ICA Infrequencies

A recording from 2015's 'Symposium: Bureaucracy' with Mark Fisher, David Graeber and Jeremy Gilbert. archive.ica.art/whats-on/symposium-bureaucracy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode was recorded in early July 2023 and features a discussion between Twayna Mayne and a group of sixth form students from one of nearby secondary schools. Before the recording we went for a short walk together, bits of which you’ll hear throughout, and explored some of the environment local to the ICA. Along the way we talked about the ICA’s location on the Mall, the history of the build...

In this short episode you’ll hear the ambient sounds of the Mall, the street that is home to both the ICA and Buckingham Palace, recorded two days before the Coronation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet, playwright and the ICA’s former poet-in-residence. In this episode he is joined by Twayna Mayne to discuss his research project: The New Carthaginians and the links he makes in it between the Entebbe hijacking, Icarus and the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Artists Lorenza Peragine and Ivana Sehic talk about their project ‘I do this everyday: pass it on’, which encompassed a 30-min public performance with video projection on the streets of Shoreditch, London, and a 4-hour workshop at the ICA in December 2022.  The artists begin by discussing the concepts behind the project: the ‘production of space’ and our response to instrutctions present in a...

Artist and writer Aria Dean discusses her recent work and the thinking behind her current exhibition at the ICA Aria Dean: Abattoir . The exhibition, which includes an immersive film installation and new sculptural presentation, builds on the artist’s ongoing research into agricultural and industrial architecture, specifically the intimate connection between modernity and death on conceptual, poli...

Moki Cherry’s family discusses collaging as working class art, the wisdom of children, and how family life and artmaking are part of the same practice. With Neneh Cherry, Naima Karlsson, Tyson McVey, Linder Sterling and Hettie Judah. Exhibition curated by Naima Karlsson and Nicola Leong Event programmed by Susanna Davies-Crook and Nicola Leong Recorded by Cheyanne Mccormack Edited by Justin Tam Ho...

Swindle has come far from his days experimenting with grime, funk and dubstep, but he still carries the craft of a jazz musician. In this conversation with Nicolas-Tyrell Scott, from the Town Hall conversations, Swindle talks about how he wrote a track with Kojey Radical, seeing more grime on mainstream TV, the different methods in writing for TV in Candice Carty-Williams' show Champion, and how h...

Yvonne Rainer and film research Oliver Fuke have a conversation to open a season at the ICA celebrating the dancer and choreographer's body of film work. She reflects many years back on how she experimented with form between filmmaking and dancing, on being accused of not caring about the audience, and on how she'd never change anything about her films. Yvonne Rainer: A Retrospective 17 - 27 Augus...

This episode was picked and edited by Amrit Sanghera, one of the ICA’s Public Advisors. What happens when powerful black women use their positionality to push their identity as cultural product or representational symbol, and how useful this is for the interests of working class Black women? Momtaza Mehri explores the slipperiness of female power, agency and identification. She touches on the plea...

Part 3. Discussions from filmmakers responding to what Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism idea and how they use it in their practice. ‘Being a black woman in the world means a lot is expected and asked of you… the place I can set my strongest boundaries is in the digital realm’ ‘Apps like Natural Cycle where suddenly we’re using technology to liberate our bodies from traditional medicine and that in...

Part 2. Both Subrin and Syms create narrative works about how women are presented and documented through film and social media. A Woman, a Part , dir. Elisabeth Subrin, USA 2017 (starts at 17 sec.) ‘I was thinking a lot about performance and what it requires within capitalism to be a person in an economy where you have to perform to survive… I don’t think one can be completely authentic and actual...

In 2018, the ICA premiered Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical film What Is Democracy?, which spans millennia and continents to deliver an analysis of democracy on a collision course with capitalism. From ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-government and capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy, to contemporary Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee cris...

Content warning: This conversation talks about eating disorders in detail (between 12' – 20'20"). Rapper Che Lingo discusses community, putting the message before the music and how anime shapes his sound, as part of the Town Hall with writer Nicolas Tyrell-Scott. The Town Hall invites radical purveyors of art for a conversation, to discuss their art, journey, and process illuminating the intersect...

3-part series on women directors. Three women filmmakers craft stories about migration, survival and community – as Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Nigerians under a military patriarchy, and Mexicans in LA. Fadia’s Tree , dir. Sarah Beddington (starts at 7 min. 21 sec.)   ‘The trajectory of the birds seemed to be able to reconnect people and place that had been separated and fragmented.’&nbs...

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'Fragments From Heaven' director Adnane Baraka speaks with Abiba Coulibaly (of Opensources, a film exhibition project) about the identity of Moroccan cinema, filmmaking as a synthesis, and being guided by nomad communities in the deserts of Morocco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Technologist Chelsea Manning is in conversation with artist and writer James Bridle, discussing the rise of artificial intelligence and the role of AI in public policy, the state of the data economy, and the issues faced by transgender people today. This was recorded at the Royal Institution on Monday 1 October 2018. For more conversations and performances from the ICA programme visit ica.art Host...

This year marks the 2nd anniversary of the military coup that shook Myanmar in February 2021.This conversation was recorded after the screening of Myanmar Diaries at the ICA in London, between Nicolas Raffin, Managing Curator of Cinema at the ICA, and a member of the anonymous Myanmar Film Collective. Their work combines short films and powerful investigative journalism into a stirring and viscera...

As part of an 'introspective' of 50 years of work, filmmaker John Smith is joined in conversation by director Carol Morley following a screening of five of his most radical and influential films: 'Om', 'The Black Tower', 'Dungeness', 'Gargantuan' and 'Slow Glass'. Sound recordist: Nichola Farnan Podcast introduction: Nicolas Raffin Editor: Justin Tam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Stream 'A Night of Knowing Nothing' on the ICA website ica.art/digital/ cinema-3 Payal Kapadia’s award-winning immersive work addresses the political complexities of contemporary India. This conversation was recorded during the opening night screening for FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2021. Conversation: Nico Marzano Podcast introduction: Nicolas Raffin Editor: Justin Tam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

Curator Introduction: Nicolas Raffin Editor: Justin Tam Sound Recordist: Edwin Van Boven Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Commissioned by the ICA, Hold Hold Fire (2019) is inspired by Olivia Plender’s ongoing research into the East London Federation of Suffragettes, and was produced after an extensive series of workshops with women’s groups across London exploring the women’s suffrage movement from contemporary feminist perspectives. The discussion took place after the screening, with Olivia Plender and academics Jan...

Host: Nico Marzano Curator Introduction: Nicolas Raffin Live Translator: Chiara Marañón Additional Translator: Nicole Davenport Editor: Justin Tam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two of the Tottenham Three share their story, in their own words, on how they came to be charged, convicted and later, find justice in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history. This conversation took part in 2021 during the exhibition War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights, in a series of talks that revisited the female-led grassroots community around...