March — June 2013
Bernadette Corporation
2000 Wasted Years
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Contents Exhibitions 4—5 6—7
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years The Independent Group: Parallel of Art & Life
Events 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22—23 24—25
Rooftop Sculpture: Frank Benson Warhol Screenings Dean Blunt: IM JUST PASSIN THRU TO SHOW SOME LOVE Writing Workshop: Travis Jeppesen / The Trouble with Artist Collectives BOWIEVIRUS Peer to Platform: Artist Collective vs. Social Network / Headless Culture Shop: The Art of Branding The Independents Alliance / The Independent Group Film Screenings ICA Fests An Introduction to Radical Thinkers Friday Salons Academic Symposia Culture Now Touring Talks / ICA Student Forum Artists’ Film Club Events Calendar
Film 26 ICA Cinema 27—28 Main Features 29–31 Festivals and Special Screenings
Info 32 33 34 35 36
ICA Bookshop / Editions ICA Members / Reel 100 Support Us Information Upcoming Exhibitions
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27 March— 9 June 2013
Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
2000 Wasted Years is the first UK retrospective by the New York based Bernadette Corporation. The exhibition recasts the works authored by the group since their inception in the early ‘90s. The origins of Bernadette Corporation lie in the organisation of parties in downtown New York, their mock incorporation and ambiguous branding strategies then developing in the mid ‘90s into a women’s fashion line. Their engagement in quotation, concepts, fictions, appropriation, provocation, hoaxes, and anti-artistic postures of crass commercialism have subsequently seen them move within the fields of magazine publishing, film production, political activism, literature and the market-driven art world. Across Bernadette Corporation’s twenty-year history and mutable membership there runs a thread of anonymity and opacity, the rejection of normative social forms and appellations such as being an artist, or a political activist. This 'whatever' subjectivity is as evident in the twenty-something museum guard turned model/muse anti-heroine of their 2004 novel Reena Spaulings, as it is in the radicality of Black Bloc anarchists at the heart of the 2003 film Get Rid of Yourself. 2000 Wasted Years uses 'retrospection' as another turn in the corporate subjectivity of Bernadette Corporation. A lyrically and conceptually complex relay of the quotidian continues to engage the collective today, all the while underscored by the 'reality' of Bernadette Corporation both as a group of relationships and as brand.
Exhibition design by Gideon Ponte/Magnet. Graphic design by Bill Hayden An Artists Space, New York exhibition, in co-production with Institute of Contemporary Arts, London / Curated by Stefan Kalmár and Richard Birkett of Artists Space, New York with Gregor Muir and Matt Williams of ICA, London With thanks to the Bernadette Corporation Exhibition Supporters Group
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BC Reloaded, 2012, Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Alexander Huseby. Courtesy the artists and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; Cabinet, London; Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna; Galerie NEU, Berlin.
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27 March— 9 June 2013
The Independent Group: Parallel of Art & Life
To coincide with the 60 th anniversary of the ground-breaking exhibition Parallel of Life & Art, this exhibition presents original works by the Independent Group, a collective of artists (Magda Cordell, Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson, John McHale, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull); architects (Alison and Peter Smithson); writers (Lawrence Alloway, Reyner Banham and Toni del Renzio) and musical producer (Frank Cordell), who met at the ICA from 1952—55. Celebrated today as the so-called 'Fathers of Pop', the group worked with art, science, technology and popular culture, touching on themes that went beyond traditional boundaries, from horror films and theories of evolution to modern architecture and Marilyn Monroe. The exhibition will include paintings, drawings and photographs by some of the key figures in the group, alongside related designed objects and ephemera. Evoking the ICA's original home in Dover Street in the 1950s, the exhibition is designed to give viewers a sense of 'The Home of the Avant Garde'. The exhibition will be accompanied by a two-day conference on Parallel of Life and Art: Independent Group and Exhibitions. Exhibition and conference co-curated by Anne Massey, Middlesex University.
The Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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Image: John McHale, Telemath, 1958. Courtesy the Estate of John McHale and Richard Saltoun, London
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Rooftop Sculpture: Frank Benson
Installed on the roof of the ICA Flag (Union Jack) by New York-based artist Frank Benson reflects the artist's ongoing fascination with the depiction of arrested motion and the use of digital tools in the creation of sculpture. To create this work, an image of the Union Flag of the United Kingdom (commonly called the Union Jack) was mapped onto a three-dimensional plane created in a computer animation programme. The plane was then subjected to simulated wind and turbulence, and a still from the animation was chosen as the pattern of the sewn nylon flag. Even when flat, these manipulations give the flag the appearance of billowing in high
wind – contorting and disfiguring its stripes while remaining implausibly constrained to a rectangle. In this way Benson confuses the distinction between the flag as image and the flag as object. The rippled appearance of the Union Jack when it is flown – an unintentional consequence of climate – has been intentionally translated onto the flag’s design. The installation is the third sculpture to be displayed on the roof of Nash House. The first was Roberto Cuoghi’s Šuillakku in 2008 and the second was Franz West's Room in London in 2011.
Image: Frank Benson, Flag (Union Jack), 2013
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Warhol screenings
Chelsea Girls Fri 5 April Warhol’s 1966 classic Chelsea Girls, screened in its original double16mm projected format from newly restored prints. This 3 hour epic set in New York’s infamous Hotel Chelsea features a cast of Warhol superstars including Nico, International Velvet, Gerard Malanga and filmmaker Marie Menken, among many others.
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members
Image: Sleep (1963), 16mm film, black and white, silent, 5 hours 21 minutes at 16 frames per second. ©2013 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved. Still courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum.
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Sleep Sat 6 April This six-hour marathon captures Warhol’s close friend and poet John Giorno as he sleeps – an experiment in ‘anti-film’, screened from a set of newly restored prints.
Free Admission
Vinyl Sun 7 April Warhol’s 1965 feature length adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, starring Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, Ondine and others, with music from The Kinks and The Rolling Stones. Screened from a newly restored print.
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members
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Events
Dean Blunt – IM JUST PASSIN THRU TO SHOW SOME LOVE Thu 11 Apr
A scripted stage performance by artist and Hype Williams member Dean Blunt, starring Mendeeces LaCore, Siobhan Denny, and J-Star Valentine. This performance is his UK debut in a public arts institution.
Image: Courtesy Dean Blunt, 2013
£8 / £7 Concessions / £5 ICA Members
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Events
Writing Workshop: Travis Jeppesen 13—14 Apr | 2pm—5pm Using Bernadette Corporation’s The Complete Poem as a model, participants will respond directly to both the exhibition and individual works via writing, putting Jeppesen’s idea of ‘writing inhabiting objects’ – a visceral, poetic model of art criticism — into practice. By processing and editing the written material together, the group will explore the problems and possibilities of collective writing.
£25 / £20 Concessions / £12 ICA Members
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The Trouble with Artist Collectives Wed 17 Apr | 6.45pm This panel discussion presents an opportunity to introduce the concept of the artist collective and its recent history. The conversation will explore past and present artist collectives, as well as wider questions of authorship and ownership, how individuals work within a framework towards collective aims, and how those aims are established, and the problems of collaboration. The panel will include Simon Bedwell from artist collective BANK, and curator and critic Helena Reckitt.
