ICA Bulletin July – September 2015
Contents
Welcome
Exhibitions Eloise Hawser: Lives on Wire
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Isa Genzken: Basic Research Paintings
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Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s
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Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine from the 60s and 70s
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Adam Linder: Choreographic Service No.3: Some Riding
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Yuri Pattison: mute conversation
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ICA Touring
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fig-2
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Events Music p.15 ASP: Artist Self-Publishing Fair p.18 Talks p.19 Culture Now p.21 Artists’ Film Club p.22 STOP PLAY RECORD p.25 ICA Learning p.26
ICA Cinema p.31 More from the ICA Support Us p.38 Membership p.39 Editions p.40 Café Bar and Bookshop p.41 Venue Hire p.42 2 ica.org.uk
The ICA looks forward to Lives on Wire by young Londonbased artist Eloise Hawser. Presented in our Lower Gallery, this site-specific installation represents Hawser's first UK institutional solo-show. Simultaneously in our Upper Gallery, we present Isa Genzken’s 'Basic Research Paintings' - a series of works produced by the artist during the late-80s and early 90s. Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s takes over the ICA Fox Reading Room, followed by a display on the influential Viennabased magazine Bau: Magazine for Architecture and Urban Planning. In August we exclusively release the latest Alejandro Jodorowsky film The Dance of Reality. For his new online commission, Yuri Pattison responds to the ICA's historic 1968 exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity. In September, we host the Artist Self-Publishers' Fair (ASP) featuring over fifty independent self-publishers, and a series of performances in our Upper Galleries with a new commission presented by Adam Linder. Our ICA Associates music programme featuring Warp, Blackest Ever Black and Boiler Room continues alongside the ICA Cinema programme that explores the use of football to address the contemporary condition and a week-long series of cinematic gems from Second Run DVD.
Gregor Muir Executive Director, ICA
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Exhibitions
1 Jul – 6 Sep 2015 Lower Gallery
Eloise Hawser Lives on Wire
Lives on Wire is the first UK solo institutional exhibition by British artist Eloise Hawser. Her work reconfigures and repurposes commonplace materials applied in industrial processes to create sculptures and installations that subtly demonstrate the inherent mutability of everyday objects. For Lives on Wire Hawser presents a site-specific installation featuring new sculpture and a digital video work developed through her investigative research into the life span of the cinema organ, ubiquitous during the silent-movie-era. Hawser’s new work seeks to analyse the theoretical and physical attributes of a variable electronic resistor used to illuminate the Art Deco surround of this instrument during cinematic performances, known as the cinema organ colour changer. For the exhibition the relationship between the colour changer mechanism and the illuminated console is re-established and demonstrated using the ICA’s Lower Gallery lighting system, to control the colour and intensity of the gallery's lights. In doing so Hawser explores the potential for obsolete objects to be appropriated and transformed for contemporary use, a process often referred to as skeuomorphism. Related events: Artist’s Talk: Eloise Hawser – p.19 Performance: Eloise Hawser with Aerial Sounds – p.19 Friday Salon: Skeuomorphology – p.26 Educators' Tour: Led by ICA curator Matt Williams – p.27 Gallery Tour: Led by artist Yemi Awosile – p. 27 TEXT2SPEECH: Eloise Hawser – p.28 Workshop on Listening – p.28 Supported by the Eloise Hawser Exhibition Supporters Group including Halo Lighting and the Zabludowicz Collection
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Media Partner:
Eloise Hawser, Untitled, 2013. Screen woven with horsehair and steel tripod legs, and optical lens. Courtesy of artist, VI, VII (Oslo), and Balice Hertling.
