ICA LISTINGS

Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March
TICKETS & BOX OFFICE INFORMATION: 020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk

THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:

Installation: 7-12 Mar, 12-6pm
Lecture: 7 Mar, 8pm
Stelarc: Prosthetic Head
Stelarc has constructed an automated, animated and intelligent artificial head that speaks to you as you interrogate it. The Prosthetic Head is a 3D avatar head that has real-time lip syncing, speech synthesis and facial expressions. The Prosthetic Head will also be able to acknowledge the presence and position of the physical body that approaches it. And eventually it will be able to analyse the user's tone of voice and facial expression.
The Prosthetic Head will have the capability of expanding its data base from the conversations it will have, becoming increasingly autonomous in its responses. The artist will then no longer be able to take full responsibility for what his head says.
Lecture:£8, £7 Concs.
£6 ICA Members
Installation Free with Day Membership
Theatre

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March

FILM @ THE ICA

7 Man Without a Past Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30,
8.30pm
Fri Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
Salo Cinema 2 8.45pm

8 Man Without A Past Cinema 1
2.30,4.30,6.30,8.30pm
Sat Derrrida Cinema 2 3, 7pm
Ten Cinema 2 6pm
Salo Cinema 2 8.45pm

9 Man Without A Past Cinema 1
2.30,4.30,6.30,8.30pm
Sun Faces Cinema 2 5pm
Ten Cinema 2 5pm
Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
Salo Cinema 2 8.45pm

10 Man Without A Past Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30,
8.30pm
Mon Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
What Time is it There? Cinema 2 8.45pm

11 Man Without A Past Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30,
8.30pm
Tues Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
What Time is it There? Cinema 2 8.45pm

12 Man Without A Past Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30,
8.30pm
Wed Germany Year Zero Cinema 2 7pm
What Time is it There? Cinema 2 8.45pm

13 Man Without A Past Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30,
8,30pm
Thurs Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
Germany Year Zero Cinema 2 8.45pm

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March

FILM @ THE ICA

NEW RELEASE
The Man Without a Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta)
'Pure cinematic joy' Sight & Sound
'sublime..the feelgood success of the festival' Observer
'A rare pleasure' Guardian
A delirious mixture of black comedy, film noir and love story, Kaurismäki's rapturously received film triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival where it took a multitude of prizes. Markku Pellota plays the title character 'M' a man who arrives in Helsinki to be set upon by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. By some miracle he comes to, wandering the streets with no memory of his past or his identity. Rebuilding his life from scratch, 'M' acquires a dog named Hannibal and falls in love with a Salvation Army volunteer. But the past inevitably catches up with him and the man must then confront his future.
Dir Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/Germany/France 2002, 97 mins, Finnish with English subtitles

ICA PROJECTS
Ten
'profoundly compassionate, funny, wise... Time Out
'mesmerising and brilliant...' Daily Telegraph
' ***** the very best of the year' Guardian
Kiarostami's latest film took last year's Cannes Film Festival by storm with not only its revelation of the emotional life of contemporary Iran, but its extraordinary, Godardian reinvention of the cinematic form itself. Focusing tightly on a driver (the wonderful Mania Akbari) and her passengers, Ten opens on an incredible exchange with her young son, the very model of burgeoning masculinity. We meet her sister, an elderly woman going to prayer, a prostitute and a heartbroken friend, as the driver and her passengers argue, joke, cajole and console one another through the course of ten brief journeys.
Dir Abbas Kiarostami, France/Iran 2002, 94 mins, Farsi with English subtitles

ICA PROJECTS/DOCUMENTA
Derrida
'Blissful ... a pleasure to watch' New York Times 'Inspirational and unexpectedly moving' Film Comment 'A potent and profound investigation' Rolling Stone This award-winning film is an intimate portrait of the brilliant, controversial philosopher and intellectual icon Jacques Derrida, whose theory of 'deconstruction' has deeply influenced the studies of literature, philosophy, ethics, architecture and law, indelibly marking the intellectual landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries. Combining rare private footage of Derrida with his reflections on deconstruction, violence, love and death, the film investigates the concept of biography and explores the relationship between the public and the private.
Dir Kirby Dick/Amy Ziering Kofman, US 2002, 85 mins

