ICA LISTINGS

Friday 26 March - Thursday 1 April

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THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHT:

26 Mar-16 May
Galleries: 12-7.30pm
Cinema 2: 12-5.30pm
Beck's Futures 2004
'Dedicated to the support of developing artists...one of the country's premier arts prizes' Independent The ICA presents the fifth annual Beck's Futures exhibition and awards, bringing together work from ten of the most exciting UK-based artists, some of whom were born in Bulgaria, Turkey, the Netherlands and Brazil. The exhibition confirms the cosmopolitan nature of the UK's contemporary arts scene, and the range of artistic and cultural resources informing art made in the UK.
The shortlisted artists are: Haluk Akakce, Tonico Lemos Auad, Simon Bedwell, Ergin Cavusoglu, Andrew Cross, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Susan Philipsz, Imogen Stidworthy, Hayley Tompkins and Nicoline Van Harskamp. Each receives an award of £4,000 from the total awards fund of £65,000 that makes this the UK's most generous art awards. Free with ICA Day Membership Lower, Concourse and Upper Galleries Cinema 2

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 26 March - Thursday 1 April
FILM @ THE ICA
Friday 26 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45,6.45, 8.30pm
ZIZEK (Cinema 2)
6pm
YOKO ONO ENGLAND 68-9
(Cinema 2) 7.30pm
YOKO ONO LONDON 69-71
(Cinema 2) 9.30pm

Saturday 27 March
UNCUT (Cinema 1)
12-2.15pm
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
2.45, 4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
ZIZEK (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
IVAN THE TERRIBLE I and II
(Cinema 2) 7.45pm

Sunday 28 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
2.45, 4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
ZIZEK (Cinema 2)
7.45pm
IVAN THE TERRIBLE I AND II
(Cinema 2) 7.45pm

Monday 29 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
ZIZEK (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
IVAN THE TERRIBLE I AND II
(Cinema 2) 7.45pm

Tuesday 30 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
ZIZEK (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
IVAN THE TERRIBLE I AND II
(Cinema 2) 7.45pm

Wednesday 31 March
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
ZIZEK (Cinema 2)
6.15pm
IVAN THE TERRIBLE I AND II
(Cinema 2) 7.45pm

Thursday 1 April
OSAMA (Cinema 1)
4.45, 6.45, 8.30pm
BECKS (Cinema 2)
12-7.30pm
HAPPY TOGETHER
(Cinema 2) 6.30pm
ROUGE (Cinema 2)
8.30pm

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 26 March - Thursday 1 April
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: 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.

23, 26-31 Mar
Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Slavoj Zizek is one of the most distinguished and politically engaged thinkers of our time. In this tour de force filmed lecture, Slavoj Zizek lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms that belief takes, drawing on Lacanian categories of thought. In a radical dismissal of todays so called post-political era, he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible. It is a characteristic virtuoso performance, moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view. Based at Ljubliana University, Slavoj Zizek's main body includes Welcome to the Desert of the Real and, most recently, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. Ben Wright, the director of the film, is an artist and film maker based in London whose work most often employs a non-subjective camera in particular locations across the globe. Here the camera is unflinchingly receptive to Slavoj Zizek standing in for the uncanny lack of an audience. Ben Wright's body of works includes Sibirskoye Kino, Blaze of Embers and Palagruza. (Dir Ben Wright, UK, 2003, 70mins)

Cinema 2: 10-23 March

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.

26 March, 7.30pm
England 68-69

26 March 9.30pm
London 69 -71

Cinema 2 : 1 - 2 April
Leslie Cheung RIP
On 1 April, 2003, the much-cherished Leslie Cheung - one of Hong Kong's greatest stars - tragically committed suicide. By way of remembrance, the ICA presents two of the many essential films graced by his presence.