£10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Image: courtesy of BANK and MOTInternational
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BOWIEVIRUS 25 April—12 May
Image courtesy of David Sims and Arena Homme Plus
Events
In October 2012, Arena Homme Plus magazine hit the newsstands declaring "BOWIEVIRUS", with an iconic cover image created by David Sims, a montage of rock'n'roll star Vince Taylor, a fashion model, and – what appeared to be David Bowie. Within the pages of the magazine, artists and photographers referenced, reworked and recontextualised the star, reigniting Bowie's persona for a new audience. For the ICA, BOWIEVIRUS will take physical form through the presentation of a selection of works from this celebrated issue. www.ica.org.uk/events
Events Peer to Platform: Artist Collective vs. Social Network Wed 1 May | 6.45pm This panel discussion will highlight the overlaps between the way in which a radical artist collective functions and how individuals operate together within the most contemporary of frameworks, the social network. Reflecting on the notion of the network and questions of authorship, ownership, self-promotion, and sincerity, the conversation explores the ways in which – arguably – the peer-to-peer bond of the artist collective has been replaced by the virtual connections of Facebook and Twitter. The conversation will be chaired by Ben Vickers and will include lizvlx from Ubermorgen.com
£10 / £8 Concessions / £5 ICA Student Members
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Image: Courtesy AC and Goldin+Senneby
Headless, presented by Angus Cameron Wed 15 May | 6.45pm Headless is a large scale performance art project led by Swedish collaborative duo, Goldin+Senneby. Since 2007, the project has engaged a range of writers, artists, designers, curators, journalists, bloggers, academics, private detectives and film-makers to ‘investigate’ the existence of an ‘International Business Company’ (IBC) called Headless Ltd. Since 2008, Angus Cameron has acted as ‘spokesperson’ or ‘emissary’ for Headless. Cameron is an academic social scientist based at the University Of Leicester School Of Management.
£10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
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Events
Culture Shop: The Art of Branding Wed 29 May | 6.45pm
This panel discussion will focus on the burgeoning number of practices that encompass elements of architecture, design and branding. In the context of Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years, the event will highlight a selection of individuals who similarly inhabit a place in art, fashion, design and retail through their work, and provides an opportunity to develop wider discussion.
£10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Image: Interior view of the Colette Concept Store, Paris. © Colette
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Events The Independents Alliance Thu 6 June | All day A one day festival to celebrate and explore independence in all its many guises, focusing on the core values of the Independent Alliance of Publishers and the ICA, independence, integrity and innovation. In the current cultural environment it seems that we are in danger of neglecting the power of individual creativity, a strength that brings such diversity and excitement to our lives. Join us for an ambitious day of discussion, debate and entertainment delivered by invited special guests from across our independent arts industries, publishing, theatre, film, art and music.
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The Independent Group Film Screenings A programme of films featuring or made by members of the Independent Group. Fathers of Pop Sat 8 Jun A documentary on Richard Hamilton and the Independent Group investigating their outputs and links with the ICA.
Image: Nigel Henderson, Shattered Glass, 1961 Private Collection. Courtesy The Estate of the Artist, Care of The Mayor Gallery, London. Photograph: Mark Blower
Eduardo Paulozzi and William Turnbull Sun 9 Jun A screening of films by two of the founding members of the Independent Group – an opportunity to see the renowned sculptors moving image work from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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ICA Fests
Smithsfest Fri 29—Sat 30 Mar This two day festival will survey the artistic and cultural impact of The Smiths, a key to counterculture in 1980s Britain and one of the most iconic and influential bands in the history of pop music. Join us for a series of talks, film screenings, and more around what Morrissey himself described as ‘the last group of any importance’.
MickRonsonfest Sat 27 Apr Join us for an exploration of the career of iconic guitarist and producer Mick Ronson (26 May 1946 – 29 April 1993), as we assess his impact on the history of popular music through a series of rare film screenings, talks and performances. www.ica.org.uk/mickronsonfest
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Image: The Smiths. Photograph by Tom Sheehan
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An Introduction to Radical Thinkers
A fortnightly series of events introducing the latest set of Verso's Radical Thinkers series. Led by engaging speakers taking theory outside of the academy to create a public forum for the discussion of ideas, the events aim to interrogate our existing understandings of all areas of life.
