ICA Bulletin April – June 2015
Contents
Welcome
Exhibitions Looks p.4 Ydessa Hendeles: From her wooden sleep…
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FB55 p.8 Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s
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ICA Touring
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Duddell’s presents: ICA Off-Site: Hong Kongese
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Events Room&Book Art Book Fair p.14 Fear of Missing Out p.15 Boiler Room and Logan Sama p.16 Talks p.17 Culture Now p.20 Artists’ Film Club p.21 ICA Learning p.24
Our latest exhibition Looks features the work of Juliette Bonneviot, Andrea Crespo, Morag Keil, Wu Tsang and Stewart Uoo. The show explores ways in which mass digital culture communicates our indentity, with particular reference to gender and sexuality. Hito Steyerl chairs the Talks summit Fear of Missing Out, which further explores the post-digital age, while FB55 in the Fox Reading Room pieces together what little is known of Francis Bacon's first ever solo institutional show held at the ICA in 1955. The display also examines the Wolfenden Report and Peter Wildeblood's imprisonment for 'homosexual offences'. Room&Book, in association with Claire de Rouen Books, returns in May with the latest offerings by specialist bookshops and dealers. Thereafter, our Cinema programme continues to provoke debate, notably with The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer’s eagerly anticipated companion piece to The Act of Killing. See you soon!
ICA Cinema p.30 More from the ICA Support Us p.38 Membership p.39 Editions p.40 Café Bar and Bookshop p.41 Venue Hire p.42 Information p.43
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Exhibitions
22 Apr – 21 Jun 2015 Upper & Lower Gallery
Looks
Looks is a group exhibition, including Juliette Bonneviot, Andrea Crespo, Morag Keil, Wu Tsang and Stewart Uoo, that explores ways in which mass digital culture informs how identity is constructed, performed and challenged. Using methods that are playful and resourceful, many artists engage today with notions of a post-human world, particularly in relation to gender and sexuality. Today, the body and expression of its identity are no longer automatically linked, and the physical body itself is noticeably absent. Instead objects, words and digital images are the main tools of representation. Whilst a context in which the virtual is omnipresent offers tangible opportunities to freely express and exist, identities perceived as alternate to a homogenous mainstream, are both challenged and conversely consumed, as the lines between identity and ‘brand’ become increasingly blurred in late capitalist society. Adopting the position of the ‘prosumer’, at once a spectator and an individual creator of culture, it is the online self that is required to be ever present, ever responsive, ever communicated and ever performed. The exhibition will include film installations, painting, sculpture and photography. To coincide with the exhibition, there will be an associated programme of talks, performances and film screenings. Related events: Artist’s Talk: Wu Tsang – p.17 Looks Live – p.19 Artists' Film Club: Breaking Joints – p.22 Gallery Tours: Chloe Cooper & Katharine Stout – p.25 Symposium (Dis) indentifications – p.28 ICA Cinematheque: Eye and I – p.36 Supported by the Looks Exhibition Supporters Group including Project Native Informant, London.
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Stewart Uoo, You Can Come And Get It, c-print, 2014. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz
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Exhibitions
25 Mar – 17 May 2015 ICA Theatre
Ydessa Hendeles From her wooden sleep…
The ICA is pleased to present From her wooden sleep…, a major new work by German-born Canadian artist-curator Ydessa Hendeles. In From her wooden sleep…, Hendeles draws together disparate elements to compose a tightly choreographed tableau vivant. Continuing her daring explorations of psychologically charged cultural artefacts, Hendeles has staged this show to give visitors an unexpectedly intimate encounter with the work’s many suggestive elements. Central to the installation is a remarkable and unique collection of 150 wooden artist mannequins collected by the artist-curator over twenty years. Ranging in date from 1520 to 1930 and in scale from palm-size to life-size, the mannequins surround a lone figure that stands exposed in the crossfire of their gaze. The intense focus of the scenario suggests a community gathering — perhaps in a courtroom, or at an auction, anatomy lesson or drawing class. The result is a multi-layered meditation on belonging. The ICA exhibition is curated by Philip Larratt-Smith. Related event: Shifting Visions: Collections, Memories and Archives – p.18 Supported by the Ydessa Hendeles Exhibition Supporters Group, including: Bruce and Sam Bailey, Claridge’s, Wendy Fisher and the Kirsh Foundation, Jerry Gorovoy, Vincent Tangredi, Iwan and Manuela Wirth.
