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With it’s faith in creativity and a belief in the achingly new, the ICA is one of the world's most innovative and influential art institutions championing contemporary artists. Three galleries, two cinemas, a theatre for live music and performance events, an extensive talks programme, a late night bar, café, and free wifi makes for a thrilling cultural offering.
Mother
This darkly comic film from South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho is a wickedly twisted tale about what can happen when a mother’s love for her son goes too far.
Dir Bong Joon-Ho, 2009, South Korea, 129 mins, cert 15.
Wednesday 8 Sep, 18.00 and 20.00 ; 29 Aug @ 18.45
Thursday 9 Sep, 18.00 and 20.00 ; 29 Aug @ 18.45
Cost: £9 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Perestroika
Director Sarah Turner's autobiographical documentary is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. First shot in 1988 and then again in 2008, the film boasts stunning imagery from the window of the Trans-Siberian train and culminates at the haunting expanse of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world.
Wednesday 8 Sep, 19.30 / (Sep 1st @ 19.45)
Thursday 9 Sep, 19.30 / (Sep 1st @ 19.45)
Friday 10 Sep, 19.30 / (Sep 1st @ 19.45)
Saturday 11 Sep, 19.30 / (Sep 1st @ 19.45)
Wednesday 15 Sep, 19.30 / (Sep 1st @ 19.45)
Thursday 16 Sep, 19.30 / (Sep 1st @ 19.45)
Cost: £9 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Chto delat? (What is to be done?) - The Urgent Need to Struggle
This autumn, the ICA presents the first major project in the UK by Russian collective Chto delat? (What is to be done?). Showing until 24th October 2010.
Thursday 9 Sep, Weds - Sun until 19.00 / Thurs until 21.00
Cost: Free
Metropolis – Restored and Reconstructed
Having been butchered not long after its initial release in 1927, Fritz Lang’s science-fiction epic now returns looking much like it did when first presented more than 80 years ago.
Friday 10 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Saturday 11 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Sunday 12 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Thursday 16 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Friday 17 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Saturday 18 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Sunday 19 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Thursday 23 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Friday 24 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Saturday 25 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Sunday 26 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Thursday 30 Sep, Showing @ 18.30 or 20.45 (check ICA website for exact times)
Cost: £9 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
The Factory of Found Clothes
The Factory of Found Clothes (Fabrika Nadyonii Odezhdii in Russian, or FNO) are Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya and Olga Egorova, respectively known as Gluklya and Tsaplya, both members of the collective Chto delat?. Founded in 1995 in St Petersburg, FNO have used installation, performance, video, text and ’social research’ to develop an operational logic of ‘fragility’.
Friday 10 Sep, 20.00
Cost: Free. Booking required. Please call the Box Office on 020 7930 3647 to reserve your tickets.
Make Film Politically
During the course of the Chto delat? exhibition the ICA cinema hosts a weekly screening event addressing filmmaking which exists at the intersection between art, and social and political activism.
Wednesday 15 Sep, 20.45
Wednesday 22 Sep, 20.45
Wednesday 29 Sep, 20.45
Cost: Free. Call 020 7930 3647 to book
The Like
With a new album produced by Mark Ronson and friends, this all female Los Angeles outfit are reminiscent of 60s outfits such as The Animals and Shangri-Las infused with their own edgy, clear-eyed romanticism.
Wednesday 15 Sep, 19.00
Cost: £11 + £1.20 booking fee per ticket in advance
Bernhard Schlink: National Guilt
In his latest book, Guilt About the Past, acclaimed German writer Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and the long shadow of past guilt both as a uniquely German experience and as a global one.
Thursday 16 Sep, 18.45
Cost: £12 / £11 Concessions / £10 ICA Members.
Seefeel + Supports + DJs
Seminal band Seefeel return to the UK with their first new material for nearly 14 years and a special one-off headline show at the ICA.
Thursday 16 Sep, 19.00
Cost: £15 + £1.20 booking fee per ticket in advance
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Thierry Guetta as he attempts to get to the bottom of the Banksy myth, only to end up becoming an artist in his own right.
Friday 17 Sep, 17th Sep @19.45 / 19th Sep @19.00
Sunday 19 Sep, 17th Sep @19.45 / 19th Sep @19.00
Cost: £9 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Serena Maneesh + Exit Calm + Tripwires
The first night the Reverence #3 series features the sonic assault of Oslo's Serena Maneesh, whose recent album on 4AD rightly received many excellent reviews. Support comes from the epic and intense sounds of Exit Calm, hailed by many as the most exciting band to emerge from Sheffield in many years and Tripwires, from Reading and reminiscent of the early days of both Ride and Catherine Wheel.
Friday 17 Sep, 19.00
Cost: £10 + £1.20 booking fee per ticket in advance
Martin Creed: Works
Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed discusses his work and signs copies of his new book. Known for his straightforward approach to making art and his deft economy of means, Creed has produced sculptures, installations, drawings, films, performances, music and text. His work is simultaneously subtle and spectacular, austere and playful.
Wednesday 22 Sep, 18.45
Cost: £12 / £11 Concessions / £10 ICA Members
Public Art Private Money
Where should the arts look for funding in an era of austerity? A panel of speakers discuss the future of arts funding including Alex Beard (Deputy Director of Tate), John Woodward (Chief Executive Officer of the UKFC), Colin Tweedy (Chief Executive of Arts & Business) and Marcus Romer (writer, director, actor, currently the artistic director of Pilot Theatre, York Theatre Royal).
Thursday 23 Sep, 19.30
Cost: £12 / £11 Concessions / £10 ICA Members.
The Cool School
A documentary following the formation of America’s West Coast art scene and focussing on a loose band of idealistic beatniks who became a coterie of competitive, often brilliant artists, amongst them Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha and Robert Irwin.
Thursday 23 Sep, 19.45
Cost: £9 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Louise Bourgeois: the Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
An expansive documentary that attempts to ‘read between the lines’ of the late sculptor and multimedia artist’s own words in order to get to the heart of her beautiful, bold and often mysterious work.
Friday 24 Sep, 19.30
Saturday 25 Sep, 19.30
Cost: £9 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
Chuck Close
A detailed and exciting look at the life and work of a man who has reinvented portraiture. Director Cajori captures Close at work and in conversation, and gives us further contributions from Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Alex Katz and more.rnDir Marion Cajori, US 2007, 117 mins
Wednesday 29 Sep, 19.30
Cost: £9 / £8 Concessions / £7 ICA Members
