ICA 2016 Programme

| 2016
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Betty Woodman
Lower and Upper Galleries
3 February – 10 April 2016
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The first UK solo presentation of works by Betty Woodman (born 1930), one of the most important contemporary
artists working with ceramics today. The exhibition focuses on work Woodman has created in the last ten years,
including a number of major new mixed media pieces. Betty Woodman began making work in 1950 with clay as
her chosen medium, and throughout her practice has constantly explored new directions and introduced new
techniques and media. Woodman's conceptual boldness and her ambitious experimentation—in which she
combines such unlikely materials as lacquer paint on earthenware and terra sigillata, a slip glaze often used on
ancient ceramics, on paper—have generated a unique series of innovations. Significantly, the ways in which she
combines ceramics and painting in her three-dimensional works resonates with younger generations of artists.
All her work relates to her ceramics, their decorative design, imagery and unusual use of various media, and can
be seen as a way of exploring her painterly sensibility. The ICA exhibition follows her first solo museum show in
Italy, at the Museo Marino Marini in Florence which is the artist’s second home and where she has been living
and working for six months of every year for over 50 years.
Over the course of her lengthy career, Betty Woodman (b. 1930, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA) has had numerous
solo exhibitions at museums and galleries internationally as well as been included in frequent group exhibitions.
Since her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “The Art of Betty Woodman,” in 2006,
these include: “Betty Woodman,” Museo Marino Marini, Florence, 2015; “BIACI - 1st Bienial Internacional de Arte
Contemporáneo Cartagena de Indias, Colombia,” Cartagena, 2014; “Alessandro’s Rooms,” Art Unlimited, Art
Basel, Basel, 2013; “Playing House,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 2012; “Postmodernism: Style and
Subversion, 1970-1990,” and many more. Woodman currently lives and works in New York City and Antella, Italy.
During 2016 the artist has been invited to participate in the Liverpool Biennial in the summer.
Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis with the ICA.
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Supporters: With thanks to Belgraves
Image credit: Detail of Wallpaper #9, Betty Woodman, 2015. Courtesy the artist.
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Guan Xiao in association with K11 Art Foundation
Lower Gallery
20 April – 19 June 2016
Working mainly in sculpture and video, Guan Xiao explores how ways of seeing are now influenced by digital
image circulation as an increasingly dominant source of knowledge and information exchange. In various works
and installations she endeavours to expand the aesthetic and cognitive possibilities for how identity and meaning
are assigned and understood. Music is also an important element in her work that often weaves visual material
(including video clips found on the internet), digital rendering techniques and objects to offer fresh perspectives
on the ‘new’ and the ‘old’. She often juxtaposes references from the past and present (or future), alongside socalled primitive and high tech elements into distinct and evocative installations. Guan Xiao comments, ‘What we
consider today as new or advanced things are actually things that are ancient or unknown. The incomprehension
of the past and unknowns gives rise to intriguing discussion in the present. That’s why I have been prone to
putting these extreme things together—the old and new—and making them work together.’ For her first solo
exhibition in a UK institution, Guan Xiao will present a new installation comprising large printed screens in greyscale, in front of which will be presented sculptures made up of various materials, including speakers that emit
new audio works.
Guan Xiao (b. 1983, Chongqing; lives and works in Baijing) received her BA in Directing at the Communication
University of China in 2006 and has exhibited internationally including at the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal,
Shenzhen, the V&A Museum, London, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul; the Shanghai
Art Museum and the Art Museum of Nanjing University of Art. Selected exhibitions include: the shortlisted
exhibition of Hugo Boss Asia Art Award, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2015; Basic Logic, Antenna Space,
Shanghai, 2015, 13th Biennale de Lyon: La vie modern, Lyon, 2015, 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New
Museum, New York, 2015, From a Poem to the Sunset, New acquisitions of contemporary Chinese and
international art, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, 2015, Rare Earth, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
Vienna, 2015; Degeneration, ACAF, Sydney, 2014; Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics, M HKA
Museum, Antwerp, 2014; Something Happened Like never Happened, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2014,
Film Section, Basel Hong Kong, Agnes B Cinema, Hong Kong, 2014; Die 8 Wege, Uferhallen, Berlin, 2013; and
OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, 2013; Difference Engine, Magician Space, Beijing, 2013; China
Design Now, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2007; and Floating - New Generation of Art in China, National
Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2007.
