ICA Bulletin
April – June 2016
Contents Exhibitions
Guan Xiao Martine Syms Dennis Morris: PiL - First Issue to Metal Box Olivetti: Beyond Form and Function
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Talks & Events
Highlights Culture Now Technology Now
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Associate Artists
Associate Artists Poetry Music
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Artists’ Moving Image
Artists’ Film Club Artists’ Film Biennial 2016 STOP PLAY RECORD AMIN (Artists’ Moving Image Network)
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Learning
Gallery Tours Friday Salons ICA Post-16 Stanley Picker Lectures Symposia ICA Student Forum
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Cinema
Special Events Main Feature Highlights Festivals
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More from the ICA
Support Us Membership Editions Café Bar Bookshop Venue Hire Information
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We’re delighted to be showing Guan Xiao and Martine Syms in our galleries this Spring. Based in Beijing, Guan Xiao presents new work, including an incredible video piece, while Martine Syms, based in LA, continues to explore her ongoing fascination with contemporary black identities. We also welcome Dennis Morris with a display of his early post-punk album design for Public Image Ltd (PiL). Thereafter, our Fox Reading Room focuses on the legacy of Olivetti, the iconic Italian typewriter manufacturer. We continue to examine the influence of new technologies on art and culture with a new series of talks, while profiling artist filmmakers in the 2016 Artists’ Film Biennial. Our Associate Artists programme now involves partners such as Associate Poet Kayo Chingonyi, as well as NTS Radio, Warp Records, JUST JAM, PAN, Thirty Three Thirty Three and The Wire. Our cinema programme presents the Frames of Representation film festival, KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival and Open City Documentary Festival alongside our regular cinema programme. Enjoy!
Gregor Muir Executive Director, ICA
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20 Apr – 19 Jun 2016
Lower Gallery
Guan Xiao Flattened Metal in association with K11 Foundation
Working mainly in sculpture and video, Chinese artist Guan Xiao (b.1983) explores how ways of seeing are now influenced by digital image circulation as an increasingly dominant source of knowledge and information exchange. In various works and installations she endeavours to expand the aesthetic and cognitive possibilities for how identity and meaning are assigned and understood. Guan Xiao’s work is occupied with our incomprehension of the past, and the way in which the unknown gives rise to intriguing discussion in the present. She juxtaposes references from the past and present (or future), weaving visual and audio material, digital rendering techniques and objects, alongside so-called primitive and high-tech elements, creating distinct and evocative installations. In 4
this way, she offers fresh perspectives on what we perceive as the ‘new’ and the ‘old’. Guan Xiao’s ICA exhibition will include a video triptych and new installation comprising a series of large printed screens with sculptural and audio elements. Related events: p. 30 Educators’ Tour led by ICA Head of Programme Katharine Stout and Curator Matt Williams With thanks to the Guan Xiao Exhibition Supporters Group, Joyce Liu, Antenna Space, Shanghai, Bruno Wang & Pure Land Foundation, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin K11 Art Foundation in association with the ICA, London present Zhang Ding: Enter the Dragon II 21 May – 2 July 2016 K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
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Guan Xiao, Action, 2014 Courtesy the artist, Antenna Space, Shanghai and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
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Upper Gallery
Martine Syms Fact & Trouble
Fact & Trouble is an exhibition of new and recent photography, video, and sculpture by Martine Syms (b. 1988), a Los Angeles based artist with an ongoing interest in historiography, semiotics, and pop. Syms is interested in how language and physical gestures are used within the American media as expressions of identity. Her ICA exhibition will feature works derived from her recent video series Lessons, an incomplete poem in 180 sections. Each Lesson takes the form of a 30-second TV clip. The footage, which is original and appropriated, is a distillation of everyday life. Syms is the founder of Dominica, a publishing imprint dedicated to exploring black aesthetics in visual culture. Through publishing, video, and performance Syms explores the making and reception of meaning in present-day America. 6
Related events: p. 13 Martine Syms: Misdirected Kiss p. 25 Artists' Film Biennial: Selected by artist Martine Syms p. 30 Educators’ Tour led by ICA Head of Programme Katharine Stout and Curator Matt Williams p. 30 Gallery Tour led by artist Evan Ifekoya p. 31 Who’s Jamming Who? Workshop in Digital Screen Practices
Supported by the Martine Syms Exhibition Supporters Group.
