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ICA
East - 14 Wharf Rd N1
5th Feb - 7 Mar, 12.30 - 7.30pm
YOKO ONO: ODYSSEY OF A COCKROACH
'Ono has pulled off a difficult and delicate task, creating a highly theatrical
mise en scene that makes the viewer feel personally involved rather than
overwhelmed' Time Out, NY Odyssey of a Cockroach is an installation that
takes the form of a theatrical mise-en-scene , the experience of a cockroach
as it makes its way through the city of New York. But more than that,
'it's a phantasmagorical passage through time - specifically the last
century' NY Time Out. In Odyssey of a Cockroach, walls are covered with
billboard-size colour photographs of gritty urban scenes - a bloody crime
scene, a bombed-out building, a starving child. Towering sculptures depict
similarly unsettling subjects - a six foot rubbish bin overflowing with
plaster body casts, an enormous replica of a human rat trap, and hundreds
and hundreds of old discarded shoes, the owners long forgotten.
Describing the genesis of this project, Yoko Ono says: 'I have taken various
pictures of the city's corners and presented them from a cockroach's point
of view. Through the eyes of this other strong race, we may learn the
true reality of what our dreams and nightmares have created. I invite
you to join me on this odyssey.' The exhibition is an offsite project,
which will be held in a 3 storey gallery space at: 14 Wharf Road, London
N1 7RW. (Nearest Tubes: Angel/Old Street) Odyssey of a Cockroach was first
seen at Deitchs Projects, New York, 2003.
Tues
3rd Feb, 7pm
YOKO ONO: IN CONVERSATION
£8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members
NB: THIS TALK TAKES PLACE IN THE ICA THEATRE (THE MALL, SW1) ICA LISTINGS
Friday 30 January - Thursday 5 February
FILM @ THE ICA
Friday 30 January
KITCHEN STORIES (Cinema 1)
4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
LOCAL ANGEL (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
GAMBLING,GODS & LSD (Cinema 2)
8.00pm
Saturday
31 January
KITCHEN STORIES (Cinema 1)
2.30, 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
GAMBLING,GODS & LSD (Cinema 2)
2.45,8.00pm
LOCAL ANGEL (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
Sunday
1 February
KITCHEN STORIES (Cinema 1)
2.30, 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
BFM: ONE WEEK (Cinema 2)
4.00pm
LOCAL ANGEL (Cinema 2)
7.00pm
RASHOMON (Cinema 2)
8.45pm
Monday
2 February
KITCHEN STORIES (Cinema 1)
4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
WILD STRAWBERRIES (Cinema 2)
6.45pm
RASHOMON (Cinema 2)
8.45pm
Tuesday
3 February
KITCHEN STORIES (Cinema 1)
4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
WILD STRAWBERRIES (Cinema 2)
6.45pm
RASHOMON (Cinema 2)
8.45pm
Wednesday
4 February
KITCHEN STORIES (Cinema 1)
4.30, 7.00,9.15pm
WILD STRAWBERRIES (Cinema 2)
6.30pm
HALLOWEEN SHORTS (Cinema 2)
8.30pm
Thursday
5 February
KITCHEN STORIES (Cinema 1)
4, 9pm
WILD STRAWBERRIES (Cinema 2)
6.30pm
THE TIN DRUM (Cinema 2)
8.30pm
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 30 January - Thursday 5 February
FILM @ THE ICA
ICA
PROJECTS
KITCHEN STORIES (SALMER FRA KJOKKENET)
'Wondrously bizarre ... both affecting and funny' Guardian 'Marvellous
... wonderfully warm-hearted ... pitch perfect' Time Out Somewhere between
the worlds of Aki Kaurismaki and the Coen's Fargo, the cult hit of last
year's Cannes Film Festival is a wonderfully warm and stylish comedy set
during a 1950s mass-observation project. Having thoroughly mapped the
chores of a Swedish housewife, scientists send their observers to the
rural district of Landstad in Norway to study the kitchen routines of
single men. Mild-mannered researcher Folke is dealt the challenge of studying
the habits of the reticent Isak. Against the odds and the rules of the