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In association with K11 Art Foundation
Image credit: Documentary: From National Geographic to BBC, 2015. Fiberglass, camera tripod, spotlight, camera lens
models, brass, digital print on vinyl, background stands. Courtesy the artist and Antenna Space
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Judy Blame
Lower Gallery
29 June – 11 September 2016
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The ICA is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by influential British jewellery designer, fashion stylist and
art director, Judy Blame. The exhibition will trace Blame’s prolific output beginning with his involvement in the
London underground club culture of the late 1970’s and early 80’s, this was followed by collaborations with Ray
Petri, Neneh Cherry, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Christopher Nemeth, and Derek Jarman. He was also responsible
for creating the legendary boutique The House of Beauty and Culture. More recent creative affiliations include
Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons and Louis Vuitton amongst others. The exhibition explores Blame’s
pioneering DIY Punk ethic, creating unique items of clothing and assemblages from found objects and recycled
materials, an approach that was universally perceived at the time as radical for its capacity to challenge
conformist notions of beauty. On display will be a range of innovative designs, complimented by ephemera
selected from Blame’s vast archive, including collages, drawings, graphics, and videos from the past up until the
present day.
Judy Blame has worked at the forefront of jewellery design, fashion styling and art direction for over 35 years. He
was one of the architects and key faces of London’s underground club culture – a boom time for unfettered
creativity whose energies continue to fuel the fashion industry today. It was in those days of dressing up for
endless nights out that he adopted the name Judy Blame and became one of the legendary figures of London
nightlife. Judy also ventured into styling fashion shoots and cover stories for the London magazines i-D, The
Face and Blitz. Collaborating with his friends the shoemaker John Moore, fashion designer Christopher Nemeth
and knitwear designer Richard Torry, he set up the legendary boutique The House of Beauty and Culture in east
London. In the early 2000s he was contacted by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, who invited him to sell
his jewellery in her Dover Street Market stall. In the wake of his work with Comme des Garçons, the fashion
establishment began to acknowledge his longstanding and uncompromising commitment to creativity. He
continues to style for i-D magazine as well as leading men’s bi-annuals Numero Homme, GQ Style and Another
Man. The exhibition coincides with the first comprehensive publication documenting the history and legacy of The
House of Beauty and Culture, published by the ICA and featuring an authoritative text by Kasia Maciejowska.
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Image: Judy Blame portrait for POP magazine by Ben Dunbar-Brunton, 1999
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James Richards
Lower and Upper Gallery
21 September – 20 November 2016
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For his ICA exhibition, Richards aims to develop three distinct areas whereby works will be "smeared and spread
across multiples rooms" allowing images and soundtracks to wash over each other. The exhibition will also
feature a selection of rhythmic musical and visual cues, as well as textile room dividers - modular structures
designed to break up the space, allowing for alterations of sound and light. "My aim is to work on an exhibition
that will have three parts, iterations or edits. I want to play with deja vu, as well as a certain form of chiming
whereby sound spill from one section of the gallery becomes the soundtrack for an image within its near reach.
I'm building a number of multichannel setups to include looped film but also so I can compose sound across
space as well as time."
Richards will be participating in three major exhibitions in 2016, starting with Bergen Kunsthalle, Norway, then
ICA, London, and finally Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Germany. While comprising similar elements, each
exhibition will be altered in response to the given architecture of each institution. While connected, the three
exhibitions will nevertheless remain open to additional material as it moves from one venue to the next. James
Richards (b. 1983) is a British artist presently residing in Berlin where he is completing a DAAD Scholarship. Born
in Cardiff, Richard's studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London. He recently exhibited as part of
'Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms', 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2015), 'Speculations On Anonymous
Materials', Fridericianum, Kassel (2014), 'Meanwhile… Suddenly, and Then', 12th Lyon Biennial (2013), 'The
Encyclopedic Palace', 55th Venice Biennale (2013), 'Clunie Reid and James Richards, Art Now, Tate Britain'
(2010), and 'Nought to Sixty', ICA, London (2008). Recent solo-shows include James Richards, Kunstverein
München, Munich (2015), 'Raking Light', Cabinet, London (2014), 'The Screens", Rodeo, Istanbul' (2013), and
Chisenhale, London (2011). In 2014, Richards was nominated for the Tate Turner Prize. Edited by Isla leaver
Yap, a catalogue will coincide with all three exhibitions.
