Graffiti in Hong Kong, which reads: ‘We can’t return to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem.’
Today’s
#ICADaily
includes Paul B. Preciado, Lynne Tillman, Quantum Natives, NTS + more
ANNOUNCEMENT: WE HAVE A NEW DIRECTOR!
In March 2022,
@bengiunsal
will become the first woman to serve as the ICA's director
in 55 years.
We're enormously excited that Bengi is joining us at this crucial moment in the ICA's history, on the year of our 75th anniversary.
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2020’s BLM movement saw much attention drawn to the global state sanctioned violence that Black communities experience, though the stories of many families on the frontlines often go unheard.
This weekend, we have some of the UK’s leading grassroots organisations on our panel.
Today (Saturday 21 October) from 12pm – 11pm, the ICA will remain a space for water, toilets and shelter from the rain for those in the area attending demonstrations for Palestine.
Find us at The Mall in London / SW1Y 5AH
#london
#icalondon
We’ve unearthed this rare gem of the late Palestinian-American professor Edward Said in conversation with Salman Rushdie at the ICA in 1986.
Professor Said launched his book After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, discussing Palestinian identity, exile + the right of return.
📣📍 Final days of
#WarInnaBabylon
saw a record breaking 651 yesterday!
This Saturday, the public programme closes with the very beginning…
Tottenham Rights & Forensic Architecture present the digital reconstruction of the Killing of Mark Duggan.
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📍📢
“Family campaigns differ from political justice campaigns as they are victim-centred and led by families mournful reverberations of deadly police violence in their daily lives.”
Join us for Sunday’s screenings of Ultraviolence and Lawful Killing!
The documentary 'Blacks Britannica', commissioned by PBS in Boston in 1978, examines racism through the lens of black, working-class Brits including interviews with several black activists. It was banned outright in the UK.
Watch:
Ten years after the police killing of Mark Duggan and UK wide unrest,
#WarInnaBabylon
raises the question of state accountability and the process for seeking justice on this weekends programme.
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Read more from charity INQUEST:
Our next exhibition is Decriminalised Futures, a group exhibition that speaks to the multiplicity of sex worker experiences. Led by members of SWARM in partnership with Arika, a UK-based political arts organization.
“Cinema is being trapped in the dark with an image. Nothing more. The rest is nonsense. There is no theory that can support it.”
ICA and Another Gaze Editions
@anothergaze
announce a major retrospective: ‘Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin: The Cinema of Marguerite Duras’
18 Jul–25 Aug
The ICA is pleased to announce that Wolfgang Tillmans has been elected as the new Chair of the ICA Board of Directors.
This marks the ICA’s return to an artist-led board for the first time in over 30 years.
In a Brazil that is extremely dangerous for trans people,
@linndaquebrada
is outspoken in her convictions and dedicated in her art to using her body as a weapon to fight machismo, transphobia, racism and conformity:
The London Palestine Film Festival returns to the ICA for its 24th edition | 18 – 26 November. More info on the documentaries screening at the ICA + tickets here 🌹
@LPFFofficial
I will be moderating the conversation with John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange's father and brother, following the screening of Ithaka
Tomorrow 8.15pm
@ICALondon
Another World follows a lonely charcoal burner in rural Japan – rarely considering his wife & son, he slogs his way through work. After meeting up with an old friend, however, he gains a new perspective.
Screening as part of
@jpflondon
TOMORROW, 8.40pm
Sadie Plant argues that cyberspace is a potentially radical space which uses modes of thinking and operating that have traditionally been seen as female, in a lecture at the ICA from 1994
#postcyberfem
'All the Beauty and All the Bloodshed' 📢
Laura Poitras will be at ICA, 28 Jan to present her new Golden Lion-winning documentary on Nan Goldin's life, career and campaign against the Sackler family.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Poitras
Saidiya Hartman's writing is one of the touchstones for
@AkwugoEmejulu
's conception of
#FugitiveFeminism
. Read an interview with Hartman in
@thecreativeindp
about her book 'Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments':
Announcing Long Takes, a brand new series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.
Beginning Oct 25 with a major retrospective of South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo.