study, the two men gradually form a close friendship that allows them
to break out of their respective roles. Beautiful cinematography and a
lugubrious score complement hilariously understated performances and wash
the action in a glorious retro sheen. Dir Bent Hamer, Norway/Sweden 2003,
95 mins, subs
27
Jan - 1 Feb, 6.30pm (27 Jan); 6.45pm (28-29 Jan); 6.15pm (30-31 Jan) LOCAL
ANGEL
'Fascinating... uncategorizable' Variety
'Mandatory viewing' San Francisco Bay Guardian
The latest work by New York-based Israeli artist Aloni is both a Chris
Marker-style documentary about the root causes and present contradictions
of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and a deeply personal odyssey - a
surreal film combining poetry, music, and images that range from beauty
to outright horror. Subtitled 'Theological Political Fragments', the film
brings together its many elements in unexpected ways. Dir Udi Aloni, US
2002, 70 mins
Cinema
2: 1-12 February
CLASSIC CINEMA
To complement ICA Project's release of contemporary classics, a selection
of classic world cinema, from 50s to 70s.
1-3
Feb, 8.45pm
RASHOMON
'Kurosawa's visual style at its most muscular' Time Out
One of Kurosawa's most inventive and sustained, achievements and the film
that opened the eyes of the West to the potential of Japanese cinema when
it played at the Venice Film Festival in 1951. Set in 12th century Kyoto,
the film offers four contradictory versions of an ambush, a rape and a
murder. This meditation on the relative nature of truth has long captivated
audiences, particularly through Mifune's astonishing performance as the
bandit. Dir Akira Kurosawa, Japan 1950, 87 mins, subs
2-5
Feb
WILD STRAWBERRIES
'Astonishingly moving' Time Out
One of Bergman's warmest and therefore finest films casts veteran director
Victor Sjsstrsm as a grouchy professor who relives his past en route to
collecting an academic award. One of cinema's all-time classics. Dir Ingmar
Bergman, Sweden 1957, 94 mins, subs
Cinema 2: 5-8 Feb, 8.30pm
THE TIN DRUM
'masterly' Daily Mail
The Cannes Palme d'or and Academy Award-winning adaptation of Gunter Grass'
epic novel is narrated by its lead character, Oscar. On his third birthday
Oscar decides to stop growing in protest against the permissiveness of
his surroundings and the simultaneous unstoppable growth of Nazism. Disturbing
but also darkly comic. Dir Volker Schlondorff, Germany 1979, 142 mins,
subs
Cinema
2: 1 Feb, 4pm
BFM Presents: ONE WEEK
A soon-to-be groom learns that he may have contracted HIV and the seven
days he waits for the test results turns out to be the most hectic week
of his life. Conveying a serious message about HIV and AIDS, One Week
tells a tale of how easy it is for ordinary individuals to be confronted
with life-altering circumstances as a result of past sexual behaviour.
With an excellent script and cast, this film is an entertaining, warm,
and frequently hilarious story that manages to deliver a sobering and
cautionary message.
Dir Carl Seaton, USA 2000, 97 mins
**The screening will be followed by a discussion about HIV/Aids.**
Cinema
2: from 30 Jan
GAMBLING, GODS AND LSD
'Beautifully rendered and transfixing ... as visually entrancing as it
is thematically arresting' Toronto Star An intuitive undertaking by a
visionary film maker, Mettler's journey leads from Toronto's Ballardian
city-edges through the natural and human excesses of the Nevada desert,
to a decaying bourgeois Switzerland and the exotic, chaotic streets of
Southern India. Along the way he documents encounters with those who drive
themselves to their physical or mental limits to find transcendence through
extremity. Philosophical and poetic, this epic endeavour plays out like
Koyaanisqatsi with content, evoking Chris Marker's Sans Soleil in extremis.
