Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.
17 June 2009 - 23 August 2009
An imaginative and expansive look at text-based art practices from the 1960s to the present day, inspired by the Concrete Poetry, a movement that flowered in the 60s but is now largely forgotten.
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ICA Films on DVD
Belle de Jour & Belle Toujours
Double disc DVD of two complimentary films by Luis Buñuel and Manoel de Oliveira.
Editions
Frances Stark: Conceited girl wants to show she has a seat (after Goya)
Digital pigment and silkscreen print on Somerset Velvet paper, Edition of 100, signed and numbered.
ICA Music Plus
The Experiment podcast
The Experiment: May 2009
It's a month of contrasts at The Experiment in May, as Kevin is joined at the controls by Christos Fanaras for demonic improvisation, circuit bending worms and the improbably-named Christian Science Minotaur.
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Film
Echoes of Home
This wonderful documentary tells you more than you thought you wanted to know about the great Swiss musical tradition of yodeling.
Seasons
New British Cinema
The best new British films you've never seen - urban horrors, rural dramas, psychological thrillers, affairs of the heart and experimental explorations.
Seasons
AIM Week
A week of all-you-can-eat indie goodness of music from a different independent record label each night of the week.
Seasons
The Twisted Genius of Coffin Joe
Catch up with an international cult icon as Jose Mojica Marins brings his Coffin Joe trilogy to a close more than 40 years after he began it.
News
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British Library/ICA digitisation project
The ICA and British Library is collaborating on digitising a series of sound recordings of talks from the 1980s and 1990s. Please get in touch if you think you might have taken part.
DANCESCHOOL
Freeshit-Saltgrit presents...
Morris vs Rave
Two very different dance traditions celebrate an anniversary: Freeshit-Saltgrit investigates.
Blogs
Gemma Tortella's blog
Interview with Charlie Kaufman
I was expecting a rather prickly character (which he was) but had thought the image of the neurotic self-doubting Jewish writer was exaggerated for effect. In reality he was exactly like this
ICA Music blog
Slow Club / Viking Moses / Pete Ingo
"The communal singsong couldn't have better summed up the feel-good vibe of the night."
ICA Music blog
Chad VanGaalen interview
"Chad VanGaalen is unimpressed, although you wouldn't think it to look at him."