, politicised architects
saw discos as a new type of space for multidisciplinary experimentation and creative liberation. At a time when Radical Design’s legacy is being reconsidered and nightclubs are closing across the UK, this exhibition explores the relationship between avant-garde architecture and nightlife, and its significance today. Related events: p.15 Panel discussion: Designer Discos
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The ICA Fox Reading Room is generously supported by the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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19 Jan – 6 Mar 2016
ICA Fox Reading Room
ICA Touring Art into Society – Society into Art
The ICA tours its Reading Room exhibitions to regional museums and galleries around the UK.
Tove Jansson: Tales from the Nordic Archipelago 11 Jul – 20 Sep 2015
Cybernetic Serendipity: A Documentation 7 Feb – 30 May 2015
Whose Gaze is it Anyway? 24 Oct – 10 Jan 2016
Tove Jansson: Tales from the Nordic Archipelago 26 Sep – 9 Jan 2016
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the wide-ranging cultural developments emerging from West Germany at that time. The exhibition drew on the notion of an ‘active’ working process and form of exhibition display. Both curators and artists alike sought to move away from an individualistic approach to art and exhibition-making, and towards a more democratic system of organising. The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation
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Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s 14 Feb – 9 May 2015
Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
See Red Women's Workshop: 1974 – 1983 6 Jun – 19 Sep 2015
This archival display documents the seminal 1974 ICA exhibition Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists (29 October – 24 November 1974). Organised by ICA Curator Norman Rosenthal and German art dealer Christos M. Joachimides, this seminal exhibition sought to engage with ideas around the relationship between art and politics emerging from West Germany at that time. Artists involved included Albrecht D., Joseph Beuys, KP Brehmer, Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker, Gustav Metzger, Klaus Staeck and photographer Michael Ruetz. Art into Society – Society into Art was a key part of a season staged at the ICA called German Month which featured film screenings, talks, performances and exhibitions showcasing
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery, Sandwell Tove Jansson: Tales from the Nordic Archipelago 2 Apr – 27 Jun 2015
Phoenix, Leicester Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s 23 Jul – 24 Aug 2015 Whose Gaze is It Anyway? 27 Aug – 24 Sep 2015
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& fig-2 is a year-long investigation of the aesthetic and critical currencies of our times. Bringing together a wide range of practices, fig-2 explores modes of artistic conduct, displaying 50 projects for 50 consecutive weeks. Spanning almost the whole of 2015, the programme unfolds as a chain of events, creating parallels and commonalities between singular projects. fig-2 aims at deepening our understanding of the subject matter of each project and provide similar concepts of equivalent densities. As the revival of the project fig-1, which took place 15 years ago in London, fig-2 poses statements on visual culture and contemporary artistic practice through proliferating the contexts of encounter with art. 10
Coming to a close at the end of this year, fig-2 presents 50 projects over 50 weeks in the ICA Studio, in association with Outset. Please join us for the last remaining fig-2 openings every Monday from 6–8pm. As the ICA is closed on Mondays, to reach the Studio please use the ramp entrance from Carlton House Terrace located at the top of the Duke of York Steps. www.fig2.co.uk
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Talk Series Now You Can Go
Marinella Pirelli, Doppio autoritratto, 1974. Courtesy Archivio Marinella Pirelli, Varese
Tickets £8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members per event Multi-buy Tickets £6 / £5 Concessions / £4 ICA Members
These events are part of a programme considering feminist thinking, art and activism taking place across several London venues in December 2015. Juxtaposing historical with contemporary positions, the series explores feminist concepts of generation and genealogy. It asks whether practices of consciousness-raising and collectivity might help us to combat the fragmentation, exhaustion and anxiety that we experience under networked capitalism. The programme draws inspiration from Carla Lonzi, the writer and cofounder of the Italian women’s liberation group Rivolta Femminile (Female Revolt). Supported by Arts Council of England, Grants for the Arts
Talk Series Now You Can Go On Social Reproduction: Transforming the Labour of Care and Love
Rescue Missions: Women’s Art Recovered, Re-enacted, and Recuperated
Sat 5 Dec, 11.30am Speakers reflect on feminist efforts to transform the work of love and care, including historical struggles for – and against – wages for housework, issues of migrant domestic labour, and alternative potential models of social motherhood and collective caring. Chaired by Emma Dowling, speakers include the co-founders of the critical/activist organisation Plan C, Camille Barbagallo and Nicholas Beuret (by Skype), Dawn Foster and Larne Abse Gogarty, with an interruption by artist Pablo Pakula.