Faces
'compelling...a classic' Time Out
A sensation when first released, this edgy, improvised film examines the disintegration of a marriage. Each partner seeks solace elsewhere but neither finds anything approaching the fulfilment they feel is missing from their marriage. Indeed, the protagonists discover that, just maybe, the problem lies not with the other but with themselves. Starring Gena Rowlands. Dir John Cassavetes, US 1968, 130 mins

Salo
(120 Days of Sodom)
Transporting de Sade's novel to Mussolini's Fascist republic of 1944, Pasolini observes with unflinching gaze the fate of prisoners herded into a palatial villa by jaded, sadistic members of the wealthy upper classes.
Dir Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy/France 1975, 117 mins, cert 18

What Time Is It There?
'glorious ****' Chicago Reader
A wonderful elegy to the loss of loved ones and a wry look at life as a stranger in a strange land. A Taipei watch seller Hsaio-Kang becomes haunted by a brief encounter and systematically adjusts all clocks to French time.
Dir Tsai Ming-Liang, France/Taiwan 2001, 116 mins English subtitles

Germany, Year Zero
'A horror movie that declines to tease' Time Out
A long opening tracking shot through Berlin's ruins under the 1945 Occupation is both documentary and a hallucinatory voyage through a stone-age city - the perfect illustration that realist film can also forge fantasy. The film sparks against the story of a boy who works the black market selling Hitler souvenirs for chewing gum and who will kill his sick father out of a mixture of mercy and regard for the whisperings of his old Nazi teacher. Dir Robert Rossellini, Italy/Germany 1947, 74 mins

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March

EXHIBITIONS @ the ICA
>From 29 Jan-16 Mar, 12-7.30pm
PUBLICNESS:
HAANING MATTHIEU LAURETTE ALEKSANDRA MIR
Publicness features three artists, Jens Haaning, Matthieu Laurette, and Aleksandra Mir. Collectively, they operate between Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America. Haaning recently showed in Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002). Laurette showed in Plateau of Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale (2001). Aleksandra Mir represented Sweden in the Sydney Biennale (2002). All three artists work with and interrogate the notion of the public realm. The majority of their works are not conceived primarily for gallery display but are developed within larger economies. Taking the form of a three-way conversation Publicness presents newly commissioned projects alongside existing works that explore travel, migration, consumerism, marketing strategies, art production systems and mass-media culture. Publicness will be dealt with on many different levels, including the artist as a public persona, the institution as a public space and the production and circulation of public information. The artists will also explore how diverse public projects can be presented within a gallery context whilst maintaining the significance and meaning of the work. The title Publicness may sound slightly odd, out of place, or possibly foreign. However, the word also promises a sense of generosity, a desire to give something to the public and to share certain ideals.

Amongst other projects, Jens Haaning shows Ma'lesh (who cares) (2002), a giant illuminated sign, along with photographs depicting refugees living in Copenhagen produced in the style of a commercial fashion shoot. He also presents Foreigners Free at the box office, allowing free entry for anyone who isn't British.

In association with Déjà vu - The Fifth International Lookalike Convention, held during the ICA Private View, Matthieu Laurette shows video footage and posters from previous International Lookalike Conventions he has organised. He also presents his ongoing Citizenship Project. In the upper galleries, Aleksandra Mir exhibits a selection of evolving and completed projects, such as Stonehenge II, a proposal for a replica to save the original from erosion, and First Woman on the Moon (Casco Projects, 1999), a video documentation of a one-day event that took place in Holland to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original moon landing. Upper and Lower Galleries Mon-Fri £1.50; £1.00 concs; FREE with ICA membership. Sat & Sun £2.50; £1.50 concs; FREE with ICA membership Foreigners Free

>From 29 Jan-16 Mar, 12-7.30pm
DRINKS BY:
THE BEER, WINE AND OTHER ALCOHOL ART ARCHIVE
Also in the upper gallery, an exhibition featuring Matthieu Laurette's unique archive of bottle labels designed or illustrated by modern and contemporary artists, including Tacita Dean, Keith Haring, Vincent Van Gogh, Damien Hirst, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Wallinger and Andy Warhol.

