THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:
NEW EXHIBITION
4 June - 17 July, 12-7.30pm daily
MARTHA ROSLER: LONDON GARAGE SALE
In a version organised especially for the Institute, Martha Rosler brings her seminal work Garage Sale to the ICA. Over the six-week duration of this exhibition, visitors to the gallery are invited to rummage through piles of junk and clothes, bargain with the sales assistants and buy items on display in the gallery. All the proceeds from this cash-only Garage Sale will go to charity.
Garage Sale, a now iconic installation and performance work, originally took place in 1973 in the Art Gallery of the University of California, San Diego. Advertised as a jumble sale in local newspapers but also as an art event within the art community, this work took the form of a house-hold sale where second-hand goods - clothes, books, records, toys, costume jewellery and personal letters and mementos - were displayed on racks and tables and sold off over the course of the exhibition.
Garage Sale, with its reference to the status of the art work, art history and art audiences, is interested in examining art as a fetishised object and commodity. It is also a representation of a subjective history and a way of thinking, and it works as a potent metaphor for personal and social relations - especially given its genesis within the highly politicised context of the women's movement in the 1970s.
Through her examination of domesticity, suburbia and family and the circulation of domestic material objects, Rosler evokes a powerful feminist discourse, which gives clear expression to the anthem of the personal as political. The arena of domestic experience becomes here the focus for a charged artistic, social and cultural exploration, but there is a dry humour in the way that this 'art' can be rummaged in, discarded, fought over or treated with a delightful insouciance not usually found in the traditional museum/gallery context.
Over the past 30 years, Rosler's Garage Sale has travelled extensively - from the artist-run La Mamelle Gallery, San Francisco (1977) to, more recently, the Generali Foundation, Vienna (1999), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the New Museum, New York (both as part of Rosler's retrospective in 2000) and the Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2004). Although the work takes elements from each venue, London Garage Sale will be specifically adapted for the ICA to reflect the particularities of London, its narrative and present reality.
In the Upper Galleries, to accompany London Garage Sale, the ICA will present a selection of Rosler's films from throughout her career most of which have not been previously seen in London. Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York where she is also living today. Since graduating from the University of California in 1974, Rosler has exhibited widely. London Garage Sale at the ICA will be Rosler's first London solo exhibition.
With special thanks to TRAID.
Mon - Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE to ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE to ICA Members Lower and Upper Galleries
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 10 June - Thursday 16 June 2005
FILM @ THE ICA
Friday 10 June
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
(Cinema 1) 4, 6.30, 8.30pm
UNTOLD SCANDAL
(Cinema 2) 6.10pm
TOKYO STORY
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm
Saturday 11 June
PARADISE LOST: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS (Cinema 2) 3pm UNTOLD SCANDAL (Cinema 2) 6pm CAFÉ LUMIÈRE (Cinema 1) 1.30, 4, 6.30, 8.45pm TOKYO STORY (Cinema 2) 8.30pm
Sunday 12 June
SCREENING CONDITIONS:
JAGGED EDGE
(Cinema 1) 10am-1.30pm
PARADISE LOST: REVELATIONS
(Cinema 2) 3.30pm
BFM: 500 YEARS LATER
(Cinema 1) 4pm
UNTOLD SCANDAL
(Cinema 2) 6pm
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
(Cinema 1) 6.45, 9pm
TOKYO STORY
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm
Monday 13 June
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
(Cinema 1) 4, 8.45pm
UNTOLD SCANDAL
(Cinema 2) 6.10pm
TOKYO STORY
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm
Tuesday 14 June
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
(Cinema 1) 4, 6.30, 8.45pm
UNTOLD SCANDAL
(Cinema 2) 6.10pm
THE END OF SUMMER
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm
(Cinema 1) 8.45pm
Wednesday 15 June
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
(Cinema 1) 4, 6.30pm
UNTOLD SCANDAL