Members priority booking from Sep 18: public Sep 25
'Here' screens Friday followed by a Q+A with followed by an in-person Q&A with filmmaker Bas Devos
Winner of the Berlin 2023 Encounters section, the latest film from Bas Devos is both a quiet and graceful character study and a beautiful city symphony.
‘We're living through a time that is challenging everything we know about work, life, the world, our connectivity. In a time of such questioning, it is vital space for culture, art + expression is safeguarded to help us make sense of it all.'
@bengiunsal
- new ICA director
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Godard said of Sergei Parajanov: “In the temple of cinema, there are images, light and reality. Sergei Parajanov was the master of that temple.” His film The Colour of Pomegranates about the Armenian poet Sayat Nova is screening currently at the ICA.
Ten years on from the death of 29-year old Mark Duggan, which sparked nationwide riots, War Inna Babylon’s upper gallery explores the community’s experience in the fight for justice, whilst reflecting on the lasting impact on London and across the rest of the country.
There’s been an explosion of organising among workers assumed to be ‘unorganisable’, from delivery drivers to tech workers. Join us for the launch of Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace by Lydia Hughes +
@jamie_woodcock
ft
@Gargi_at_home
Following careful consideration of the current course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the entire ICA (exhibition spaces, Cinema, Theatre, Bookstore and Rochelle Canteen) will close to visitors and staff until further notice.
Read more:
'Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion', Trinh T Minh-ha
See the films of the formidable writer, theorist, composer + filmmaker Trinh T Minh-ha for a week's retrospective from 2 Dec
This Saturday and Sunday,
@tottenhamrights
presents a weekend full of panels focused on the UK’s relationship with Institutional Racism.
From education to the Stephen Lawrence Campaign, with an additional tour from
@StaffordScott_
on Sunday afternoon, tickets are available now!
“He tried to match his film to my music, but I always try to match my music to films.”
@ryuichisakamoto
in
@verge
on
@suteebusan
's CODA - a documentary about the legendary composer:
Screening + Q&A on 23rd with Sakamoto + Schible:
White womanhood: a political antagonism
Hegemonic white womanhood is constituted by a politics of domination
- white women are visible, desirable and defended. They are the only ‘women’ who count.
White womanhood is not politically neutral: representations of bodies matter
We've partnered with archive activist film collective Invisible Women
@IW_Archives
to bring you the UK premiere of seven newly restored films by Yvonne Rainer, a pioneering avant-garde filmmaker and dancer.
Tickets
@KinoLorber
@zeitgeistfilms
.
@BFI
and ICA in partnership with
@janusfilms
today announce the 'WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI' streaming seven 4K restorations through the ICA’s new streaming platform ‘Cinema 3’ from Feb 1 and BFI Player
Tickets on sale from Jan 18
#JetToneFilms
#WongKarWai
“Some bodies are deemed worthy of empathy whilst others are instrumentalised for disgust” this is the mechanism that highlights the violence and harassment that Diane Abbott faces as a Black woman.
Black women from the beginning have never been included into the narrative of womanhood. Therefore the violence inflicted on them throughout the ages isn’t seen as “gendered”
In partnership with
@janusfilms
and
@BFI
The World of Wong Kar Wai – a retrospective of the Hong Kongese director screens in the ICA Cinemas from Wednesday
Recordings of Kathy Acker programme are now up on the ICA site, including a lecture by Sophie Lewis (
@reproutopia
), Sarah Schulman in conversation with Matias Viegener, filmmaker and Acker collaborator Bette Gordon + more!
For oppressive regimes to succeed, they must conduct their crimes unseen.
Directed by a collective of filmmakers, ‘Myanmar Diaries’ documents life in the country after the violent military coup of February 2021.
Wednesday + Q&A
Fritz Lang's dystopian masterpiece, Metropolis tells the tale of a divided society where the rulers live out a fantastical existence, while the ruled trudge away. At the ICA from Dec 19
“I have a kind of disgust shaped by the majority of films that have been made."
‘Let cinema go to its ruin: the cinema of Marguerite Duras’
w/
@anothergaze
July 18–Aug 25
selling out fast ‼️
See thread for full programme ⬇️
What is the relationship between politics and time?
In this discussion,
@theotolithgroup
and
@AfroFuturAffair
explore the need to fundamentally revolutionise the way we approach time so as to fully part with its colonial linearity.