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Martine Syms, Misdirected Kiss (detail), 2016. Courtesy of the artist
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ICA Fox Reading Room
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Dennis Morris PiL – First Issue to Metal Box
Olivetti Beyond Form and Function
A full box of Pil(s) the first band shot “Chelsea – Gunter Grove”. © Dennis Morris
Olivetti Lettera 22, poster by Giovanni Pintori (1954). Courtesy Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti, Ivrea – Italy
This exhibition presents photographs and ephemera relating to the early stages of the band Public Image Ltd’s (PiL) design from 1978-79. Original band members included John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten – vocals), Keith Levene (lead guitar), Jah Wobble (bass) and Jim Walker (drums). Working closely with photographer and designer Dennis Morris, the display explores the evolution of the band’s identity, from their influential journey to Jamaica in 1978 to the design of the iconic Metal Box. The years 1978-79 marked a period that hailed the end of the Sex Pistols and the subsequent shift from Punk to New Wave. Morris sought to capture this era by creating a strong visual identity for the band. His subsequent designs further aligned PiL with a style and attitude that announced a new chapter in music history. 8
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The related programme of events will include Dennis Morris in conversation with Andrew Higgie, and a talk on the revival of analogue musical formats and packaging in relation to the evolution of popular music and technology. Related events: p. 12 The Rise, Fall and Rise of Vinyl Records p. 30 Gallery Tour led by Carl Williams
With special thanks to Artefacts Framing, Keith Reilly, Sonos and Tapestry for their support of the exhibition. The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation. Media Partner
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Founded in 1908 in Italy as a typewriter manufacturing company, Olivetti recognised the importance of design over pure functionalism. The company produced some of the most iconic hand-typing devices and early computers of the 20th century: from the Lettera 22 (1950) and Valentine (1969) typewriters, to the Elea 9003 (1959), Italy’s first computer, and the Programma 101 (1965), the first commercially produced desktop computer. This display presents photographs, films and ephemera relating to Olivetti’s graphic and spatial design, as well as architecture. Focusing largely on the industrial boom of the post-war era, the display covers a key period in Olivetti’s history, which saw the creation of the iconic Valentine typewriter and the company’s increasing move towards
computer technologies. Throughout its history, Olivetti commissioned writers, designers, architects and artists: from Le Corbusier to Gae Aulenti, Walter Ballmer, Herbert Bayer, Marcello Nizzoli, Giovanni Pintori and Ettore Sottsass. The display will create a historical lineage and show the progressive cultural ideals at the heart of the company’s ethos, a model which still resonates today. Related events: p. 30 Educators’ Tour led by ICA Curator Juliette Desorgues p. 30 Gallery Tour led by Juliette Desorgues and designer Valerio Di Lucente. Presented in collaboration with Associazione Archivo Storico Olivetti, Ivrea - Italy. The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation.
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Ceramics in Contemporary Art Date TBC, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members The demise of medium specificity is located around the same time as the demise of modernist art – towards the end of the 1960s. Since that time artists have resisted conforming to the perceived conventions of a medium, or being confined to one discipline. Additionally making art today does not necessitate a break from the past, and many artists create new forms of art through complex and fluent merging of past idioms, styles and formats. Yet amongst such pluralism, it is noticeable that ceramics has recently proven fertile territory for experimentation and creative speculation within contemporary art. To coincide with our solo exhibition of Betty Woodman’s work, a panel of artists and curators will debate why one of the oldest forms of art practice is being increasingly utilised by contemporary artists.
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Mårten Spångberg, The Internet, 2015. © Tani Simberg
Mårten Spångberg: The Internet
pop music, dance, changes of dress, and a set that incorporates sculptural elements, in which audiences are encouraged to move around, watch, fade out, re-join, have a nap or have a nice chat with a friend.
Wed 1 June, 6.30pm £10 / £8 ICA Members
Pushing the boundaries of performance, Mårten Spångberg’s The Internet intertwines music, dance and sculpture, presenting a balancing act between theatre and museum. Investigating the influences of digital communication on choreography and representation, within this choreographed piece social networks become secondary audiences, and health apps, games and dating tools are used to generate dance, rhythm and vibe. At almost four hours long, the work includes
Presented by Block Universe in partnership with ICA and Dance Art Foundation. Block Universe (30 May – 5 June 2016) is an annual festival that brings together a new wave of cutting-edge performance art at the cross-section of contemporary visual art, dance and music in major institutions and unique venues across London.
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Highlights The Rise, Fall and Rise of Vinyl Records 4 May 2016, 6.30pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members On occasion of the ICA Reading Room exhibition Dennis Morris: PiL – First Issue to Metal Box we are pleased to present a panel discussion chaired by Coleen 'Cosmo' Murphy (Classic Album Sundays) that explores the visual history and influence that vinyl album cover design has had on popular culture. With an esteemed panel of speakers including Sean Bidder (Vinyl Factory), Peter Saville and Adrian Shaughnessy, the talk will discuss the impact of album cover art, what differentiates vinyl from alternative analogue and digital formats, including the cassette tape, compact disc, MP3, and why there is an ongoing resurgence among the download generation today.