(Cinema 2) 6.10pm
THE END OF SUMMER
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm
IN THE DOCHOUSE PRESENTS: THE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE AWARD (Cinema 1) 8.45pm
Thursday 16 June
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
(Cinema 1) 4, 8.45pm
UNTOLD SCANDAL
(Cinema 2) 6.10pm
THE END OF SUMMER
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 10 June - Thursday 16 June 2005
FILM @ THE ICA
ICA projects
Cinema 1: 10-30 June
CAFÉ LUMIÈRE
(Kohi Jikou)
'Glimpses of ephemeral beauty... Hou can do anything' Amy Taubin, Film Comment
Director Hou Hsiao-hsien's homage to Yasujiro Ozu, made to celebrate the centenary of the great Japanese filmmaker's birth. Japanese pop singer Yo Hitoto plays Yoko, an intelligent, independent young woman who has carved out an unhurried, self-sufficient life for herself in contemporary Tokyo. She has close friends (amongst them soulmate and bookshop owner Tadanobu Asano) and a loving family but on the whole she is content to move at her own pace, resisting the pull of a conventional career or romance. However, an unexpected pregnancy forces her to think about her life in a way she never has before. Hou's tribute is as understated and contemplative on the surface as one of Ozu's own masterpieces, yet filled with penetrating observations about its characters and contemporary urban existence. It's a film about finding a rhythm to your life that fits and trying to live accordingly - an internal rhythm augmented by the music to which you listen, the places you visit or even - in Tadanobu's case - the sound of trains. Gracefully shot by In the Mood for Love cinematographer Mark Lee Pin-bing, the film feels lit from within by Hou's patient love and consideration for his unfailingly ordinary yet absolutely one-of-a-kind heroine.
An ICA Projects Release
Dir Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan 2004, 107 mins, Subs, Cert PG
SODA PICTURES
Cinema 2: 10-16 June
UNTOLD SCANDAL
A further chance to catch up with director E J-yong's ravishing, erotic take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Set in Chosun-era 18th-century Korea, the film recounts the campaign of seduction and corruption waged by sly, rakish Cho-Won against chaste Lady Chong, who lives according to strict Catholic precepts. Full of sex and schemes, this latest version of an oft-told tale remains as seductive and compelling as ever, with an attractive cast and the film's sumptuous painterly beauty completely dispelling any lingering sense of over-familiarity.
A Soda Pictures Release
Dir E J-yong, S Korea 2004, 124 mins, Subs, Cert 18
OZU
Cinema 2: 10-13 June, 8.30pm
TOKYO STORY
Ozu's most famous film and one of cinema's great masterpieces. Ageing couple Tomi and Sukichi travel to Tokyo to visit their grown-up children, who turn out to be too busy and preoccupied with their own lives to fully welcome them. From this initial encounter Ozu spins a moving - yet never maudlin or sentimental - meditation on family ties, generational difference and mortality. Now more than 50 years old, this is a film that still has something to say to everyone about how we live today.
Dir Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 1953, 135 mins,Subs, Cert U
OZU
Cinema 2: 14-16 June, 8.30pm
THE END OF SUMMER
Ozu's penultimate film is one of his most finely-detailed explorations of family life. In post-war Tokyo, a family considers merging its small sake company with a much larger firm. Against this backdrop - which effortlessly suggests the passing of one era to another - the family's two daughters are dealing with the possibility of marriage, while at the same time their father has started visiting an ex-mistress. The many delicate strands of this captivating story are drawn together in Ozu's typically graceful style.
Dir Yasujiro Ozu, Japan 1961, 103 mins, Subs, Cert U
Cinema 2: 11 June
PARADISE LOST: THE CHILDHOOD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's haunting documentary look at the trial of three misfit, Heavy Metal-loving teens charged with the murder of three young children in rural Arkansas in 1993. With the spectre of Satanism making the crimes seem even more diabolical to both the courtroom and the local community, the case quickly becomes a hotbed of sensationalism and shock-horror revelation. A chilling look at the American justice system and a horribly compelling story, with the directors providing detailed analysis of the case and the many characters involved.
