ICA Bulletin
September – November 2016
Contents Exhibitions
James Richards: Requests and Antisongs Detroit: Techno City Fluorescent Chrysanthemum
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Talks & Events
Artist Self-Publishing Fair: The Sequel Highlights Technology Now Culture Now ICA Live
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Associate Artists
ICA Associates ThirtyThree ThirtyThree Present Masāfāt Music
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Artists’ Moving Image
Artists’ Film Club STOP PLAY RECORD Art & Screen Network
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Learning
Gallery Tours Symposia Friday Salon Student Forum Learning Associates
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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 look forward to welcoming James Richards to the ICA’s Lower and Upper Galleries to present new and recent works exploring the emotive power of appropriated digital video and sound. For the first time in the UK, our Fox Reading Room houses an exhibition charting the timeline of Detroit Techno music, followed by an archival display looking at our 1968 exhibition Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, originally curated by Jasia Recihardt. Coinciding with Frieze London, from 3 to 8 October, we present ICA Live, a series of live events including performances by Mårten Spångberg and Andrew Kerton, a two-day audio-visual programme by ICA Associates PAN, artists' talks with Sanya Kantarovsky and James Richards, a panel discussion presented by Christopher Kulendran Thomas as well as guest DJs in the ICA Bar. We are delighted Cosey Fanni Tutti returns for the th 40 anniversary of the iconic exhibition Prostitution. The Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair returns with The Sequel. ICA Associates ThirtyThree ThirtyThree and VENT present Masāfāt, a two-part festival in London and Cairo. The music programme features an event with 4AD Records. We also welcome our 2016 ICA Learning Associates Skin Deep, SE1 United and BORN n BREAD. ICA Cinema highlights include Safar Festival, London Film Festival, Ogawa Pro Japanese Post-war Documentary and the Culture of Dissidence, Bight of The Twin which tells the story of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and our ongoing Artists' Film Club.
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21 Sep – 13 Nov 2016
Lower & Upper Galleries
James Richards Requests and Antisongs
James Richards presents new and recent works continuing his ongoing exploration of the emotive power of appropriated digital video and sound. Taking his video Radio At Night (2015) as a starting point, Richards presents three new works that unfold and expand their compositional logic into three distinct, but linked pieces. These sit across the ICA’s Lower and Upper Galleries, separated physically, but joined conceptually across the spaces. Speaking about the exhibition, Richards explained: "My aim is to work on an exhibition that will have three parts, iterations or edits. I want to play with déjà vu, as well as a certain form of chiming, whereby works echo and reflect each other." Having developed a language for composing images and sounds into highly affective video works, Richards’ recent pieces have been separating these elements out again. The works allow space for multi-channel sound installations and videos that compose material according to the silent internal logics of the footage they contain. In his recent installations, Richards has been "smearing and spreading 4
material across multiple rooms" – allowing images and soundtracks to wash over each other, a quality that will form an integral part of his exhibition at the ICA. Related events: p. 34 Gallery Tour led by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir p. 16 ICA Live: James Richards Talk p. 16 ICA Live: Andrew Kerton Performance p. 27 Artists' Film Club: Leslie Thornton p. 28 Artists' Film Club: Dani Leventhal Co-commissioned by Bergen Kunsthall, ICA London and Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, where the exhibition travels throughout 2016–2017. The exhibition is reconfigured and adapted for the particular architectural environment of the galleries in each institution.
Photo: James Richards, Radio at Night, 2015. Commissioned by the Walker Art Center with major support from the Bentson Foundation
Supported by the James Richards Exhibition Supporters Group including the Zabludowicz Collection
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ICA Fox Reading Room
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Detroit Techno City
Fluorescent Chrysanthemum
Installation view of Detroit: Techno City, 2016, ICA. Photo: Mark Blower
Poster from Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, 1968, ICA, designed by Kohei Sugiura
This display looks at the evolution of ‘Detroit Techno' music. Coined in the 1980s, the term reflects the musical and social influences that informed this distinct music genre. For the first time in the UK, Detroit: Techno City will chart a timeline from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Originating in the disco parties of Ken Collier with influence from local radio stations and DJs, such as Electrifying Mojo and The Wizard (aka Jeff Mills), the exhibition explores how a generation was inspired to create a new kind of electronic music. This is evidenced in the formative UK compilation: Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit. Using inexpensive analogue technology, DJs and producers including Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter, Eddie Fowlkes, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, formed this seminal genre. 6
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The display also focuses on Underground Resistance, a collection of DJs and artists whose ambition was to challenge commercial mainstream entertainment industry and re-establish the genre’s authenticity with an emphasis on the city as a source of inspiration. Related events: p. 34 Gallery Tour led by producer and DJ Roberto p. 34 Educators’ Tour with Curator’s Talk led by ICA Curator Matt Williams
The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation
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This display highlights the ICA’s rich heritage as a home for radical contemporary arts and culture. In 1968, Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, was the first presentation of experimental Japanese art, music, film and design in Europe – showcasing a group of artists never before seen in the UK, including: Kohei Sugiura, Jiro Takamatsu, Ushio Shinohara, Tadanori Yokoo, Seiichi Hayashi, Yoji Kuri, Tatsuo Shimamura. Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, originally curated by Jasia Reichardt, comprised of contemporary Japanese sculptures, miniatures, posters, graphics, kites, music with visual scores and films. The title referred to the fluorescent effects in many of the works, alongside reference to the chrysanthemum flower as the Imperial Seal of Japan. Kohei Sugiura
designed the exhibition graphics and the highly distinct installation of the show, working closely with Reichardt. This display looks back through this archive material, examining the importance and impact of the 1968 show.