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Image credit: James Richards, Radio at Night. Stills, digital video, 7 min. 47 sec., 2015. Courtesy the artist, Rodeo, and
Cabinet, London. Commissioned by the Walker Art Center with major support provided by the Bentson Foundation
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Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists
ICA Fox Reading Room
19 January – 6 March 2016
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This archival display documents the seminal 1974 ICA exhibition Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven
German Artists (29 October – 24 November 1974). Organised by ICA Curator Norman Rosenthal and German art
dealer Christos M. Joachimides, this seminal exhibition sought to engage with ideas around the relationship
between art and politics emerging from West Germany at that time. Artists involved included Albrecht D., Joseph
Beuys, KP Brehmer, Hans Haacke, Dieter Hacker, Gustav Metzger, Klaus Staeck and photographer Michael
Ruetz. Art into Society – Society into Art was a key part of a season staged at the ICA called German Month
which featured film screenings, talks, performances and exhibitions showcasing the wide-ranging cultural
developments emerging from West Germany at that time.
The exhibition drew on the notion of an ‘active’ working process and form of exhibition display. Both curators and
artists alike sought to move away from an individualistic approach to art and exhibition-making, and towards a
more democratic system of organising. A key example of this process was the staging of a colloquium involving
the curators and artists and which took place on 26-27 April 1974 in Dieter Hacker’s studio in Berlin. Its aim was
to open a discussion with all parties involved in the project as a way to create a more egalitarian work-process
between artists and curators. The original display included wall-based works by artists such as K P Brehmer and
Klaus Staeck as well as photographs of key political events from that time by Michael Ruetz. Whilst Gustav
Metzger decided to physically remove himself from the exhibition itself, as a protest against the art world, Josef
Beuys remained present in the gallery for the majority of the exhibition and engaged in conversations with the
audience around democracy and education, sketching out his ideas onto numerous chalkboards subsequently
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strewn across the floor – a work now known as Richtkräfte. To mark the 30 anniversary of Joseph Beuys’ death
on 23 January 1986, this display will be accompanied by a series of performances and talks programme.
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Image credit: Installation view of Joseph Beuys performing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 30.10.1974.
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ICA Fox Reading Room Highlights
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PIL: METAL BOX
22 March - 17 May 2016
PIL: METAL BOX focuses on the Public Image Ltd (PiL) second album and critically acclaimed post-punk classic
Metal Box (1979). The title of the album originates from the Metal Box Factory in Hackney, London, who
manufactured the distinctive packaging; it consisted of a metal 16mm celluloid film canister embossed with the
band’s logo containing three untitled12” records (it was later reissued in more conventional packaging as a
double gatefold LP, entitled Second Edition). The design for the PiL’s inaugural album First Issue (1978) and
Metal Box was by Photographer and Designer Dennis Morris, whose original and inventive approach remains
evident today. This display presents an insight into the conceptual and creative process that informed Morris’s
landmark design, the experimental sound of PiL - characterised by the vocals of John Lydon's, bassist Jah
Wobble, and guitarist Keith Levene - whilst reflecting upon the bygone age of UK manufacturing industry.
Detroit: City of Techno
26 July - 2 October 2016
This display takes a studied look at Detroit in the late 1970s and 1980s and the musical and environmental
influences behind its early experiments with techno. The sound of techno was driven by the rising and falling
fortunes of industry in Detroit, new technology and the aspirations of people living in the city at that time. Merging
the sounds of synth-pop and Italo-disco with funk, this musical genre was distinct and admired across the world
by cities experiencing similar social and economic changes. Through spotlighting early experiment of techno’s
pioneers, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Jeff Mills and Kevin Saunderson, this display uncovers the ways in which the
social and economic surroundings of a generation of young people living in Detroit inspired a new musical genre
that would alter electronic music as we know it.