Highlights Martine Syms: Misdirected Kiss
Artist's Talk: Arseny Zhilyaev
Fri 22 Apr, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members ICA exhibiting artist Martine Syms presents Misdirected Kiss, a performative lecture that tells a story about language, movement, and performance as observed in black female entertainers. Presented on the occasion of her exhibition Fact & Trouble, an exhibition of new and recent photography, video, and sculpture by this Los Angelesbased artist who has an ongoing interest in historiography, semiotics and pop.
Thu 23 Jun, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members Moscow-based Russian artist Arseny Zhilyaev is in conversation with Francesco Manacorda (Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool) ahead of a presentation of new work as part of the Liverpool Biennial. Using artistic, political, scientific and museological histories to uncover and propose potential futures, Zhilyaev’s work explores the space between fiction and non-fiction. Supported by ICA Russian Talks Circle
Bas Jan Ader, Broken Fall (geometric), 1971 © The Estate of Bas Jan Ader, Mary Sue Ader Andersen, 2016, The Artist Right’s Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles and Simon Lee Gallery, London
The Legacy of Bas Jan Ader Sat 25 Jun, 2pm £10 / £7 ICA Members A screening of four of Bas Jan Ader’s Falling films, introduced by curator Pedro de Llano, is followed by contributions from Jan Verwoert, Janice Kerbel, Mary Sue Ader Anderson and Nick Baker, all examining the enduring legacy of this influential Dutch artist. Forty years after the end of his incredibly brief career, conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader’s concise body of work continues to inspire artists, writers, curators and critical thinkers. Image of the second album Metal Box (1979) © Dennis Morris
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Presented in association with Simon Lee Gallery. This event is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Arseny Zhilyaev, Cradle of Humankind, 2015. Installation view. Photo: Alex Maguire Courtesy of the V-A-C Foundation and private collections
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Culture Now
Informal Friday lunchtime conversations for the culturally curious, with key figures from the contemporary arts scene. Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members Fridays at 1pm
Brian Eno 29 April English visual artist, musician, composer and record producer Brian Eno discusses his visual art work with writer and novelist Michael Bracewell. Marking the occasion of a new exhibition of lightbox works at Paul Stolper Gallery, the pair explore the themes that inform and inspire Eno’s particular vision of light and time manipulation.
Mike Watson 10 June Italy-based art theorist and curator Mike Watson discusses his latest publication Towards a Conceptual Militancy (Zero, 2016).
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Re-fashioning the Female Body 22 April Hettie Judah chairs a discussion with designer Georgina Godley and a panel including fashion historian Miren Arzalluz and curator Karen Vangodtsenhoven (Modemuseum, Antwerp), discussing the modern history of the fashion silhouette. This talk marks the publication of Fashion Game Changers: Reinventing the 20 th-Century Silhouette (2016).
Sophy Rickett and Darian Leader 20 May Artist Sophy Rickett is in conversation with psychoanalyst Darian Leader, discussing her new book of photographic work The Death of a Beautiful Subject (GOST Books, 2015). Whilst tracing and recording a dialogue with the artist’s family, this new work explores photography as a means to navigate the world.
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Technology Now
Continuing the ICA’s long-standing enquiry into the influence of new technologies on art and culture, this Talks Series examines the impacts, progression and trajectory of technological advances. Experimental presentations offer opportunity for engagement with new research and original understandings of radical culture in the digital age. Proposing possible futures for technologies and new ways of relating to the technical means that permeate our lives, society and environment, this Series presents a compendium of critical ideas from the most significant artists, writers and thinkers engaging with the field today.
Jussi Parikka Thu 21 Apr, 6.30pm Finnish media theorist Jussi Parikka discusses his theory of the ‘Anthrobscene’.
Boris Groys Sat 4 June, 2pm Art theorist Boris Groys presents on his new book Into the Flow (Verso, 2016) discussing art in the age of the thingless medium; the Internet.
Christopher Kulendran Thomas Wed 22 June, 6.30pm The artist discusses his new work and recent practice, and considers how art's exhibitionary-commercial complex could be imaginatively repurposed.
ICA Studio Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members
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Poetry ICA Associate Poet: Kayo Chingonyi
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As a response to the growing intersection between art and poetry today, the Associate Poet programme continues a long-standing interest throughout the ICA's history in engaging with language and poetry. Kayo Chingonyi is a writer, editor, events producer, and creative writing tutor. He will curate a programme of talks, readings and performances as part of his ICA Associate Poet residency which will take place until April 2016. Kayo's poems have been published in a range of magazines and anthologies and in a debut pamphlet entitled Some Bright Elegance (Salt Publishing, 2012). In 2013 he was awarded a writing residency at Cove Park (Scotland) as well as the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize from the Poetry Society. He represented Zambia at Poetry Parnassus, is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity in British Poetry, and has been invited to give readings and performances across the UK and further afield in Ireland, Mexico, Abu Dhabi and South Africa. Kayo is currently working on his first full-length collection entitled Kumukanda and a new pamphlet is forthcoming from the African Poetry Book Fund, in collaboration with Brooklynbased independent publisher Akashic Books, in 2016.