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Exhibitions
1 Jul – 6 Sep 2015 Upper Gallery
Isa Genzken Basic Research Paintings
Since the early 1970s, Genzken has developed an extraordinary practice as evidenced through museum shows such as her recent retrospective at MoMA, New York. Increasingly ambitious displays of the artist’s work have tended toward a focus on large-scale sculptures, installations and impressive wall mounted panel works. Lesser known are her paintings. The Basic Research paintings are compelling in that they invite scrutiny from the micro to macro, revealing themselves as close-up impressions of urban architecture, to aerial views of alien landscapes. These works are sometimes compared to the abstract paintings of Gerhard Richter, due to Genzken’s relationship with the artist at that time. By contrast, Genzken’s approach to abstract painting is emboldened through a more straightforward and direct approach, using a limited palette that rarely strays from a range of dark hues such as dark green or brown. The exhibition was curated by Gregor Muir and originally featured as part of the ICA touring exhibition Beware Wet Paint held at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 2014-15. Related events: Panel discussion: The Influence of Isa Genzken – p.19 Educators' Tour – p.27 Isa Genzken: Basic Research Paintings was kindly supported by the Isa Genzken Exhibition Supporters Group including Fatima Maleki. The exhibition was also made possible with the help
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and support of Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne. We would also like to extend our thanks to Daniel Buchholz, Katharina Forero and all those at Galerie Buchholz.
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Media Partner: Isa Genzken, Basic Research, 1989. Oil on canvas, 90 x 75 cm. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne.
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Exhibitions
26 May – 19 Jul 2015 ICA Fox Reading Room
Exhibitions
29 Jul – 27 Sep 2015 ICA Fox Reading Room
Dancer in Nightclub, London, c.1985-89. Courtesy Lindsay Wesker
Cover of Bau: Magazine for Architecture and Urban Planning (detail), 1967
Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s
Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine from the 60s and 70s
Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s is an archival exhibition looking back at the early tower block pirate radio movement which emerged in the UK during the 1980s, prompting a new musical phenomenon that would change the face of British music. Pirate radio is often associated with the off-shore broadcasting of the 1960s, but in the 1980s it enjoyed a renaissance. This time stations were broadcasting music from the roofs of residential tower blocks rather than at sea. Although often overlooked, these stations were pioneers, championing music of black origin and paving the way for burgeoning rave scenes; jungle, garage and house. This display tracks the history and cultural significance of 1980’s pirate radio in the UK, and its legacy for contemporary music and broadcasting.
The first significant presentation in the UK of the influential Vienna-based architectural magazine Bau: Magazine for Architecture and Urban Planning, published by the Central Association of Austrian Architects. The display includes original issues of the magazine published between 1965 and 1970. Bau became a platform to explore new experimental ideas which considered architecture beyond mere concrete and instead ventured into the realms of art and politics. This radical, interdisciplinary approach to architecture was crystallised in the 1968 issue of Bau in which the highly influential architect Hans Hollein boldly claimed that 'Everything is Architecture'. From a lipstick, a portrait of Che Guevara to an astronaut suit and the performances of the Viennese Actionist Otto Mühl, all could be considered architectural, aiming to question the pre-war functionality that defined modernist architecture.
Related events: Culture Now: Gilles Peterson – p.21 Gallery Tour: Led by artist Polly Brannon – p.27 Workshop on Radio – p.28 With special thanks to Gordan Mac, Lindsay Wesker and Stephen Hebditch amfm.org.uk
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Generously supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
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Related events: Gallery Tours: Led by Jo Melvin and Juliette Desorgues – p.27 Symposium: Architecture and the Spaces of Information – p.29 The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation.
Bau: Magazine for Architecture and Urban Planning is supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London.
The ICA Fox Reading Room is generously supported by the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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Performance
8 – 13 Sep 2015 Upper Gallery
Choreographic Service No.2: Some Proximity, 2014. Two dancers, one writer, duration variable. Courtesy the choreographer and SILBERKUPPE, Berlin. Image: Polly Braden
Commission
from May 2015 Online
Yuri Pattison, mute conversation, 2015. Courtesy the artist.
Adam Linder Choreographic Service No.3: Some Riding
Yuri Pattison mute conversation
Choreographer and Dancer Adam Linder’s “Choreographic Services” (2013-ongoing) are a series of works, hired on a per-hour basis, that underwrite real-time and economic principles of choreographic activity. The new commission Some Riding will be hired for a series of performances for the Upper Galleries. Linder takes the significance for contextualisation in contemporary art production as his starting point. Two specially commissioned texts by writers Catherine Damman and Sarah Lehrer Graiwer will examine ideas of ‘choreographic embodiment’ and 'economies of performance' – the touchstones for Linder's Services. Having memorised these texts, Linder and dancer Frances Chiaverini will orate them whilst choreographically riding the flow of the language, enacting the written context and simultaneously providing the performative dynamics for Some Riding.
