ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 16 April - Thursday 22 April 2004
TICKETS &
BOX OFFICE INFORMATION:
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THIS
WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:
International theatre
Thurs 22 - Sat 24 April, 8pm
ATTIC PEOPLE PRESENT: DRIP
'Drip is everything good Fringe theatre should be' Scotsman 'Inventively
staged' Sunday Times 'Limitless variety of vocal effects and visual imagery,
telling an original tale with eccentric charm' Total Theatre Winner of
the 2002 Babymilk Foundation Tap Water Award for Best Physical Theatre
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the 2003 NSDF Judges' Award for Best
Total Ensemble, Drip is a dark, comic tale of one community against an
outsider who refuses to obey their rules. In Cracker Valley it is time
for the Annual Friendly Water Conservation Contest. The hotly contested
prize: a picture on the front page of the local newspaper alongside Mayor
Pimple. An eccentric chorus of spying neighbours is determined to win,
but their water-scrimping efforts are foiled by their new neighbour Ben,
who spends hours in the bath tub dreaming about the German girl next door.
The deeper Ben withdraws into his aquatic fantasy world, the more he becomes
an obstacle to be removed at all costs. Through imaginative physical play,
a cacophony of sounds and cartoonish storytelling, this ensemble of seven
Lecoq-trained actors from Paris and New York, bring you into the topsy-turvy
life of an apartment block where body odour is a virtue, cleanliness a
deadly sin and love a forbidden fruit. £8, £7 Concs. £6
ICA Members Theatre (seated)
FILM
@ THE ICA
Friday
16 April
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45,6.45, 8.30pm
HUBLEY ANIMATION
(Cinema 1) 6.45pm
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Cinema 2)
8.30pm
Saturday
17 April
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
2.45, 4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
HUBLEY ANIMATION
(Cinema 1) 6.45pm
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Cinema 2)
9pm
Sunday
18 April
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
6.45, 8.30pm
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
(Cinema 2) 6.45pm
UNKNOWN PLEASURES
(Cinema 2) 8.45pm
Monday
19 April
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
(Cinema 2) 6.45pm
UNKNOWN PLEASURES
(Cinema 2) 8.45
Tuesday 20 April
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
XIAO WU (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm
Wednesday
21 April
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
(Cinema 2) 6.45pm
HALLOWEEN
(Cinema 2) 8.45pm
Thursday
22 April
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 8.30pm
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
(Cinema 2) 6.45pm
VJ CULTURE
(Cinema 2) 8.45, 10.30pm
FILM @ THE ICA
ica
projects
Osama
'Miraculous' Time Out
'Impeccable ... heart-stopping ... fearless' Times
'Enchanting, sometimes terrifying ... a Taliban thriller' Dazed &
Confused The first film from Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban,
Siddiq Barmak's stunning, Sutherland Award-winning and Golden Globe nominated
Osama received a standing ovation at its Cannes Festival premiere last
year. Through the lens of a Western news cameraman, street urchin Espandi
leads the way to a remarkable protest by blue-veiled women whose demonstrations
are swiftly swept from the streets of Kabul. Among the crowds is a young,
nameless girl (Marina Golbahari) who finds herself shorn and disguised
as a boy in order to work. But when she is rounded up and sent to a religious
school where she is named Osama, her disguise dramatically falters and
she embarks on a further odyssey through the judicial system of the Taliban.
From a country that has produced less than 40 films in the past century,
Afghanistan's first Academy nomination is a passionate and lyrical film
full of exquisitely surreal imagery and evocative of its spiritual godfather
(and uncredited producer) Mohsen Makhmalbaf's now-legendary Kandahar.
Dir Siddiq Barmak, Afghanistan 2003, 82 mins, subs, 12A
ICA
PROJECTS
All Tomorrow's Parties
'modern cyberpunk film' Le Monde
Serious science-fiction, set in a future China controlled by a severe
religious authoritarian sect (shades of Falun Gong and Taliban) that has
effectively abolished all traces of freedom. Two brothers are sent for
re-education to an internment camp where they befriend a Korean mother,
a hard-fought-for human bond in an inhuman environment. Liberated by a
sudden and unexplained revolt, the group set out together to discover
what's become of their devastated world. Director Yu Lik Wai (director
of the 1999 Cannes entry Love Will Tear Us Apart and Jia Zhangke's regular
DP) may have created - entirely on found locations - one of the grimmest
dystopias in cinema history, but he's realised it with a visual style
that makes experiencing it no hardship. A powerful, mesmerising experience.