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Image credit: PIL: METAL BOX
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Artists’ Film Events
Throughout 2016
The ICA Artists’ Film Biennial 2016 is a four-day celebration of artists’ film and moving image taking place 2‒5
June 2016. The Biennial’s comprehensive series of screenings and talks extends the ICA’s Artists’ Film Club, our
regular programme of artists’ film, which profiles and debates the best international artists’ moving image.
Established in 2007, the Artists’ Film Club platforms emerging and established artist filmmakers here in London,
and at partner venues across the UK via the ICA’s Artist Moving Image Network. Fostering dialogues between
artists and audiences, Artists’ Film Club enables discussion and debate around recent moving image practice,
with many of the programme artists giving presentations and Q&A’s with several screenings taking place at ICA
every month.
This edition of the Biennial features ambitious retrospectives, artist selected programmes, programmes selected
by international curators, a programme selected from an international curatorial open, a programme selected
from an artist-filmmaker open call; and a series of talks, symposium and seminar groups examining the context
and concerns for moving image practices today.
The ICA’s national network of venues committed to showing a regular programme of artists’ moving image, with
support from the Foyle Foundation and Arts Council England. These venues include MK Gallery (Milton Keynes);
Tramway (Glasgow); Spike Island (Bristol); ICIA (Bath); Peninsula Arts (Plymouth); Exeter Phoenix (Exeter);
Phoenix (Leicester); mima (Middlesbrough); Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool) and Home (Manchester). These
partnerships will also inform the content of our 2016 Biennial. With support from Arts Council England the
network will see the development of four new Artist Moving Image co-commissions, with Phoenix (Leicester);
mima (Middlesbrough); Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool), will begin in 2016 (finished in 2017) and be screened
across the national network on their completion. STOP PLAY RECORD, our initiative for young people aged 1624, boasts a series screenings, talks, workshops and practical sessions, helping emerging talent access a range
of expert-led opportunities to establish and develop their skills. From January—March 2016 young people based
in London will be able to apply to develop a film to completion in partnership with Bloomberg New
Contemporaries, the Chisenhale Gallery, DAZED, Kingston University and SPACE who will provide a range of
activities across the capital.
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Cinema Highlights
Throughout 2016
The ICA’s cinema programme continues to support independent releases and partner with leading film festivals.
A number of successful festivals return and continue including the London Short Film Festival (8 – 17 January
2016), The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme at the beginning of February 2016 and the Essay Film
Festival that will return in March for its second year in partnership with Birkbeck University of London. In April the
ICA will welcome Kinoteka Film Festival back for its 14th edition and this year the ICA and Polish Cultural
Institute in London will celebrate the remarkable filmmaking of Polish film director and writer Andrzej Zulawski (b.
1940).
In spring 2016, the ICA hosts the inaugural programme of 'Frames of Representation (FoR)'. FoR is a curatorial
platform through which new forms of documentary cinema can be experienced and discussed. For the first
edition of FoR which features new work from Roberto Minervini and Zhao Liang the programme will address the
subject of the new periphery and cinema's role in bringing the excluded into the centre of conversation.
Across 2016 the ICA film programme will feature essential titles, including Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman's
boundary pushing stop-motion feature and László Nemes’ visceral search for an aesthetic able to give subjective
experience to the Holocaust’s atrocities in Son of Saul.
In late 2016, the ICA will focus on the work of Japanese documentary film director Shinsuke Ogawa (1936-92),
considered an important figure in the realm of world documentary cinema.
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Image credit: Film still from Behemoth by Zhao Liang (2015)
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Music Highlights
Throughout 2016
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Established in 2012, the ICA Associates programme continues to evolve and develop new relationships with established and
emerging national and international music organisations. With a shared interest in experimentation and examination of current
themes in contemporary music the ICA Associates programme offers a platform for likeminded individuals and organisations to
present innovative and visually engaging events. For 2016 the ICA is pleased to continue its on-going collaboration with NTS
Radio and Warp Records. Also featured are JUST JAM, ThirtyThree ThirtyThree (formerly known as St Johns Sessions),
alongside their partners Nawa Recordings, showcasing the most compelling art, film and music from the modern Arab World.