Now in its 70th anniversary year, the ICA is extending the research and profiling of its legacy with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The ICA Fox Reading Room was made possible by the generous support of the Edwin Fox Foundation
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Sat 10 Sep, 11am–7pm Following on from the success of the inaugural Artist Self Publishers' Fair in 2015, this year ASP2 hosts over 70 UK and international independent artist self-publishers for a one-day fair. This second edition continues to avoid the restrictions and market dominance of much of contemporary arts culture. The publications are still the art works; affordable and available, and remain free from the fetter of the
institution or gallery, the ideas, images and text are produced and published by artists who understand the restrictions and freedoms of the printed page. In addition to those selected for the fair, 10 places have been allocated through open submission. ASP seeks to celebrate and promote artist self-publishers and their work.
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Highlights Artist’s Talk: Arseny Zhilyaev
Promised Land
Tue 13 Sep, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members Moscow-based Russian artist Arseny Zhilyaev is in conversation with Francesco Manacorda (Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool). Using artistic, political, scientific, and museological histories to uncover and propose potential futures, Zhilyaev’s work explores the space between fiction and non-fiction. Within his recent projects, the artist casts a revisionist lens on the heritage of soviet museology, examining the meaning of museums in the history of Russian Cosmism.
Wed 19 Oct, 6.30pm Pay-what-you-can The post-WWII vision of an integrated Europe is now being threatened by the rise of neo-nationalist and populist movements. Borders are being tightened, and on either side of them refugee camps are home to thousands of people fleeing from conflict, extreme poverty and ecological disaster. This panel addresses current shifts within European politics, asking, what insights and ideas are artists bringing; and how do we move forward?
Supported by ICA Russian Talks Circle
This is the first of two events presented in partnership with Goethe-Institut London and Culture+Conflict, with support from the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation and Arts Council England.
Highlights
Cosey Fanni Tutti, Prostitution, Promotional poster for ICA performance and exhibition, 1976. Courtesy the artist and Cabinet
Cosey Fanni Tutti: Art Sex Music: An autobiographical reading Wed 26 Oct, 8pm £5 / Free to ICA Members To mark the 40th anniversary of the ICA's seminal exhibition Prostitution by COUM Transmissions, Cosey Fanni Tutti reads from her forthcoming autobiography Art Sex Music published by Faber & Faber. Reciting her personal experience at the time of the exhibition and the surrounding media furore, this reading is followed by a Q&A with Maria Fusco, critic, writer and Reader at the University of Edinburgh and a rare screening of the
COUM Transmissions film After Cease to Exist. A selection of Cosey's original ICA Prostitution Magazine Actions will also be displayed. The evening closes with a DJ set provided by Richard Clouston's Cosey Club. This event is presented in collaboration with Cabinet, London and Faber Social. Now in its 70th anniversary year, the ICA is extending the research and profiling of its legacy with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, still from Promised Land, 2011
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Technology Now
Sonic Feminisms Part I Fri 30 Sep, 6.30pm, £5 / £3 ICA Members Helen Hester chairs a panel exploring the gender politics of voice and sound. Covering topics such as robotic voices, queer sonic media, and sex and affect in contemporary sound art, Sonic Feminisms explores what a revolution might sound like. Speakers include academic Eleni Ikoniadou, and Frances Morgan, contributing editor of The Wire.
Sonic Feminisms Part II Fri 30 Sep, 8.15pm, £5 / £3 ICA Members A night of performance, DJs and visuals exploring the gender politics of voice and sound. Composer Marcin Pietruszewski performs “(dia)grammatology of space” — a piece for human voice, synthetic speech and computer — with accompanying visuals by Diann Bauer. Also performing will be Adda Kaleh and the feminist composer Yoneda Lemma. This is a two-part event co-curated by Helen Hester examining gender, sonic media and the post-human.
Nuclear Culture
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Continuing the ICA’s long-standing enquiry into the influence of new technologies on art and culture, this talks series examines the impact, 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, the series presents critical ideas from the most significant artists, writers and thinkers engaging with the field today.
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Tue 18 Oct, 6.30pm, £5 / Free to ICA Members Curator Ele Carpenter is in conversation with artist and writer Susan Schuppli discussing their shared interest in nuclear technology and culture. The pair discuss contemporary art practices investigating the nuclear anthropocene, nuclear sites and materiality, along with important questions of radiological inheritance and nuclear modernity.