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With thanks to Canada House for its support.
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Photo by Robert Keziere
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Exhibitions
24 Mar – 17 May 2015 Fox Reading Room
Exhibitions
26 May – 19 Jul 2015 Fox Reading Room
Image: Photograph of Kate Munday, an employee at the ICA in front of a painting at the Francis Bacon exhibition. © Tate / Tate Images.
FB55 Francis Bacon held his first solo institutional show at the ICA in 1955. A search of the ICA Archive held at Tate, covering the period 1946 to 1987, reveals surprisingly little in the way of archival material relating to this particular exhibition – the invitation card and accompanying catalogue among the few standout items. Omitted from the ICA list of works, possibly as a late entry, Bacon's 'Two Figures in the Grass' (1954) shows two men engaged in an ambiguous act that nevertheless offers up provocative readings at a time when homosexuality was outlawed; as evidenced by the trial of Peter Wildeblood, along with Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers, and the establishment of the Wolfenden Committee. Related events: FB55: A Discussion – p.17 Culture Now: Adrian Clark on Peter Watson – p.20 Gallery Tour: ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir – p.25 ICA Student Forum: Wrestling with Bacon – p.26 Curated by Gregor Muir, with thanks to The John Deakin Archive, The Estate of Francis Bacon, Adrian Clark, Martin Harrison, Astrid Korporaal, Simon Ofield, Anne Massey, Paul Rousseau, Tate Archive, Rose Thompson and Victoria Walsh.
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Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s 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 1960's, but in the 1980s it enjoyed a renaissance. This time stations were broadcasting music from the roofs of residential tower blocks. 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. Related events: Culture Now: Shout Out! – p.20 Workshop on Radio – p.27 With special thanks to Gordan Mac, Lindsay Wesker and Stephen Hebditch amfm.org.uk Generously supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
The Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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ICA Touring 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
Duddell’s presents: ICA Off-Site: Hong Kongese 12 Mar – 22 Jun 2015
Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery, Sandwell Tove Jansson: Tales from the Nordic Archipelago 2 Apr – 27 Jun 2015
See Red Women's Workshop 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
ICA Off-Site: Hong Kongese is an exhibition taking place in Hong Kong, featuring work by Rodel Tapaya, Koo Jeong A, Michele Abeles, Shinro Ohtake, Zhu Jinshi, and Ivy Ma.
Whose Gaze is it Anyway? 24 Oct – 10 Jan 2016
Image: Millie’s Centre Neon Sign (miniature replica), Glass tubes, neon gas, electronic transformers, acrylic, 2014. Courtesy M+, West Kowloon Cultural District.
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5 Jan – 20 Dec 2015
Events Our vibrant programme of live presentations, artist's 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.
fig-2 (50 exhibitions in 50 weeks) fig-2’s structure of 50 successive exhibitions realised on a weekly basis, opening every Monday evening, operates as a catalyst to manifest the aesthetic and critical currency of our times. Through a weekly changing program of artists, writers, dancers, designers, and architects, curated by Fatoş Üstek, fig-2 provides a fertile ground for productive discourse and reflection upon artistic input whilst emphasising a trans-disciplinary attitude and deep audience engagement. fig-2 is a revival of the project fig-1, which was conceived and developed by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling in 2000. fig-2 takes place at the ICA Studio in association with Outset. The project is generously supported by Bicester Village, Philips, fig-2 individual patrons and the Art Fund. 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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Events
Highlights
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#FOMO Room&Book Art Book Fair
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Fear of Missing Out
In association with Claire de Rouen Books 22 – 24 May 2015 For its second year Room&Book will return to the Nash & Brandon Rooms at the ICA. Bringing together 20 of the best book dealers from the UK, USA, Europe and beyond, Room&Book is a unique book fair, offering visitors the chance to meet legendary specialists under one roof, and the opportunity to buy important out-of-print and new publications on art, photography, fashion, counterculture and design. The leading fair for 'new-rare'.