In Autumn 2014, the ICA staged a Reading Room display that focused on the landmark 1968 exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity. Curated by Jasia Reichardt, this was the first exhibition devoted to the relationship between the arts and new technology, foregrounding many new developments in the field. Marking the archival display’s opening and subsequent national and international tour, the ICA has invited Londonbased artist Yuri Pattison to respond to the themes addressed in Cybernetic Serendipity in light of the recent societal shift brought on by digital technology. For this new commission, Pattison has created an online work titled mute conversation, which connects two automated agents (commercial chatterbots) in conversation. → mute.conversation.ica.org.uk
Supported by the Goethe-Institut London
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ICA Touring
Exhibitions
5 Jan – 20 Dec 2015
The ICA tours its Reading Room exhibitions to regional museums and galleries around the UK.
Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield Cybernetic Serendipity: A Documentation 7 Feb – 30 May 2015
Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery, Sandwell Tove Jansson: Tales from the Nordic Archipelago 2 Apr – 27 Jun 2015
See Red Women's Workshop: 1974 – 1983 6 Jun – 19 Sep 2015 Tove Jansson: Tales from the Nordic Archipelago 26 Sep – 9 Jan 2016
Phoenix, Leicester Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s 23 Jul – 24 Aug 2015
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Whose Gaze is It Anyway? 27 Aug – 24 Sept 2015
Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s 14 Feb – 9 May 2015 Tove Jansson: Tales from the Nordic Archipelago 11 Jul – 20 Sep 2015 Whose Gaze is it Anyway? 24 Oct – 10 Jan 2016 12
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fig-2 (50 exhibitions in 50 weeks) 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. fig-2 presents 50 projects over 50 weeks in the ICA Studio, in association with Outset. Please join us for fig-2 openings every Monday from 6-8pm throughout 2015. 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 ica.org.uk/exhibitions
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Events
Events
Music
Our vibrant programme of live presentations, artist talks and discussions accompanies current exhibitions and addresses broader themes around contemporary practice and culture. For the latest Talks and Events programme updates, visit the website or subscribe to our Events and Exhibitions newsletter.
Veteran 1999 (2015) - David Rudnick & Evian Christ
ICA Associates: WARP Evian Christ & David Rudnick
Da Thirst presents: Haters Gonna Fête With Laura O'Neill's Power 100 Ping Pong, 24 January 2015. Photo: Dan Weill
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24 – 26 July 2015 ICA Theatre Please check the website for further details
Warp Arts, in partnership with Evian Christ & David Rudnick, present a series of materials recalling and responding to the events of The Trance War, which took place in Europe (1998 – ongoing). The presentation will contain an archive of publications, pamphlets and posters spanning the period of Trance expansion to its eventual contemporary ruin, and the temporary installation of Britain's first public monument in commemoration of the 30,000 Dogs whose lives were lost during the disputed conflict. The installation includes a memorial fanfare composed for the occasion, and will open on the 24 July with a performance by Evian Christ.
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Events
Music
Boiler Room and Logan Sama with the ICA present Eskimo Dance
Sun 28 Jun, 8pm ICA Theatre Please check the website for further details
Events
Music
Following a six year hiatus, Wiley’s original Grime rave The Eskimo Dance returned to the club-stratosphere in 2012 at the prestigious Proud2 (now Building6). Since its come back, the event has gone on to host numerous SELLOUT shows around the country and in Ayia Napa boasting a lineup of firm favourites from the Grime scene alongside budding new talent. Eskimo Dance has teamed up with Boiler Room, Logan Sama and the ICA to bring you a special Grime session.
ICA Associates: Blackest Ever Black
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Sat 26 Sep ICA theatre Please check the website for further details
London-born, Berlin-based record label Blackest Ever Black was founded in 2010 to document a new gothic impulse in underground electronic music. As a 2015 ICA Associate, the cult imprint presents a daytime and evening programme of performances, talks and screenings designed to showcase some of its current operations and enduring influences.