Blackness on the Internet Wed 16 Nov, 6.30pm, £5 / Free to ICA Members Presented on the occasion of the group exhibition Wandering / WILDING: Blackness on the Internet (IMT Gallery, London) curator Legacy Russell leads a panel discussion examining the question: what freedoms can be found and realised via the digital for bodies of colour?
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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
Mon 3 – Sat 8 Oct ICA, London
Uri Aran Fri 2 Sep Artist Uri Aran is in discussion with curator Alessandro Rabottini on the occasion of his new solo show Two Things About Suffering at Sadie Coles HQ, London (1 Sep – 1 Oct 2016). Presenting related videos, sculptures and paintings, with this new exhibition Aran probes the concept of ‘genre’.
Fatima Al Qadiri on #BlackLivesMatter Fri 28 Oct Academics Christina Heatherton and Jordan T. Camp, and musician, producer, and artist Fatima Al Qadiri discuss the recently published Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016). The rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US has made the issue of policing and mass incarceration central to today's politics.
Katia Kameli Fri 16 Sep French-Algerian artist Katia Kameli in conversation with curator Elvira Dyangani Ose on the occasion of her first solo exhibition at The Mosaic Rooms, What Language Do You Speak Stranger? (16 Sep – 3 Dec 2016).
Related event p. 18 ICA Live: Sanya Kantarovsky With thanks to
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From 3 to 8 October 2016, the ICA presents a week-long series of live events that encompasses dance, film, discussion, sound, performance and music. For the second year running, the ICA Bar hosts an accompanying programme of music and guest DJs between 9pm and 1am. Supported by
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ICA Associates PAN present... Since 2008, multi-disciplinary label PAN has been building a network of international artists with an emphasis on adaption to the rapidly changing cultural and material conditions of contemporary musicians and sound artists today. Through a constant stream of releases and events, PAN has evolved year by year to reflect the state of sound production and sound-based art practices. Over the course of two days ICA Associates PAN presents an audio-visual programme of lectures, live performances, and screenings that illustrate the ongoing activities of its artists.
Tue 4 Oct, 7pm £8 / £7 Concessions / £5 ICA Members Aleksandra Domanović & M.E.S.H. Ville Haimala & Jenna Sutela Harm van den Dorpel HELM x Embassy for the Displaced Wed 5 Oct, 7pm £8 / £7 Concessions / £5 ICA Members James Hoff Lee Gamble Steven Warwick & Nora Khan TCF
Curated by Bill Kouligas (PAN) and Matt Williams (ICA).
Andrew Kerton, _fieldnotes © Marion Borriss
Artist’s Talk: James Richards
Andrew Kerton: _fieldnotes
Mon 3 Oct, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members ICA exhibiting artist James Richards discusses his work on the occasion of the publication of James Richards (Sternberg, Co-commissioned by Bergen Kunsthall, ICA London and Kestnergesellschaft, 2016, Editor: Isla Leaver-Yap) and his exhibition Requests and Antisongs at the ICA.
Mon 3 Oct, 8.30pm £10 / £8 ICA Members _fieldnotes is a solo performance by Andrew Kerton that can be considered an exercise in spatial embodiment that explores inner and outer physical limits through action, language, sensation and thought. Andrew Kerton is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice has centred around performance and video works and includes writing, drawing, sound works and sculpture.
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Sharjah Biennial 13
Culture Now: Sanya Kantarovsky
Thu 6 Oct, 12.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members Curator Christine Tohme and Sharjah Art Foundation Director Hoor Al Qasimi discuss the programmes, curatorial concept and artists who will be taking part in the next Sharjah Biennial 13 (opening 12 Mar, 2017). The Sharjah Biennial plays a critical role in the developing cultural landscape of the Middle East. Moderated by Ikon Gallery Director, Jonathan Watkins. Organised by Sharjah Art Foundation in association with the ICA.
Fri 7 Oct, 1pm £5 / Free to ICA members New York-based Russian artist Sanya Kantarovsky discusses his painting practice on the occasion of his London solo show at Stuart Shave / Modern Art (4 Oct – 5 Nov 2016). Kantarovsky also launches his first monograph, No Joke, a collaboration with Stuart Bailey of Dexter Sinister and published by Koenig Books with Studio Voltaire. Supported by ICA Russian Talks Circle
Art Post Capitalism
Natten, 2016. Photo: Anne Van Aerschot
Thu 6 Oct, 6.30pm £8 / £7 ICA Members The term ‘contemporary’ has been used throughout the last half-century to refer to art being made at the time. Perhaps this is no longer what the term means and contemporary art has become a genre – one that came about in the era of broadcast media through economic liberalisation led by the West. But today’s networked technology is producing a different type of viewership and new kinds of economies as the balance of power shifts globally. Could the era of contemporary art be disintegrating and with it the fantasy of critical distance that characterised it? Accepting the profound entanglement of art and commerce, what role might a new art play in growing a new economic system out of the present one, rather than resisting it? Presented by artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas. 18
Mårten Spångberg: Natten, The Series Sat 8 Oct, 3pm £8 / £7 ICA Members Swedish choreographer Mårten Spångberg presents his ‘dance of horror’, a seven hour tour de force into “a night darker than black”, which he describes as "an experiential black hole compressed and absolutely intangible”. For Spångberg, the night is the only place where one can truly be, where one can escape the tyranny of time, in a darkness that does not represent death but life.
