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THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:
Cinema 1 Special Preview: 16 Feb, 6.30pm Cinema 2: 18 - 28 Feb MOOG 'A playful adoration for the man and his otherworldly machine' LA Times 'I can feel what's going on inside a piece of electronic equipment,' claims Robert Moog at the start of this documentary charting the hows and the whys of a revolution in sound. In 1964, Moog and composer Herbert Deutsch created the first modular synthesizer, altering the course of modern music in the process. Capable of creating brand-new sounds as well as recreating those made by pre-existing instruments, the synthesizer that bore Moog's name was as controversial as it was revelatory. The man himself traces the history of his invention and other forms of electronic instrumentation, bringing together technical details with his own personal philosophies while tending to his organic vegetable garden. The film travels the world to meet those influenced by Moog's work, with interviews and live performances from Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Bernie Worrell, Gershon Kingsley, Luke Vibert, Money Mark, Stereolab and DJ Spooky. As they say, it's a 'Moog-enhancing' experience.
Dir Hans Fjellestad, USA 2003, 70 mins

Special Preview Event on 16 Feb includes live DJ sets from Stereolab and Luke Vibert. See performance section of these listings for further information.

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 11 February - Thursday 17 February 2005

FILM @ THE ICA

Friday 11 February
tURTLES CAN FLY
(Cinema 1) 4.30, 6.30pm
'15'
(Cinema 2) 6.30, 8.30pm
SHARKSKIN MAN
(Cinema 2) 8.30pm

Saturday 12 February
tURTLES CAN FLY
(Cinema 1) 2.30, 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
'15'
(Cinema 2) 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm

Sunday 13 February
tURTLES CAN FLY
(Cinema 1) 2.30, 4.30, 6.30 8.30pm
'15'
(Cinema 2) 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm

Monday 14 February
tURTLES CAN FLY
(Cinema 1) 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
'15'
(Cinema 2) 6.30, 8.30pm

Tuesday 15 February
tURTLES CAN FLY
(Cinema 1) 4.30, 8.30pm
'15'
(Cinema 2) 6.30, 8.30pm

Wednesday 16 February
tURTLES CAN FLY
(Cinema 1) 4.30, 8.30pm
'15'
(Cinema 2) 6.30, 8.30pm
MOOG PREVIEW
(Cinema 1) 6.30pm

Thursday 17 February
tURTLES CAN FLY
(Cinema 1) 4.30, 6.30, 8.30pm
'15'
(Cinema 2) 6.30, 8.30pm

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 11 February - Thursday 17 February 2005

FILM @ THE ICA

ICA Projects
Cinema 1: Until 28 February
TURTLES CAN FLY
'Beautiful...mesmerising...extraordinary performances' BBC Newsnight Review
Shot on location in an Iraqi refugee camp on the Turkish border, director Bahman Ghobadi's powerfully moving third feature is the first film to come out of Iraq since the collapse of Saddam's regime. Set during the days leading up to the U.S invasion of Iraq, the story centres on the children struggling to survive in a harsh landscape where there are more landmines per square metre than anywhere else in the world. 'Satellite' is the leader of these children, however, his all-business attitude is disturbed when he meets brother and sister Henkov and Agrin, whose bodies and souls have been irreparably damaged by Saddam's brutal legacy. More potent than any documentary on the subject could ever be. Official 2005 Academy Award Submission (Iraq).
Dir Bahman Ghobadi, Iraq/Iran 2004, 95 mins, Subs

Cinema 2: 4 - 20 Feb
15 (Shiwu)
'Tan is one of Asia's most promising talents' Guardian The bad and the beautiful: 28-year-old director Royston Tan confronted the authorities head-on with his debut feature, a wild, vivid, lyrical and graphic look at teenage delinquency in Singapore. Despite being savaged by the local film censors and labelled 'a threat to national security', Tan and his film have found critical and public acclaim around the world - however specific the milieu and radical the content, it's still a youth movie dealing with universally recognisable themes and feelings. Assembled as a kaleidoscopic collage, the film follows a group of real teenagers through their daily rounds of skipping school, fighting, drug smuggling, mutual masturbation, body modification and searching for the perfect place to commit suicide. Fast, funny, sad, sexy, brutal and unflinchingly honest.
Dir Royston Tan, Singapore 2003, 90 mins, Subs

