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ICA LISTINGS
Friday 27 February - Thursday 4 March
FILM @ THE ICAFriday 27 February
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.45pm
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
(Cinema 2) 7pm
Saturday 28 February
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
2.45, 4.45, 6.45, 8.45pm
L'AVVENTURA (Cinema 2)
4pm
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
(Cinema 2)
7pm
Sunday 29 February
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
2.45, 4.45, 6.45, 8.45pm
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
(Cinema 2) 4.30pm
L'AVVENTURA (Cinema 2)
8pm
Monday 1 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
then and now (Cinema 2)
6.30pm
DERRIDA (Cinema 2)
8.30pm
Tuesday 2 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
BOTTOMS (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
DERRIDA (Cinema 2)
8.30pm
Wednesday 3 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
SMILE & TWO VIRGINS
(Cinema2) 6.15pm
HALLOWEEN (Cinema 2)
8.30pm
Thursday 4 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
RAPE & ERECTION
(Cinema 2) 6.30pm
DERRIDA (Cinema 2)
8.30pm
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 27 February - Thursday 4 March
FILM @ THE ICA
ica projects
Osama
'Miraculous' Time Out
'Impeccable ... heart-stopping ... fearless' Times
'Enchanting, sometimes terrifying ... a Taliban thriller' Dazed &
Confused The first film from Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban,
Siddiq Barmak's stunning, Sutherland Award-winning and Golden Globe nominated
Osama received a standing ovation at its Cannes Festival premiere last
year. Through the lens of a Western news cameraman, street urchin Espandi
leads the way to a remarkable protest by blue-veiled women whose demonstrations
are swiftly swept from the streets of Kabul. Among the crowds is a young,
nameless girl (Marina Golbahari) who finds herself shorn and disguised
as a boy in order to work. But when she is rounded up and sent to a religious
school where she is named Osama, her disguise dramatically falters and
she embarks on a further odyssey through the judicial system of the Taliban.
From a country that has produced less than 40 films in the past century,
Afghanistan's first Academy nomination is a passionate and lyrical film
full of exquisitely surreal imagery and evocative of its spiritual godfather
(and uncredited producer) Mohsen Makhmalbaf's now-legendary Kandahar.
Dir Siddiq Barmak, Afghanistan 2003, 82 mins, subs, 12A
Cinema 2: 22-29 Feb
Epic Cinema
Three epic films, to confound the culture of short attention spans.
26-28 Feb, 7pm, 29 Feb 4.30pm
Fanny & Alexander
'Magisterial' Time Out
Seen through the eyes of a small boy, Bergman's brilliant turn of the
century family saga is also an anthology of personal references, from
its dazzling evocation of a traditional Christmas, through the terrors
of a puritanical father to the crisis of religious doubt. The marvellous
cinematography is by Sven Nykvist. Dir Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 1982, 189
mins, subs
28 Feb 4pm, 29 Feb 8pm
L'Avventura
'Elegant ... Intellectually chic' Time Out
A film of ineffable mystery in which the unresolved disappearance of a
tourist on an isolated Sicilian volcanic island affects her companions
in disparate ways. Starring Monica Vitti. Dir Michelangelo Antonioni,
Italy/France 1960, 145 mins, subs
Cinema 2: 1-31 March
Thinking Aloud
Noam Chomsky, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Derrida - an unrivalled
opportunity to watch and listen to thinkers as they try to make sense
of the world.
1, 2, 4, 6 Mar
Derrida
'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. Provocative and entertaining. www.derridathemovie.com
Dir Kirby Dick/Amy Ziering Kofman, US 2002, 85 mins
Cinema 2: 1-26 March
The Rare Films of Yoko Ono
'To look at Yoko Ono's work is to look at an artist who isn't afraid'
Sam Taylor-Wood Guardian Complementing the "Odyssey Of A Cockroach"
exhibition, this season of films is a rare opportunity to see a selection
of the important and compelling films of Yoko Ono, and those made with
John Lennon and herself. Shown in historical sequence, they have been
selected by Yoko Ono herself and range from a film such as Film No 4 (Bottom)
through Rape which one critic said did "for the age of television
what Franz Kafka's The Trial did for the age of totalitarianism",
to Erection, a film about the construction of a hotel to Fly, showing
a fly explore a woman's body. These are works that helped to reshape the
grammar of film.