Dir Yu Lik Wai, China 2003, 95 mins, subs
Cinema
2: 14 - 20 Apr
Unknown Pleasures
'Fascinating...poignant' Time Out
More pop-oriented than its predecessors, this detailed snapshot of stalled
young lives is given great immediacy thanks to director Jia Zhangke and
DP Yu Lik Wai's decision to shoot digitally. A pair of unemployed teenage
boys mooch around the old mining town of Datong, watching TV, courting
girls, quoting Tarantino and listening to news broadcasts about the wide
world beyond. Things are changing all around them, but their attempts
to do likewise go nowhere. Full of bustle, music and small, significant
events, this is a vibrant yet contemplative masterpiece. Dir Jia Zhangke
China 2002, 112 mins, subs, 12A
16 & 17 Apr, 6.45pm
THE ANIMATED WORLD OF THE HUBLEYS
Leading lights in the world of independent animation since the 1950s,
former Disney art director John Hubley and his wife Faith produced a large
number of highly individual, modernist, sometimes jazz-inflected short
films until their respective deaths in 1977 and 2001. This programme takes
in collaborations ranging over three decades and Faith's later solo work,
including their first film Adventures of an *, Oscar-winners Moonbird
and The Hole, Oscar nominees Windy Day and Voyage to Next, the child's-eye
worldview Cockaboody and The Hat, featuring the voices of Dizzy Gillespie
and Dudley Moore. US, 105 mins approx
16
& 17 Apr, 9pm
THE ANIMATED WORLD OF THE HUBLEYS:
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
'Clever, funny, wildly innovative' New York Times
John and Faith Hubley's daughter Emily provides the charming animated
segments in this riotous, inventive and touching adaptation of John Cameron
Mitchell's hit off-Broadway rock musical. Mitchell himself plays Hedwig,
a semi-transsexual after a botched sex-change operation who leads her
glam-rock garage band on a low-rent tour of America while dreaming of
being re-united with former lover and protege, Tommy Gnosis (The Dreamers'
Michael Pitt). Stephen Trask's songs revel in their new cinemtatic surroundings.
Dir John Cameron Mitchell, US, 2001, 95 mins
Cinema
2: 22 Apr, 8.45pm, 10.30pm
VJ CULTURE 06: CG
An ongoing monitoring of the rise of VJing as a moving image artform.
VJ Culture 06 focuses on VJs creating content from scratch within the
generative engines of Computer Graphics. Headlining this edition is a
special 1 hour long screening of Male or Female, exclusive widescreen
and surround sound videos from Rod Chong's latest DVD compilation, from
the producers of Front 242 and released on Dance.com's website. A selection
of short videos from international VJs will lead into Chong's DVD, along
with audience discussions on issues relative to CG content creation, and
more. Contact: vjculture@anyone.org.uk. RT 90mins
Cinema
2: 21 Apr, 8.45pm
HALLOWEEN SHORTS: HIGH ABOVE THIS WALL
'A film festival with the brain of an art gallery, the soul of a rock
show, and the backbone of an activist collective.' Village Voice High
Above this Wall is a curated program of the best short film work looking
at War in the 20th century and beyond, selected from Texas and internationally.
Room with a View in the Financial District (Carola Dertnig) is a study
of empty offices in the World Trade Center during summer 2001, and Fields
(Julie Speechley) a study of WW1 battlegrounds as they are now. Viva la
Guerra (Paul Hanley) is a Vietnam epic starring a plastic Harrison Ford,
plus more Vietnam as viewed knee-high by Nixon's Irish Setter in Seven
Days (David Barker). There's also reports from the Gulf and Palestine.
RT 90 min approx
EXHIBITIONS @ THE ICA
Until 16 May
Galleries: 12-7.30pm, Cinema 2: 12-5.30pm
Beck's Futures 2004
'Dedicated to the support of developing artists,...one of the country's
premier arts prizes' Independent The ICA presents the fifth annual Beck's
Futures exhibition and awards, bringing together work from ten of the
most exciting UK-based artists. Some of whom were born in Bulgaria, Turkey,
the Netherlands and Brazil. The exhibition confirms the cosmopolitan nature
of the UK's contemporary arts scene, and the range of artistic and cultural
resources informing art made in the UK.
