Live Weekends: Shunt
Join us for five days of non-stop live art, performance, music, films, installation, workshops, theatre and parties.
Building upon three years of vibrant and exciting programming at their former home, the Shunt Vaults, members of the Shunt collective invite artists to animate the ICA's ground floor with a fun fair of events, from tattoo parlours to pheasants, sewing machine races to passionate love bullets.
All free - just turn up and join in the party.
→ Shunt
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It was so raw. It was so raw.
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
A video installation by Shunt associate artist Susanne Dietz with sound by Neil Saffer
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Last Breath
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
A haunting performance and installation of stuffed pheasants and eerie sounds.
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Mandado
23 February 2011 - 26 February 2011
Mandado is a site-specific and physical theatre intervention exploring notions of evil and its absurdity through the guises of businessmen, political candidates and occult leaders.
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The Ordinary Adventures Arcade
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
Two sewing machines take on the role of street racers and city landscape in this fast-paced two player game.
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London Walls
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
New graffiti and street art photography from six of London's best photographers documenting the ephemeral graffiti and street art that constantly ebbs and flows across London's streets, rooftops and tracksides.
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Dumb Dog Why Are You Following Me
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
A vibrant and original adaptation of the Thomas Meehan musical Annie minus the songs and the dancing.
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I’m Talking
23 February 2011 - 25 February 2011
Listen to the headphones, hear the shadows speak and learn about their story. There are two screens, each hiding a reader who speaks to us. There is a man, a woman, and a story with more than one perspective.
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Boisei Baby
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
A prehistoric infant lies helplessly in a hospital incubator as 21st century technology monitors his vital signs.
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Spillage Containment
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
The People Pile present a series of popping-ups and drink sharing in the ICA Bar. Keep your eyes peeled for performers amidst the crowds.
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1999 at the ICA. From the Shunt Archive: Item 382
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
A rare opportunity to see the video of a performance Hedwig & Stoller by Hannah Ringham and David Rosenberg, performed as part of the Nerve festival, filmed on Hi-8 video in 1999.
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Body Considering its Pains
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
Have no fear, place you head in this interactive installation and hear the inner voice as it talks incessantly to itself.
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Eye Constellations
23 February 2011 - 26 February 2011
Book an eye test at the opticians observatory, create your own telescopic eyewear, chart a constellation then star gaze until your new lenses fall out clearer, or more blurred.
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Works
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
A set of oil paintings riffles through the viewers psyche, searching for deep seated imbalance upon which to teeter.
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Stationary Excess (Sometimes I Think I Am Helping But Really I'm Just Making Things Worse)
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
Imprisoned on an exercise bicycle, a lone woman tells the story of an extraordinary man.
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Jonah non grata
23 February 2011 - 26 February 2011
An intermittently thrilling biblical adventure in which you are the hero.
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Ark Animalium
23 February 2011 - 26 February 2011
Ark Animalium is a darkly humorous, live-art performance that re-creates an elegiac world filled with mysterious creatures, a biblically-shaped crate and just a few too many Bill Withers tracks - used as alternatives to origin of the species.
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Un-Cuckoo
23 February 2011
Grotesquely merging puppetry and the human body, Un-Cuckoo creates pathways into the labyrinth of the sub-conscious.
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Holding Nothing
23 February 2011 - 26 February 2011
Happening partly in the dark, Bruno Humberto’s new solo explores nothingness in Western philosophy, Eastern mysticism, physics and poetry, all condensed in the absence that lies in between.
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Chorus / in vain I will away
23 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
Chorus / in vain I will away is a project by Birgit Deubner that works with the body in unconventional ways.
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The Art of Time
24 February 2011 - 25 February 2011
A film-essay exploring the problem of time in contemporary culture, with Sylvère Lotringer, Brothers Quay, Chantal Akerman, Alexander Sokurov, Vito Acconci, Paul Morley, Peter Eisenman, Doug Aitken, Stan Douglas and David Claerbout.
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Defrag
24 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
A light-hearted disquisition on memory, loss and artificial intelligence takes a turn into altogether stranger territory.
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External
24 February 2011
External hurls a conversation about originality right out into the open, doing its own head in.
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Action Hero's Live Art Tattoo Parlour
24 February 2011 - 26 February 2011
Select a design that sums up your love of all things live and then commit to ink on skin with your new (semi)permanent Live Art Tattoo.
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Lullaby
25 February 2011 - 26 February 2011
Are you feeling sleepy? Come and have a lie down. A five minute performance with Shunt Artists Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari.
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Generous Illusion
25 February 2011
Nathan Jones's performance is part lecture, part love story, reflecting on the place of poetry in art and fatherhood.
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Frank Chickens
25 February 2011
A performance from this pop cabaret performance group, founded in 1982, who had an independent chart hit with We are Ninja, released five albums, and toured worldwide.
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First and Second Wilderness
26 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
Create a war scene of epic Hollywood proportions on a sandy tabletop battlefield using a tiny spy camera, head torches, obscure plastic props and soldiers, Jean Baudrillard, a one man army and some big televisions.
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BIN (Borrowers International Network)
26 February 2011
Kazuko Hohki and Andy Cox demonstrate Borrowers' music by playing some exquisite reconstructions of Borrowers-size instruments.
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This Headlight Is The Only Hope In The Dark
26 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
Come and join Mamoru Iriguchi's intimate little adventure in the imaginary pitch-black as his temporary lover.
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Is Anybody There?
26 February 2011
Three characters inhabit the stage in front of us and we are both ourselves, something and nothing to them. But for all of us there is a raging battle offstage that is getting louder.
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Bang Bang
26 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
Come shoot Mamoru Iriguchi with passionate love bullets in a video shooting game.
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Every Minute, Always
26 February 2011
From the intimate, low-lit vantage of the cinema seat, the participant is guided into a rich and sonically transporting world of cinematic perspective.
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Still Night
27 February 2011
While it is still night, the audience should stay in their seats. The doors are locked, for safety. There is only a short time in which to take the audience through everything needed to know for re-entry into the world outside.
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Growing Old With You
27 February 2011
Starting this year, and for every 10 years for the rest of their lives, Search Party will create a performance exploring ideas of age, duality and accumulation.