Nought to Sixty presents sixty projects by emerging artists based in Britain and Ireland over six months from 5 May to 2 November 2008.
Most of the artists in Nought to Sixty are under thirty-five, few of them have had significant commercial exposure, and in most cases this is their first opportunity to mount a solo project in a major public space.
The season is not intended to announce any new generation or style, but to build up a multifaceted portrait of the emerging art scene in the two countries, and to provide a space for exchange.
The Nought to Sixty programme consists of:
Events happen at the ICA every Monday night:
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MacKinven's humour satirises the value systems of the art world, whilst wryly deflecting to a more corporeal practice of involuntary evaluation.
Harahan's work uses video footage of the urban environment, its incidental detail and fugitive nature.
Campbell's work demonstrates an investigation into the voice's connection to the body.
Ghazi invokes the shifting territory of selfhood, and the borderline areas of public imagery that are at once superficial and politicised.
Coleman and Hogarth work collaboratively, placing emphasis on the participatory and performative aspects of art practice.
Canell and Watkins have made a new gallery-specific installation, bringing together a number of recent works to form a sculptural whole.
Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky and Nina Manandhar have collaborated on a series of varied and hybrid collaborative activities since 2002.
Darbyshire gives the ICA's public spaces the coloured lighting schemes of other public, retail and corporate spaces from across London.
A gazetteer of activities and resources within the emerging art scenes in Britain and Ireland. Self-organised activities are increasingly called upon to define a territory distinct from that of 'progressive' commercial galleries and regularly-funded institutions.
The difficult double role of being a thorn in the side of the establishment while being a clearly identified institution has continued to define the ICA.
Arts research and publishing organisation Afterall lead a discussion on independent publishing and critical discourse.