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Events
Highlights
Events
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Artists, what is your value? Women-only collectives
Artist’s Talk: Eloise Hawser
Thu 9 Jul, 6.30pm Pay-what-you-can Artists and members of genderspecific collectives address questions regarding their value, particularly in relation to their rootedness – both in gender (as opposed to sex) and in terms of local community. Presented by artist Rose Gibbs and collective The Temporary Separatists.
ASP: Artist SelfPublishers’ Fair
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Sat 12 Sep, 11am – 7pm Lower Gallery
The inaugural Artist Self-Publishers' Fair (ASP) will feature 50 plus UK and international independent artists self-publishers who will join together for a one day fair at the ICA. The publications are the artworks; affordable and available, without the fetter of the institution or gallery. The ideas, images and texts are produced and published by artists who understand the restrictions and freedoms of the printed page. This fair is strictly for artist self-publishers only, and seeks to celebrate and promote their work.
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Wed 15 Jul, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members Artist Eloise Hawser is in conversation with ICA curator Matt Williams on the occasion of her current ICA exhibition Lives on Wire.
The Influence of Isa Genzken
Eloise Hawser: Er and other conductors
Wed 12 Aug, 6.30pm £10 / £8 ICA Members Panel discussion examining the artistic influence of German artist Isa Genzken.
Thu 27 Aug, 8pm £5 Eloise Hawser presents in collaboration with Aerial Sounds and House of Trax a newly commissioned performance that brings together human conductors, electronic machinery and instruments to generate a series of interconnected sounds and physical gestures. The performance is an extension of her ongoing forensic investigation into the evolution of technology and its mediation with space in relation to the human body.
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Events
Highlights
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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. Gilles Peterson Fri 3 Jul, 1pm The DJ and radio presenter discusses UK pirate radio. Christine Delphy Fri 10 Jul, 1pm The sociologist, feminist and theorist discusses her new book Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror (Verso, 2015). Franco Bifo Berardi in conversation with Professor Benjamin Noys. Culture Now, Feb 2015
The Future of London Wed 30 Sep, 6pm £10 / £8 ICA Members Panel discussion examining art and artists’ relation to urban development and change in London. When is development acceptable, and when does it go against creativity? This marks the launch of London Burning: Creative Fire TransGlobe Publishing and Thames and Hudson, 2015)
Artists, what is your property value? Thu 1 Oct, 6.30pm Pay-what-you-can Examining art and artists’ value in relation to property and urban development, this panel discussion considers the role, importance and future of artists' studios.
Daniel Keller Fri 24 Jul, 1pm The Berlin-based US artist, half of collaboration Aids-3D discusses his work. John Roberts & Peter Osborne Fri 4 Sep, 1pm Art theorist and philosophers Roberts and Osborne examine the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of capitalist non-reproduction. Juliet Jacques Fri 25 Sep, 1pm Journalist and writer Juliet Jacques discusses her new book Trans (Verso, 2015). Watch our archive of Culture Now talks on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/ICALondon
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Artists' Film Club
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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. Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members
An Afternoon with Mike Kuchar (2015) Dir. Oscar Oldershaw, HD video, colour, sound, 32 min
Kuhani (2013) Dir. Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
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Avant Noir Vol. 2 + Introduction
An Afternoon with Mike Kuchar + shorts
Cinema 1 Wed 8 Jul, 2pm Avant-Noir, Volume 2 highlights alternative images of black culture in new film and video practices. This survey of contemporary work by African and African diaspora moving image artists, as well as others engaged with visualising the international African experience, builds on the programme AvantNoir that was presented at the ICA Artists' Film Biennial in 2014. The programme will be introduced by curator Greg de Cuir, Jr.
Cinema 1 Wed 5 Aug, 6.45pm British filmmaker Oscar Oldershaw’s documentary, An Afternoon with Mike Kuchar (2015), features the enigmatic artist and filmmaker at home in his San Francisco apartment. This intimate portrait is featured alongside several of Kuchar’s recent short films.