£5 / Free to ICA Members
Nina Power presents: Fiery Brook by Ludwig Feuerbach Tue 9 Apr | 6.45pm Federico Campagna presents: Infinitely Demanding by Simon Critchley Tue 23 Apr | 6.45pm
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Esther Leslie presents: Critique of Instrumental Reason by Max Horkheimer Tue 7 May | 6.45pm Peter Hallward presents: Ethics by Alain Badiou Tue 21 May | 6.45pm Stella Sandford presents: Sexpol by Wilheim Reich Tue 4 June | 6.45pm
Image: Marcel Broodthaers, La Pluie (Projet pour un texte),1969. Black & White film, 16 mm, 2 min., Brussels. Copyright Estate Marcel Broodthaers
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Friday Salons
Friday Salons provide first-hand accounts on current cultural phenomena and professional development.
Instant publishing/ Automatic writing Fri 10 May | 3pm Organised by Duncan White (artist, author and researcher, CSM, London), Kate Phillimore and Louise O'Hare (PABD/Three Letter Words, London), this Friday Salon looks at immediate distribution and the relationship between experimental writing and publishing practices, elaborating on themes established by the video programme installed at the PABD 2013 fair in March 2013.
Activism on the Map: The Zone Books Series on NonGovernmental Politics Fri 19 Apr | 3pm Eyal Weizman chairs this Friday Salon with Zone authors to discuss activism and nongovernmental politics. Speakers include Michel Feher (philosopher and the founding editor of Zone books), Laura Kurgan (architect and Professor at Columbia University), Meg McLagan (documentary filmmaker) and Gaëlle Krikorian (scholar and activist).
£5 / Free to ICA Members
On Digital Culture Fri 24 May | 3pm This Friday Salon will focus on digital culture and the questions around intellectual property, trolling and creativity. McKenzie Wark, author of The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century, will examine these issues alongside writer and artist Huw Lemmey.
£5 / Free to ICA Members
In collaboration with the Forensic Architecture project, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London. Free, booking required
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Academic Symposia Parallel of Art & Life: A Conference on the Independent Group 25—26 April This two-day event will investigate the exhibition work of the Independent Group at the very institution that first fostered and encouraged its practice. Moreover, the conference will also consider ways in which the Independent Group has been, and continues to be, exhibited.
In collaboration with Middlesex University and curated by Anne Massey
‘Who's afraid of the public?’ Sat 4 May Despite all the yearning for new publics and the attempts to include ever wider and more diverse audiences, one has to suspect that these are mere gestures of inclusion driven by the desire to produce visitor numbers rather than constitute a public. This symposium explores the social, cultural and political challenges surrounding public participation in relation to social media and examines the strategies and experiments that engage audiences within different rhythms and reflections in the public arena.
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Public Engagement and Impact: Articulating Value in Art and Design Thu 23 May Recent Arts Council policy goals have underlined the importance of greater public engagement and collaboration in the arts, with a view to attracting and inspiring new audiences. It was observed in a recent AHRC/ESRC report, however, that there is a need to ‘more clearly articulate the value’ of public engagement with culture in line with government decisionmaking agendas. In light of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, these complexities are now being addressed with renewed vigour for UK art and design HE institutions. This symposium explores the social, cultural and political challenges around measuring and communicating public engagement in relation to evidencing value and impact, and the implications of this for those working in higher education and museum/gallery sectors. In collaboration with Huddersfield University £12 / £10 Concessions / £8 ICA Members / £5 ICA Student Members
In collaboration with Reading University (in association with University for the Arts Zurich) £12 / £10 Concessions / £8 ICA Members / £5 ICA Student Members
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Culture Now
Culture Now offers a platform for today’s most exciting practitioners from a range of disciplines to discuss their work. Variously inspired by ICA’s wider programme and key cultural themes, we invite speakers to initiate a conversation in an informal environment.
£5 / Free to ICA Members
John Yorke Fri 5 Apr | 1pm Anne Massey with Ben Cranfield Fri 12 Apr | 1pm Hanaa Malallah Fri 19 Apr | 1pm
Sonnet Stanfill Fri 3 May | 1pm
Lloyd Corporation Fri 24 May | 1pm
Pil and Galia Kollectiv with Jamie Stevens Fri 10 May | 1pm
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Touring Talks Join curators, artists and other cultural practitioners on Thursday tours through the Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years exhibition. We also programme touring talks in foreign languages.
