ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 14 March - Thursday 20 March
TICKETS & BOX OFFICE INFORMATION: 020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk
THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:
Sat
15 Mar, 8.15pm
Naming The Golem: Dis/Orient
'Not your average Jew-do' Jewish Chronicle
An extra-special line-up for the Golem's first eclectic session of 2003.
To start off the night with a bang, French Algerian legend piano legend
Maurice El Medioni, the 75-year old 'Ruben Gonzalez of the Maghreb' showcases
his incredible jazzy Cuban Rai vibes with an exclusive solo set alongside
the sensuous Middle Eastern dancing of Mia Serra. Then get ready for UK
sensation Oi-Va-Voi tearing up the stage with their explosive mix of klezmer,
punk, dub, house and drum&bass. Nominated for BBC World Music Awards
2003, featured on the new Buddha Bar, Oi-Va-Voi are shaping up to be THE
sensation of 2003. With supertight Afrobeat selector DJ Quinton Scott
(Strut Records) and resident DJ from Momos facing off in the bar till
late.
£9, £8 Concs. £7 ICA Members Theatre
FILM
@ THE ICA
14 Man Without a Past Cinema 1 4.30,8.30pm
Fri Flying With One Wing Cinema 1 6.30pm
Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
In the Mood for Love Cinema 2 8.45pm
15 Man Without A Past Cinema 1
2.30,4.30,8.30pm
Sat Ten Cinema 2 5pm
Let's Talk Cinema 1 6.30pm
Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
In the Mood for Love Cinema 2 8.45pm
16 Mr & Mrs Iyer
Cinema 1 2pm
Sun Germany Year Zero Cinema 2 3pm
Man Without A Past Cinema 1
4.30,6.30,8.30pm
Ten Cinema 2 5pm
Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
In the Mood for Love Cinema 2 8.45pm
17 Man Without A Past
Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30,
8.30pm
Mon Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
Don't Look Now Cinema 2 8.45pm
18 Man Without A Past
Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30,
8.30pm
Tues Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
Don't Look Now Cinema 2 8.45pm
19 Man Without A Past Cinema 1 4.30, 9pm
Wed Pickpocket Cinema 2 7pm
Don't Look Now Cinema 2 8.45pm
20 Man Without A Past
Cinema 1 4.30, 6.30,
8.30pm
Thurs Derrida Cinema 2 7pm
Pickpocket Cinema 2 9pm
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 14 March - Thursday 20 March
FILM @ THE ICA
**First Run Release**
ICA PROJECTS
The Man Without a Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta)
'Pure cinematic joy' Sight & Sound
'sublime... the feel-good 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
**First Run Release**
ICA PROJECTS/DOCUMENTA
Derrida
'Blissful ... a pleasure to watch' New York Times 'Inspirational and unexpectedly
moving' Film Comment 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
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
Don't
Look Now
'A superbly chilling essay in the supernatural' Time Out
Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie play a couple who flee to Venice
in the wake of their young daughter's tragic death, only to be returned
to her in numerous and horrific ways. Hypnotically brilliant as it works
remorselessly toward its final dislocation. Dir Nicolas Roeg, GB/Italy
1973, 110 mins
In
the Mood for Love
'lovingly noticed and brilliantly realised' Guardian
Set in the Hong Kong of the early 1960s, Wong Kar Wai's latest film is
an exquisitely nuanced account of a man and his female neighbour who both
discover that their respective spouses are having an affair. Superbly
acted by Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, whose combined presence fairly
causes the screen to drip desire. Dir Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong 2000, 97
mins, English subtitles
Let's
Talk
The Gujrals are a couple in their 50s - Sati is a part time music teacher
in a school for Tibetan children and Gopi is a doctor in a government
hospital and at the District Jail. Their only son, Ashok, is a pilot who
calls home at the same appointed time, unerringly every week. But the
peace of this household is inadvertently shattered by a mistaken call
from a young boy trying desperately to reach his mother. Dir Ram Madhvani,
India 2002, 95 mins, English subtitles
Flying
with One Wing
(Tani Tatuwen Piyabanna)
Without doubt the most revolutionary South Asian film of the year. Asoka
Handagama presents an extreme image of contemporary Sri Lanka where women
are the under class, suffering the weight of tradition and male desire.
In the midst of this conformity is an edgy story of transexuality. Manju
is a boyish car mechanic who holds his own in the male world of the garage.
After work he returns home to his young wife Kusum. They are happy together,
but Manju conceals a secret identity from his wife: he was born a woman.
One day after an accident Manju's secret is exposed to a doctor who becomes
obsessed with him. Unable to have him, the doctor breaks Manju's secret
to his boss setting in train a series of events which force Manju to face
up to a wife who has been misled and a community marked by homophobia
and sexism. Dir Asoka Handagama, Sri Lanka 2002, 81 mins, English subtitles
Mr
& Mrs Iyer
Aparna Sen's first true story is set against the communal violence that
sporadically erupts in today's India. Meenakshi, (and her nine month old
son are leaving a hill station resort for Kolkata. She is introduced to
Raja, a photographer and they leave in a packed bus that winds down the
hillsides. As dusk falls the bus is stopped and the journey quickly turns
into a claustrophobic nightmare as an angry mob of Hindu villagers force
their way on board looking for Moslems. Meenakshi finding out that Raja
is actually a Moslem, saves him from death by announcing to the extremists
that they are a Hindu couple. The two strangers, although from very different
cultural backgrounds are together pitted against the heat of mindless
violence. Initial distrust gradually melts into inter-dependence and love.
