Live Weekends: Against Gravity
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s notion that ‘lightness is a value, rather than a defect’, the Against Gravity Live Weekend at the ICA invites audiences to explore contemporary art face to face. Immerse yourself in Davide Savorani’s performance and Matthew Stone’s multimedia live art performance, explore Conrad Ventaur’s installation, watch intimate film screenings and premieres, submerge yourself into the landscapes of HTRK and more.
Conceived by the talented young curator Catherine Borra, this lively and immersive weekend is generous with experience and emotion, challenging the constraints of creatives to ‘represent their own time’.
Against Gravity demonstrates the ICA’s continued dedication to promoting emerging artists, artists’ film and future generations of creative minds.
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Laure Prouvost: Charlie
26 November 2010
In contrast to Prouvost’s sensuous work in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010, Charlie is a light, fresh and ironic short video composed around her grandfather.
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Matthew Stone: Anatomy of Immaterial Worlds
26 November 2010
Sharpen your senses with an immersive theatrical experience. Part cathartic spectacle and part sensory-deprivation, Matthew Stone’s dream-like performance involves a hypnotic musical score, dance, opera and computer-generated video.
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Ruth Beale: Art for Virtue’s Sake
26 November 2010
This performative lecture provocatively explores the relationship between culture and governance, education and emancipation throughout the twentieth century.
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Francesco Pedraglio: Something I Haven't Seen and Yet I Still Remember
27 November 2010
An event in which, through a selection of texts and visual material, he tries to evoke the influence of never-experienced memories on imagining the existence of abstract sculptures.
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David Ferrando Giraut: Journeys End in Lovers Meetings
27 November 2010
UK premiere of David Ferrando Giraut's new work which considers adolescent love, the undead, and the idea of cinema as the ruin of a past which emerges in the present
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Launch of Monaco Magazine 2
28 November 2010
Launching its second edition, Monaco Magazine is a publication, a website and a programme of events. Instead of reviewing or previewing, the magazine is devoted to sharing ideas and information about things that haven’t happened, and maybe never will.
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Davide Savorani: And Guests
28 November 2010
Italian artist Davide Savorani has a strong background in performance as well as working for Italy’s most significant groups of experimental theatre.
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Conrad Ventur: Will to Power
28 November 2010
A kaleidoscopic installation by Conrad Ventur created from filmed performance footage of iconic artists as Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Bassey.
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Jason Underhill: Universal City
28 November 2010
Partly filmed in Jim Morrison’s house in LA, Universal City contains fragments of Californian suburban teenage life interspersed with dark cultural phenomenon.