Wed 9 Dec, 6.30pm In recent years various women artists, previously little-known outside feminist art circles, have been ‘rediscovered’ by artists, art historians, curators, collectors and dealers. These overdue rehabilitations often take place when artists are at the ends of their careers, or when they have already died. This talk considers some of the ethics and responsibilities of researching, archiving, curating and restaging women’s art. Chaired by art historian Amy Tobin, speakers include Sonia Boyce, Lois Keidan, Valeria Napoleoni and Lisa Panting.
Marinella Pirelli: Film Screening Sat 5 Dec, 2pm A leading experimental filmmaker from Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, Marinella Pirelli’s 16mm film explorations of light and movement have remained in storage for over forty years. Showing for the first time in the UK, this selection of her works questions the paradigms of image generation and their relationship to narrative and cinematic convention. With an introduction by the curators of this programme, Lucia Aspesi, director of the Archivio Marinella Pirelli and Research Curator at HangarBicocca, Milan, and Irene Revell, Director of Electra Productions. Supported by Electra
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Talk Series Artists, what is your value?
Highlights Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator Wed 18 Nov, 6.30pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members Art historians Courtney J. Martin, Anne Wagner and Victoria Walsh, and Art Review Editor Mark Rappolt, reflect on the work of Lawrence Alloway (1926 – 1990). This talk marks the launch of Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (Getty Publications, 2015). Supported by Getty Research Institute
Dick Jewell: four thousand threads Replicating productivist injunctions for creative practitioners to serve as entrepreneurs, repeatedly proving and performing their own worth, talk series Artists, what is your value? goads artists, critics and theorists to make estimations regarding the worth of art and artists in the current age. In the wake of escalating markets, soaring education costs and diminishing state subsidies, these creative responses to the idea of ‘value’ examine artists’ negotiations between life, work and art systems. Tickets pay-what-you-can Zachary Cahill, ICANTHELPYOU, 2014. Part of 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art presents: Zachary Cahill, Installation view USSA Wellness Center, 2014. Courtesy Zachary Cahill and USSA 2012. Photo: Henrik Strömberg
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Useful and/or Useless: Artists, what is your value? Wed 25 Nov, 6.30pm Chicago-based artist Zachary Cahill discusses his work and presents in response to questions regarding use value. Cahill has been working on the long term project USSA 2012, an exhibition-based para-fictional narrative since 2009.
JODI, what is your value?
Wed 27 Jan, 6.30pm Working as a duo collectively known as JODI, Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans are pioneers of ‘net art’, having worked together since the mid-90s. The artists present a creative response to the series.
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Wed 2 Dec, 6.30pm £5 / Free to ICA Members Artist Dick Jewell is in conversation with curator David Campany, marking the launch of his new publication four thousand threads (2015). Examining the phenomena of online photo sharing, the book amasses a vast archive of photographs covering various 'threads', from planking to bombing and animal selfies.
Lawrence Alloway, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Autumn 1965. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute
Designer Discos Wed 16 Dec, 6.30pm £8 / £7 Concessions & ICA Members In light of the ICA exhibition Radical Disco: Architecture and Nightlife in Italy, 1965 – 1975, this talk explores the relationship between architecture, design and nightlife. This discussion will give focus to a selection of clubs and nightlife projects whose designs have championed countercultural movements and inspired generations of visionary architects.
