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Friday 17 June - Thursday 23 June 2005

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

FILM @ THE ICA

Friday 17 June
Café Lumière
(Cinema 1) 4, 6.30, 8.45pm
Love Streams
(Cinema 2) 3, 6, 8.40pm

Saturday 18 June
Café Lumière
(Cinema 1) 1.30, 4, 6.30, 8.45pm
Love Streams
(Cinema 2) 3, 6, 8.40pm

Sunday 19 June
Café Lumière
(Cinema 1) 1.30, 4, 6.30, 8.45pm
Love Streams
(Cinema 2) 3, 6, 8.40pm

Monday 20 June
Café Lumière
(Cinema 1) 4, 6.30, 8.45pm
Love Streams
(Cinema 2) 6, 8.40pm

Tuesday 21 June
Café Lumière
(Cinema 1) 4, 6.30, 8.45pm
Love Streams –
(Cinema 2) 6, 8.40pm

Wednesday 22 June
Café Lumière
(Cinema 1) 4, 6.30, 8.45pm
Love Streams
(Cinema 2) 6, 8.40pm

Thursday 23 June
Café Lumière
(Cinema 1) 4, 6.30, 8.45pm
Love Streams
(Cinema 2) 6, 8.40pm

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


Blue Dolphin
Cinema 2: 17–23 June
See diary for times
LOVE STREAMS
Director John Cassavetes’ last film before his untimely death in 1989 is a difficult one to find, being currently unavailable either on video or DVD. It’s a mad, passionate affair, full of love (both sibling and romantic), pain, desperation and confusion, with full-tilt performances from Cassavetes and his wife/star Gena Rowlands as a brother and sister trying to sort out one another’s lives while simultaneously making messes of their own. In short, it’s a rollercoaster ride through lives spiralling noisily out of control, with Cassavetes’ loose, spontaneous style allowing plenty of room for unexpected incident and moments of transcendence. A great, terrifying, heart-wrenching final masterpiece and essential viewing for fans of Cassavetes, American independent cinema and grown-up, all-too-human films in general.

Dir John Cassavetes
USA 1984, 141 mins, Cert 15


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.

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 17 June - Thursday 23 June 2005


LIVE MUSIC & CLUB NIGHTS @ THE ICA

MOSHI MOSHI PRESENTS
Wed 22 June, 7.30pm
The Rakes, Cut Copy, Clor & Battle
Moshi Moshi Records return with another gig that you’ll be pretending you were at for years to come, bringing together four killer hand-picked bands on the cusp of stardom and giving you one last chance to see them playing a venue this size.

Tonight’s headline slot is taken by The Rakes, who the NME recently dubbed ‘the post-punk Monkees’. Possessing lyrical and musical eloquence, their chaotic performance tonight is sure to dazzle. Also on the bill are Melbourne’s Cut Copy, who have been described as sounding something close to Daft Punk-pop with a guitar playing frontman.

Oh, and don’t forget that these gigs are hosted and filmed by Fuji TV, to be broadcast to millions on Japanese television!

£10, £9 ICA Members
Theatre (Standing), Bar

ICA LISTINGS

Friday 17 June - Thursday 23 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
Mon 20 June, 7pm
The Rush to Re-enchantment
Somewhere between a lifestyle choice and a religious belief, Western buddhism and other alternative spiritualities with origins in the East are slowly displacing traditional religion within Western societies. Is the idea of inner peace which they offer a way of immunising ourselves from the apparently relentless change around us? Is the solace which they offer from the modern world real, or just another illusion? 

Speakers: Jeffery Paine, author of Re-enchantment and Adventures with the Buddha; Richard King, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University and co-author of Selling Spirituality, Mick Brown, author of The Spiritual Tourist; Indra Adnan, Director of New Integrity. Chair: Marion Bowman, senior lecturer in religious studies at The Open University and co-editor of Beyond New Age.

£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Nash Room

Speeding up or slowing down
Thur 23 June, 7pm
The Slacker Ethic
The relentless wave of cost cutting in the corporate world in the last couple of decades has taken its toll on the protestant work ethic.  But if the work ethic has taken a battering amongst young people, what is there to replace it? Should we take our revenge on the world of work by ‘downshifting’ or ‘protiring’, by idling or becoming a player, or simply staying put and slacking on the job? Can the vacuum created by the absence of work ever be filled? An international panel of rebels against the work ethic considers the alternatives.   

Speakers: Corinne Maier, author of Hello Laziness (Bonjour Paresse); Pat Kane, writer and author of The Play Ethic; Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler and author of How to be Idle. Chair: Richard Reeves, co-founder of The Intelligence Agency and research associate, The Work Foundation.

£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Nash Room


Art and Psychoanalysis
Thur 23 June, 7.15pm
Sophie Calle
The second in a series of dialogues between Darian Leader, psychoanalyst and author of Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing, and prominent international artists. Tonight, Leader meets Paris-based artist Sophie Calle. Calle has been called a detective and a voyeur for the investigation techniques that she uses in her photographs and performances. In 1998 Calle was asked to curate an exhibition, Appointment, at Freud’s London home; she accepted after seeing a vision of her wedding dress laid across Freud’s sofa. Calle’s work has been shown in museums around the world, including Tate, ICA Boston and Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Paul Auster famously used elements of Calle’s life for the character Maria in his novel Leviathan, which in turn inspired Calle’s Gotham Handbook.

£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Theatre
ICA LISTINGS

Friday 10 June - Thursday 16 June 2005


EDUCATION @ THE ICA

Gallery talk
Wed 22 June, 7–8pm
Elena Cologni on Martha Rosler
Spanning photography, video installation and live art, Elena Cologni’s work addresses a number of issues, amongst them: the relationship between artist-self/audience/environment (the interchange); the problem of the documentation of the live event as part of its delivery; and notions of displacement through language. Elena Cologni will concentrate on the performance aspect of the Garage Sale and will investigate the notion of the audience participating and becoming a work of art, encouraging viewers to resist categorising contemporary art.

Free with ICA Day Membership
ICA LISTINGS

Friday 17 May - Thursday 23 June 2005


PERFORMANCE @ THE ICA

DIGITAL DANCE
Fri 17–Sat 18 June, 7.30pm
Passion No Patience
Passion No Patience is a collaboration between Sioned Huws, one of Wales’ most outstanding contemporary choreographers and new media artist Domenico Giustino.

Incorporating video projection, motion capture systems and web streaming, Passion No Patience questions time and stillness and explores the architecture of the human body. The five dancers wear a series of motion capture sensors so that the movement of an arm or a slight change in facial expression can be recorded, stored digitally and manipulated during the show. The company use digital wireless stethoscopes to transmit the sound of their heartbeats as the performance progresses. As exertion increases heart rates so the sound, lighting and colour of the piece intensifies.

£8 Full, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Theatre


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