Dir Peter Mettler, Canada 2002, 180 mins www.gambling-gods-and-lsd.ch
Cinema
2: 4 Feb, 8.30pm
HALLOWEEN SHORTS
The prize winners plus the shorts you most wanted to see in last month's
Halloween Film Festival: Beware the projector with teeth! RT c.80 mins
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 30 January - Thursday 5 February
EXHIBITIONS @ THE ICA
Until
29 Feb 2004, 12-7pm daily
FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS: BREEDING ARCHITECTURE
'Gracious, thoughtful, sensitive to other cultures and yet original and
strong-willed' Guardian 'coolest architects in the world' The Times This
is the first UK exhibition of the acclaimed architects, Foreign Office
Architects (FOA), founded by Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo.
Based in London, they have a global reputation with projects commissioned
or realised in cities as varied as London, New York, Tehran, Seoul and
Yokohama. FOA's diverse projects include, among others, an international
port terminal, an urban and coastal park, a theatre, a police headquarters
and a proposed replacement for the World Trade Centre. Designed as a series
of immersive installations, this visually stunning exhibition explores
FOA's projects, the particularities of each city in which they've built,
and the influences on their work. The exhibition also provides, uniquely,
a critical insight into the office's internal 'operating system'.
Amidst projections of built projects and related UV illuminated drawings,
the lower galleries contain architectural models placed on a vivid diagram
linking each project. Video interviews are featured with an international
selection of FOA's clients, allowing a rare insight into the commissioning
and developing of projects. The concourse gallery features an installation
comprising illustrated samples of the surface textures of their projects.
Mon - Fri: £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE to ICA Members; Sat &
Sun: £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE to ICA members
Thurs
5 Feb, 7.30-8.30pm (Upper Gallery)
GALLERY TALK: THE INFORMATION AGE
Mark Rappolt, writer and Senior Editor of Contemporary magazine will talk
about how the work of FOA raises important questions about what type of
message contemporary architecture seeks to project. £1.50, £1.00
Concs, FREE to ICA Members ICA East - 14 Wharf Rd N1
5
Feb - 7 Mar, 12.30 - 7.30pm
YOKO ONO: ODYSSEY OF A COCKROACH
'Ono has pulled off a difficult and delicate task, creating a highly theatrical
mise en scene that makes the viewer feel personally involved rather than
overwhelmed' Time Out, NY Odyssey of a Cockroach is an installation that
takes the form of a theatrical mise-en-scene , the experience of a cockroach
as it makes its way through the city of New York. But more than that,
'it's a phantasmagorical passage through time - specifically the last
century' NY Time Out. In Odyssey of a Cockroach, walls are covered with
billboard-size colour photographs of gritty urban scenes - a bloody crime
scene, a bombed-out building, a starving child. Towering sculptures depict
similarly unsettling subjects - a six foot rubbish bin overflowing with
plaster body casts, an enormous replica of a human rat trap, and hundreds
and hundreds of old discarded shoes, the owners long forgotten.
Describing the genesis of this project, Yoko Ono says: 'I have taken various
pictures of the city's corners and presented them from a cockroach's point
of view. Through the eyes of this other strong race, we may learn the
true reality of what our dreams and nightmares have created. I invite
you to join me on this odyssey.' The exhibition is an offsite project,
which will be held in a 3 storey gallery space at: 14 Wharf Road, London
N1 7RW. (Nearest Tubes: Angel/Old Street) Odyssey of a Cockroach was first
seen at Deitchs Projects, New York, 2003.
Thurs
5 Feb, 7pm
YOKO ONO: IN CONVERSATION
To complement the Yoko Ono exhibition, Odyssey of a Cockroach at 14 Wharf
Street N1, an offsite ICA exhibition, the artist will be in conversation,
talking about her current exhibition - and about her career as an artist.