Global Art Forum: The Future Was Thu 14 Jan, 6.15pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members The Global Art Forum tenth edition explores the ways in which artists, writers, technologists, historians, musicians and thinkers have imagined, and are shaping, the future. The 2016 Global Art Forum is commissioned by writer Shumon Basar, with co-chairs artist/curator Amal Khalaf and anthropologist Uzma Z. Rizvi.
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New Contemporaries: 1949 to Now
Culture Now
Informal Friday lunchtime conversations for the culturally curious, with key figures from the contemporary arts scene. Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members.
Taus Makhacheva Fri 13 Nov, 1pm Daghestani-Russian artist Taus Makhacheva discusses her art practice with curator Kasia Redzisz, and serves up tea and conceptual cakes. Makhacheva’s performance-based works and films often question traditional forms of history-making.
Peter Shelton K. R. Buxey, Legion, 1999. Courtesy New Contemporaries
Alumni artists address the contemporary conditions of art practice Sat 28 Nov, 11am – 4pm £5 / Free to ICA Members
Presented by New Contemporaries and the Art Fund in partnership with the ICA
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New Contemporaries and the Art Fund present a symposium bringing together New Contemporary alumni artists with writers and curators, to address the challenges facing emerging artists working in the UK today. Panels present an informed survey of how an artist’s practice is developed, defined and cared for today, with speakers discussing the contemporary state of education, the market and art collections, alongside the issue of how to support practice. Symposium chaired by Patricia Bickers (Editor, Art Monthly) and Iwona Blazwick (Director, Whitechapel Gallery). Speakers include the artists Basil Beattie, Neil Cummings, Bruce Lacey, Bob & Roberta Smith and Jane & Louise Wilson, alongside industry experts Sarah Philp, Head of Programmes at the Art Fund, and Hugo Worthy, Leicester Arts and Museums Service. ica.org.uk/events
Fri 20 Nov, 1pm Californian-based artist Peter Shelton discusses his long-established sculptural practice. Shelton is internationally recognised for his iron, steel and fibreglass sculptures that often replicate abstracted parts of the human body as well as elements of architecture.
The New Feminist Cinema Fri 11 Dec, 1pm Marking the publication of her new book Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015), Sophie Mayer is in conversation with filmmakers Hope Dickson Leach and Amma Asante.
Zach Blas Fri 8 Jan, 1pm Artist and writer Zach Blas discusses his new project Contra-Internet, which explores politicised alternatives and queer futures of the internet.
Watch our archive of Culture Now talks on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/ICALondon
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Poetry ICA Associate Poet: Kayo Chingonyi
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From November 2015 until April 2016, poet Kayo Chingonyi takes on the second part of the ICA Associate Poet programme. As a response to the growing intersection between art and poetry today, this 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. His poems have been published in a range of magazines and anthologies and in a debut pamphlet entitled Some Bright Elegance (Salt Publishing, 2012). In 2013 he 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 is forthcoming from the African Poetry Book Fund, in collaboration with Brooklyn-based independent publisher Akashic Books, in 2016. Kayo Chingonyi will curate a programme of talks, readings and performances as part of his ICA Associate Poet residency which will take place February – April 2016.