Cinema 2: 1 Apr, 6.30; 2 Apr 8.30
Happy Together
'Sublime, lyrical and hopeful... Wong's masterpiece' NME
Wong Kar-wai's favourite leading-men - Cheung and Tony Leung - are lovers from Hong Kong whose relationship founders while in Buenos Aires. The pair try to take separate paths but inevitably end up back together, despite the torment that comes with reunion. Fragmented and visually restless, this is a tough-love story that earns its deep emotional resonance.
Dir Wong Kar-Wai
Hong Kong 1997, 97 mins, subs, 15

Cinema 2: 1 Apr, 8.30;
2 Apr, 6.30
Rouge
'Stunning visuals and sophisticated performances' Time Out
A courtesan in 1930s Hong Kong enters into a suicide pact with her lover, intending to meet him in the afterlife. When he fails to show up, she returns to modern-day Hong Kong to find him. A sublime romantic ghost story that plays as one long, languorous swoon, with past and present repeatedly cross paths (the title itself refers back to the first-ever film production in Hong Kong). Sadly, Cheung's co-star Anita Mui - another Hong Kong legend - is also no longer with us, having passed away last December. Dir Stanley Kwan Hong Kong 1988, 96 mins, subs, 15

Cinema 2: 1-31 March
Empires and the Senses

27-31 Mar, 7.45pm
Ivan the Terrible parts I & II
'Miraculous' Time Out
Planned as an epic trilogy, Eisenstein's most enjoyable film - and his final work - projects the Tsar's struggle to consolidate the Russian empire and free it from Eastern domination.
Dir Sergei Eisenstein
Russia 1944-46, 100 + 88 mins, subs

Cinema 1: Sat 27 Mar, 12-2.15pm
Uncut Special
Filmmaker Annie Wright will be presenting her work and looking at the myths that are disseminated by the world of the mass media and its impact on our lives. The lecture will be illustrated by some of her video work of the last ten years. £4, £3 Concs, £2 ICA Members

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 26 March - Thursday 1 April
EXHIBITIONS @ THE ICA
26 Mar-16 May
Galleries: 12-7.30pm
Cinema 2: 12-5.30pm
Beck's Futures 2004
'Dedicated to the support of developing artists,...one of the country's premier arts prizes' Independent The ICA presents the fifth annual Beck's Futures exhibition and awards, bringing together work from ten of the most exciting UK-based artists. Some of whom were born in Bulgaria, Turkey, the Netherlands and Brazil. The exhibition confirms the cosmopolitan nature of the UK's contemporary arts scene, and the range of artistic and cultural resources informing art made in the UK.
The shortlisted artists are: Haluk Akakce, Tonico Lemos Auad, Simon Bedwell, Ergin Cavusoglu, Andrew Cross, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Susan Philipsz, Imogen Stidworthy, Hayley Tompkins and Nicoline Van Harskamp. Each receives an award of £4,000 from the total awards fund of £65,000 that makes this the UK's most generous art awards. Beck's Futures 2004 will see the ICA's spaces animated by seductive and immersive video installations and films, as well as sound-based pieces which draw upon sources as diverse as Cilla Black and Rosa Luxembourg. Also displayed will be figures sculpted from carpet fluff, delicate abstract watercolours, and found posters editorialised through the addition of trenchant slogans and spray paint. Through the course of the show, the ICA will also play host to a succession of professional security guards, invited to the building for a single day. Ranging from department store guards to Street Wardens, their presence will form the live aspect of a work offering A Guide to UK Security Guards. This year's selection was made by the curators Klaus Biesenbach, Katrina Brown and Dan Cameron, and artists Mark Dion and Philippe Parreno. A further overall award of £20,000 will be made to one artist from the shortlist, which will be announced in late April 2004. Free with ICA Day Membership, Lower, Concourse and Upper Galleries Cinema 2

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 26 March - Thursday 1 April

LIVE MUSIC @ THE ICA

ica showcase
Tues 30 Mar, 7.30pm
Gentle Electric present:
Fonda 500, Bitmap, Husband, Punish The Atom
F500: 'make clockwork lullabies that sound like the Beach Boys' Sleazenation
The first in a monthly series of music showcases at the ICA. Tonight sees Gentle Electric Records from Nottingham bring their marvellous roster to bear. Fonda 500 headline the show, fresh from the release of their fourth album Spectrumatronicalogical Sounds. On release of Husband's debut 7" the NME claimed to have found 'an errant pop prodigy..a maverick in the making'. Plus Bitmap - whose debut album Alpha Beta Gamma was Sunday Times' album of the week on its release. And Punish The Atom, bringing with them their passionate and furious micro anthems that recall Wire and vintage PiL. A very sparkly lineup not to be missed. £6, £5 Concs. £4 ICA Members Theatre (standing)