Emily King Thu 18 Apr | 6.30pm
Erica Shiozaki: Touring Talk in Japanese Thu 9 May | 6.30pm
Jorella Andrews Thu 6 Jun | 6.30pm
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Free, booking required
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ICA Student Forum Members of the Student Forum respond to our programme through curated events, projects, artist interviews and workshops, initiating debates around learning and current art practice.
£5 / Free to ICA Members
On Collaborative Elaboration of Meaning: Photography & Film Tue 14 May | 7pm This evening will comprise a panel discussion exploring the process of photographing artists’ actions and performances as a creative dialogue between photographer and performer, followed by a series of films that shed light on the issue of a creative dialogue between the artists and filmmakers.
Die Puffbrause Sat 1 Jun | 7pm Die Puffbrause is a live performance in response to Bernadette Corporations’s 2007 screenplay Eine Pinot Grigio Bitte. Through exploring the conventions of screenplay and the notion of the sitcom, the work will address issues surrounding collectivism and collaboration within the context of performance.
This event is curated and initiated by ICA Student Forum member Lauren Godfrey in collaboration with the artist Siôn Parkinson.
This event is curated and initiated by ICA Student Forum member Sylwia Serafinowicz.
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Artists' Film Club
At Artists’ Film Club, we screen and discuss new and rarely seen work by artists in the medium of film and moving image. Running since 2008, the season includes up-and-coming artists as well as more established names.
£5 / Free to ICA Members
Image: Loris Gréaud, The Snorks, 2013
Loris Gréaud Wed 10 Apr | 6.45pm The UK premiere of Loris Gréaud's The Snorks, featuring Antipop Consortium, Charlotte Rampling and David Lynch. The film forms part of a long term project a pop concert for creatures living in the depths of the ocean. Followed by a Q&A with Gréaud.
Collective Action Wed 24 Apr | 6.45pm Bringing together a selection of works that investigate and highlight moments of collective action, this group screening captures a cross section of activity from recent political activism, to moral and ethical opinion from an international perspective. Abraham Cruzvillegas Sat 4 May | 5pm Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas makes videos, paintings and sculptures. This screening of Autoconstrucción (2011) draws together his interests in society, class, sex and gender in a video capturing the intimate moments of a spectrum of couples in various locations in a South American city.
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor Sat 20 Apr | 5pm Romanian collaborators Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor’s films explore political and historical legacies, primarily those of the Eastern Europe. This screening includes a selection of their video work made over the last five years.
Image: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autoconstrucción, 2009
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Artists' Film Club
Rosa Barba Wed 8 May | 6.45pm Rosa Barba’s 16mm and 35mm works explore landscape and, more broadly, the material of celluloid. This screening brings together a selection of significant works made over the last decade. Followed by a Q&A with Barba. Olaf Breuning Sat 18 May | 5pm New York-based artist Olaf Breuning’s Home trilogy is the subject of this screening. Each 30-min film follows Breuning’s alter ego, played by Brian Kerstetter, as he travels to a range of exotic locations across the globe in a continual state of cultural anxiety.
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Image: Dani Gal, Nacht und Nebel, 2011
Dani Gal Wed 22 May | 6.45pm Berlin-based Israeli artist Dani Gal’s films investigate social and political tensions, and historical narratives. This screening includes the recent Nacht und Nebel (2011), a 22 min retelling of political intrigue based on an interview conducted by the artist with a Holocaust survivor. Followed by a Q&A with Gal.