Christopher Kulendran Thomas, New Eelam advertising, 2016. Design: Manuel Bürger & Jan-Peter Gieseking. Image: Joseph Kadow
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For the ICA, Spångberg specially presents a piece featuring a group of female dancers, accompanied by readings of short horror stories. This explores an entry to the specific currencies of the female night, where the opacity of darkness has become a hiding place for fleeting forms of friendship, whispers and intimacy. Natten, The Series is episodic and can be entered every hour, but for those who endure, a dark light will shine throughout its entirety. Co-produced by Black Box Theatre Oslo, MDT Stockholm, Kunsten Festival Brussels, XING Bologna, Santarcangelo Festival and PAF St Ere. Supported by The Swedish Art Council, The Swedish Art Grants Committee, The Swedish Institute and Embassy of Sweden, London
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As part of our programme, artists, musicians, writers and poets join us as ICA Associates. During their residencies, they collaborate with us to deliver an exciting and unique series of events. ica.org.uk/associates
The ICA, ThirtyThree ThirtyThree and VENT in partnership with University of Kent present Masāfāt, a two-part festival that takes place in London (1–4) and Cairo (20–24) this September. The festival is designed to create an open-ended, international platform to foster artistic and professional exchange between independent artists and professionals across Middle East & North Africa and the UK. The UK programme features four days of performance, installations, screenings, talks and workshops. For further information about the programme visit ica.org.uk/masafat
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Thu 1 Sep Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Sam Shalabi, Will Guthrie and Nadah El Shazly 8pm £12 / £10 Concessions / £9 ICA Members The opening event to mark the launch of the Masāfāt features collective live performances by Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Sam Shalabi & Will Guthrie. They are joined by Nadah El Shazly (Egypt)
Fri 2 Sep Friday Salon: Hip Hop & the Arab World 3pm £5 / Free to ICA Members A panel discussion including key figures from the subgenre of Palestinian and Arab Hip Hop, which emerged in 1998 through Tamer Nafar's group DAM, and blends Arabic melodies, hip hop beats and political lyrics. Caroline Rooney chairs a discussion on the genre's relationship to political activism, poetry and spokenword performance, and issues of translation and crossing borders through music. Screening: Slingshot Hip Hop 6.30pm £5 / Free to ICA Members This film braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and separation walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
Mumdance, Logos & Shapednoise Present The Sprawl with Deena Abdelwahed and Karen Gwyer 8pm £12 / £10 Concessions / £9 ICA Members The second night of live music performances features Mumdance, Logos, & Shapednoise presenting The Sprawl, joined by Deena Abdelwahed and Karen Gwyer
Screening: Out on the Street 6.30pm £5 / Free to ICA Members Out on the Street (Barra fel shari') is a documentary film about a group of workers from one of Egypt’s working-class neighborhoods, Helwan, by Cairo-based artist and filmmaker Jasmina Metwaly and writer and filmmaker Phillip Rizk. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was part of the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Gaika, Lafawndah and Muqata'a, Julmud, Dakn & Haykal (Ramallah Collective) 8pm £12 / £10 Concessions / £9 ICA Members Gaika, Lafawndah and Ramallah Collective members Muqata'a, Julmud, Dakn & Haykal will perform on the third night of live music performances.
Re-imagining the Urban in Arabic Film 12pm £5 / Free to ICA Members This panel discussion looks at the cinematic representations of cities such as Beirut and Cairo after the revolution, popular representations of the city during the Arab Spring and in the West Bank, and science fictional/dystopian visions of the Middle Eastern urban landscape and society in experimental film practices. Speakers include Caroline Rooney, Arash Nassiri, Larissa Sansour and Anastasia Valassopoulo.
Sun 4 Sep Alternative Infrastructures: Music and Arts in Cairo 3pm £5 / Free to ICA Members A discussion about the opportunities and barriers to creating an alternative music and arts infrastructure in the current political climate of Cairo and the Middle East. Which practical strategies and networks for collaboration are being used by creatives to circumvent the institutional blockages taking place? How do artists, labels and venues balance activism and political threats to their existence? Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy, Zuli, Herein lies and MSYLMA 8pm £12 / £10 Concessions / £9 ICA Members Closing live music programme of the inaugural Masāfāt are Carl Gari and Abdullah Miniawy, Zuli, Herein lies and MSYLMA.