At a moment when installation art and the questioning of art, war and
memory are firmly at the heart of so much contemporary argument, this
is an important opportunity to listen to an artist who in the past has
been much engaged in such matters - and continues to be so. £8,
£7 Concs. £6 ICA Members NB, this talk takes place in the
ICA Theatre, not at Wharf Road.
Tues
3 Feb, 8pm
MY KYLIE
Artist Kathy Temin presents an evening of live auditions, musical and
visual interpretations, readings and DJs. The theme of the event is fan-dom,
imitation and fantasy. It's an open invitation to audition live with an
impersonation of any Kylie song to be judged by art critic and deputy
editor of Art Monthly Andrew Wilson, artist Jessica Voorsanger and a surprise
guest. The winner will perform later in the evening. Readings from A Magazine
(as part of My Kylie Collection) by Polly Borland and Robin Rimbaud (aka
Scanner) and others. Artist DJs: Georgie Hopton and Kathy Temin, Georgina
Starr, Verena Jabs and Mario Schruff.
To audition please call 0781 6566 448
£5, £4 Concs. Free to ICA Members
Bar
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 30 January - Thursday 5 February
PERFORMANCE
& MUSIC @ THE ICA
Sat
31 Jan, 8pm
ZOD RECORDS PHANTOM TOUR" CURTIS CHIP + EMOTIONAL JOYSTICK + BINRAY
+ DJs VITAMIN BETTY + CEEPHAX ACID CREW 'gabba-style mashup with all the
touches of delicacy, humour and finesse that distinguish the good from
the ordinary.' Warp on Curtis Chip The American Techno invasion of Europe
begins in January 2004 at the ICA. Milwaukee made its first mark in the
US by being home to white trash beer classics in early history. The new
millennium has made its second seminal mark with electronic splattercore
artists including Venetian Snares, Doormouse, and rumoured sightings of
Bogdan Raczinski.
Also home to ZOD records, releasing Warpmart worthy albums and dancefloor
mayhem jitthyms, PHOBIA bookings have gathered together some their finest
darklords and here present the London leg of ZOD's 'Phantom Tour' 2004.
The line-up includes joyful programming from Curtis Chip, eerie keys and
infectious beats from Emotional Joystick and Bristol's highly anticipated
Bonray, all releasing brand new albums for 2004. Expect vomitar instruments,
brainbleeding beats, and ardkore mutant fun. Check www.zodrecords and
www.schematic.net for more info. £7, £6 Concs. £5 ICA
Members
Tues
3 Feb, 8pm
MY KYLIE
Artist Kathy Temin presents an evening of live auditions, musical and
visual interpretations, readings and DJs. The theme of the event is fan-dom,
imitation and fantasy. It's an open invitation to audition live with an
impersonation of any Kylie song to be judged by art critic and deputy
editor of Art Monthly Andrew Wilson, artist Jessica Voorsanger and a surprise
guest. The winner will perform later in the evening. Readings from A Magazine
(as part of My Kylie Collection) by Polly Borland and Robin Rimbaud (aka
Scanner) and others. Artist DJs: Georgie Hopton and Kathy Temin, Georgina
Starr, Verena Jabs and Mario Schruff.
To audition please call 0781 6566 448
£5, £4 Concs. Free to ICA Members
Bar
Wed
4 Feb, 8pm
I AM KLOOT + SONS AND DAUGHTERS
I Am Kloot: 'They will stir you into a rare, joyous fervour' NME I Am
Kloot singer and guitarist John Bramwell is explicit, honest and a master
of metaphor, as fine a wordsmith as Morrissey or Stuart Murdoch. A million
miles from the niceties of the New Acoustic Movement, I Am Kloot's is
an alternative agenda. It vacillates between self-loathing, cynicism and
moments of profound tenderness, and really it's only their instrumentation
that's traditional. Support comes from the excellent Sons And Daughters.