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Music
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ICA Associates: Ninja Tune 25th Anniversary Fri 20 Nov, 8pm – 1am ICA Theatre Independent electronic label Ninja Tune take over the ICA as part of a series of stacked showcases this Autumn. Werkdiscs founder and experimental pioneer Actress heads up the bill; debuting a brand new live show and installation, bespoke for the space. He’s joined by L.I.E.S. artist Florian Kupfer and Workshop Co-Founder Lowtec. The event is one of three which marks 25 years for the label, and is a clear representative of its diversity and creative output. Actress, Ninja Tune artist and Wekdiscs founder, premieres his new live show. Photo: Piotr Niepsuj
ICA Associates: Boiler Room 5th Birthday Sun 13 Dec, ICA Bar Boiler Room and the ICA continues to bring the best of UK grime back where it belongs. 2015 has already seen the likes of Stormzy, Skepta, Kano, Ghetts, The Square and many more. As well as being a showcase for talent old and new from around the country, it's a place for true fans and dedicated DJs and MCs to congregate and discuss and argue about the scene they love, to rate performances and records bringing the vitality of the scene off the message boards and video comments into a single room. 20
ICA Associates: Just Jam presents House of Trax 4th Birthday
Thu 28 Jan, ICA Theatre Please check the website for further information
Just Jam will present and broadcast a special programme of live performances from the ICA. Just Jam is a live audio-visual stream. It showcases some of the most progressive electronic music from around the globe, set to a backdrop of psychedelic visuals. The visuals are mixed live featuring the work of highly celebrated digital visual artists alongside curated artefacts found on the Internet by the Just Jam team.
*Tickets for these events are available to ICA Members only through our Member's competition prize draw. Please check the 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.
Benedict Seymour Thu 10 Dec, 6.45pm What if the future came to depend on the looting of the professional looters— of the class that multiplies financial and cultural claims to capital—by those with ever less to lose? Artist and writer Benedict Seymour premieres his new feature-length work, La re- (2015), which explores these questions by repeating and reworking the plot of French filmmaker Chis Marker’s La jetée (1962).
Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members
Benedict Seymour, La re-, 2015, video still. Courtesy the artist
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Armin Linke, Alpi, 2011, video still. Courtesy the artist
Reading Jarman Thu 17 Dec, 7pm Derek Jarman documented his exhibition which took place at the ICA in 1984 on several reels of black & white Super8. This event sees the material projected publicly for the first time and is accompanied by a series of readings of Jarman’s written work.
Armin Linke Wed 6 Jan, 6.45pm Alpi is the result of seven years of research on contemporary perceptions of the landscape of the Alps, juxtaposing places and situations across all eight bordering nations and spanning the territories of four languages. The film shows the Alps as a key location, owing to its delicacy and environmental importance, where one can observe and study the complexity of social, economic, and political relationships. In the Europe of today, the Alps are a hotbed for modernity and its illusions.
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STOP PLAY RECORD is 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.
BNC / AFC: Rigid Structure to Liberate Yourself Sat 17 Jan, 2pm This screening accompanies the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 exhibition and is selected by participating artist Jasmine Johnson. Looking at the synchronicity between globalisation, real bodies and subjective identity in context of invisible networks, the characters within these works are some of the many millions of inhabitants of ‘liquid modernity’, connected to the global machinery of production and consumption.
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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. Meet the BNC artist filmmakers Tue 8 Dec, 6pm Free event, booking required An opportunity to hear several of the New Contemporaries artist filmmakers screen and discuss their work. This event is intended for audiences aged 16–24.
2016 Open Call Launches LateJanuary
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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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Artists’ Moving Image Network The ICA’s national network of venues committed to showing a regular programme of artists’ moving image network, 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
Friday Salons This series of talks presents the latest research on current cultural phenomena.
Educators’ Tour Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 led by New Contemporaries Director Kirsty Ogg
Wed 25 Nov, 5pm
ICA Student Forum
Thu 10 Dec, 6.30pm
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.
Gallery Tour Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 led by Rosalind Davies
Fri 15 Jan, 2pm A discussion on artists’ visibility and online practices in the current increased transmissibility of information by the internet.
£6 / Free to ICA Members
Gallery Tour Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 led by Goldsmiths MA Curating Students
Friday Salon: How to?
Thu 14 Jan, 6.30pm
Feminist Practices in Dialogue Fri 18 Dec, 12pm A day of video works, performances, sound pieces and installations, followed by a discussion on the challenges facing contemporary feminism. Practice in Dialogue is a small working group of feminist artists who examine the formal structures and strategies of historical feminist art alongside their own art practices.