Initiation[s] workshop
Sun 9 Apr, 2pm Free event, booking required An exploratory cross-arts workshop for 16-19 year olds led by ICA Associate Poet Kayo Chingonyi. This workshop invites you to delve into the experience of growth from youth to maturity through spoken word, performance and design. Inspired by characters from the Mukanda, a Zambian rite of passage that provides guidance and protection during the transition into adulthood, participants have the chance to write and perform poems giving voice to their own experiences of becoming young adults.
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Music ICA Associates Music Programme The ICA Associates Music programme seeks to evolve new relationships with established and emerging music organisations who have a shared interest in experimentation and examination of current themes in contemporary music. Please see our website for full details and upcoming events.
ICA Associates: Ninja Tune present Ash Koosha Sat 4 June, 8pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members ICA Theatre With the release of ‘I AKA I’ on Ninja Tune, Iranian-born, London-based electronic musician Ash Koosha - Synaesthete, virtual reality pioneer, software humanist, political cause celebre, former rock musician and student of classical music - unveils his new live show in the UK for the first time. Working closely with long-time visual collaborators Hirad Sab and Dalena Tran, Koosha brings his fractal and affecting sonics to life with an A/V performance incorporating the Oculus Rift VR tool and other groundbreaking technologies. Mainly using his own field recordings, Koosha manipulates their form into original and often beautiful movements — a process he calls “finding geometry in sounds.”
Ash Koosha by Ozge Cone. Courtesy Ninja Tune
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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.
Jacolby Satterwhite and Cécile B. Evans + Q&A Thu 28 April, 6.45pm This screening features new and recent work by artists Jacolby Satterwhite and Cécile B. Evans. Profiling both practices, the screening will be followed by a discussion with the artists exploring the variances and similarities in approaches to their work.
East Asia Moving + Introduction Sat 14 May, 2pm East Asia Moving presents recent work by artist filmmakers from China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore, giving a brief glimpse into moving image practices from East Asia. Curated by Moritz Cheung and Jamie Wyld for videoclub and supported by Arts Council England.
LuYang, Delusional Mandala, 2015. Courtesy the artist
Tickets £5 / Free to ICA Members
Coco Fusco
Peter Tscherkassky + Q&A
Sat 4 June, 2pm A screening of New York-based artist Coco Fusco's Ted Ethology: Primate Visions of the Human Mind (2015), which sees Fusco deliver a TED talk whilst embodying the primate Dr Zira from the Planet of the Apes film series. In her Skyped-in introduction, esteemed feminist theorist and technoscience philosopher Donna Haraway explains that Dr. Zira narrowly escaped death in the third film and has been living in hiding, observing human behaviour through visual culture.
Sat 11 June, 4pm A screening of Austrian analogue filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky’s work, featuring the UK premier of The Exquisite Corpus (2015). As its title suggests, multiple elements of found footage are spliced together in this dark and hypnotic work. The screening is presented in association with MUBI and is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
Coco Fusco, TED Ethology: Primate Visions of the Human Mind, 2015. HD video, colour, sound, 50 min. Image copyright the artist. Courtesy of Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Programme Thu 26 May
STOP PLAY RECORD Young Filmmakers Workshop Tue 24 May, 6.30pm Sat 28 May, 12pm Free, booking required Aimed at young filmmakers aged 16-24, this workshop forms part of our ongoing series of events for STOP PLAY RECORD, a programme which supports young people interested in filmmaking through screenings, workshops and events as well as the opportunity to make your own short film. This event is part of STOP PLAY RECORD. For further events see p. 27.
Wed 25 May
The ICA Artists’ Film Biennial 2016 is a five-day celebration of artists’ film and moving image. The Biennial’s comprehensive series of screenings and talks extends the ICA’s “Artists’ Film Club”, a regular programme which profiles and debates the best international artists’ moving image. Established in 2007, the “Artists’ Film Club” provides a platform for emerging and established artist filmmakers in London at the ICA, and at partner venues across the UK via the ICA’s Artist Moving Image Network. This edition of the Artists’ Film Biennial features profile screenings on Ellen Cantor and Lars Laumann, artist selected programmes from Ahmet Öğüt, Charlotte Prodger, Martine Syms and Ming Wong, alongside programmes selected 22
by international curators Saim Demircan, Hanne Mugaas and collective Radclyffe Hall. There are opportunities to propose a programme or screen artists' work in two Open Calls and a series of talks and events exploring Moving Image’s wider cultural influences. Complementing the screening programmes are a series of presentations from the UK’s leading Moving Image organisations exploring the support structures for Artists Moving Image in the UK. Screenings/Talks: £7 / £5 Concessions / £3 ICA Members Workshops: £15 / £12 Concessions / £10 ICA Members Symposiums: £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
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Artists’ Workshop on Screen and Animal Encounters 11am This workshop, led by Philip Warnell and Shama Khanna, will touch on themes of exhibition and encounter, companionship, animal spirits and unruly creatures in relation to the filmic medium. In partnership with Kingston University London.