Dirs Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, USA 1996, 150 mins
Preceded by Rubber Johnny, a new short film by Chris Cunningham
Screening courtesy of Warp Films
SPECIAL SCREENING
Cinema 2: 12 June
PARADISE LOST: REVELATIONS
This follow-up documentary follows the three teens imprisoned for satanic child-murders as they mount a series of appeals against their continued imprisonment. The film also focuses on a character seen briefly in the original - John Mark Byers, the stepfather of one of the murdered children - who emerges as key figure of suspicion. With startling new evidence that further suggests the innocence of the trio, this second chapter in a proposed trilogy takes you even deeper into the case. Together, the films form an epic, unforgettable American tragedy, one that continues to this day.
Dirs Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, USA 2000, 125 mins
Screening courtesy of Warp Films
BFM
Cinema 1: 12 June, 4pm
500 YEARS LATER
Another chance to see last month's sell-out screening
Winner of the Best Documentary Award, Pan-African Film Festival 2005
Crime, drugs, HIV/Aids, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health and under development plagues people of African descent globally - why? 500 years from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism Africans are still struggling for basic freedom - why? Filmed in five continents, and more than 20 countries, 500 Years Later examines the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland.
Featuring: Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, Desmond Tutu, Maulana Karenga, Paul Robeson Jr. and Dr. Hakim Adi.
Screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Director.
Dir Owen 'Alik Shahadah, 143 mins 2004/UK, Cert 15
The Institute of Psychoanalysis
Cinema 1: 12 June, 10am-1.30pm
Screening Conditions: Jagged Edge
A psychoanalytic exploration of films representing various forms of psychopathology and other emotional conditions.
A screening of Richard Marquand's Jagged Edge, the third in a series of four events exploring films about 'disordered characters' introduced by psychoanalysts Andrea Sabbadini and Sira Dermen.
Followed by a discussion.
Dir Richard Marquand, Cert 15
£18.50 (£15.00 concessions)
In The Dochouse presents
Cinema 1: 15 June, 8.45pm
The International Premiere Award
'This award recognises the highest standard of international documentary on human rights and development' One World
'The most cherished awards in television - enduring proof that despite all, a sturdy thread of real excellence still weaves its way through the output' Jon Snow Channel 4 News
DocHouse is proud to host a special screening of the winner of the prestigious 'International Premiere Award' as part of the One World Media Awards 2005. The winning film will be announced the week before the screening.
The screening will be followed by a post show discussion with judges and filmmakers.
Please check our website, www.dochouse.org, for more details.
The winning film will be listed on the website as soon as it is announced.
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 10 June - Thursday 16 June 2005
EXHIBITION @ THE ICA
NEW EXHIBITION
4 June - 17 July, 12-7.30pm daily
MARTHA ROSLER: LONDON GARAGE SALE
In a version organised especially for the Institute, Martha Rosler brings her seminal work Garage Sale to the ICA. Over the six-week duration of this exhibition, visitors to the gallery are invited to rummage through piles of junk and clothes, bargain with the sales assistants and buy items on display in the gallery. All the proceeds from this cash-only Garage Sale will go to charity.
Garage Sale, a now iconic installation and performance work, originally took place in 1973 in the Art Gallery of the University of California, San Diego. Advertised as a jumble sale in local newspapers but also as an art event within the art community, this work took the form of a house-hold sale where second-hand goods - clothes, books, records, toys, costume jewellery and personal letters and mementos - were displayed on racks and tables and sold off over the course of the exhibition.
Garage Sale, with its reference to the status of the art work, art history and art audiences, is interested in examining art as a fetishised object and commodity. It is also a representation of a subjective history and a way of thinking, and it works as a potent metaphor for personal and social relations - especially given its genesis within the highly politicised context of the women's movement in the 1970s.
Through her examination of domesticity, suburbia and family and the circulation of domestic material objects, Rosler evokes a powerful feminist discourse, which gives clear expression to the anthem of the personal as political. The arena of domestic experience becomes here the focus for a charged artistic, social and cultural exploration, but there is a dry humour in the way that this 'art' can be rummaged in, discarded, fought over or treated with a delightful insouciance not usually found in the traditional museum/gallery context.