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ICA Post-16
A programme of events developed specifically for ages 16+. Group and Matinee Screenings £3 – 6 tickets / Educators go free A regular programme of films and talks for young audiences.
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Upcoming events: We Are the Best! Wed 18 Nov 2pm, screening STOP PLAY RECORD Film Workshop: curator Kathryn Ferguson 4pm, workshop In response to the We Are the Best! screening, this workshop uses the film by Lukas Moodysson as a starting point to talk about filmmaking practice. Filmmaker and curator Kathryn Ferguson discusses her own work in relation to the film, music and fashion industries and engage in a dialogue with filmmakers in the audience. Part of Stop Play Record, see p.31
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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 La Feuvre Sophie Berrebi Bazek Ertur Sook Kyung Lee El Ultimo Grito Onkar Kular Mick Wilson Michael McMillan David Oswell Judith Butler
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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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Symposium: Liquidity
Symposia Stories That Matter: Feminist Methodologies in the Archive Sun 22 Nov, 2-6pm ICA Theatre £6 / £4 ICA Members / £3 ICA Student Members and Concessions This event marks the publication of the anthology Twenty Years of MAKE Magazine: Back to the Future of Women’s Art edited by Maria Walsh and Mo Throp. (I.B. Tauris: 2015), which will be launched at the end of the day. Leading practitioners of feminist historiography from both art history, Prof. Griselda Pollock, and the social sciences, Prof. Clare Hemmings and Prof. Maria Tamboukou, will present how their particular feminist methodologies have made a difference to their mutually respective sites of ‘archival’ encounter. The event will also include a presentation by Walsh and Throp on their research and will be chaired by Dr. Catherine Grant, whose work on queer re-enactment addresses the retelling of the past for future generations. The symposium is funded by The CCW Graduate School Staff Fund and coincides with the CHELSEA space exhibition CAN DO: Photographs and other material from the Women's Art Library Magazine Archive (18 Nov – 18 Dec 2015). In partnership with University of the Arts London, CCW Graduate School
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Wed 9 Dec, 11.15am-6pm ICA Cinema 1 £10 / £8 ICA Members / £6 ICA Student Members and Concessions This symposium and screening discusses the flows of life, money and art. It questions the relationships between these mutually metamorphosing flows and the axiomatics that hold them in place. Participants from filmmaking, new media art, psychoanalysis, philosophy, geography, the financial services industry, economics and art create an interdisciplinary forum for discussion. The event will examine the inherent potentialities of these flows and how art can be created at the intersections. Intersections which can, despite the strictures of capital, allow for the expression of the ‘liquidity’ of life itself and how releasing flows differently can construct new potentials for thinking and acting. Speakers include Oliver Ressler, James J. Buckley, Angus Cameron, Anastasios Gaitanidis, Philip Goodchild, John Russell and Georgios Papadopoulos. In partnership with University of Kent
Symposium: Women’s Filmmaking in Contemporary Britain Sat 12 Dec, 11.15am–5pm ICA Cinema 1 £10 / £8 ICA Members / £6 ICA Student Members and Concessions What are the traditions of women’s filmmaking in Britain, and what are the conditions it needs to flourish? Why in 2015 is there still a need for funders and curators to develop and promote women’s filmmaking? During the Sarajevo Film Festival in August 2015, a conference organised by the Council of Europe adopted a declaration that called on member states to implement policies to reduce gender imbalance in the European audio-visual industries. In the UK, where only one in six feature films is directed by a woman, what policies would address this need? And what forms of women’s production should be valued and encouraged? Organised by Prof. Lúcia Nagib, Alison Butler and Prof. Laura Mulvey. In partnership with Birkbeck and Reading University Related event: p.41 Onwards and Outwards (Cinema)
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Special Event Luis Buñuel: Aesthetics of the Irrational 12 Nov – 6 Dec 2015 A retrospective of the films of Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), celebrating his genius, irreverence and unique poetic style. The season features panel discussions and Q&As with speakers including eminent collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel’s grand-son Diego Buñuel, and leading academics such as Maria Delgado, Jo Evans, Peter Evans and Rob Stone. Luis Buñuel was a leader of avantgarde surrealism, an iconoclast, a contrarian and provocateur. He aimed to undermine the self-assurance of the powerful through a narrative blend of beauty and rebellion. Together with Salvador Dalí and poet Federico García Lorca, Buñuel formed the nucleus of the Spanish Surrealist avant-garde that shocked and insulted the intellectual bourgeoisie. This revolutionary tendency remained with Buñuel throughout his career despite persistent challenges from the social norms he provoked. The retrospective spans from the very beginning of his career with arguably the most poignant and famous short film ever made, Un Chien Andalou (1929), through his stunning Mexican period including Los Olvidados (1950), Él (1953), Nazarin (1959) and The Exterminating Angel (1962), to his last works and such legendary films as Belle de Jour (1967), Tristana (1970) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).