Carl Williams, Maggs Bros (UK) Oliver J Wood (UK) Test Centre Books (UK) Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (USA) Luminous Books (UK) with Owl Cave (USA) 20th Century Art Archives (UK) Claire de Rouen Books (UK) Elegantly Papered (UK) Donlon Books (UK) November Books (UK) Division Leap (USA) Studio Montespecchio di Jan Van Der Donk (IT) Anthony Reynolds (UK) Koenig Books (UK) Printed Matter (USA) So Books (JAP)
29 – 31 May 2015 Chaired by Berlin artist and theorist Hito Steyerl, this three-day event brings together leading international theorists, academics, social thinkers and artists to discuss postdigital anxieties and the social condition.
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Using the year 2015 as a lens through which to view the early 21st Century, Fear of Missing Out captures current debate and forecasts future possibilities for action and change, while acknowledging the complexities of historicising the present at the expense of the future. Examining the progression and trajectory of technological, economic, ecological and cultural advances, speakers from diverse disciplines present on topics from Artificial Intelligence to Cyberfeminism. Associated event: Laura Portius: 9/11 Trilogy – see p.37
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Boiler Room and Logan Sama with the ICA present 14 Dec 2014 – 13 Dec 2015 The ICA, Logan Sama and Boiler Room have joined forces to present a year-long series of events showcasing the most thrilling music from across the UK grime scene. Symbolically, this is a return to grime's embryonic stages. The ICA bar was the home of the Dirty Canvas sessions that first brought grime out of London's estates and into its heart, and exists as a place to showcase talent old and new from around the country. It's an 16
area for true fans, dedicated DJs and MCs to congregate around the scene they love, bringing the vitality of the scene off the messageboards and video comments and into a single room. Tickets are available to ICA Members only through our competition prize draw in advance of each event. Please see the website event pages for details of the Members’ competition and how to enter. You can watch all the events live online via the Boiler Room stream, and follow the conversation on social media via the hashtag #ICAxBR.
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FB55: A Discussion
Artist’s Talk: Wu Tsang
Wed 15 Apr, 6.30pm £10 / £8 ICA Members Examining the significance of Francis Bacon’s 1955 ICA exhibition, this panel addresses questions connected to the artist’s relationship to the social and artistic context of the time. Chaired by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir, speakers include Rina Ayra, Anne Massey, Paul Rousseau, and Victoria Walsh.
Wed 23 Apr, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members LA-based artist Wu Tsang discusses his work during his participation in the ICA exhibition Looks.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Matter of Life and Death
Photo: Paul Tschinkel – ART/New York
Sat 25 Apr, 2pm £10 / £8 ICA Members Thirty years after the ICA’s 1984/85 Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition, the artist’s only UK solo presentation, art historian and senior Jungian analyst Irene Cioffi Whitfield presents a lecture on the psychological life and work of this artist. Given in partnership with the Guild of Analytical Psychologists.
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Artists, what is your value? 29 Apr & 20 May, both 6.30pm Pay-what-you-can In the wake of escalating markets, soaring education costs and diminishing State subsidies, this series examines artists’ negotiations between life, work and art systems, posing the question, Artists, what is your value? Forthcoming talks examine ‘use value’ (29 Apr) and ‘collective value’ (20 May).
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Shifting Visions: Collections, Memories and Archives Wed 13 May, 6.30pm £10 / £8 ICA Members Curator Karen Alexander chairs a panel discussion in response to Ydessa Hendeles’ ICA exhibition From her wooden sleep… Panellists including curator Philip LarrattSmith discuss the installation with reference to collections, memory, archives and the contemporary. Still from Wu Tsang, A day in the life of Bliss, 2014. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Found in Translation
Looks Live
Fri 15 May, 6.30pm £10 / £8 ICA Members This panel examines contemporary poetry and issues regarding translation, featuring poets Michael Hofmann, Jan Wagner and Jamie McKendrick. Presented in partnership with the German Academy for Language and Literature.
Fri 19 Jun, 6.30pm £5 / £3 ICA Members Coinciding with the exhibition Looks, ICA presents an evening of performances by UK and international writers, poets and artists, that explores the revived interest in language in contemporary culture and its relationship to identity in a post-digital era.
Zachary Cahill USSA Wellness Center, 2014, Installation view. Courtesy Zachary Cahill and USSA 2012. Photo: Henrik Strömberg, KW Institute for Contemporary Art
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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. Adrian Clark on Peter Watson Fri 10 Apr, 1pm Biographer Adrian Clark and writer Charlie Porter discuss the life and work of philanthropist, collector and ICA founder Peter Watson (1908–1956).