Over the past 30 years, Rosler's Garage Sale has travelled extensively - from the artist-run La Mamelle Gallery, San Francisco (1977) to, more recently, the Generali Foundation, Vienna (1999), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the New Museum, New York (both as part of Rosler's retrospective in 2000) and the Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2004). Although the work takes elements from each venue, London Garage Sale will be specifically adapted for the ICA to reflect the particularities of London, its narrative and present reality.
In the Upper Galleries, to accompany London Garage Sale, the ICA will present a selection of Rosler's films from throughout her career most of which have not been previously seen in London. Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York where she is also living today. Since graduating from the University of California in 1974, Rosler has exhibited widely. London Garage Sale at the ICA will be Rosler's first London solo exhibition.
With special thanks to TRAID.
Mon - Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE to ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE to ICA Members
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 10 June - Thursday 16 June 2005
LIVE MUSIC & CLUB NIGHTS @ THE ICA
Fri 10 June, 8pm
BLACKTRONICA
'Part house party, part revolutionary meeting and part social gathering' Chris Ofili, Guardian
'A marriage of intelligence and exuberance' Time Out
Charlie Dark and friends welcome in the summer with another evening of music, vibes and celebration. Spoken word comes courtesy of renaissance one with a selection of poets from the hugely successful Off Centre Tour. Expect smiles, laughter and music too in the relaxed atmosphere of the ICA Bar.
Biting and sensual spoken word by Kristian Francis, Priscilla Sim, Pierre Ringwald. Hosted by Nolan Weekes.
£6 Full, £5 Concs, Free ICA Members
Bar
www.renaissanceone.com
Sat 11-Sun 12 June, 8pm
RESONANCE PART 1 & 2
PART 1: FAULTY OPTIC THEATRE OF ANIMATION PRESENT LICKED
PART 2: PAUL CLARKE & JOHN BINIAS PRESENT THE WEATHER MAN
'For those with an eye, ear and appreciation for adventurous art, Resonance is pitching it just right' Metro
Two remarkable new adventures in music, image and performance commissioned by Opera North.
Part 1: Faulty Optic Theatre of Animation present Licked
Internationally renowned for their haunting visual theatre, Faulty Optic have created a bizarre and dark-humoured piece based on a Victorian cautionary tale, 'The Cat Mother'.
Using digitally and acoustically composed sounds and music, live voice, specially written verse, cronky puppets and pre-recorded film, Licked is a chilling cycle of events - a grim warning to those who disobey!
Part 2: Paul Clarke & John Binias present The Weather Man
The friendship between Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin blossomed during five years together on the Beagle. but as Darwin developed his theory of natural selection, FitzRoy became an ardent creationist, and the two friends found themselves divided by the 19th century's greatest intellectual faultline.
Scored for string quartet and baritone voice, The Weather Man explores the opposition between science and spirituality.
Licked and The Weather Man were originally produced by Opera North and the Leeds Met Gallery and Studio Theatre.
£12, £10 ICA Members
Theatre (Seated)
METROPOLIS PRESENTS
Mon 13 June, 7.30pm
AMBULANCE LTD & SPECIAL GUESTS
'The hottest new band in the Big Apple' NME
This New York based quartet released their eponymous album in the US last year to huge critical acclaim. The band are hot tipped to win hearts this side of the Atlantic with the UK release of their debut LP, a skewed mix of east coast indie rock and west coast dream-pop.
While much of the current wave of hopefuls continue to chase the visceral power pop of New Wave past, Ambulance LTD follow the path less travelled, and in doing so found something much more uniquely their own.
Referencing everyone from The Velvet Underground to the Smiths, to the Beach Boys, tonight sees Ambulance LTD bring their wall-of-guitars and peachy-fuzz feedback to the ICA.