Cinema 1 Special Preview: 16 Feb, 6.30pm Cinema 2: 18 - 28 Feb MOOG 'A playful adoration for the man and his otherworldly machine' LA Times 'I can feel what's going on inside a piece of electronic equipment,' claims Robert Moog at the start of this documentary charting the hows and the whys of a revolution in sound. In 1964, Moog and composer Herbert Deutsch created the first modular synthesizer, altering the course of modern music in the process. Capable of creating brand-new sounds as well as recreating those made by pre-existing instruments, the synthesizer that bore Moog's name was as controversial as it was revelatory. The man himself traces the history of his invention and other forms of electronic instrumentation, bringing together technical details with his own personal philosophies while tending to his organic vegetable garden. The film travels the world to meet those influenced by Moog's work, with interviews and live performances from Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Bernie Worrell, Gershon Kingsley, Luke Vibert, Money Mark, Stereolab and DJ Spooky. As they say, it's a 'Moog-enhancing' experience.
Dir Hans Fjellestad, USA 2003, 70 mins

Japanese film after mr pink
Cinema 1: 11 Feb, 8.30pm
SHARK SKIN MAN AND PEACH HIP GIRL
Former animator and commercials director Katsuhito Ishii boiled down a script of more than 200 pages and piles of detailed storyboards to create his highly-stylised, flamboyant debut. On the run from his boss, yakuza Shark Skin Man (played by superstar Tadanobu Asano) crashes into Peach Hip Girl (Sie Kohinata), who's fleeing her depraved, cross-dressing uncle. They continue their getaway together, with the bodycount rising and the fashions getting more outrageous at every turn. In tone, pace and style this cult classic draws heavily on True Romance and Natural Born Killers, although Ishii's colourful, comic-book visuals keep it distinctive right up to the climactic threeway stand-off. Tarantino handed Ishii the job of realising the anime chapter in Kill Bill Vol. 1, and on this evidence it's easy to see why.
Dir Katsuhito Ishii, Japan 1998, 108 mins, Subs ICA LISTINGS Friday 11 February - Thursday 17 February 2005

EXHIBITIONS @ the ICA

Until Thursday 3 March 2005
12-7.30pm daily
TINO SEHGAL
'from intellectual gravitas to light weight pop appeal - a great quality' Frieze 'most memorable work at the Frieze Art Fair 2003' Guardian This is the first of three solo exhibitions taking place at the ICA over a three year period between 2005 -07 by acclaimed London born artist Tino Sehgal.
In 2005 the exhibition will consist of two works that will introduce Sehgal's unique artistic practice. In the Lower Gallery, Sehgal will present his earliest piece Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things (2000) which makes reference to the video-work of the artists Dan Graham and Bruce Nauman. In the Upper Galleries, audiences will encounter Sehgal's most recent and complex installation This objective of that object (2004).
Coming from a background in choreography and political economy, which both play a fundamental role in his work, Sehgal does not produce tangible objects and is not interested in leaving any form of material trace. Sehgal views visual art as being completely interrelated with society and functioning along identical economic conditions, namely the production and exchange of goods and commodities. He is interested in challenging these conditions by creating works that appear as the transformation of acts and the production of meaning through a transitory situation, rather than as a transformation of solid materials. He does so by fulfiling the conventions of a visual artwork without physically producing anything, assembling meaning through directing people rather than creating objects.
Sehgal effectively designs situations that take the form of fleeting gestures based on movement and the spoken word with one or several people acting out a set of instructions over the duration of an exhibition. Over his career, Sehgal has worked with a variety of 'interpreters' including museum guards, singers, children and the owners of his galleries, to create highly provisional pieces of art that challenge the traditional museological context.
Through his work Sehgal explores social processes, conventions and the allocation of roles, thus questioning the coordinates that define the system of art: idea, visualization, originality, producer, viewer, owner, market value, etc. The human voice, language, movement and interaction are the artistic materials with which Sehgal stakes out a radical position within the tradition of sculpture and installation. Divested of all objectivity and materiality, his ephemeral poetic interventions leave an enduring afterglow in our minds.
Tino Sehgal was born in London in 1976. His recent solo exhibitions include the Museé des Beaux Arts, Nantes (2004) and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2004). In addition he has participated in a number of group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (2003) and Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (2002). The Berlin-based, British artist has been invited to participate in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2005.
Mon - Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, Free to ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs, Free to ICA Members ICA Galleries