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Calendar March 27 Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years open 27 The Independent Group: Parallel of Art & Life 29—30 Smithsfest
April 5 5 6 7 7 9 10 11 12 13—14 17 18 19 19 20 23 24 25 25—26 26—2 May 27
Culture Now: John Yorke Warhol Screenings: Chelsea Girls Warhol Screenings: Sleep Warhol Screenings: Vinyl Vers Madrid (The Burning Bright!) + Q&A Radical Thinkers: Nina Power on Ludwig Feuerbach Artists’ Film Club: Loris Gréaud Dean Blunt: IM JUST PASSIN THRU TO SHOW SOME LOVE Culture Now: Anne Massey with Ben Cranfield Writing Workshop: Travis Jeppesen The Trouble with Artist Collectives Touring Talk: Emily King Culture Now: Hanaa Malallah Friday Salon: Activism on the Map Artists’ Film Club: Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor Radical Thinkers: Federico Campagna on Simon Critchley Artists’ Film Club: Collective Action BOWIEVIRUS open Academic Symposia: Parallel of Art & Life: A Conference on the Independent Group Agnès Varda season MickRonsonfest
May 1 2 3 4 4 7 8 9 10 12 14 15 17 18 21 22 23 24 24 24—30 29
Peer to Platform: Artist Collective vs. Social Network Querelle Culture Now: Sonnet Stanfill Academic Symposia: ‘Who’s afraid of the public?’ Artists’ Film Club: Abraham Cruzvillegas Radical Thinkers: Esther Leslie on Max Horkheimer Artists’ Film Club: Rosa Barba Touring Talk: Erica Shiozaki (in Japanese) Culture Now: Pil and Galia Kollectiv with Jamie Stevens BOWIEVIRUS closes ICA Students Forum: On Collaborative Elaboration of Meaning Headless: Presented by Angus Cameron Friday Salon: Instant Publishing / Automatic Writing Artists’ Film Club: Olaf Breuning Radical Thinkers: Peter Hallward on Alain Badiou Artists’ Film Club: Dani Gal Academic Symposia: Public Engagement and Impact Culture Now: Lloyd Corporation Friday Salon: On Digital Culture Aho & Soldan Culture Shop: The Art of Branding
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ICA Student Forum: Die Puffbrause Radical Thinkers: Stella Sandford on Wilheim Reich The Independents Alliance Touring Talk: Jorella Andrews The Independent Group Screenings: Fathers of Pop The Independent Group Screenings: Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull Berndatte Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years closes The Independent Group: Parallel of Art & Life closes
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Cinema
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Image: Lynne Ramsay, Swimmer, 2012
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Main Features
Image: Harmony Korine, Springbreakers, 2013
Springbreakers From 5 April In Harmony Korine’s new film, starring James Franco, four college girls land in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation.
Muzaffer Ozdemir, Home (Yurt), 2011
Home (Yurt) From 5 April A beautifully composed meditation on memories and a changing world. Doğan, a pessimistic and neurotic architect longing for his homeland, revisits the countryside of his childhood for the first time in many years.
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Simon Killer From 5 April This intense, unsettling character study centres on recent American college graduate Simon (Brady Corbet, Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene). We follow Simon as he flees the fallout of a bad break-up, and spends a holiday in Paris where he falls into an oddly tender relationship with troubled prostitute Victoria (Mati Diop, 35 Shots of Rum). BAFTA shorts From 12 April A feature-length selection of short live-action and animated films from the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). F*ck For Forest From 19 April F*ck For Forest introduces us to a group of young post-hippies who produce home-made porn in order to raise money to save the rainforests. In The Fog From 3 May Set in Belarus in 1942, whilst the country is in the hands of Nazis and the local militia, In the Fog questions the corruption of man’s very humanity in the context of war. Shot in sumptuous long takes and vibrant colour.
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Main features
Man to Man From 31 May Tilda Swinton gives a marvellous performance in this film of Brecht protégé Manfred Karge's text Jacke wie Hose, directed by John Maybury. Made in 1992, this is the first time Man to Man has screened in a UK cinema. After the death of her crane-driving husband in Germany in the 1930s, Ella must find some way to earn a living. Donning her husband's clothes, she takes up his old profession. Taken for a man, she is completely enthralled by the way men behave when away from women.