Sat 27 Mar, 9pm
Batmacumba 2004
Batmacumba boys are back at the ICA for 2004. As ever there are some damn funky events planned and to kick things off there is a special launch party for Essential Brazilian Flavas, a new album out on Outcaste records. Joining forces with resident DJ Cliffy is veteran player John Armstrong. Expect a roadblock return to the ICA from this perennial winner. £6, £5 Concs. Free ICA Members Bar

Thurs 1 April, 8pm
LLGF PRESENT:
PARAPHERNALIA
Paraphernalia, the club and film night from London's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, retyrns to the ICA this year with a queer gothic spin, Tales of the Unexptected. A delicious night of live bands, performance, weird sex-gothic visuals and film extravagance awaits thise who dare to enter. With top London DJs Mark Moore and Jeffrey Hinton, polysexual band Hooker and a very special act, you'll have your appetite wet with music and horror film screenings in what promises to be a brilliant night out. Last year quickly sold out, so be careful you don't miss this wonderful event for queer boys and girls and horror freaks everywhere. And remember no one will hear you scream. £8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members Theatre / Bar / Cinema 2, 11pm

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 26 March - Thursday 1 April

THEATRE @ THE ICA

Sat 27 Mar, 5-7pm
A2 present:
Private View
(A Work In Progress presentation)
'very like a chance meeting of TS Eliot and Agnes Varda' Telegraph
Following their hugely successful performance during the 2004 Mime Festival, A2 (Alit Kreiz & Anton Mirto) return to the ICA to develop a new installation /performance work with a twist of their own distinct style.
Drop into their special 'private view' in the Nash Room, between 5-7pm, and be the first to see this work at its early stage of development.
Free with Day Membership
Nash Room

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 26 March - Thursday 1 April
TALKS @ THE ICA

Confer/ICA
Fri 26 Mar, 7.30pm
Psychoanalysis Masterclass:
François Lévy and Bernard Burgoyne
In the third of a four-part series, another of France's most innovative thinkers in psychoanalysis takes you inside the usually hidden domain of the consulting room to give live supervision to a British colleague on a piece of current clinical work. Tonight's focus will be the role of the father in the internal and external world of the patient. François Lévy is a founder member of the Société de Psychoanalyse Freudienne, a psychoanalyst, training analyst, , editor of the psychoanalytic review, Les Lettres de la Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne and author of numerous articles. In the chair, Bernard Burgoyne, Professor of Psychoanalysis at Middlesex University, a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.
£20, £12 Concs. £8 ICA/Confer Mems.
Theatre

Tue 30 Mar, 7pm
Who Runs This Place?
Government has never been more distant from Parliament, or closer to big business. After all the promises of decentralisation, and increased transparency, Whitehall seems to have become more impenetrable, and more decisions than ever are concentrated at No. 10, as the Hutton Inquiry has shown. Will this centralisation pass with Blairism - or have the structures of government been permanently changed and Whitehall irrevocably politicised? Why are we so exercised by Blair's retinue of advisors - and how could they be made more accountable? In a globalised world, is it inevitable that government and corporations will be mutually dependent? Speakers: Peter Hennessey, historian and author of The Secret State; Lord Christopher Haskins, frequent advisor to the government, formerly chairman of Express Northern Foods; Anthony King, professor of British Government at Essex University, who sat on the Committee on Standards in Public Life; and Tony Wright, MP, chairman of the Public Administration Committee. In the chair: Anthony Sampson, whose previous books include The Anatomy of Britain and the authorised biography of Nelson Mandela. Nash Room £8, £7 Concs. £6 ICA Members

ICA LISTINGS
Friday 26 March - Thursday 1 April
DIGITAL STUDIO @ THE ICA

Until Sat 3 Apr (Daily 12 till 7.30pm)
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Jonah Brucker-Cohen works as a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland and as a PhD candidate in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG) at Trinity College Dublin.
This show includes: Phonetic Faces, 2003 - an interactive mobile visual installation that allows people to both contribute their image to a shared display and collaborate with others to create a collage of images using their mobile phones. Public Desktop, 2004, adds sociability to the Mac OSX desktop background by allowing people to input text online which then becomes the desktop image. Desktop Subversibles, 2003 capitalizes on the ubiquity of our interactions with computer desktops to convey awareness of activity and a sense of shared network space among the members of an online and physical community. BumpList, 2003, a mailing list aiming to re-examine the culture and rules of online email lists Mon - Fri £1.50, £1.00 Concs, FREE to ICA Members; Sat & Sun £2.50, £1.50 Concs. FREE to ICA Members Digital Studio