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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 practice, with many of the programme artists giving presentations and Q&As. Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members
Christine Delphy Fri 12 Jun, 1pm The French sociologist discusses her new book Dominating Others: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror (Verso, 2015).
Shout Out! Fri 3 Jul, 1pm Accompanying Shout Out! UK Pirate Radio in the 1980s, music professionals discuss the future of UK pirate radio.
Oliver Laric + Q&A
Oliver Laric, Untitled, 2014 – 2015, HD video, colour, sound, 6 min. Courtesy the artist.
Cinema 1 Wed 22 Apr, 6.45pm Oliver Laric attempts to overhaul the preconceived formulas of video and sculpture, blurring the space between the original art forms and his re-imaginings. Laric’s work contains a multiplicity of layers, both physical and metaphorical. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the artist.
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Breaking Joints Cinema 1 Wed 13 May, 6.45pm Wed 10 June, 6.45pm The two-part group screening Breaking Joints takes its title from the animation technique that renders movement realistic onscreen. Bringing together a series of works that deal with 2D and 3D animation, surreal narratives are played out by a new generation of emerging artists.
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Charles Atlas + Q&A and book launch Cinema 1 Sat 23 May, 1pm Pioneering filmmaker and artist Charles Atlas has, for over four decades, fused experimental film, art, dance, collaborating with choreographers and dancers including Merce Cunningham and Michael Clark. This screening celebrates his career and marks the launch of a new self-titled monograph documenting his life’s work.
WILDNESS
Wu Tsang, Wildness, 2012. © Courtesy the artist.
Cinema 1 Sat 20 Jun, 1pm WILDNESS, Wu Tsang’s featurelength documentary, is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles that has been home for Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963.
Artists' Moving Image Network
The ICA’s national network of venues committed to showing the best of artists’ moving image work, 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 Exeter Phoenix.
Charles Atlas, Grand Dance of the Jolly 3, 1973 – 2010, Archival material from Super 8 transferred to digital video, no sound, 3 Min. Courtesy the artist and Vilma Gold, London.
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ICA Learning
Our dynamic Learning programme provides opportunities for creative exchange, investigation and discussion between practitioners and audiences.
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Gallery Tours Join curators, artists and other cultural practitioners on Thursday tours that offer a unique perspective on ICA exhibitions. Free, booking required
Educators’ Tour of Looks Led by ICA Head of Programme Katharine Stout Wed 22 Apr, 5pm
Gallery Tour: FB55 Led by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir Thu 30 Apr, 5pm
Friday Salons This series of talks presents the latest research on current cultural phenomena. ÂŁ5 / Free to ICA Members
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Machine Divas: The Archive Fri 1 May, 3pm A discussion around feminist media art practices through documentations of pre-Internet, early net art and media art of the 90s. Based on the Kathy Rae Huffman book collection. With curator Kathy Rae Huffman.
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Gallery Tour: Looks Led by artist Chloe Cooper Thu 7 May, 6.30pm
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ICA Student Forum 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.
Screening the ICA: Shapes and Forms Wed 29 April, 6.30pm £5 / Free to ICA Members A film essay by George Hoellering that is the first example of the ICA on the screen and follows ICA’s exhibition 40,000 Years of Modern Art. Followed by a discussion with artist Mark Aerial Waller. Saturday Bar live performances Sat 16 May, 7.30pm £5 / Free to ICA Members An evening of performances by young artists whose work examines posthuman language, fake/online identities and the body.
Journal gallery tour with Fatoş Üstek
Wrestling with Bacon Thu 14 May, 6.30pm £5 / Free to ICA Members A screening and discussion of archive footage sourced in order to question the influence of British popular culture on Bacon’s 1955 retrospective, in a social milieu which outlawed homosexuality. TEXT2SPEECH: Room&Book Reading Group Fri 22 May, 3pm Free, booking required This reading group will use an art magazine as a platform to explore and discuss contemporary issues of 'writing as practice' and art publishing in contemporary culture.
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A programme of events developed specifically for ages 16+.
Stanley Picker Lectures Tue 12, 19 May, 3, 16 Jun £5 / Free to ICA Members The ICA continues its collaboration with The Contemporary Art Research Centre at Kingston University, to host 2015's Stanley Picker Public Lectures on Art. The programme was established in 2007 by the artist Elizabeth Price to provide a platform for prominent contemporary artists and thinkers to present their ideas and work to a public audience. This year’s artists include Rose Wylie, Sophie von Hellermann, Gavin Turk and Doug Ashford.