Profile: Ellen Cantor 6.30pm The late Ellen Cantor produced video and drawings, and during the last years of her life was working towards a feature length film Pinochet Porn. This screening profiles a series of her video works.
LUX / FVU / Home Artists Film 12pm This event features presentations from key Moving Image organisations LUX, Film and Video Umbrella and Home Artists Film, as well as the opportunity to see some of the work they support.
Open Call: Curatorial 3pm A screening selected from an international call for curatorial proposals. Deadline for submissions midnight 22 April 2016, for further details please see the website.
Selected by curator Saim Demircan 6.30pm A programme of screenings selected by Saim Demircan, who is a freelance curator based in Berlin and was previously curator at Kunstverein Munich.
Selected by artist Charlotte Prodger 8.30pm A programme of films by the late US artist Nancy Holt, selected by Glasgow-based artist Charlotte Prodger whose practice explores similar themes.
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FLAMIN / SODA Film + Art/ Frieze Video
Selected by curator Hanne Mugaas
Talk: Social Identity and the Moving Image
Symposium: Mediating Cityscapes
12pm This event feature presentations from key Moving Image organisations FLAMIN, SODA Film + Art and Frieze Video, as well as the opportunity to see some of the work they support.
6.30pm A screening programme selected by Hanne Mugaas, director and curator of Kunsthall Stavanger in Norway.
3pm A panel discussion exploring the role of Moving Image as a device for defining and constructing social identities and the ways these topics are perceived within a wider cultural context.
11am This symposium explores artistic, photographic and filmic relations to the mediated cityscape and its contemporary fragmentation. Presented in partnership with Birkbeck, University of London.
Talk: Political Identity and the Moving Image
8.30pm A screening programme selected by sociocultural initiator, artist, and lecturer Ahmet Öğüt. He is the founder of The Silent University, which is an autonomous knowledge exchange platform by refugees and asylum seekers.
Profile: Lars Laumann
Open Call: Outside
6.30pm A programme of films by Norwegian artist Lars Laumann, who explores unusual biographies and documentary approaches through his moving image work. This screening features the UK premier of Season of Migration to the North (2015)
3pm A group screening selected from an Open Call on the theme “Outside”. Deadline for submissions midnight 22 April 2016. For further details please see the website.
3pm This panel discussion explores the evolving role of moving image as a political medium, and how political identities are depicted and captured.
Selected by artist Ahmet Öğüt
Selected by artist Martine Syms 8.30pm A programme selected by artist Martine Syms, an artist based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Dominica, a publishing imprint dedicated to exploring "blacknuss" in visual culture. Her participation coincides with her solo exhibition from 20 April – 19 June.
Selected by curator Radclyffe Hall 6.30pm A screening selected by Radclyffe Hall, a group of artists and writers dedicated to exploring culture, aesthetics and learning through the lens of contemporary feminism.
Selected by artist Ming Wong 8.30pm A screening selected by Ming Wong, an artist working with performance, video and installation to explore cinematic histories and the politics of gender and representation.
Ellen Cantor, Pinochet Porn, 2009. Courtesy of Ellen Cantor estate
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STOP PLAY RECORD is a programme open to anyone interested in making experimental short films and being introduced to a range of professionals from different creative sectors who work with the moving image.
Throughout the year an ongoing series of STOP PLAY RECORD 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.
A series of short presentations and open discussions for aspiring artists and filmmakers who want to hear from professionals working with the moving image. Related event: p. 23 Artists' Film Biennial Young Filmmakers Workshop
A Conversation with Artists and Filmmakers
A Conversation with Producers and Commissioners
Thu 14 Apr, 6:30pm Free, booking required We are joined by artist-filmmaker Phillip Warnell, artist Alice Theobald and director Ninian Doff as they discuss their creative practice focusing on the development of their ideas and creative treatments.
Thu 5 May, 6:30pm Free, booking required Commissioners and Producers from Film and Television consider how new work is commissioned and what further opportunities are out there for young artists and filmmakers.