1,7 March
New York 65-66 Fluxus Films + London 66-67
Eye blink 1966 (5 mins) ; Bottoms 1966 (5 -1/2
mins) ; Match 1966 (5 mins) ; Cut Piece 1965 (9 mins) ; Wrapping Piece
1967 (aprx. 20 mins.) ; Film No. 4 (Bottoms) 1966/1967 (80 mins) ; BOTTOMS
- advertisement/commercial 1966/1967 (aprx. 2 mins)
2 Mar 6.30pm; 26 Mar, 7.30pm
England 68 -69
Two Virgins 1968 (aprx. 20 mins) ; Apotheosis 1970
(18-1/2 mins) ; Film No. five (Smile) 1968 (51 mins)
3 Mar, 6.30pm; 26 March 9.30pm
London 69 -71
Erection 1971 (20 mins) ; Rape 1969 (77 mins)
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 27 February - Thursday 4 March
EXHIBITIONS @ THE ICA
Until 29 Feb 2004, 12-7pm daily
FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS: BREEDING ARCHITECTURE
'Gracious, thoughtful, sensitive... original and strong-willed' Guardian
'coolest architects in the world' The Times This is the first UK exhibition
of the acclaimed architects, Foreign Office Architects (FOA), founded
by Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo. Based in London, they have
a global reputation with projects commissioned or realised in cities as
varied as London, New York, Tehran, Seoul and Yokohama. FOA's diverse
projects include, among others, an international port terminal, an urban
and coastal park, a theatre, a police headquarters and a proposed replacement
for the World Trade Centre. Designed as a series of immersive installations,
this visually stunning exhibition explores FOA's projects, the particularities
of each city in which they've built, and the influences on their work.
The exhibition also provides, uniquely, a critical insight into the office's
internal 'operating system'.
Amidst projections of built projects and related UV illuminated drawings,
the lower galleries contain architectural models placed on a vivid diagram
linking each project. Video interviews are featured with an international
selection of FOA's clients, allowing a rare insight into the commissioning
and developing of projects. The concourse gallery features an installation
comprising illustrated samples of the surface textures of their projects.
Mon - Fri: £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE to ICA Members; Sat &
Sun: £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE to ICA members
Until 7 Mar, 12.30 - 7.30pm
YOKO ONO: ODYSSEY OF A COCKROACH
'Ono has pulled off a difficult and delicate task, creating a highly theatrical
mise en scene that makes the viewer feel personally involved rather than
overwhelmed' Time Out, NY Odyssey of a Cockroach is an installation that
takes the form of a theatrical mise-en-scene , the experience of a cockroach
as it makes its way through the city of New York. But more than that,
'it's a phantasmagorical passage through time - specifically the last
century' NY Time Out. In Odyssey of a Cockroach, walls are covered with
billboard-size colour photographs of gritty urban scenes - a bloody crime
scene, a bombed-out building, a starving child. Towering sculptures depict
similarly unsettling subjects - a six foot rubbish bin overflowing with
plaster body casts, an enormous replica of a human rat trap, and hundreds
and hundreds of old discarded shoes, the owners long forgotten.
Describing the genesis of this project, Yoko Ono says: 'I have taken various
pictures of the city's corners and presented them from a cockroach's point
of view. Through the eyes of this other strong race, we may learn the
true reality of what our dreams and nightmares have created. I invite
you to join me on this odyssey.' The exhibition is an offsite project,
which will be held in a 3 storey gallery space at: 14 Wharf Road, London
N1 7RW. (Nearest Tubes: Angel/Old Street) Odyssey of a Cockroach was first
seen at Deitchs Projects, New York, 2003.
1 - 21 Mar, daily 12 - 7.30pm
Expat-Art Centre
'An exhibition that is when the art centre is not'
The ICA presents Expat-Art Centre (EA C): a nomadic exhibition specifically
conceived to occupy the typically transitory time and space between two
exhibitions, when a gallery or an art centre is normally closed. EA C
features a series of context-specific artworks by Brian Eno; Pierre Huyghe
(represented France at the 2001 Venice Biennalle); Ben Kinmont (exhibited
in Documenta XI, Kassel); Claude Lévêque (permanent installation
at PS1, New York); Didier Marcel; Olivier Mosset; Shimabuku (Utopia Station,
2003 Venice Biennale); Dan Walsh and Ian Wilson.
Curated by Mathieu Copeland, EA C operates as an exponential curatorial
model that is both self-contained and self-generative, adapting from one
venue to the next: it is an exhibition that simultaneously exists in all
places, at all times, with all people and yet without specific dates,
spaces or locations.
Encompassing elements of painting, sculpture, installation and human intervention,
EA C will be integrated throughout various locations within the ICA. Amongst
others, new works will include a continuous sound work by Brian Eno, Elise
Van Elise, an installation incorporating sound and light by Claude Lévêque,
This isn't it an intervention by Ben Kinmont, and a work by Shimabuku
which echoes the trajectory of the moon in relation to that of the exhibition.