Workshop on Radio Sat 20 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. Cinemania A regular programme of films and talks for young audiences which runs in 12 cinemas across London. The films shown at the ICA are targeted to 16-19 year-olds, with the opportunity to help programme the final screening of the series in May. £4 tickets are available. Upcoming screening:
The Stanley Picker Public Lectures are kindly supported by the Stanley Picker Trust. In partnership with Kingston University.
Two Days, One Night Wed 22 Apr, 4.30pm
Copyright Sophie Von Hellerman
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MA in the Contemporary
Symposia Post-Craft Wed 6 May, 11.15am – 5pm £12 / £10 Concessions / £8 ICA Members / £6 ICA Student Members From Turner-prize winning potters to designer makers, art fairs and artisanal sandwiches, the currency of the concept of craft across art, design and architecture is undeniable. The notion of the 'handmade' has developed from being a marginal concern to take centre stage. Besides this newfound currency across the arts, craft's value is increasingly recognised in economic, social and cultural contexts. Amidst dissolving disciplinary boundaries and widespread commercial and cultural appropriation, the meaning of craft is changing and its claims to values such as authenticity and anti-consumerism are in question. This half-day symposium organised by Alex Coles and Catharine Rossi brings together a collection of emerging and established voices questioning the contemporary currency of craft, including practitioners, curators, critics and historians. In partnership with the University of Huddersfield and Kingston University. 28
(Dis) identifications Fri 15 May, 11.15am – 5pm £12 / £10 Concessions / £8 ICA Members / £6 ICA Student Members Identity, identification and disidentification are approached as evolving concepts and embodied practices, foregrounding the indivisibility of body and mind, the material and the virtual. This one-day event aims to trace intersectional transformations within the arts, spanning feminism, psychoanalysis, queer theory and countercultures. In evoking both identity politics and disidentification (as developed in the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and José Esteban Muñoz), the conference aims to foster a discussion that tactically traverses feminist and queer politics and practices, questioning their assumed division. Taking gender critical thought, activism and creative practices as starting points, the symposium will showcase contributions from artists, curators, and writers from either theoretical or practiceled perspectives. In partnership with Middlesex University.
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'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, and History and Philosophy of Art. Jointly taught by academics and practitioners in the School of
English, the School of Arts and The 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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Main Features Highlights
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 to our newsletter for regular updates. 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.
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The Invisible Life
The Invisible Life From 17 Apr Hugo, a man on the cusp of middle age is in the grip of an unshakeable torpor, squandering his life away. Facing the impending death of his friend and professional mentor Antonio, he realises something must change. Existing somewhere between the existential horror of Bergman and absurdist literary dread of Kafka, The Invisible Life explores how Hugo’s past smothers his ability to imagine and create a future for himself. There will be a Q+A with director Vitor Gonçalves on 17 April.
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence From 24 Apr Like a modern day Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two traveling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destiny. Directed by Roy Andersson, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is a journey that unveils the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of others, the humour and tragedy hidden within us, life’s grandeur as well as the ultimate frailty of humanity.
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The Tribe From 15 May A visceral cinematic experience like no other, The Tribe is a story that needs no translation. Deaf mute Sergey becomes embroiled in the illegal activities of the fearsome gang that rule the specialised boarding school he attends. His burgeoning love for a fellow student however, soon leads him on a collision course with the gang’s hierarchy.
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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night From 22 May In the deadbeat Iranian ghost town of Bad City, a lone female vampire stalks the streets at night. Ana Lily Amirpour’s arresting debut's deliberately enigmatic narrative allows for an ambitious exercise in style and atmosphere. With its stark black and white photography, the film is in many ways evocative of the works of Jim Jarmusch. But while Amirpour’s influences are clear, in her effortless blending of multiple genres and monochromatic evocation of a matriarchal underworld, her voice as a singular and exciting new talent is undeniable.
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The Look of Silence
Timbuktu
The Look of Silence
From 29 May Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-yearold shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.
From 12 Jun Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discover how their son was murdered and the identity of the men who killed him. The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother’s murder – something unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power. On 12 June the ICA will host a special Q&A with the director Joshua Oppenheimer.