Performance and Reality: A Workshop with Roberto Minervini
A Conversation with Talent Managers and Film Distributors
Sun 20 Apr, 5:30pm £7 / £6 Concession / £5 ICA Members Acclaimed director Roberto Minervini in discussion with aspiring filmmakers on his creative and development process, how he has funded his projects, and reflections on his early work. He also addresses how he combines narrative drama with documentary in recent feature length films. This workshop is part of Frames of Representation film festival – see p. 42
Thu 23 June, 6:30pm Free, booking required A range of speakers from film, documentary and visual art look at how artists and filmmakers are supported with the development and distribution of their work.
Each year STOP PLAY RECORD supports the planning and production of 24 short films with young people aged 16–24 based in London.
STOP PLAY RECORD forms part of a joint initiative between Arts Council England and Channel 4, which sees the Institute of Contemporary Arts lead a London Network in partnership with Bloomberg New Contemporaries, the Chisenhale Gallery, DAZED, Kingston University and SPACE to provide a range of activities across the capital.
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Ninian Doff, Chemical Brothers "Sometimes I Feel So Deserted", 2014
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Artists’ Moving Image Network The ICA’s national network of venues committed to showing a regular programme of artists’ moving image, with support from Arts Council England.
Regular screenings are taking place at: MK Gallery (Milton Keynes) Tramway (Glasgow) Spike Island (Bristol) Peninsula Arts (Plymouth) Exeter Phoenix (Exeter) Phoenix (Leicester) mima (Middlesbrough) Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool) ICA (London) HOME (Manchester) Artists included: Neïl Beloufa, Keren Cytter, Duncan Campbell, Steven Claydon, Mattieu K. Abonnenc, Ursula Mayer, Naeem Moheimen, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers, Hito Steyerl, Ryan Trecartin, Wu Tsang
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Gallery Tours Friday Salons Educators’ Tour Dennis Morris: PiL - First Issue to Metal Box led by ICA Curator Matt Williams
This series of talks presents the latest research on current cultural phenomena.
Wed 13 Apr, 5pm
Educators’ Tour Guan Xiao: Flattened Metal in association with K11 Foundation and Martine Syms: Fact & Trouble led by ICA Head of Programme Katharine Stout and Matt Williams
On the Value of Design and Making in China
£5 / Free to ICA Members Fri 22 Apr, 2pm This event brings together creatives from China and the UK to discuss the Maker movement, which combines influences from craft, DIY, design and hacker culture to develop new models of education and expressions of creativity.
Wed 27 Apr, 5pm
In partnership with Kingston University, the University of Brighton and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Gallery Tour Dennis Morris: PiL – First Issue to Metal Box led by Carl Williams
Thu 28 Apr, 6.30pm
Gallery Tour Martine Syms: Fact & Trouble led by artist Evan Ifekoya
Thu 5 May, 6.30pm
Educators’ Tour Olivetti: Beyond Form and Function led by ICA curator Juliette Desorgues
Wed 1 Jun, 5pm
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ICA Post-16 A programme of events developed specifically for ages 16+. All events are free, booking required.
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Who’s Jamming Who? Workshop in Digital Screen Practices Sat 21 May, 11:15am Artist Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau leads a one day workshop exploring the use of online image editors, GIF makers and presentation tools for digital appropriation, remixing and interrupting.
Born 'n' Bread: [Re]presentations Workshop Sat 18 Jun, 2pm Come and create your own hand-made magazine with zine-makers, DJ collective and hosts on NTS Radio, Born 'n' Bread. Use drawings, text and found images to communicate what really matters, and explore how our identities are represented in media and culture today. Related event: p. 17 Kayo Chingonyi: Initiation[s] Workshop
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Symposium: Feminisms and Curatorial Collaborations
Symposium: Mediating Cityscapes
Sat 16 Apr, 11:15 am £8 / £5 ICA members This symposium explores the synergy between feminist theories and curatorial practice by addressing issues relating to solidarity, friendship, the ethics of care and working collaboratively or collectively.
Sun 29 May, 11am – 3pm This symposium responds to the broader context of the ICA Artist’s Film Biennial, by exploring artistic, photographic and filmic relations to the mediated cityscape and its contemporary fragmentation. Key themes include Mediating Fragments, Mediating Publics and Mediating Narratives. This event is part of the Artist’s Film Biennial. For further events see p. 22–25.
In partnership with Middlesex University and the CREATE/ Feminisms research cluster.
In partnership with Birkbeck, University of London.
Stanley Picker Lectures 6pm £5 / £3 ICA members Since 2014, the ICA collaborates with The Contemporary Art Research Centre at Kingston University, London to host the 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. Previous lectures at the ICA have featured Rose Wylie, Sophie von Hellermann, Gavin Turk, Doug Ashford and Ansel Krut.