Artists’ Film Club: Arash Nassiri 2.30 pm £5 / Free to ICA Members This solo-screening of works by French-Iranian filmmaker Arash Nassiri, features two recent experimental films (Tehran-Geles and Darwin-Darwah), together with a new work in progress. This is the first screening of his work in the UK.
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Music
The Lemon Twigs. Photo: Autumn de Wilde
4AD Revue Present The Lemon Twigs, Methyl Ethel and Pixx Thu 22 Sep, 8pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members Since 1980 independent record label 4AD have led the way. From the likes of Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance and Pixies in the 80s, to their current eclectic roster, featuring the likes of Ariel Pink, Grimes, and Scott Walker. 4AD presents Revue in London on 22 September and New York on 28 September. The event offers an opportunity to see a selection of their 24
most recent signings share a stage together, presenting the new talents of ethereal weirdo pop of Pixx (London), hazy psych musings from Methyl Ethel (Perth, Australia) and one of the debut performances from The Lemon Twigs (Long Island, US) and their unique mutant take on 70s classic rock. This event follows 23 years on from the label’s infamous 1993 week-long 13 Year Itch event at the same location, which featured performances from the Red House Painters, The Breeders and Pale Saints.
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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.
K8 Hardy Outfitumentary + Q&A Wed 21 Sep, 6.45pm In 2001, artist and filmmaker K8 Hardy set out to document her daily outfits on video. Over an eleven-year period, until the camera broke, she captured these outfits—and outfitting—on a fairly consistent, if not daily basis. She used the same low quality, mini-DV camera and filmed in ever-changing living spaces and art studios in New York. What emerged is a record of the way a young, lesbian feminist dressed and styled in her “coming of age” and an examination of coded fashion statements. This screening is followed by a Q&A with the artist.
Artists’ Film Club tickets are £5 / Free to ICA Members FLAMIN event is FREE, booking required
K8 Hardy, Outfitumentary, 2016, SD video, colour, sound, 82min
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Leslie Thornton, All Right You Guys, 1976, 16mm, black and white, sound, 16 min
Ulrike Ottinger: Freak Orlando Sat 24 Sep, 2pm Ulrike Ottinger blends Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) with Virginia Wolf’s novel Orlando (1928) in this rarely screened film. Set in former West Berlin, Ottinger’s uncompromising fantasy explores society’s outsiders in a boundary breaking cinematic epic of experimentation and visual extravagance. Originally selected for Another Version of Events, the official film programme for Liverpool Biennial 2016.
Christoph Schlingesief + Introduction Sat 1 Oct, 12pm The African Twin Towers follows Christoph Schlingensief at his artistic and imagegenerating best, gushing with ideas and concepts, attempting to find the right form of filmic expression after a decade in theatre, performance arts and visual arts. Co-presented by ICA and Frieze Projects in association with Schlingensief’s Frieze London project.
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Leslie Thornton: Abyss Film + Q&A
Wed 28 Sep, 2pm Coinciding with the latest round of FLAMIN Productions, Film London’s unique two-stage commissioning scheme, FLAMIN introduces the initiative and outlines the application process. A short presentation by an artist who has been supported by the programme and Q&A accompany the session.
Sun 2 Oct, 2pm A screening of films by Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker Leslie Thornton. Thornton’s films and videos explore the limits of cinema, video and digital media. She responds to the pulse of cultural and technological history, breaking new ground with each project, while celebrating the enormous capacity of media to challenge what we consider art, politics, storytelling and representation itself. Followed by a Q&A with the artist.
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Chris Marker: Sans Soleil
Chandigarh is in India + Q&A
Sun Oct 16, 2pm Sans Soleil is a mind-bending free-form travelogue that charts late filmmaker Chris Marker's journey from Africa to Japan. A pioneer of the essay-film, Marker blends documentary and science fiction in this complex meditation on time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. Originally selected for Another Version of Events, the official film programme for Liverpool Biennial 2016.
Sat 12 Nov, 2pm Chandigarh is in India, curated by Shanay Jhaveri, gathers together a diverse group of lesser-known films on the city of Chandigarh, India. The films, made by both Indian and Western artists, expose the myriad and competing desires that fuelled the inception of the city, as well as those which have continually been projected onto it. Followed by a conversation between curator Shanay Jhaveri and academic Erika Balsom, marking the publication of the book Chandigarh is in India published by The Shoestring Publisher.
Dani Leventhal: Hard As Opal + Q&A Thu 27 Oct 6.45pm A screening of recent work by Columbusbased artist Dani Leventhal, followed by a Q&A led by Mason Leaver-Yap. Her videos capture the personal and the political, interweaving footage to build narratives that reflect emotional experiences and states; often featuring people who become the unassuming subjects in her work.
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.