Covering each of his key periods through screenings and special events, the season surveys Buñuel’s unique approach to cinema, allowing full exploration of his enduring influence and fresh understanding of his essential legacy.
Luis Buñuel
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Programme supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/filmhub
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Carol
Main Feature Highlights
Chemsex
From 27 Nov In atmospheric 1950s New York, the titular Carol (Cate Blanchett) is marooned in an unhappy marriage to rich businessman Harge (Kyle Chandler) when a chance meeting with dreamy shop assistant Therese (Mara Rooney) sparks a slowburning romance between the two women. This prompts much soul-searching and subterfuge on their part, and a bitter custody battle with Harge over Carol’s only child, Rindy (winning newcomer K.K. Heim). Paired again with Todd Haynes, the maverick director of I’m Not There, Blanchett and Rooney give devastating performances; their on-screen chemistry fully exploits Phyllis Nagy’s emotionally muscular, pitch-perfect adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s landmark novel.
From 4 Dec “It gave me the confidence I never had, I felt like a porn star.” Chemsex: the name given to the rising phenomenon which refers to the use of drugs in a sexual context. Often referring to group sex that can last for days, the allure of chemsex has led to many young men being trapped in a vicious circle of sex, addition and dependence. This powerful and potent film tells the stories of gay men whose lives have been affected by the crisis; from self-confessed slammers to sexual health workers, from those who deny there is a problem, to those who got out alive. Offering unprecedented access, Chemsex is a brave and unflinching journey into the dark underworld of modern, urban gay life.
Microbe & Gasoline
Microbe & Gasoline
Güeros
From 13 Nov The new handmade-SFX comedy from Michel Gondry is set in an autobiographical key. Teenage misfits Microbe and Gasoline, one nicknamed for his size and the other for his love of all things mechanical and fuel-powered, become fast friends. Unloved in school and misunderstood at home— Microbe is overprotected, Gasoline is by turns ignored and abused—they decide to build a house on wheels and sputter, push, and coast their way to the camp where Gasoline went as a child, with a stop along the way to visit Microbe’s crush. Gondry’s visual imagination is prodigious, and so is his cultivation of spontaneously generated fun and offangled lyricism, his absolute irreverence, and his emotional frankness.
From 20 Nov Güeros is a road movie in which the travellers barely manage to leave town. A coming of age comedy which pays homage to the French new wave. Wayward teenager Tomás is packed off to stay with his big brother, who is studying in Mexico City. Here, he soon teams up with Fede and Santos over their mutual love of the music of Epigmenio Cruz. When the trio learns that their idol is in hospital fading fast and alone, they set off to pay their last respects to this one-time rock star. What they thought would be a simple trip to find their childhood idol soon becomes a voyage of self-discovery across Mexico City’s invisible frontiers.
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The Forbidden Room
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
From 11 Dec The Forbidden Room is Guy Maddin’s epic phantasmagoria. Honouring classic cinema while adding a new electrifying twist, the film begins with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas. Playing like some glorious meeting between Italo Calvino, Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted six year-old child, The Forbidden Room is Maddin’s grand ode to lost cinema.