Beginning at the ICA, EA C will subsequently travel to Museum of Contemporary
Art, Lyon, France; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnuis, Lithuania; Krakow
and Lodz, Poland; and beyond. Mon - Fri: £1.50, £1.00 Concs,
FREE to ICA Members; Sat & Sun: £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE
to ICA members Various locations around the ICA
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 27 February - Thursday 4 March
LIVE MUSIC @ THE ICA
Sat 28 Feb, 8pm
Plug Research Records Night:
Daedelus + Ammon Contact
The ICA is proud to present LA's most prestigious and profound electronic
imprint Plug Research with two of their highly innovative acts. Daedelus
is one of LA's new electronic based artists weaving together a patented
true love-sound that falls between honeyed melody and avant-electronics.
He incorporates acoustic guitar, chopping and splicing disparate acoustic
sources into incredible works of staggering resonance. His latest output
on Plug Research is the classic underground album Invention. DJs will
be representing the full spectrum of the label's output on the night.
£7, £6 Concs. £5 ICA Members Theatre
Wed 3rd March, 8pm
DEDBEAT IN ASSOCIATION WITH SKAM RECORDS PRESENT
SHADOW HUNTAZ
+ INFINITE LIVEZ (BIG DADA) + SKAM DJS
SH: 'If you liked the Autechre remix of East Flatbush Project or the Funkstroung
remix of the Wu-Tang Clan then you'll definitely want this genre-buster'
sonomu.net Dedbeat, organisers of internationally renowned Dedbeat festivals,
and Skam, the finest exponent of skewed, beat-hard electronic output this
side of the planet, provide a night to remember for those in the know.
Creeping up on the left centre of hip hop and bustedt headz, Shadow Huntaz
are a 3 person multi-regional assembly of MCs (Chicago, Atlanta and L.A.),
with one duty: to preserve the state of hip hop by any means necessary.
Following some single introductions on Skam, it's their debut album, Corrupt
Data - the result of using the internet artistically - which has the musical
community contemplating their futures. Corrupt Data sees The Funckarma
Brothers (Plug Research) brew the beats and Huntaz MCs Breaff, Dream and
Non spit the rhymes; all made possible by the advent of Data file transferring.
In 15 months the Dutch brothers made 35 tracks with the American MCs,
without seeing or speaking to each other - a perfect mix of electronic
music, hip hop vocals and modern technology. Be here to witness the parties
as they meet live for the first time and tour this highly original material.
Supported by Infinite Livez, a one man army whose reputation grows with
every release and live performance. Currently trying to corner the market
in one-eyed glove puppets called Barry with EP Sumfink 4 Nafink, Livez'
own record label Big Dada happily describe the future legend as Smiley
Culture crossed with David Cronenberg.
Tickets: £7.50
Only available from:
www.wayahead.com / www.ticketweb.com
Rough Trade Covent Garden: 020 7240 0105
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 27 February - Thursday 4 March
TALKS @ THE ICA
Fri 27 Feb, 7.30pm
Psychoanalysis Masterclass: AndrÉ Green and Bernard Burgoyne
Do French practitioners work with different preconceptions from others?
Is mental distress culturally encoded? In a four-part series, some of
the most innovative thinkers in French psychoanalysis give live supervision
to a British colleague on current clinical work, taking you inside the
consulting room. André Green is France's most internationally well
known psychoanalyst; he has co-edited The International Review of Psychoanalysis
; his books include The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse
and On Private Madness. In the chair: Bernard Burgoyne, professor of psychoanalysis
at Middlesex University. £20, £12 Concs. £8 ICA and
Confer Members.
Discounts for booking full series. Tickets and full programme: 020 7254
2323 Theatre
Fri 27, Sat 28 Feb
Selling Democracy Conference
Western Cultural Relations and Public Diplomacy
These talks bring together diplomats, writers and journalists working
in the field of public
diplomacy, to find a way forward not only for Britain and US as they address
the Middle
East, but also for the EU as it presents itself to the world. £21,
£18 Concs.£15 ICA Members combined price for all three events
selling democracy conference
Fri 27 Feb, 2.30pm
Fiddling While Rome Burns?
Public Diplomacy, Cultural Relations and the Post-Iraq World What were
the successes and failures of British and US public diplomacy during the
Iraq
Crisis - and what should be the future shape of Western public diplomacy
and cultural relations? Keynote speakers: professor Philip M. Taylor,
Institute of Communication Studies, Leeds University; Dr Sultan Barakat,
Director of the Postwar Development and Reconstruction Unit, York University;
and Paul Madden, Head, Public Diplomacy Policy Dept. and Assistant Director
of Information, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Chair: Professor Nick
Cull, School of Historical Studies, Leicester University.