Nicole Wermers and Joshua Simon 10 May
Sarah Michelson 31 May
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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. TEXT2SPEECH: Proxy Politics as Withdrawal Tue 12 May, 6pm–8pm As part of the ongoing reading group series TEXT2SPEECH, this event is based on Hito Steyerl’s essay “The Terror of Total Dasein”. It will look at ways in which artists use the concept of ‘proxy politics’ in their practice. Co-hosted by the artist collective HARD-CORE, and Maximilian Schmoetzer, artist and member of the Research Center of Proxy Politics, the workshop explores the idea of the proxy, a surrogate or decoy, often used to designate a computer server acting as an intermediary as a method of withdrawal or protest. Convened by Student Forum member Christian Lubbert.
NO SCREENING Fri 13 May, 7pm East Anglia Records and SOUNDS LIKE… come together in response to Martine Syms: Fact & Trouble to explore the artist’s interest in physical gestures used within American media as expressions of identity. This event gives a selection of artists the opportunity to create sonic works which are performed and heard in darkness, providing an opportunity for artists not to be gazed at. Exploring the resonances of sonic experience and storytelling, the event will question the importance of the s(cr)een and giving up the need for viewing. Curated by Cristine Brache of the ICA Student Forum. Artist performances from: Harry Bix Sarah Boulton Cassandre Greenberg Christopher Kirubi Shenece Liburd Ana Maria Soubhia & Rhoda Boateng Sweatlana Mary Vettise
Ansel Krut, Raoul Hausmann on Mars, 2014. Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
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Special Events
Yangon Calling – Punk in Myanmar
ICA Cinematheque: Punx Not Dead. Cinema and Society After Punk 29 Mar – 10 May 2016 Coinciding with the ICA exhibition Dennis Morris: PiL - First Issue to Metal Box, this ICA Cinematheque season captures the echoes of the political, social and musical upheaval in the UK and the USA that began in 1978–79, a period that saw the end of the Sex Pistols and the subsequent shift from Punk into New Wave. The hedonistic 80’s provided fertile soil for a riot of conflicting subcultures: from hardcore realism to nihilistic dandyism, from suburban scenes to international celebration, these films give us insight into what makes Punk a creative powerhouse that still resonates worldwide.
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 are ICA Tuesday prices: £6 / £3 to ICA Members Suburbia Tue 29 Mar, 6.30pm The Hunger Tue 19 Apr, 6.30pm Yangon Calling – Punk in Myanmar Tue 3 May, 7pm B-Movie: Lust & Sound In West-Berlin 1979–1989 Tue 10 May, 6.30pm
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Pablo Larraín Focus 1–5 Apr 2016 To celebrate the release of Pablo Larraín’s latest feature film The Club, the ICA, Network Releasing and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama present an exclusive retrospective of the Oscarnominated director’s work. Starring Larraín’s long-time collaborator Alfredo Castro, The Club has been nominated for Best Motion Picture Foreign Language at Berlin International Film Festival and won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. Larraín gained critical acclaim on the festival circuit with his first featurelength film Fuga which was released in 2006. His second film Tony Manero debuted at Cannes Film Festival in 2008 as part of Directors’ Fortnight, and in 2010 Post Mortem premiered in Official Competition at Venice Film Festival. The following year his fourth feature NO, which starred Gael Garcia Bernal, premiered at Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival where it won the Art Cinema Award. It was
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also nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 for Best Foreign Language Film. One of the most prolific LatinAmerican directors of our time, Larraín’s Pinochet trilogy (Tony Manero, Post Mortem, NO) has been recognised as a clear critique of the dictator’s leadership while full of the dark humour for which he is renowned.
The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers From 6 May The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is an audacious and revelatory new feature from acclaimed British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers, director of the FIPRESCI prize-winning Two Years at Sea (2011), Moving between documentary, fiction and fable, the film follows its protagonist, filmmaker Oliver Laxe as he directs his own film Las Mimosas in Morocco, only to walk off set and into Rivers's narrative. Shot against the Moroccan landscape, Laxe is drawn into a perilous, hallucinatory adventure of cruelty and madness, revealing the multi-layered illusion of cinema itself.
Tony Manero + Panel Discussion Fri 1 Apr, 6.30pm Post Mortem Sat 2 Apr, 4pm NO
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Fuga Tue 5 Apr, 8.30pm NOTFILM
NOTFILM From 13 Apr ICA exclusive In this extensive kino-essay, director Ross Lipman examines the literary, cinematic and personal history surrounding the production of FILM, Samuel Beckett’s only screenplay for cinema. A fascinating exploration of Beckett’s ideas and their genesis, NOTFILM is packed with references and clips from the work of Buñuel, Vertov, Vigo, Eisenstein (and many more) which will enthral even the most casual cinephile. On 15 and 16 April NOTFILM will be accompanied by the short FILM by Alan Schneider, written by Samuel Beckett and starring Buster Keaton.