15 August, 6:45pm
Streaming via Solidarity Cinema, a channel dedicated to de-colonial and socialist film with a focus on Spanish language, 'One Way or Another' depicts life in marginalised communities in post revolutionary Cuba via a mix of documentary and fiction. Watch:
We're hiring!
The Development Officer plays a pivotal fundraising, renewals and prospects role. Devising a year-round Patrons’ events programme, handling logistics for events and supporter comms.
Apply by 16 Jun
Stuart Hall’s essay ‘New Ethnicities’ was published in the ICA Document series after a one-day conference at the ICA in Feb 1988, covering representation, race, ethnicity, national identity and culture in terms that still feel relevant
Read p.28
#ICADaily
The intersection of sound and image has long been a creatively fertile, if under-appreciated, part of electronic music.
Alain Mongeau (
@MUTEK_Montreal
) features in our latest collaboration with
@residentadvisor
directed by
@WerrettLucy
Full film:
'Black Panthers' was filmed by Agnès Varda, after she travelled to Oakland following the imprisonment of Huey P. Newton to interview Newton and others.
Commissioned by French broadcaster ORTF, it was considered too radical to be shown on TV.
#ICADaily
Too often black women have disappeared from struggles they have initiated. Fugitive feminism makes visible black women legacies as artists, activists, intellectuals etc.
#fugitivefeminism
Today is the birthday of novelist, essayist and Nobel laureate in literature,
#ToniMorrison
.
And today we are excited to announce Five Volumes for Toni Morrison, a three day convening celebrating her life and work which will take place 12 – 14 March.
The ICA has joined forces with
@drmartens
to award six UK based emerging artists a £5,000 production grant and one £30,000 grant as part of Image Behaviour the ICA’s annual convening dedicated to experiments in artists’ moving image
Apply by 30 March
📢📍 Only two weeks left until our landmark exhibition
#WarInnaBabylon
closes!
This weekend we explore the issues that have sparked widespread outrage across the UK for decades - deaths in custody.
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We're thrilled to announce the first UK retrospective of the work of the Japanese documentary maker, Tsuchimoto Noriaki (1928 – 2008), in partnership with Open City Documentary Festival.
To book your tickets, click here:
Trinh T Minh-ha visits the ICA to speak about her work that questions totalising systems of knowledge, representations and categories of identity during the retrospective of her film ouevre from 2 Dec.
'Reality is more fabulous, more maddening, more strangely manipulative than fiction', Trinh T Minh-ha
See all the films of Trinh T Minh-ha, whose writings and films continue to be hugely influential in both feminist and postcolonial studies.
From 2 Dec
Fantastic point about the ways in which Theresa May and Diane Abbott are treated very differently as female politicians.
Jane Merrick imploring the public to empathise with Theresa May for losing her majority.
PSYOP is out now. Metahaven's experimental, densely illustrated exhibition publication offers a unique perspective on their practice. Published by Koenig Books and edited by
@mthvn
with
@karenarchey
@Stedelijk
and
@ICALondon
. Available here:
See Tina Campt's talk on 'Black Feminist Futures and the Practice of Fugitivity'
@bcrwtweets
:
Find out how Campt's work has influenced
@AkwugoEmejulu
's conception of
#FugitiveFeminism
at 'Towards a Fugitive Feminism':
'The House is Black' is the only film made by the late poet Forough Farrokhzad (1935 – 1967).
Screening alongside Samira Makhmalbaf's 'Blackboards' on Wednesday 10 July
Tickets:
DJ
@lynneedenise
coined the term ‘DJ Scholarship’ in 2013 to explain both the subversive ability of DJ culture to shape social experiences + to present the DJ as an archivist who provides access to music with critical value.
7 Sep, 7:00pm
A taste of the UK underground dance scene is coming to the ICA 🧊🧊🧊
@Hyperdub
is taking over with live performances from Ikonika, Nazar and Proc Fiskal on 8 June
Author of Nightmare Movies, writer of Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema, and contributing editor to Sight & Sound,
@AnnoDracula
introduces Valerie and Her Week of Wonders – a Czech New-Wave classic set in the imagination of a girl entering adulthood
Feb 22