The shortlisted artists are: Haluk Akakce, Tonico Lemos Auad, Simon Bedwell,
Ergin Cavusoglu, Andrew Cross, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Susan Philipsz, Imogen
Stidworthy, Hayley Tompkins and Nicoline Van Harskamp. Each receives £4,000
from the total awards fund of £65,000 that makes this the UK's most
generous art awards. Beck's Futures 2004 will see the ICA's spaces animated
by seductive and immersive video installations and films, as well as sound-based
pieces which draw upon sources as diverse as Cilla Black and Rosa Luxembourg.
Also displayed will be figures sculpted from carpet fluff, delicate abstract
watercolours, and found posters editorialised through the addition of
trenchant slogans and spray paint. Through the course of the show, the
ICA will also play host to a succession of professional security guards,
invited to the building for a single day. Ranging from department store
guards to Street Wardens, their presence will form the live aspect of
a work offering A Guide to UK Security Guards. This year's selection was
made by the curators Klaus Biesenbach, Katrina Brown and Dan Cameron,
and artists Mark Dion and Philippe Parreno. A further overall award of
£20,000 will be made to one artist from the shortlist, which will
be announced in late April 2004. Mon-Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs,
FREE to ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE
to ICA Members Lower, Concourse and Upper Galleries & Cinema 2
LIVE
MUSIC & CLUBNIGHTS @ THE ICA
Fri
16 April, 7.30pm
ICA SHOWCASE: SWIM RECORDS FEAT. COLIN NEWMAN, SILO, RHODES, LOBE, SYMPTOMS
+ MORE
Colin Newman is in the band Wire. You may remember them, they
are one of the most important European bands ever. Colin also happens
to run a label called Swim on his days off. Considering that Swim's roster
has a remit ranging from Silo's German post rock to Japanese water margin
influenced trip hop, this is no mean feat. Tonight, is the second ICA
Showcase series and features Swim roster acts Lobe, Symptoms, Rhodes,
Silo and a special performance by new addition Githead which is Newman
and friends performing exclusive new material, including ICA regular,
Scanner. Plus VJ'ing in between acts and Brussel's finest DJ Morpheus
will be keeping it busy in the bar til 1am. £8, £7 Concs.
£6 ICA Members Theate (standing)
Sat
17 Apr, 9pm
Batmacumba
The legendary night sambas into spring to bring you the latest hottest
tracks from Rio mixed with rare Jazz, samba and Bossa's swaying rhythems.
As always this is a hot hot ticket so book in advance and get down early
to secure your dancing hot-spot. £6, £5 Concs. Free to ICA
Members Bar
THEATRE
@ THE ICA
International
theatre
Thurs 22 - Sat 24 April, 8pm
ATTIC PEOPLE PRESENT: DRIP
'Drip is everything good Fringe theatre should be' Scotsman 'Inventively
staged' Sunday Times 'Limitless variety of vocal effects and visual imagery,
telling an original tale with eccentric charm' Total Theatre Winner of
the 2002 Babymilk Foundation Tap Water Award for Best Physical Theatre
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the 2003 NSDF Judges' Award for Best
Total Ensemble, Drip is a dark, comic tale of one community against an
outsider who refuses to obey their rules. In Cracker Valley it is time
for the Annual Friendly Water Conservation Contest. The hotly contested
prize: a picture on the front page of the local newspaper alongside Mayor
Pimple. An eccentric chorus of spying neighbours is determined to win,
but their water-scrimping efforts are foiled by their new neighbour Ben,
who spends hours in the bath tub dreaming about the German girl next door.
The deeper Ben withdraws into his aquatic fantasy world, the more he becomes
an obstacle to be removed at all costs. Through imaginative physical play,
a cacophony of sounds and cartoonish storytelling, this ensemble of seven
Lecoq-trained actors from Paris and New York, bring you into the topsy-turvy
life of an apartment block where body odour is a virtue, cleanliness a
deadly sin and love a forbidden fruit. £8, £7 Concs. £6
ICA Members Theatre (seated)
TALKS @ THE ICA
Comica
Fri 16 Apr, 7pm
COMIX: HEROES OF THE REVOLUTION
Are comix the lost art form of the 20th century? If, previously, censorship
forced comix to maintain an underground position, has their popularisation
by Hollywood conversely resulted in a dilution and 'blandification' of
the form? Is there a future for comix following the death of hippy culture?