Mustang From 13 May It's the beginning of summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters return home from school, innocently playing with a group of boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unforeseen consequences. The family home progressively transforms into a prison, practical household chores replace school work and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters, driven by the same desire for freedom, twist the boundaries imposed upon them.
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Heart of a Dog
Embrace of the Serpent
From 20 May Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog is a cinematic journey through love, death and language. Centring on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011, this film is a personal essay that weaves together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings, as well as heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her. Fusing her own witty, inquisitive narration with original violin compositions, hand-drawn animation, 8mm home movies and artwork, Anderson creates a collagelike visual language out of the raw materials of her life and art, examining how stories are constructed and told — and how we use them to make sense of our lives.
From 10 June Filmed in stunning black-and-white, Embrace of the Serpent is the third feature by Ciro Guerra. The film focuses on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor KochGrünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who travelled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-tofind psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Fire at Sea
Fire at Sea
No Home Movie
From 10 June Samuele is 12 years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last 20 years in search of freedom.
From 24 June At the centre of pioneering filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s enormous body of work is her mother, a Holocaust survivor who married and raised a family in Brussels. In recent years, Akerman has explicitly depicted, in videos, books, and installation works, her mother’s life and their own intense connection to each other. No Home Movie is an intimate video essay focusing on their relationship in the last years of her life. Interior shots of her mother shuffling around her apartment in Brussels are juxtaposed with desert landscapes, rupturing the domesticity with a profound sense of alienation. The film is a mediation on death and the fragility of memory, and is a moving exploration of how and what we remember.
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Festivals
Lost and Beautiful (Bella e Perduta)
Frames of Representation Film Festival 20–27 Apr 2016 Frames of Representation (FoR) is a film festival which showcases new forms of documentary cinema and invites discussion around the issues represented on screen. For its inaugural edition, the festival focuses on the theme of the ‘New Periphery’ and cinema’s role in bringing the excluded and marginalised to the centre of conversation. Uniquely interdisciplinary in nature, the festival recognises the ongoing evolution of documentary as an art form, highlighting new cinematic hybrids of fiction and documentary that open up multiple frames of reality. Director Q&As, workshops and essays provide additional engaging context for the screenings. Each film in the programme takes the audience on a unique aesthetic 40
and ethical journey to the edges of the contemporary Anthropocene, from the political disenchantment of America's Deep South to the industrial underbelly of Mongolia, from palatial ruins in Italy to a submerged village in rural Mexico. This year’s festival includes six UK premieres profiling an international selection of filmmakers from China, Italy, Mexico, Poland, USA and UK. Highlights of the programme include a rare masterclass on film editing in documentary cinema from Oscar-winning editor and sound designer Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now; The Godfather: Part II and Part III) and award-winning films Lost and Beautiful (Bergman Award) and Kings of Nowhere (SXSW Award). Multi-buy ticket offer available. Join the conversation on social media with #FoR16. framesofrepresentation.com
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14th KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival 15–22 Apr 2016 KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival returns for its 14th edition. In honour of the late filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski, the festival presents a retrospective tribute which includes the UK premiere of his award-winning last film Cosmos. The film is a metaphysical thriller and loose adaptation of Witold Gombrowicz's surreal novel. The programme also includes three of Żuławski’s most critically acclaimed films. Censored by the Polish communist government for 16 years, The Devil (1972) tells the story of a prisoner of war, who is released only to encounter more human atrocities. That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) stars Romy Schneider as a struggling actress forced to act in erotic films, while cult body horror Possession (1981) features Isabelle Adjani as the emotionally disturbed Anna, which won her both Best Actress at Cannes and a Cesar award. The festival also partners with Frames of Representation to present Wojciech Staroń’s latest documentary Brothers (2015).
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Open City Documentary Festival 22–26 June 2016 Open City Documentary Festival champions creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers, providing a platform for emerging and established talent working within the documentary form. The festival offers a chance to see the best in contemporary, international documentary as well as filmmaker Q&As, industry panels, workshops and networking events, This year’s festival shines a spotlight on the earlier work of now-prominent fiction filmmakers Dardenne brothers, who produced and directed over 60 documentaries before moving to fiction. There is also a focus on Croatia, exemplifying the hugely creative and formally ambitious documentary work flourishing in what is coming to be known as the third golden age of Croatian Cinema. The festival also teams up with Resident Advisor for a selection of music documentaries.
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A Bitta Pil chronicles photographer Dennis Morris’ time following former Sex Pistol’s vocalist John Lydon, starting with a trip exploring Jamaica’s Reggae scene before returning to London which sees the formation of Lydon’s new band Public Image Ltd and the recording of the iconic First Issue and Metal Box albums.
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