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March

EDUCATION @ the ICA

Wed 12 Mar, 7.30pm
Gallery Talk: Crossing Boundaries
Michele Witthaus, journalist and artist, will explore the work of Laurette and Haaning. He will consider the effect crossing national boundaries has on our preconception of foreignness and celebrity. Free with Day Membership ICA Lower Gallery

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March

TALKS @ the ICA

Sun 9 Mar, 4pm
Prosthetics: Technology and the Human
How are we to understand the impact of new developments in technology (artificial life, cybernetics, genomics, nanotechnology) on the way in which we experience our bodies? Is technology fundamentally disturbing to our sense of what it is to be human? Johnny Golding, Professor of Philosophy in the Visual Arts and Communication Technologies at the University of Greenwich, and Charlie Gere, art historian and author of Digital Culture, discuss some of the key issues concerning the relation between technology and the human. They are are joined by cultural theorist Joanna Zylinska, and the artist Stelarc, Principal Research Fellow in the Digital Research Unit at Nottingham Trent. The event is chaired by Gary Hall, author and founding co-editor of the online journal Culture Machine. £6, £5 Concs. £4 ICA Members Nash Room

Sun 9 Mar 10am-1.30pm
Family Knots and Abusive Ties
The third in a series of films and discussions on the subject of Family Knots and Abusive Ties introduced by and discussed with psychoanalysts Andrea Sabbadini and Michael Brearley, and Film Historian Peter Evans. The programme continues with a screening and discussion of Teorema directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. There are a further 5 films in this monthly series which explores the way film-makers from different cinematic traditions have portrayed families on screen and interpreted their dysfunctions, from comic misunderstandings to tragic abuse. Tickets and further information from Events, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112A Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ, tel: 020 7563 5017,
email: EventsBPAS@compuserve.com
The price for single tickets is £18, £13.50 concessions

Wed 12 Mar, 7pm
Craving Authenticity
Percival Everett, American academic, and author of the acclaimed novel Erasure - the story of an obscure black writer whose critical parody of an illiterate ghetto memoir submitted under an assumed name becomes, to his chagrin, a publishing sensation - will talk to novelists Fay Weldon and Diran Adebayo about the bedevilled idea of authenticity in literature. Can the voice of the streets ever properly express itself in literature, or is this the wrong medium? Is the hunt for the authentic futile? Weldon, whose own female voice has widened the range of our literature, is author of many books including Letters to Alice, and The Fat Woman's Joke. Adebayo's novels are the award-winning Some Kind of Black, and My One Upon A Time.
£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Nash Room
Economist/ICA

Thur 13 Mar, 7pm
Judging New Labour
The Sequel
Two years ago, The Economist and the ICA hosted a pre-election debate, asking whether the New Labour 'Project' was a coherent ideology, the expression of a new managerial consensus, or simply a mask for electoral opportunism. Half way through its second term, New Labour boasts the most successful economy in Europe. But it's criticised for its failure to improve public services, its populist excesses in criminal justice, and for being anti-democratic in both form and content. More conservative than the Conservatives? Or addicted to statism, control and regulation? Can The Project move forward and resolve its contradictions? Tonight's speakers are Ed Balls, Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury; Clive Crook, Deputy Editor of The Economist and Nick Cohen, Observer columnist. In the chair is Emma Duncan, Britain Editor, The Economist.
£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Nash Room