Legendary Texan creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Gilbert Shelton
will be making a rare appearance alongside British counterparts Hunt Emerson,
creator of Thunderdogs, Firkin the Cat, and Bryan Talbot, creator of Chester
P. Hackenbush, Luther Arkwright and the acclaimed Tale of One Bad Rat.
In the chair: Dez Skinn, author of COMIX: The Underground Revolution,
who has won over 20 Eagle awards during his 30-year career in the industry.
Titles he has created include Doctor Who Weekly, Hulk Comic and Warrior.
£8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members
Nash Room
Wed
21 Apr, 7pm
NEXT GENERATION ARCHITECTURE
The practice and profession of architecture has been undergoing a radical
shift over the last decade. Spurred by digital design tools and novel
manufacturing techniques, a new era of building has begun that incorporates
interactive technologies, a redefinition of our ideas about craft, mass
customization and breathtaking form. Joseph Rosa, the innovative curator
of design and architecture at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will
discuss some of the latest developments with Jürgen Mayer H., the
progressive Berlin-based architect whose work explores the intersection
of architecture, communication and new technology; and Patrik Schumacher,
director of the AA's Digital Research Laboratory and principal of Zaha
Hadid Architects. £8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members Nash
Room
The ICA Economist Debate
Thurs 22 Apr, 6.45pm
CRIME REQUIRES PUNISHMENT
Police and prison numbers rise, crime is falling - yet faith in the criminal
justice system is declining. Is the desire for retribution, unspoken and
unsatisfied, a shameful echo of the past, or a vital way of restoring
public confidence? Speakers: Mark Leech, Publisher and Managing Editor
of The Prisons Handbook, released from prison in 1995, founder and former
Chief Executive of the National Ex-offenders Charity, UNLOCK; Marian Fitzgerald,
visiting research professor at the LSE's Mannheim Centre, who formerly
worked in the Research and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office;
Rob Allen, Director of 'Rethinking Crime and Punishment' at the Esmee
Fairbairn Foundation and a member of Youth Justice Board; and Peter Hitchens,
columnist at The Mail on Sunday and author of The Abolition of Liberty.
In the chair: Edward Lucas, Britain correspondent at The Economist. £8,
£7 Concs. £6 ICA Members Cinema 1
DIGITAL STUDIO @ THE ICA
Sat
17 Apr - Sat 22 May,
Daily 12-7.30pm
MIKE STUBBS: CITY STRAPLINE INDUSTRIES
City Strapline Industries is an installation combining processes of 'social
interference' and media making that explores the phenomenon of the branding
of cities as a strategy, not only of marketing, but also of regeneration.
The exhibition will also feature other recent video works by the artist,
including Cultural Quarter, 2003 (multiple-prize at the Echigo-Tsumari
Art Triennial in Japan, August 2003).
By placing idiosyncratic and unsanctioned culture alongside efforts to
market a location strategically, the works highlight the complexities
and hierarchies involved. Straplines like 'Sheffield - City on the Move',
'Bedfordshire - A Progressive County' and 'Bradford's bouncing back' serve
as testaments to the universality of city marketing over recent decades,
but also to the continuing inertia of social and economic realities that
bears upon these aspirational, optimistic statements. Mike Stubbs is a
film-maker, artist and curator whose has often adopted a documentary style,
creating poignant social observations in films such as Little England,
Doughnut and Homing, many of which have been broadcast on C4 and the BBC.
www.strapline.org.uk. Mon-Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE to
ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE to ICA
Members Digital Strudio
Thurs
22 Apr, 7pm
MURRAY ANDERSON-WALLACE ON MIKE STUBBS
Murray Anderson- Wallace of 'Inter-Logistic' will discuss the web as a
marketing resource in the context of Stubb's City-Strapline ambition to
create a strapline for the world! www.inter-logics.net Mon-Fri £1.50,
£1.00 Concs, FREE to ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50
Concs, FREE to ICA Members Digital studio
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