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Each year STOP PLAY RECORD supports the planning and production of 24 short films with young people aged 16–24 based in London. Filmmakers have the opportunity for their films to be shown as part of the Random Acts strand. To see some of the films made as part of STOP PLAY RECORD, visit: randomacts.channel4.com Surabhi Sharma, Tracing Bylanes, 2011, HD video. Copyright Surabhi Sharma/SurFilms. Image Courtesy Surabhi Sharma
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Throughout the year an ongoing series of STOP PLAY RECORD free events 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.
All STOP PLAY RECORD events are free, booking required. 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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Art & Screen Network
The ICA’s national network of venues committed to showing a regular programme of artists’ moving image, with support from Arts Council England and Art Fund.
Regular screenings are taking place at: Armando Ferrari © Warp Films, BFI and Lighthouse, 2014
Topsafe Screening Vol 2 – Casebook Launch Wed 7 Sep, 6.30pm Volume 2 of a night of films and talks with some of Topsafe TV's favourite London filmmakers. All the directors work independently, developing their own stories and ideas and working within their own means. The night also sees the launch of Topsafe's new magazine Casebook, followed by an after party at the ICA Bar featuring special guest DJs.
Short Film Production Thu 22 Sep, 6.30pm Warp Films’ Head of Development, Ally Gipps and Director, Michael Keillor discuss their experience working on short films offering advice to aspiring filmmakers around production management, sourcing ideas and creative development. 30
MK Gallery (Milton Keynes) Tramway (Glasgow) Spike Island (Bristol) Exeter Phoenix (Exeter) Phoenix (Leicester) mima (Middlesbrough) Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool) ICA (London) HOME (Manchester)
Sound Design and Composition Sat 29 Oct, 12pm Award winning sound artist Janek Schaefer leads a demonstration masterclass aimed at inspiring new methods of working with sound for moving image looking at recording concepts, musical motifs and atmospheric audio.
Camera workshop with Margaret Salmon Sat 5 Nov, 12pm Acclaimed artist and filmmaker Margaret Salmon leads a practical workshop looking at Cinema vérité technique offering young filmmakers the opportunity to practice and enhance their camera skills. A special 35mm screening of Margaret’s debut feature film Eglantine follows the workshop in Cinema 1.
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Artists included: Mathieu K Abonnenc, Rosa Barba, Neil Beloufa, Duncan Campbell, Coco Fusco, Ursula Mayer, Basim Magdy, Naeem Moheimeen, Outside, Charlotte Prodger, Ben Rivers, Tony Romano & Corin Sworn Supported by
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Film Screening: Coco Fusco Tue 13 Sep, 6.30pm Spike Island, Bristol A screening of New York-based artist Coco Fusco's Ted Ethology: Primate Visions of the Human Mind (2015), sees Fusco deliver a TED talk whilst embodying the primate Dr Zira from the Planet of the Apes film series.
Film Screening: Basim Magdy Fri 30 Sep, 2.30pm HOME, Manchester Basim Magdy is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker living in Basel and Cairo. His varied artistic practice encompasses film, photography, installation, slide projection and works of paper. Magdy’s work reflects upon how we deal with the present social and economic climate in a pragmatic and humanistic way, mixing 16mm film imagery with ambient and melancholic soundscapes. Magdy provides an innovative narration of his own personal experiences and frank observations while evaluating the political histories of his nation.
Curatorial Seminar: The Commissioner and The Commissioned Sat 1 Oct, 10am HOME, Manchester This curatorial seminar is an informal opportunity for arts professionals to gain a deeper understanding of the processes involved in commissioning a moving image work for exhibition or distribution. A commissioning case study is presented with the opportunity to hear from the commissioner and the artist invited to realise a new work. The presentations are followed by and opportunity to discuss and debate useful and productive steps to take in the process. This event is part of the Art & Screen Network initiated by the ICA, supporting the dissemination and widened understanding of artists' moving image. Supported by the Art Fund and Arts Council England
The Many Colors of the Sky Radiate Forgetfulness, 2014, Super 16mm transferred to HD video, video, colour, 11 min. 09 sec. Special thanks to KulturbĂźro Karlsruhe, Jacob Birken and Alina Schmuch for their support and to Mobiles Kino (David Pfluger and Florian Olloz) for the overhead projector transparency transfers
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Gallery Tour Judy Blame: Never Again led by artist Kim Coleman Thu 1 Sep, 6.30pm
Educators’ Tour with Curator’s Talk Detroit: Techno City led by ICA Curator Matt Williams Wed 7 Sep, 5pm Photo: Magda Sayeg
Architecture and the Spaces of Information / Part 2 Gallery Tour Detroit: Techno City led by Producer and DJ Roberto Thu 15 Sep, 6.30pm
Gallery Tour James Richards: Requests and Antisongs led by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir Thu 13 Oct, 6.30pm
Sun 11 Sep, 11.15am £10 /£8 concessions / £6 ICA members This one-day symposium accompanies the publication of Architecture & Culture, issue 4.1: Architecture & the Spaces of Information (guest edited by Ruth Blacksell and Stephen Walker). Speakers discuss overlapping practical, material, production and media environments across the disciplines of architecture, art and editorial design, and how these connections have advanced relationships between audience, user, reader and architectural space. In partnership with the University of Reading, Department of Typography and Communication.