Followed by:
Doing Cultural Relations and Public Diplomacy After Iraq
Has the world really changed? Is there still the basis for persuasion
and trust-building in the post- 9/11, post-Iraq world. Is it business
as usual or a very new kind of business indeed? A panel of experts looks
at the challenges of the landscape of mistrust, polarisation and suspicion
in which Western public diplomacy and cultural relations work. Speakersinclude:
Dan Sreebny, US Embassy, London; Prof Jan Melissen, Clingendael Institute,
The Netherlands; Robin Baker, Deputy Director-General, the British Council;
and others. £8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members Nash Room selling
democracy conference Fri 27 Feb, 6pm Culture, Diplomacy and Security Robert
Fox, defence correspondent at the Evening Standard, who has a unique perspective
on the sharp end of Anglo-American foreign policy, delivers his assessment
of what went wrong and what can be done to correct it. £8, £7
Concs. £6 ICA Members Nash Room
selling democracy conference
Sat 28 Feb, 7pm
Common Cause: Tim Parks and Johano trasser
Can European cultural relations be more than the sum of its parts in international
relations? Two novelists, Tim Parks and Johano Strasser, discuss the feasibility
of a 'common European cultural foreign policy'. Can and should Europe
work to project its culture around the world? Is there a common core that
can be shared abroad? Tim Parks is a writer and essayist living in Italy
where he lectures on literary translation; his books include Europa, Adultery
and Other Diversions and A Season with Verona. Johano Strasser is a German
novelist, socialist politician and political writer, whose works include
Der Klang der Fanfare and Die TYcke des Subjekts; he is also Secretary
General of the United German PEN club. Chair: Philip Dodd, Director of
the ICA. £8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members Nash Room £21,
£18 Concs.£15 ICA Members combined price for all three events
Mon 1 Mar, 8.30pm
The Language of Others: Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous
Two of the world's most celebrated figures in the fields of philosophy
and literature, Derrida and Cixous occupy crucial positions in European
thought, and share a common experience of a childhood in Algeria, although
they only met in Paris in 1962. Close friends and collaborators ever since,
this event provides a rare opportunity to listen to their shared heritage
of their formative years and the impact it had on their writing. Cixous's
Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint was published last
month. Derrida's H.C., pour la vie, c'est a dire... was published in 2002.
In the chair: Jacqueline Rose, professor of English, Queen Mary, London,
whose books include On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the
Modern World. Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, WC1 £6, £3
Concs or call 0870 060 1798
Thurs 4 March 7.30-8.30pm
GALLERY TALK:
THE EXPONENTIAL ACCUMULATION OF UNUSED TIME
Mathieu Copeland, Artist and Curator of the Expat-Art Centre will talk
about the concept of an exhibition with time but no dates, and space but
no location. Free with ICA Day Membership Meet in the Foyer
Café Scientifique
Thurs 4 Mar, 7pm
Tears of a Clone
Since Dolly the sheep, scientists have cloned cows, goats, and a cat.
Using the same techniques, researchers are now trying to grow embryos
cloned from a single human cell. But can a human be cloned safely? Cloned
humans could theoretically provide a supply of donor organs, help eradicate
some diseases and allow infertile couples to reproduce. But what are the
ethical and legal consequences of human cloning, and how does it affect
our sense of what it means to be human? Arlene Judith Klotzko discusses
the science of cloning, and the ethical, political, and legal issues.
Klotzko, a bioethicist and lawyer, is Writer in Residence at the Science
Museum and Visiting Scholar in Bioethics at UCL. She writes regularly
on science and ethics in the mainstream and science press, and is the
author of A Clone of Your Own? The Science and Ethics of Cloning. £5,
£4 Concs. £3 ICA members
Nash Room
ICA LISTINGS
Friday 27 February - Thursday 4 March
DIGITAL STUDIO & INSTALLATION @ THE ICA
UK
Premier & Retrospective
Until Sat 6 March
Digital Studio opening times
Aristarkh Chernyshev & Vladislav Efimov
Moscow artists Aristarkh Chernyshev and Vladislav Efimov have been working
together since 1996. During this time they have made a number of video
and interactive installations devoted to various scientific problems:
they studied the phenomenon of beauty in industrial society (Opus Magnum,
1998), and tried to comprehend how the brain functions (Mystery of Brain,
1999) and changed themselves using the latest scientific achievement -
the decoding of the human genome (Genetic Gymnastics, 2000-2001). In one
of their latest work - The Project of the Monument to A.Schwarzenegger
as Terminator T-800 - they studied the mechanism of the pop-culture.
View: www.shining-tv.com / www.chef.artinfo.ru
Mon - Fri: £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE to ICA Members; Sat &
Sun: £2.50, £1.50 Concs, FREE to ICA members Digital Studio
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