Image: Marina Gedeck, The Wall (Die Wand), 2012
The Wall From 14 June A contemporary female Robinson Crusoe story, based on Marlen Haushofer’s best-selling eponymous novel from the 1960s, The Wall is a highly original exploration of the experience of solitude and survival.
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Festivals & Special Screenings Querelle 2 May | 8.15pm Fassbinder’s final film, based on Jean Genet’s novel Querelle de Brest (1947), stars Brad Davis as a sailor caught in the throes of love and hate in this little-seen queer cinema classic. Released shortly after Fassbinder’s death, Querelle’s visually stunning cinematography, costumes and set design stand the test of time three decades on.
Birds Eye View Festival 2013 Damascus Roof and Tales of Paradise + panel discussion with Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Thu 4 Apr Syria's rich storytelling tradition has been passed from grandparents to grandchildren, filled with colourful imagery entrenched in the nation's culture. As modernisation ravages the old familiar city of Damascus, will this cherished cultural heritage vanish amidst the rubble and disruption? A spellbinding journey through the art, architecture and vibrant stories that still - just - inhabit the heart of an ancient city. Presented in partnership with Al Jazeera Documentary Channel.
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Damascus Roof and Tales of Paradise
Fashion Loves Film: Arab fashion past & present + panel discussion Tue 9 Apr Birds Eye View's much-loved Fashion Loves Film turns a spotlight on the Arab world following new trends and recent breakout films from the region. Alongside archive material charting the history of Middle Eastern fashion, up-to-theminute accounts of the latest developments and a discussion with leading industry and regional experts, this special programme promises new insight from the burgeoning Arab fashion sector and our usual heavy dose of glamour on and off screen. Part of Birds Eye View Film Festival - celebrating women filmmakers. www.birds-eye-view.co.uk
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Festivals & Special Screenings
A Nos Amours A Nos Amours is dedicated to screening rare, under-appreciated or especially good films. We welcome them back for a series of screenings on 28 March, 25 April and 30 May. Vers Madrid (The Burning Bright!) + Q&A with director Sylvain George Sun 7 Apr Sylvain George’s Vers Madrid documents the origins of the Occupy movement in this experimental newsreel, recording the grassroots protest movement that evolved in Madrid in 2011, known as 15m.
Agnès Varda, Cleo de 5 a 7, 1962
Agnès Varda Season
La Pointe Courte 26 April Vagabond 28 April Cleo from 5 to 7 28 April The Beaches of Agnes 30 April The Gleaners and I 2 May
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Festivals & Special Screenings Aho & Soldan 24—30 May Heikki Aho (1895-1961) and Björn Soldan (1902-1953) are viewed as pioneers of Finnish documentary film. Through their legendary film production company Aho & Soldan the Finnish documentary film tradition was born. Their work was influenced by Soviet films and the legacy of Walter Ruttman, pioneer of avant-garde cinema. We present a number of their films in conjunction with The Photographers’ Gallery.
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Terracotta Film Festival - Spotlight on Indonesia 11—13 June The Terracotta Film Festival presents selection of films from Indonesia. BAFTA Masterclass Labs: Archive Producing with Sam Dwyer Wed, 3 Apr | 6:15pm Sam Dwyer is one of the unsung heroines behind some of the best music documentaries in recent years. Her theatrical feature credits including Marley with Kevin Macdonald; George Harrison: Living in the Material World with Scorsese; Submarine with Richard Ayoade; and Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten with Julien Temple.
£10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Aho & Soldan. Copyright JB
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Image: Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Alexander Huseby. Edition of 100 Digital Pigment print on Canson Baryta Photographique paper. Size: 14 x 21 inches
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Cover image: BC Reloaded, 2012. Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Alexander Huseby. Courtesy the artists and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; Cabinet, London; Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna; Galerie NEU, Berlin.
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Keep Your Timber Limber (Works on Paper) 19 June— 8 September 2013
Points of Departure 26 June— 21 July 2013
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