Mon 10 Oct, 1pm £10 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA members / £5 Student This symposium brings together leading contemporary researchers, curators, artists and photographers in the field of urban creativity to explore the diverse creative responses to our changing urban environment – from street art and graffiti to yarn bombing and urban photography. Speakers will discuss the relevance of contemporary urban interventions and our creative connections to, material engagements with, and affective responses to our urban environment. In partnership with Middlesex University, School of Art and Design.
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ICA Learning Associates 2016 Friday Salon
This series of talks presents the latest research on current cultural phenomena. £5 / Free to ICA Members
Related events p. 13 Technology Now: Blackness on the Internet p. 14 Culture Now: Fatima Al Qadiri on #BlackLivesMatter p. 22 Masāfāt: Hip Hop & the Arab World
Sounding Dark 9 Sep, 2pm Sounding Dark examines the historical Euro-American fascination with black voices. Is there such a thing as a black voice? What is blackness supposed to sound like? A panel which includes Ayishat Akanbi, Chris Christoloudou and Tristam Adams, explores how voice is racialised and marketed through music, film, culture and politics.
Part of Young ICA, the Learning Associates programme enables the ICA to forge and sustain meaningful relationships with diverse youth partners. The ICA Learning Associates 2016 are Skin Deep, SE1 United, and BORN n BREAD, who are working collaboratively with the ICA in order to shape and influence the public programme by developing and delivering a series of innovative, exploratory and interactive encounters that respond and contribute to ideas in contemporary art and culture.
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Student Forum Event Trailing Off Fri 21 Oct, 5pm Free booking required A curated programme of trailers from Student Forum member Nan Moore, this screening event explores questions surrounding the concept of the film trailer, and the dynamic changes which have occurred within the three-minute form. The screening is followed by a critical debate in the ICA Studio hosted by Nan 36
Moore and filmmakers from the programme asking what is the trailer's relevance for young artists now, who largely manage all aspects of their creative outputs. Tickets are valid for both parts of the event. Related event p. 30 STOP PLAY RECORD: Short Film Production
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ICA Learning Associates SE1 United Present: Music To Live By Sat 24 Sep, 2pm Free, booking required ICA Learning Associates SE1 United debut their unique approach to examining the lived experience of young black men in the London SE1 area. Working collectively with esteemed Afro-Hop Producer and musician Timbo, SE1 United produced an original soundscape locally in Elephant & Castle's Organick Studio with the support of musician and sound engineer Nick Allen. This sonic showcase is accompanied by a rich debate on blackness and youth today with DJ's from Reprezent Radio and more special guests to be announced. SE1 United is a peer-led youth project with an award-winning leadership programme which was set up in 2003 by nine young people from Lambeth and Southwark. Activities are curated by young people for young people and are designed to educate, broaden minds and show a wider world of possibilities and remove stereotypes and limitations.
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ICA Learning Associates Skin Deep Present: Sonic Transmissions Wed 23 Nov, 6.30pm Free, booking required This event brings together live musicians, DJs, musicmakers and an audience for an exploratory live public listening session. Skin Deep plays host to a conversation about politics, music, identity, and style in order to present an alternative to the ways in which we usually experience music and sound. Skin Deep's Sonic Transmissions draws attention to the value of collective listening and intimate conversation. This is the first in a series of sessions hosted by Skin Deep, with different artists, sound systems and audiences to explore our relationship with sound, music, culture and race. The event will also be live streamed and released online via the Skin Deep website for all to enjoy.
Skin Deep are a London-based multimedia platform that amplifies voices of colour through the discussion of race and culture. Skin Deep is a counter movement to the way in which culture is often simultaneously racialised and depoliticised in the mainstream. Their aim is to create a space where a diverse range of heritages, tastes, styles, stories, sounds, traditions and imaginings can be explored both creatively and politically.
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Young ICA Through partnership and collaboration the ICA is deepening its learning offer for young people aged 16-19 years, with a focus on those who have least access to the arts. Our aim is to generate opportunities for radical relationship-making between young people and the institution, enabling young people to devise and deliver programmes for themselves and others, working in collaboration with artists, practitioners and professionals to share their knowledge and experiences in order to respond and contribute to culture on their own terms.
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Special Events
Ogawa Pro Japanese Post-war Documentary and the Culture of Dissidence 19 Nov – 11 Dec The films of Ogawa Shinsuke (1936–1992) form one of the most important bodies of work in the history of documentary cinema. His first independent films documented the organisation of the student protest movement in Japan during the 1960s. In the following years, and together with the members of his newly formed filmmaking collective, Ogawa Pro, Ogawa directed a gripping series of films chronicling the long-standing struggle and resistance of the farmers in Sanrizuka against the construction of the Narita airport and the brutal oppression by the state. Showing a deep empathy towards the villagers and their stories, the collective eventually
moved to the countryside where over the following ten years they painstakingly crafted extraordinary films on farming and village life. This long overdue focus on Ogawa provides a rare opportunity to see a selection of these films that raise timely questions about radical documentary practice and collective modes of film production and participation.