From 11 Dec Lisa Immordino Vreeland follows up her acclaimed debut Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel with Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict. A character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colourful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.
Festivals and Ongoing Seasons
Yvone Kane
Utopia – UK Portuguese Film Festival
Second Hand (Em Segunda Mão) Dir. Catarina Ruivo, Portugal 2012 110 min Thu 19 Nov, 8.50pm
19 – 22 Nov 2015 The UK Portuguese Film Festival returns once again to the ICA for its sixth edition. This year, the festival celebrates the work of two Portuguese women directors Catarina Ruivo and Margarida Cardoso. The festival presents the London premieres of two exceptionally strong cinematic narratives: complex thriller Second Hand (Em Segunda Mão) and Yvone Kane, a fascinating exploration of the role of women in African politics. This is a rare chance to see two unmissable films. With special thanks to Instituto Camões and the Portuguese Embassy in the UK.
Yvone Kane Dir. Margarida Cardoso, Portugal 2014 117 min Sun 22 Nov, 2pm
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13th London Short Film Festival 9 – 17 Jan 2016 The London Short Film Festival (LSFF) returns to the ICA for the thirteenth year. As the major UK film festival for British made short films, it returns with a challenging programme of brand new experimental work and a strong short documentary presence.
The festival has a special weekend focus on the work of Harmony Korine, including a ‘Gummo-sium’ (a dedicated symposium on Gummo [1998]). The season will also highlight the work of Jessica Sarah Rinland, pioneering nature filmmaker Mary Field (1998-1968), Cannes winning Fyzal Boulifa, Joern Utkilen, Derek Jarman collaborator Richard Heslop, and a look at the roots of LSFF in The Halloween Society, plus partner events with I am Dora and the London College of Fashion. Finally don’t miss the return of Mark Webber’s Little Stabs at Happiness club night, and the legendary Festival opening night party!
Onwards and Outwards
Until Dec 2015 nationwide Working with leading filmmakers, academics, and cultural practitioners, Onwards and Outward’s exploration into the independence and originality of British women filmmakers continues to tour the country with a series of screenings, talks, and events running until the end of the year. The season will return to the ICA for a special edition of the ICA’s Culture Now programme, and culminate with a collaborative symposium on Saturday 12 December (see p.33).
Catalan Avant-Garde 28 Feb – 18 Dec 2015 The ICA and Institut Ramon Llull presented a year-long season that resonated with the culture of Catalonia which represents one of the oldest in Europe. In December the final screening of the season will take place with special guest Albert Serra joining for a post-screening Q&A. El cant dels Ocells (Birdsong) Fri 18 Dec 2015
Onwards and Outwards is made possible with support from the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
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El cant dels ocells (Birdsong)
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New in the Bookshop Zhang Ding, Sound Absorber (Silkscreen Print on Mirror), 2015 Silkscreen gold print on mirror, 31 x 42 cm, Edition of 35 £1,100 (ICA Members £850)
ICA presents a new edition by Chinese artist Zhang Ding which accompanied his first solo UK institutional project entitled Enter the Dragon, presented by the ICA And K11 Art Foundation (12–25 October 2015).
Eric Hazan A History of the Barricade (Verso, November 2015) The edition consists of a gold silkscreen image printed on black mirror. Showing a close-up of a sound absorbent material, this is a detail of an artwork which hung on the mirrored walls of Zhang Ding’s installation from the exhibition. For more information contact: Ruta Radusyte editions@ica.org.uk, +44 20 7766 1425
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In the history of European revolutions, the barricade is a glorious emblem, especially the barricades of Paris, which graced all the revolts of the nineteenth century. In a series of concise chapters, Éric Hazan traces the many stages in the barricade's evolution, from the Wars of Religion through the Paris Commune, drawing on observations from contemporary thinkers.
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