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Li Ran Cinema 1 Wed 26 Aug, 6.45pm Beijing-based artist Li Ran presents a programme of moving image work including a single-channel version of the installation Beyond Geography (2012), in which Li plays an explorer and TV presenter in the documentary-like narrative that deconstructs Documentary’s ethnographic modes of representation.
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STOP PLAY RECORD
Sebastian Buerkner + Q&A Cinema 1 Wed 16 Sep, 6.45pm London-based artist and filmmaker Sebastian Buerkner uses animation to develop surreal and abstract narrative in his moving image work. Buerkner’s unique style and approach is explored in a series of his short works and discussed in a Q&A with the artist.
Sebastian Buerkner, The Chimera of M (2013), 3D HD video, colour, sound, 25 min
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. Regular screenings are taking place at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Tramway, Glasgow; Spike Island, Bristol; ICIA, Bath; Peninsula Arts, Plymouth; and Exetor Phoenix.
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Workshop: On Floating Bodies or Can Dialectics Break Gravity? Cinema 2 Sun 26 July, 12 – 6pm A workshop on gravity, weightlessness and the body as a toy, led by artist Matthew Noel-Tod with artist Clunie Reid and artist and writer Benedict Seymour. From the history of cartoons, puppets and animation, and the use of special effects in A Trip to the Moon (1902) to the recent blockbuster Gravity (2013), this session looks at the themes of the unrecognisable body and subjection to the forces of capitalism. Related events: AFC: Sebastian Buerkner – p.24 ICA Post-16 – p.28
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
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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. Throughout the year an on going 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.
New Contemporaries, the Chisenhale Gallery, DAZED, Kingston University and SPACE to provide a range of activities across the capital.
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ICA Learning
Our dynamic Learning programme provides opportunities for creative exchange, investigation and discussion between practitioners and audiences.
Events
ICA Learning
Educators’ Tour of Eloise Hawser and Isa Genzken Led by ICA curator Matt Williams Wed 1 Jul, 5pm
Gallery Tour: Shout Out! Led by artist Polly Brannon Thu 2 Jul, 6.30pm
Gallery Tour: Eloise Hawser Led by artist Yemi Awosile Thu 23 Jul, 6.30pm
Friday Salons This series of talks presents the latest research on current cultural phenomena. £5 / Free to ICA Members Skeuomorphology Fri 17 July, 3pm A discussion on Skeuomorphology, the art of replicating an artefact in a form which is appropriate to another medium.
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Gallery Tour: Everything is Architecture Led by ICA curator Juliette Desorgues Thu 30 Jul, 6.30pm Gallery Tour: Everything is Architecture Led by Jo Melvin Thu 3 Sep, 6.30pm ica.org.uk/events
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ICA Student Forum
ICA Post-16
Symposia
The ICA Student Forum offers students the opportunity to shape and develop a public programme of events in response to ICA exhibitions, films, and other events.
A programme of events developed specifically for ages 16+.
Bureaucracy Wed 1 Jul, 11.15am – 4.15pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £6 ICA Members / £5 ICA Student Members It is a paradox of advanced Western economies that bureaucracy has not only endured; it has actually proliferated. To understand why is to explore complex questions about capitalism, power, individual and collective psychology, and the nature of work. This event, organised by writer Eliane Glaser with artists Phil and Galia Kollectiv, brings together academics, writers and artists to expose and represent the meaning and function of this scourge of everyday life that we all contend with, yet rarely think or talk about. Additional speakers include; David Graeber, anthropologist and author of The Utopia of Rules (2015), political and cultural theorists Jeremy Gilbert and Mark Fisher and novelist Tom McCarthy, In partnership with the University of Reading.
TEXT2SPEECH: Eloise Hawser Wed 2 Sept, 6.30pm Free, booking required A series of free reading groups responding to the ICA’s programme of exhibitions and events, discussing the latest contemporary art theory.
Group and Matinee Screenings £3 tickets / Educators go free A regular programme of films and talks for young audiences. Upcoming screenings:
Waste Land Wed 15 Jul, 2pm
Girlhood Wed 9 Sep, 2pm
Workshop on Radio Sat 27 Jun, 10am Free, booking required Join artist Jenny Moore for a session for 16-19 year-olds on radio and broadcasting, using the Shout Out! display as inspiration. Workshop on Listening Sat 8 Aug, 2pm Free, booking required A workshop led by Mark Peter Wright on sound practice, taking themes from Eloise Hawser’s exhibition Lives on Wire as a starting point.