£11, £10 Concs. £9 ICA Members Theatre
Sat
7 Feb, 8pm
BLACKTRONICA
Blacktronica kicks off 2004 with a brand new season of events at the ICA
courtesy of Charlie Dark and friends. Music, visuals and vibes collide
in the hottest social gathering this side of Mars as the crew explore
the full spectrum of Black music, past present and future; From Carl Craig
to Coltrane and everything in between. Uncut will present a selection
of short films in Cinema 2 at 11pm £6, £5 Concs. Free to ICA
Members Bar, Cinema 2
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 30 January - Thursday 5 February
TALKS @ THE ICA
Wed
4 Feb, 7pm
BEYOND BELIEF: EXPERIENCING BURNING MAN
Each summer, thousands flock to Black Rock Desert, Nevada, to participate
in the carnival of consciousness known as Burning Man, the most powerful
post religious experience in the Western world today. TonightÕs
speakers discuss the implications of Burning Man for contemporary culture.
Erik Davis, cultural critic, author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism
in the Age of Information and long-term Burner; Geoff Dyer, author and
Burning Man repeat offender whose latest book is Yoga for People Who Cannot
Be Bothered To Do It. Chair: Kodwo Eshun, critic, author of More Brilliant
Than The Sun
(Quartet) and total Burning Man neophyte.
£8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members
Nash Room
Thurs
5 Feb, 6.45pm
THE BBC: WRONG OR WRONGED?
Does the BBC deserve to survive? Is it left-wing, self-satisfied, nannying
and bloated? Or is it one of Britain's strongest and most admirable independent
institutions, a bulwark of free speech and independent thought? Has it
shamefully abandoned its Reithian mission, or marvellously modernised
it? Should the licence fee stay, shrivel or go? And should it be brought
under the control of Ofcom? Speakers: Caroline Thomson, Director of Policy
and
Legal, BBC; Barry Cox, deputy chair of Channel 4; David Docherty, Yoomedia,
ex-director of BBC TV; Damian Thompson, feature writer for The Daily Telegraph.
In the chair: Edward Lucas, Britain correspondent at The Economist. £8,
£7 Concs. £6 ICA Members Cinema 1
3rd
Feb, 7pm
YOKO ONO: IN CONVERSATION
To complement the Yoko Ono exhibition, Odyssey of a Cockroach at 14 Wharf
Street N1, an offsite ICA exhibition, the artist will be in conversation,
talking about her current exhibition - and about her career as an artist.
Artist and composer Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1933. She has
been credited as an important force in the conceptual art of the 60s and
her works were a strong influence in the formation of Fluxus. Her event
and sound pieces of that time laid the groundwork for major developments
in music and performance art of the latter part of the century. A retrospective
of her work has recently toured across the US, followed by Seoul and is
currently at the Mito Art Tower in Japan. At a moment when installation
art and the questioning of art, war and memory are firmly at the heart
of so much contemporary argument, this is an important opportunity to
listen to an artist who in the past has been much engaged in such matters
- and continues to be so. £8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members
Theatre
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 30 January - Thursday 5 February
DIGITAL STUDIO & INSTALLATION @ THE ICA
Until
Sat 7 Feb
(Wed-Fri 2-8pm, Sat 2-6pm)
ADDICTIVE TV: AUDIOVISUALIZE
A showcase of cutting-edge audiovisual (AV) work and film remixes produced
for Addictive TV's Mixmasters project, this exhibition explores the synergistic
relationship of music and visuals. Addictive TV have emerged as an important
part of the VJ and AV community, giving artists a platform within their
television and DVD projects, and at film, music and digital arts festivals
worldwide, for a new genre of art that falls somewhere between film-making,
motion graphics, digital art, music videos and video remixing. Featured
alongside UK artists Giles Thacker & The Mellowtrons, The Noodles
Foundation, Exceeda, and Addictive TV themselves will be work from top
international crews from Germany, France, the USA and Japan, including
Glamoove, Bauhouse and Brian Kane. 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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