With Rahul Bose, Konkona Sensharma, Bisham Sahan. Dir Aparna Sen, India
2002, 120 mins, English subtitles
Pickpocket
'One of the few postwar European films that is both cerebral and sensual'
Time Out Inspired by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, an examination
of a thief who deems himself above the laws and conditions of ordinary
men. Michel haunts the subways, city streets and racetracks to ply his
trade. He plays a game of wits with a paternal police inspector and walls
his heart off from the affections of the quiet young woman who looks after
his dying mother. Bresson's direction strips his non-professional cast
of affectation and motivation, making them 'blank slates' defined by the
accumulation of actions and words. Despite its daring, Pickpocket is no
thriller but a powerful, profound search for meaning and spiritual enlightenment
by a man who believes in nothing but himself. An allegory on the insufficiency
of human resources, a tone poem on displaced desire. Dir Robert Bresson,
France 1959, 75 mins
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 14 March - Thursday 20 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 14 March - Thursday 20 March
TALKS
@ the ICA
Wed 19 Mar, 7pm
Mike Davis: Dreaming Infinity LA and Las Vegas Devour the Desert?
A rare opportunity to hear MacArthur fellow Mike Davis, visionary essayist,
prophet of ecological and urban doom, and author of City of Quartz, the
seminal study of the architecture of America's west coast and the post
modernist philosophies his book describes. Davis gives a one-off, illustrated
talk about the paranoid dreams of the desert palaces of Las Vegas and
of the landscape of control and power enacted by the planners of 21st
century American cities. Davis's new book Dead Cities: A Natural History
in which he explores the future of urban life in the face of catastrophic
terrorism, global warming, and runaway capitalism, is published this month.
£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 14 March - Thursday 20 March
CLUBS
AND MUSIC @ the ICA
Fri 14 Mar, 8pm
Full Length 24: J-Walk vs La Planete Sauvage
Meet J-Walk, Manchester production duo Martin Brew and Martin Desai, with
their battered holdall full of 7" dynamite and an innate sense of
the funk. Their debut album release on East West A Night On The Rocks
was met with great acclaim at the end of last year. For tonight's event,
they soundtrack one of their favourite films, the cult French animation
La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) (Rene Laloux, 1973) - a world influenced
by the work of fantasists such as Bosch and Odilon Redon as we follow
the Oms struggle against their 40 foot masters, the oppressive Draags!
Menacing landscapes, intestinal plants, and post-historic monsters all
come together in this stunning film. £10, £9 Concs. £8
ICA Members Theatre
Wed 19 Mar, 8pm
XFM Flo-Motion presents Musiikal
Nick Luscombe's Flo-Motion radio show begins an exciting new residency
at London's ICA, with a bi-monthly programme of new music events. Broadcasting
from 10pm to midnight every Sunday evening on 104.9 XFM, Flo-Motion offers
a platform for electronica from around the world. The first event of this
new residency features new music makers and DJs from Tallinn, Estonia.
Hosted by Nick Luscombe, who will also DJ during the evening. Nick will
be previewing the event with an XFM Flo-Motion special featuring words
and music from various artists and label owners based in Tallinn.
£4, £3 Concs. Free ICA Members
Bar
Thur 20 Mar, Workshop
6.30pm; Club 8.30-1am
Plunderdelica
More subversive pop fun with re-appropriated popular music in the ICA
bar. Workshop participants are let loose later that night, warping top
30 tunes. Frankie the Robot directs the bootleg massacre as guest DJ Doctor
Beck
(Raya) plays the latest ready made rock meets RnB meets bhangra bootlegs
to a stunning visual light clash from Nickin and Mavis (fresh from touring
with Badly Drawn Boy) and Raya.
Workshop: Make your own bootlegs in a 90 minute crash course in the latest
audio-visual software that allows existing tracks to be perfectly spliced
together creating brand new bootlegs live.
Club: £5, £4 Concs. Free to ICA Members
Workshop: £4, £3 Concs.
Sun 16 Mar, 3-9pm
The National Music Network presents Underground Music Clash Over the course
of the day, eight bands will play live sets, and get feedback and advice
from a panel of A&R professionals. Get advice on how to get a record
deal or advance your career in the music industry from key music industry
professionals. Meet the people who make the industry tick. For details
go to www.NationalMusicNetwork.org. Please bring all demos with you on
the day . The National Music Network is a not for profit organisation,
supported by NME. £6, £5 Concs. £4 ICA Members Theatre
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 14 March - Thursday 20 March
DIGITAL STUDIO @ 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
ICA
LISTINGS
Friday 14 March - Thursday 20 March
NEW MEDIA / PERFORMANCE @ the ICA
Wed 19 Mar-Thur 20
Mar
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind
of Someone from Suffolk
'A fascinating insight into theology, celebrity and death' Nicholas Parsons
What happens when you die? Does your soul live on? Does your spirit spend
a restless eternity haunting the halls and cellars of National Trust properties?
Or does your consciousness vanish forever like an alka-seltzer in a paddling
pool? These are the big questions. And who better to answer them than
Elvis Presley, Gwyneth Paltrow, William Shakespeare, Saddam Hussein and
Tiger Woods. A digital spectacular from artist Charlie Skelton and Anthropics
Technology, the London based provider of visual messaging technology For
further information visit www.anthropics.com/ica Free with ICA Day Membership
Theatre
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