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Architecture and the Spaces of Information Tue 15 Sep, 11.15am – 5pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £6 ICA Members / £5 ICA Student Members To coincide with the ICA Fox Reading Room exhibition Everything is Architecture: Bau Magazine from the 60s and 70s, this symposium looks at the way shifts in practice, material, production and media environment across the disciplines of art, editorial design and architecture have advanced the relationship between audience/user/reader and architectural space. Organised by Dr. Ruth Blacksell from the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading and Dr. Stephen Walker from Sheffield School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield.
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MA in the Contemporary
Cinema The ICA Cinema has a rich history of supporting independent film and is renowned for its unrivalled programme of independent releases, classic art house titles, retrospectives, 35mm repertory screenings, artists’ film and partnerships with leading film festivals. Check the website for the latest film listings and sign up for our newsletter for regular updates.
'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 Applications open for MA in the Contemporary and MA in the Contemporary – Paris. The MA in the Contemporary is an interdisciplinary programme in the field of 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 30
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. For further information on the programme please visit the University of Kent website: www. kent.ac.uk/english/postgraduate/ taught/contemporary. html or contact: information@kent.ac.uk
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Tickets: £11 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Groups and Matinee Screenings
Tuesday Cinema: £6 / £3 ICA Members
A series of special matinee screenings for schools and educational groups.
Free Day Membership with all cinema tickets
Photo: Victoria Erdelevskaya
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Main Features Highlights
Slow West
Hustlers Convention
Slow West
From 26 Jun Hailed by Grandmaster Flash and Chuck D, sampled by the Beastie Boys, Wu Tang Clan and Nas, Hustlers Convention, released in 1973 was the foundation for today’s hip-hop scene. This film tells of one of music’s buried masterpieces: the missing link between soul power and hip hop. The documentary tells the story of two young hustlers who attend the eponymous convention, only to get tangled up in a shootout and police chase. It is also a tale within a tale of culture and identity, of ambition and greed, that gave the streets a voice, was recited in neighbourhoods word for word and still resonates with meaning today.
From 26 Jun Dark humour pervades this gritty western as naive teenager Jay Cavendish searches for his estranged sweetheart, who alas has a price on her head. Rescued from a vicious bandit, and henceforth accompanied by Silas, a roughneck drifter with an agenda all his own, Jay eventually learns what it is to be a man in an unyielding world. John Mclean writes and directs his first feature – shot in New Zealand – with a keen grasp of dramatic reversal and the visual majesty of the Old West, to gripping and quietly magnificent ends.
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Main Features Highlights
Amy
Salt of the Earth
From 3 Jul Documentarian Asif Kapadia has reassembled the team behind Senna to create a film about Amy Winehouse, the extraordinary musician who tragically died in 2011 at the age of 27. Sticking to his preferred format of using 100% archival footage, the documentary features interviews with some of her closest friends, family, former bandmates, management, producers and collaborators. The film also features unheard tracks and unseen footage, revealing a brilliant artist in all her complicated fragility.
From 17 Jul For the last 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has travelled through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity, witnessing some of the major events of our recent history including international conflicts, starvation and exodus. Salgado now embarks on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora and of grandiose landscapes, all part of a huge photographic project in a tribute to the planet’s beauty. Salgado’s life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano and photographer Wim Wenders.