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Special Events
The Dardenne Brothers 24 Apr – 3 May 2015 A retrospective of works from deeply influential Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Frequently named as heirs to a long lineage of European Realist cinema, the Dardenne brother’s signature includes a handheld immediacy and radically minimal narratives seen as major source of their raw power that directly draws from the brothers’ earlier roots in documentary filmmaking and experimental theatre. This season will examine the narratives, styles and social issues addressed in the brother’s work and aim to provide a crucial context for their recent films.
La Promesse Fri 24 Apr, 8.30pm
Rosetta Sat 25 Apr, 4.30pm
The Son Sun 26 Apr, 4.30pm
L’Enfant Wed 29 Apr, 8.20pm
The Silence of Lorna Thu 30 Apr, 6.30pm
Kid With A Bike Sat 2 May, 4.30pm
Two Days, One Night Sun 3 May, 4.30pm
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Catalan Avant-Garde 28 Feb – 18 Dec 2015 The ICA and Institut Ramon Llull present a year-long season that will resonate with the culture of Catalonia, one of the oldest in Europe. This season of films highlights the daring and innovative approach by many of the new generation of Catalan filmmakers: original, different, artistic and yet extremely engaging. We invite you to discover the fascinating physical and intellectual landscapes of Catalan cinema. El Café de la Marina (The Marina Café) + Q&A Tue 28 Apr, 8.50pm
A Nos Amours: Chantal Akerman Retrospective 26 Sep 2013 – 24 Sep 2015 A Nos Amours present the most complete retrospective ever attempted of Chantal Akerman's entire cinematic oeuvre. Chantal Akerman 19: Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman & Sud Thu 23 Apr, 6.40pm Chantal Akerman 20: La Captive Thu 28 May, 6.40pm Chantal Akerman 21: De l'autre côté Thu 18 Jun, 7pm
Tots volem el millor per a ella (We all want what’s best for her) Fri 26 Jun, 8.50pm
Chantal Akerman 22: Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton + A l'est avec Sonia Wider Atherton Thu 16 Jun, 6.40pm
Born Fri 28 Aug, 8.50pm
Chantal Akerman 23: Demain on déménage Thu 17 Sep, 7pm
La Plaga (The Plague) Tue 27 Oct, 8.50pm El cant dels Ocells (Birdsong) Fri 18 Dec, 8.50pm
Chantal Akerman 24: Là-bas Thu 1 Oct, 7pm
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ICA Cinematheque: Eye and I 5 May – 16 Jun 2015 Coinciding with the ICA exhibition Looks, this ICA Cinematheque season of screenings explore the production and performance of identity within a modern era dominated by mass digital culture, with a particular emphasis upon gender and sexuality. The films chosen represent imaginative explorations of individuality and expression by filmmakers who have continued to play with accepted social conventions. Each screening responds to contemporary debates, providing unique perspectives through which to consider the current functions and effects of representation. 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. All screenings at Tuesday Cinema prices: £6 / £3 ICA Members
Alphaville Tue 5 May, 6.30pm Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, France 1965
Variety Tue 26 May, 6.30pm Dir. Bette Gordon, UK/Germany/USA 1983
Fahrenheit 451 Tue 2 Jun, 6.30pm Dir. François Truffaut, UK/USA/France 1966
Liquid Sky Tue 16 Jun, 6.30pm Dir. Slava Tsukerman, USA 1982
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ICA and BRITDOC presents 9/11 Trilogy and selected shorts by Laura Poitras
27 – 30 May 2015 The 9/11 Trilogy considers, both obliquely and directly, a period in which access to information, and agency in relation to that information, has become contested ground among governments, citizens, security agencies, and the media. The films collectively raise vital questions around the role of critical visual culture at a historical juncture at which the construction of a social imaginary of “freedom” is positioned at odds with transparency and accountability.
O'Say Can You See (2011, short) My Country, My Country (2006) Thu 28 May, 8pm
Death of a Prisoner (2013, short) The Oath (2010) Fri 29 May, 8.30pm
The Program (2012, short) CITIZENFOUR (2014) Sat 30 May, 8.15pm
Laura Poitras will also contribute to Fear of Missing Out, a 3-day summit on post-digital anxieties, chaired by artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl. See p.15
Fahrenheit 451
My Country, My Country
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Eloise Hawser 1 July – 6 September 2015 Lower Gallery
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