£11, £10 ICA Members
Theatre (Standing)
ATP CONCERTS PRESENTS
Tues 14 June, 7.30pm
WOLF EYES & SPECIAL GUESTS
'hyperbole-inducing provocateurs' Pitchforkmedia
Recent Wire Magazine cover stars Wolf Eyes are the most visceral, engrossing and vital 'noise' band around right now. Think Merzbow, early Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Black Dice and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.
Expect to hear the sound of relentless feedback and distortion, suffocating agonised howls, electronic hives freed of their bees... all coaxed from an array of homemade butchered electronics, over-driven oscillators and busted FX pedals.
However, this isn't just noise for noise's sake: Mojo called their recent Sub Pop release Burned Mind a 'masterpiece of controlled electronic violence'. It is precisely this control that elevates Wolf Eyes above a myriad of lesser artists operating in this sphere.
£12, £11 ICA Members
Theatre (Standing)
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 10 June - Thursday 16 June 2005
TALKS @ THE ICA
SPEEDING UP OR SLOWING DOWN
Modern society, according to conventional wisdom, is being buffeted by an accelerating pace of change. The idea has been repeated so often by politicians, technologists and business gurus that it has become a mantra, one of the clichés of our time. But not so fast. At the same time, the rituals which permeate contemporary culture suggest a society which is on a go slow: so chilled as to be in deep-freeze. Speeding Up or Slowing Down takes a closer look at the contradictions of our stop-start, fast-slow society.
Retain your ticket for any of the talks in this season and receive a £2 discount off the full price for any screening of Café Lumière in June.
SPEEDING UP OR SLOWING DOWN
Tue 14 June, 7pm
TIME - FAMINE
Stress and a lack of available time are the endemic complaints of modern life, the mantra with which we bemoan our lack of control over our lives. At the same time, most of us have more leisure time than in any previous generation. Is our inability to manage stress and our time a neurosis, or is there a real basis for our apparent time-famine?
Speakers: Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers' Magazine; Jennie Bristow, Commissioning Editor, Spiked-online; David Wainwright, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, and co-author of Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic; Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine, King's College London. Chair: Tamar Kasriel, Head of Knowledge Venturing, Henley Centre HeadlightVision.
£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Nash Room
SPEEDING UP OR SLOWING DOWN
Thur 16 June, 6.45pm
LUCE IRIGARAY: DIFFERENCE AS A REGULATOR OF SPEED
'Remaining only in sameness or impersonal neutrality leads either to paralysis or to uncontrollable acceleration,' says Luce Irigaray. Respecting qualitative difference between the sexes, on the other hand, creates energy and movement, and, crucially, a means of permanently regulating it. This is especially important in an era of technology and multiculturalism, she argues, most obviously at the level of sexual discourse.
Luce Irigaray is one of Europe's leading intellectuals. Recent books include her Key Writings and Democracy Begins with Two.
£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Cinema 1
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 10 June - Thursday 16 June 2005
EDUCATION @ THE ICA
Wed 15 June, 7-8pm
PENNY FLORENCE ON MARTHA ROSLER
Penny Florence is Head of Research Programmes, History and Theory of Art at the Slade. Recent publications include Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art, Looking Back to the Future (with Griselda Pollock) and Un coup de des on CD-ROM. This talk will focus on the gender issues that are implicated in Rosler's work such as domesticity.
Free with ICA Day Membership
Lower Gallery
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 10 May - Thursday 16 June 2005
DIGITAL STUDIO @ THE ICA
27 May-30 June, 2pm-8pm (Sat and Sun: 12pm-8pm)
NEW MEDIA EXTENSIONS: GENERATIVE X
The Internet has created a generation of contemporary artists who have used the mass-populism of the web to give the field of Computational Aesthetics an increasing audience. Growing up with technology, their work is less techno-centric than previous generations, utilising state of the art technology for more aesthetic and cultural purposes across contemporary art and entertainment.
Showcases the world's leading artists in this field including Daniel Brown [Designer of the Year 2004], Lia, James Paterson, Ben Fry, Golan Levin, Casey Reas, James Tindall and Ed Burton.
Free ICA/onedotzero9 Members
Digital Studio
Emma Pettit
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