They will be accompanied by Berlin based label PAN who will present a concise programme of multi-disciplinary events,
providing an overview of their online and audio productivity for 2016. Courtesy of The Wire during the year a series of talks and
discussions will focus on themes prevalent within contemporary music. JUST JAM is a live audiovisual stream. It showcases
some of the most progressive electronic music from around the globe, set to a backdrop of psychedelic visuals. The visuals are
mixed live; featuring the work of highly celebrated digital visual artists alongside curated artefacts found on the internet by the
Just Jam team. NTS is a family of like-minded and passionate individuals, dedicated to supporting exciting music and culture
through online radio and events. NTS uncovers the best of the musical past, celebrates the present and cultivates the future of
the underground music scene, and prides itself on being open-minded and experimental. Since 2008, multi-disciplinary label
PAN has been building a network of international artists with an emphasis on adaption to the rapidly changing cultural and
material conditions of contemporary musicians and sound artists today.
Through a constant stream of releases and events, PAN has evolved year by year to reflect the state of sound production and
sound-based art practices. As the St John Sessions series' reputation has grown over the past three years, so too have
opportunities outside of the church's stained-glass windows: an accompanying string of performances have been established in
new venues across London, a record label has been formed to curate and release one-off performances from the world's sonic
visionaries (starting with Ryuichi Sakamoto) whilst international shows in Cairo and Beirut have set the tone for bringing
together the best contemporary artists from across the globe. All of this is now housed under the larger umbrella entitled
ThirtyThree ThirtyThree – a double quip on both the sonic (full-length RPMs) and the spiritual (Jesus’ rather untimely demise).
For 25 years Warp Records has been a synonym for adventures in sound and vision, consistently furthering their position as
one of the most creative independent record labels in the world. With a rich legacy and consistently groundbreaking vision of
the future, Warp and its artists traverse mediums to explore new spaces. Founded in 1982, The Wire is the world's leading
authority on underground, experimental and alternative music. It's main activity is publishing a monthly magazine, which is
available in both print and digital editions. The magazine has won multiple awards for its journalism, photography and design.
The Wire's other activities include running a specialist online music bookshop; hosting two radio shows; curating various live
events, talks and panel discussions internationally; and producing its own branded compilations of new underground music.
The Wire is based in East London, and is 100 per cent independent.
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Installation view of ICA and K11 Art Foundation present Zhang Ding: Enter the Dragon (VIP preview with Bo Ningen & Powell,
12 October 2015), Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA). Photo: Benedict Johnson© K11 Art Foundation
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Talks and Events Highlights
Throughout 2016
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The ICA’s dynamic Talks & Events programme in 2016 places a focus on questions around urbanism, salvage
and new materialism whilst continuing to present new performances in the theatre space.
Featuring artists’ talks and lectures by key practitioners and thinkers, the ICA will present Artist’s Talk: Betty
Woodman and Culture Now will continue to serve as a platform for the latest ideas and thought across the
contemporary arts.
Continuing the ICA’s long-standing interest in the influence in of new technologies on arts and culture, the ICA
this year presents a new events programme responding to new thought on digital culture. Kicking this off, the
work of Aaron Swartz will be explored via a new publication of his writings, covering intellectual property,
intellectual diversity, politics and media, free culture and open access and more.
At a time when urban centres across the world and arguably particularly London face critical challenges in how to
house, and sustain its population, the ICA continues its exploration into the significance and purpose of art and
cultural activity, continuing its series Artists, What is Your Value? Early internet pioneers JODI will be first up to
respond to the question.
Another key focus continues to be gender issues in relation to contemporary society and culture and the ICA will
welcome key theorists, artists and thinkers such as Judith Butler.
The ICA will continue to reach out internationally, partnering with projects such as Global Art Forum (Jan) and
Projeckt Fiktion (Feb).
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Image credit: Courtesy JODI
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Associate Poet: Kayo Chingonyi
Throughout 2016
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Lately my artistic practice has been concerned with bringing together my interest in poetry, music, and dance.
The ICA is space where a range of art forms intersect and I'll be using this environment, and the role of Associate
Poet, to extend this hybrid approach and devise a programme that takes in a range of influences, presenting
poetry in surprising contexts. My work is concerned with and influenced by the musicality in language and the
non-linguistic meanings enacted by sound, literary theory, Hip Hop, black studies, Contemporary British and
American Poetry, DJing, Sampling and Music Production - Kayo Chingonyi.