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 11 February - Thursday 17 February 2005

PERFORMANCE & LIVE MUSIC @ THE ICA

Tues 14 (sold out), 15 Feb (sold out), 8pm
KT TUNSTALL
+ support
KT plays twice at the ICA this month, a special Valentine's show on the 14 February, and this show, signal her right to lay claim to the newcomers singer songwriter crown. An artist of astounding ability KT was raised in the 'bubble' of the university town of St Andrews, where she spent her waking days pondering the goings on in the outside world before breaking free first to the US and then Edinburgh to see them in action for herself. Although possessing real Carole King qualities, KT is now very much an accomplished act of her own with an articulate, accessible, immediate brew of rootsy sass, wistful quandary and after-hours atmosphere. Destined to be one of 2005's real success stories, enjoy that success story today.
£9, £8 ICA Members
Theatre (standing)

Weds 16 Feb, 6.30pm onwards
Plexifilm presents
MOOG, a special preview & Q&A session feat.
Luke Vibert & Stereolab DJ sets
'a compelling documentary portrait' New York Times
A special event that begins with a preview screening of Moog in the ICA cinema, a marvelous piece about Bob Moog and the synthesizer that revolutionised modern electronic music.
The film features appearances by a diverse range of artists including Keith Emerson, Money Mark, Jean-Jacques Perrey and Luke Vibert and is to be followed by a one off Q & A session with the filmmakers Hans Fjellestad and Ryan Page. Rounding off the evening in the ICA bar until 1am will be a celebration of the Moog synth with exclusive DJ sets from Luke Vibert and Stereolab and a special Moog performance by Roger O'Donnell from The Cure plus other special guests. Moog Visuals will also be colouring the ICA's surroundings by Curious Yellow to complete an event that enthusiasts and public alike will thoroughly enjoy. Tickets are available that entitle the holder to enter both the film screening and the bar and are also available for the bar event only which will begin at around 8pm.
N.B Tickets are very limited for this event.
Bar event £7, Free to ICA members (no concs)
Combined ticket Bar event + film:£11.50
Film ticket only ICA members: £4.50
Cinema 1, Bar

Thurs 17 Feb, 7.30pm
Eat Your Own Ears presents
THE BEAT UP + HALF COUSIN
THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 11 February - Thursday 17 February 2005

DIGITAL @ THE ICA

General Election Countdown
Tue 15 Feb, 6.45pm
WHAT'S WRONG WITH BRITISH CONSERVATISM?
While American conservatism is in such apparently rude health, its English cousin appears terminally ill. The British Conservative party used to be the biggest political party in the West, but is now a shadow of its former self. What happened to the social base of the British Conservative party? Can the British Conservative Party learn any lessons from America?
Boris Johnson, MP for Henley and editor of The Spectator; Dr Irwin Stelzer, Director of Economic Policy Studies, The Hudson Institute, and editor of Neoconservatism; Paul Whiteley, Professor of Government at the University of Essex; Sean Gabb, Director of Communications at the Libertarian Alliance. Chair: Samuel Brittan, Financial Times commentator and author of Against The Flow.
£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Cinema 1
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 11 February - Thursday 17 February 2005

DIGITAL @ THE ICA

Until 20 Feb 12-7.30pm daily
Data_Home Home_Data
Animation work and interactive processes by Sissu Tarka.
Tarka's background is in Fine Art practice. D_H H_D will present animation and interactive work in an imaginative new media site.
Deriving from found objects and imagery, the installation of moving images appropriates minimalist and subversive animation. In the strange combination of everyday encounters the format of the work refers to a kind of domesticated technology (homedata).
Digital Studio
Free with ICA Day Membership

Thur 17 Feb 6.30pm
TALK 3: SISSU TARKA
Mark Nash teaches film history and film theory at Central St. Martins College of Art. He approaches Tarka's installation from the perspective of a film producer, film theorist and curator.
Digital Studio
Free with ICA Day Membership