Amy
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Special Events
A Nos Amours: Chantal Akerman Retrospective
Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival
26 Sep 2013 – 24 Sep 2015 The most complete retrospective ever attempted of Chantal Akerman's entire cinematic oeuvre.
17 Jul – 23 Jul 2015 Europe's largest South Asian Film Festival returns to London packed with new Indian independent films and live Q&As. ICA are proud partners of this growing festival www.londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk
Chantal Akerman 22: Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton + A l’est avec Sonia Wider Atherton Thu 16 Jun, 6.40pm
Horse Money
Dance of Reality
Horse Money
From 21 Aug The Dance of Reality marks the return of Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, the visionary behind cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain. In this radiantly visceral autobiographical film, a young Jodorowsky is confronted by a collection of compelling characters that contributed to his burgeoning surreal consciousness. Born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on the edge of the Chilean desert, where the film was shot, Jodorowsky blends personal history with metaphor, mythology and poetry. The Dance of Reality reflects Jodorowsky’s philosophy that reality is not objective but rather a “dance” created by our own imaginations. 34
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From 18 Sep Award-winning director Pedro Costa’s new film follows Ventura, the enigmatic lead of Costa's groundbreaking Colossal Youth (2006), as he traverses a seemingly endless night populated by the ghosts of the past. From the restless spirits that haunt this decaying urban landscape, Costa conjures a spellbinding cinematic experience. Winner of the Best Director prize at Locarno and ranked high in many Top 10 Films of 2014 lists, Horse Money is a hauntingly beautiful contemplation of Portugal's tumultuous past and uncertain future from a true poet of contemporary European cinema. ICA will host a special Q&A with director Pedro Costa on Fri 18 Sep.
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Chantal Akerman 23: Demain on déménage Thu 17 Sep, 7pm Chantal Akerman 24: Là-bas Thu 1 Oct, 7pm
Catalan Avant-Garde 28 Feb – 18 Dec 2015 ICA and Institut Ramon Llull present a year-long season that resonates with the culture of Catalonia, one of the oldest in Europe. Tots volem el millor per a ella (We all want what’s best for her) Fri 26 Jun, 8.50pm
Onwards & Outwards From Sep 2015 The industrial priorities that govern most kinds of filmmaking create challenges for any filmmaker seeking to provoke audiences with imaginative worlds outside the mainstream. With a particular focus on British women filmmakers who have excelled in making works of independence and originality, Onwards and Outwards is a nationwide programme of screenings, talks, and events, which aim to establish a dialogue around the conditions of production that women face when attempting to use the moving image as a means of expression. Chantal Akerman Retrospective and Onwards & Outwards is made possible with support from the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
Born (UK Premiere) + Q&A Fri 28 Aug, 8.50pm ica.org.uk/films
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Special Events
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10 years of Second Run
4 Aug – 15 Sep 2015 Football is a social act that represents much more than a game to many people around the world. This ICA Cinematheque season emerges in response to films that have continued to employ football as a device through which to explore such popular aspects. The recent award winning Timbuktu (Sissako, 2014) demonstrates how successfully football may be used to illustrate wider social activities, where the strength of a community faced with difficulty is made utterly apparent by their attachment to the game. The films chosen within this programme represent a survey of football’s use within cinema as an act that expresses a whole host of ideas within any context. Each screening allows us the opportunity to develop our understanding of this activity as a cinematic device, and to investigate the social and political significance that it holds for many. 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.
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Offside Tue 4 Aug, 6.30pm Dir. Jafar Panahi, Iran 2006
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Tue 18 Aug, 6.30pm Dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, France 2006 The Second Game Tue 1 Sep, 6.30pm Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania 2014
Maradona by Kusturica Tue 15 Sep, 6.30pm Dir. Emir Kusturica, Spain/France 2008
Maradona
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18 – 24 Sep 2015 A week-long series of classic and contemporary cinematic gems from Second Run DVD. To celebrate ten years since their launch, Second Run has asked filmmakers to curate a selection of films from their outstanding catalogue of world cinema. With personal choices from Pedro Costa, Mark Cousins, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kim Longinotto, Guy Maddin, Joshua Oppenheimer, Pawel
Pawlikowski, the Brothers Quay, Carlos Reygadas, Peter Strickland and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the season will include both long-lost classics and undiscovered contemporary releases, each film a special discovery to share with a new audience. Second Run release rare, bold and innovative films from around the world. Join them in celebrating the extraordinary power of film to inspire and provoke – to celebrate the wonder of cinema.
Daisies
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Prem Sahib 24 September – 15 November 2015 Lower & Upper Galleries
Zhang Ding: Enter the Dragon 12 October – 25 October 2015 ICA Theatre
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