The ICA is delighted to announce the appointment of Kayo Chingonyi as Associate Poets for a period of 10
months, starting Spring 2016. Following the Associate Artist programme that includes NTS, Luke Fowler and 6a
architects, these appointments mark the beginning of an exciting range of events and projects. As a response to
the growing intersection between art and poetry today, this Associate Poet programme also continues a longstanding interest and engagement with language and poetry throughout the ICA’s history. Both Herbert Read and
Roland Penrose, who founded the ICA in 1946, were poets themselves; a particular interest which was reflected
in the ICA’s programme in the early stages of its history.
Kayo Chingonyi is a writer, editor, events producer, and creative writing tutor. His poems have been published
in a range of magazines and anthologies and in a debut pamphlet entitled Some Bright Elegance (Salt
Publishing, 2012). In 2013 he was awarded a writing residency at Cove Park (Scotland) as well as the
Geoffrey Dearmer Prize from the Poetry Society. He represented Zambia at Poetry Parnassus, is a fellow of the
Complete Works programme for diversity in British Poetry, and has been invited to give readings and
performances across the UK and further afield in Ireland, Mexico, Abu Dhabi, and South Africa. He is currently
working on his first full-length collection entitled Kumukanda and a new pamphlet calling a spade a spade is
forthcoming from the African Poetry Book Fund, in collaboration with Brooklyn-based independent publisher
Akashic Books, in 2016.
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Learning Programme highlights
Throughout 2016
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The ICA programme is currently aimed at students 16 years + at A level, Foundation, BA, MA, Post Graduate
and Research level. Our Learning programme seeks to maintain a historical close engagement between the ICA
and young and emerging thinkers and practitioners. The ICA has 8 university partners who have worked
collaboratively with the ICA on a number of research projects and events within the public programme for the last
three years. In 2013 the ICA launched an MA in the Contemporary with the University of Kent with an
interdisciplinary programme aimed at exploring the field of contemporary practice. Next year will see a module of
the programme taught in Paris.
The ICA Student Forum continues to be a unique curatorial platform open to students, to propose and deliver
projects on the ICA Public Programme. STOP PLAY RECORD, our initiative for young people aged 16-24,
boasts a series of screenings, talks, workshops and practical sessions, helping emerging talent access a range
of expert-led opportunities to establish and develop their skills. From January—March 2016 young people based
in London will be able to apply to develop a film to completion in partnership with Bloomberg New
Contemporaries, the Chisenhale Gallery, DAZED, Kingston University and SPACE who will provide a range of
activities across the capital.
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ICA Editions
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The ICA works in close collaboration with some of today’s most exciting artists to commission and produce
beautiful and affordable limited editions and artworks. All editions are exclusive to the ICA and signed and
numbered by the artist. Each is part of an innovative series with all proceeds supporting the ICA programme. ICA
Members receive a 25% discount. Recent collaborations include Pawel Althamer, Cory Arcangel, Lutz Bacher,
Neïl Beloufa, Judith Bernstein, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Ryan Gander, Haroon Mirza, David Ostrowski, Viviane
Sassen, Hito Steyerl, Juergen Teller and Imran Qureshi to name a few. Future editions are planned with artists
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Betty Woodman, Guan Xiao, James Richards and a very special selection of artists for the ICA 70 Anniversary
editions.
In 1978 Sir Peter Blake, along with Patrick Caulfield and Allen Jones each designed bomber jackets (pictured
above) to be sold to raise funds for the ICA. Made of brightly coloured polyethylene, and selling in 1978 for £6
each, these jackets were designed during the height of throwaway pop fashion. The back is emblazoned on the
back with the words ‘THE I.C.A LIKES ART,’ and its sleeves bear the names of artists, from The Beatles to
Joseph Cornell. The ICA is delighted to relaunch original Art Jaks editions after 37 years and they will be
available for sale for £70 each just before Christmas. For more information please contact Ruta Radusyte:
editions@ica.org.uk, 020 7766 1425 / ica.org.uk/shop/editions
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Image credit: Art Jaks. Photo: Mark Blower.
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