ICA LISTINGS

Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March

CLUBS @ the ICA

Wed 12 Mar, 8pm-1am
Laptop Jams
Welcome to a night of video pixedelia and galvanised sonic mayhem brought to you by laptop-jams. Live improvisation both aural and visual - bring along your own laptop and contribute to the night. Webcast by havelina.com. Watch
- Listen - Participate. info: www.laptop-jams.com
£5, £4 Concs. Free to ICA Members
Bar

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March

PERFORMANCE @ the ICA
Installation: 7-12 Mar, 12-6pm
Lecture: 7 Mar, 8pm
Stelarc: Prosthetic Head
Stelarc has constructed an automated, animated and intelligent artificial head that speaks to you as you interrogate it. The Prosthetic Head is a 3D avatar head that has real-time lip syncing, speech synthesis and facial expressions. The Prosthetic Head will also be able to acknowledge the presence and position of the physical body that approaches it. And eventually it will be able to analyse the user's tone of voice and facial expression.
The Prosthetic Head will have the capability of expanding its data base from the conversations it will have, becoming increasingly autonomous in its responses. The artist will then no longer be able to take full responsibility for what his head says.
Lecture:£8, £7 Concs.
£6 ICA Members
Installation Free with Day Membership
Theatre

Sun 9 Mar, 4pm
Prosthetics: Technology and the Human
How are we to understand the impact of new developments in technology (artificial life, cybernetics, genomics, nanotechnology) on the way in which we experience our bodies? Is technology fundamentally disturbing to our sense of what it is to be human? Johnny Golding, Professor of Philosophy in the Visual Arts and Communication Technologies at the University of Greenwich, and Charlie Gere, art historian and author of Digital Culture, discuss some of the key issues concerning the relation between technology and the human. They are are joined by cultural theorist Joanna Zylinska, and the artist Stelarc, Principal Research Fellow in the Digital Research Unit at Nottingham Trent. The event is chaired by Gary Hall, author and founding co-editor of the online journal Culture Machine. £6, £5 Concs. £4 ICA Members Nash Room

Thurs 13 Mar, 8pm
South
'raw guitar loveliness and savvy beatmanship' NME
South fuse shimmering acoustica, post-rock's warm experimentation, and the paranoia of disjointed rhythms with Sunday morning vocals and epic song-writing.
When their sound takes flight they're capable of unleashing a storm of thunderous, rumbling beats, droning bass frequencies and crunching electronics. Following their critically acclaimed debut album on Mo' Wax, this young London three piece return with new material and a powerful, and memorable, live show. £8.50, £7.50 Concs, £6.50 ICA Members Theatre

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 7 March - Thursday 13 March

NEW MEDIA @ the ICA

Thur 13 Feb-Sat 15 Mar
Forget Me Not and other Stories
Julie Verhoeven, Peter Saville, Hussein Chalayan, Marcus Tomlinson, Yoko Ikeno, James Paterson, Amit Pitaru and more. An exhibition of work which lies at the intersection of fashion, animation and illustration. Forget me not and other stories examines the breadth of practice that emerges when new technologies engage the best of design talent. The New Media Centre is excited to open its doors to a collection of new work from across the globe. Practitioners at the vanguard of their practice present their work alongside some of the established names in the area, many drawn from Nick Knight's leading online initiative SHOWstudio. Designer and Fashion illustrator Julie Verhoeven joins forces with graphic design legend Peter Saville to create her first interactive piece Forget me not an interactive wallpaper made for SHOWstudio, while a collaboration between British fashion designer Hussein Chalayan and art director Marcus Tomlinson yields some unexpected results. Don't miss fashion illustrator Yoko Ikeno's rendering of the best of this season's collections and experience the sophisticated abstraction of James Patterson and Amit Pitaru's collaborative animations. £1.50; £1.00 concs; FREE with ICA membership. Sat & Sun £2.50; £1.50 concs; Free with ICA Day Membership New Media Centre