Bight of the Twin
Bight of the Twin + Q&A
Carrie + Discussion
Tue 13 Sep, 8.45pm Bight of the Twin tells the story of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and the Los Angelesbased artist and filmmaker Hazel Hill McCarthy III's journey to Benin to explore the origins of the Vodoun (Voodoo) religion. Transcending what it means to be “gendered,” Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and late wife Lady Jaye underwent surgical procedures to become physically identical. Genesis is constantly battling the pitfalls of devoting one’s life to art and love in such a drastic way. On travelling to Ouidah, Benin with long-time friend and collaborator, Hazel Hill McCarthy III, they discover a radical connection between Genesis’ life and practice, and one of the world’s oldest religions.
Sat 24 Sep, 4.10pm Feminist film collective, The Final Girls, present a special 40th anniversary screening of Brian de Palma's most iconic horror film, Carrie. Tormented by a hyper religious mother and the meanness of teenage girls, Carrie develops telekinetic powers. We will debate and explore the film's complex and divisive female protagonist and the role of women in Brian de Palma's films in a post-screening discussion. The discussion will be followed by a bloody prom party to give Carrie White the sendoff she deserves.
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Main Feature Highlights
My Scientology Movie
American Honey
From 7 Oct Louis Theroux’s feature documentary, in collaboration with director John Dower and double Academy Award winning producer Simon Chinn, explores the Church of Scientology. Following a long fascination with the religion and with much experience in dealing with eccentric and unexpected human behaviour, Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church’s headquarters is turned down. Aided by ex-members of the organisation, Theroux uses actors to replay incidents and experiences described by members. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear the Church is also making a film about Louis Theroux. A special preview screening and Q&A with Louis Theroux will be held at the ICA on 4 October.
From 14 Oct Visionary award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank and Wuthering Heights) makes her first US film which tells the story of a teenager who falls into a life on the road. Star (Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this gang of teenagers, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group's lifestyle of hard-partying nights, lawbending days and young love.
The President
One More Time With Feeling
De Palma
8 Sep Feature film One More Time With Feeling will premiere in cinemas for one special screening on 8 September, launching the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, One More Time With Feeling evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Interwoven throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed performance of the new album are interviews and footage shot by Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s intermittent narration and improvised rumination.
From 23 Sep One of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma's career started in the 60s and has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, and Mission: Impossible. In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field.
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Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Festivals
Paterson
From 28 Oct Werner Herzog's new documentary, unsurprisingly, offers a very different perspective on the internet. The filmmaker talks to former hacker Kevin Mitnick and other early adopters of the web, but also to cosmologists, families who think the internet is “evil,” and even Elon Musk, who he asks to take him to Mars. The Grizzly Man director examines smartphone usage, artificial intelligence, and tweeting monks. Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is, in other words, a Werner Herzog documentary — and very much lives up to its name.
From 25 Nov Jim Jarmusch's latest film is a sweetly contained, at times silly, beautiful film. Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver who lives in Paterson, which is also the name of his last bus stop. It is a film about the little things in life that make us reflect and help us join the dots, and about the value of understatement in a society obsessed with overstatement. Jarmusch turns life's small daily accidents into poems in such an effortless way that it feels almost impossible not to surrender. Safar: As I Open My Eyes
Safar, A Celebration of Contemporary Arab Cinema 14–18 Sep The only festival in the UK dedicated to showcasing Arab cinema, Safar returns to the ICA. Organised by The Arab British Centre and curated by Rasha Salti, this year’s programme includes a selection of recent films from Morocco to Kuwait: cinema that stands defiant of stereotypes, social taboos and self-censorship. An increasing number of Arab films have garnered critical and popular acclaim. Potentially the herald of a new golden age, these remarkable accomplishments are a testament to the vitality, versatility and creativity within the industry. In spite of censorship, the most admirable virtue of film professionals is their fearless and tenacious safeguarding of film’s artistic mission, its ability to capture aspirations and forge a new poetic language.
The BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express ® 5–16 Oct ICA welcomes back the BFI London Film Festival in its 60th year. The 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express will take place 5–16 October 2016. Bringing the best new cinema from around the world to screens throughout London, the festival will present over 240 fiction and documentary features.
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Judy Blame, Baby's Bottle, 2016 Digital archive print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper with silkscreen colour and varnish overlays, 40 x 30cm. Edition of 50, signed and numbered on front £330 (ICA Members £250)
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016 23 November 2016 – 22 January 2017 Lower & Upper Galleries
Carmel Buckley and Mark Harris Sparrow Come Back Home 6 December 2016 – 5 February 2017 ICA Fox Reading Room
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