ICA - LIVE WEEKEND 1

ICA - LIVE WEEKEND 1
PRODUCED BY DAVID GRYN
6 - 9 MAY 2010

Each day will feature artist projects throughout the day and evening:

DAVID BLANDY - Thurs 6 May

TAI SHANI - Fri 7 May

boyleANDshaw -Sat 8 May

BRIAN CATLING, AURA SATZ & TERRY SMITH - Sun 9 May

ICA London - 6-9 May 2010. For the first in a series of three Live
Weekend programmes - David Gryn, director of Artprojx is producing several artist days of live art/expanded theatre/performance related artist's events, screenings and music.

Artprojx will also present films and videos by various artist on the 6 and 9 May in the ICA Theatre:

Ashish Avikunthak – Kalighat Fetish
Shoja Azari – Windows
David Blandy - My Philosophy
Brian Catling & Tony Grisoni – Vanished – A Video Séance & The Cutting
Mark Leckey – Cinema-in-the-Round & Shades of Destructors
Lynne Marsh - Plänterwald,
Jo Mitchell – Concerto for Voice & Machinery II
Damon Packard - The Untitled Star Wars Mocumentary
Francesco Stocchi & Nadine Dogliani - The only good system is a sound system
Matt Stokes – Long After Tonight

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This is an opportunity for artist experimentation, taking risk and trying out the unexpected. Join us.

FREE ENTRY TO ALL EVENTS AND SCREENINGS

http://www.ica.org.uk/
Box office 020 7930 3647

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ARTPROJX
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ARTIST PROJECT DETAILS

DAVID BLANDY - 6 May
Choose your Character
As part of David Gryn's LIve Weekend at the ICA, David Blandy's day, "Choose Your Character" on Thurs 6th May, will celebrate a variety of different fan-behaviours and sub-cultural obsessions that reflect the artist's own passions. Including rooms featuring a Street Fighter IV tournament and Turntablist DJing, alongside a record market and Cosplayers.

Features live music from Infinite Livez, King Cannibal, turntablists DJ Phaze, DJ Shorty, DJ CutWild, g-man and Priority Deluxe, music stalls from Ninja Tunes, Rough Trade, Soul & Dance Exchange and Flashback, hardcore fighting game tournament organisers Neo Empire and cosplayers the Rebel Legion and Heroes Alliance UK.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=111522198884501&ref=ts

TAI SHANI - 7 May
'Screentest: R-R-Rhine Peacetime 82'
Performance: 7:30pm & 9:15pm Main Gallery (30mins)
On a sound stage, an actress is being filmed auditioning for a role in a fictitious film based on a strange, actual sequence of events that took place in West Germany in the hot summer of 1982. Over the course of 25 days in three unrelated, tragic incidents members of the US and UK peacetime army stole tanks and rampaged through various German towns and countryside leaving behind a trail of destruction, ultimately driving themselves over bridges and into trains to their deaths. The actress Maya Lubinsky is auditioning for the role of Katja Riemann, a young woman who gets run over by a tank driven by Private Charles S. Keefer, her boyfriend.

In this expanding screentest which occurs on a fractured timeline, the lives and fictions of Katja Riemann, Maya Lubinsky and Maya’s body double overflow and hemorrhage into each other creating a spiraling narrative told through film, heroines, anti-heroines, animated props, an overbearing narrator and a Neanderthal from a parallel universe. The performance is accompanied by a live score by David J. Smith (Guapo, Stargazers Assistant and Amal Gamal Ensemble)

ICA Theatre Film and Video Screenings selected by Tai Shani
4.30pm: Cartune Xprez
6pm: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm by William Greaves,1968, 75 mins
8pm: Jen Wu – Half Light, 5mins 2009 & Damon Packard – Spacedisco One, 2007, 58min
10pm: Jim Hollands – Here, 2007, 70min (3D glasses will be supplied).
Music: DJ set in Bar from 7pm. Owen Hills (of Wooden Spoon and Dollboy). Kraut and cosmic musics.

boyleANDshaw - 8 May
THE SCUTTLER
boyleANDshaw with David Gothard present The Scuttler in collaboration with Sam Belinfante, Patrick Coyle, Adam James, JocJonJosch, Plastique Fantastique, Harold Offeh, Malin Ståhl, Malachy Orozco, Keeley Forsyth and Max Reinhardt

For the ICA they will be presenting and developing a new durational performance-based work called The Scuttler, collaborating with an array of artists, actors and musicians in an improvised and experimental way to bring to this new work to life throughout the various spaces of the gallery.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=113592848671854&ref=ts

TERRY SMITH - 9 May
The Foundling: DRUNK AND DISORDERLY
The final part in a quartet of performances. The last chapter of the Foundling project Drunk and Disorderly will be workshopped as part of an open rehearsal and performed at the ICA. This forms the last of four distinct parts, which includes Lost and Found (performed at the Tete a Tete Opera festival in London 2008), Hide and Seek, (performed at the The Foundling Museum 2009) and Sticks and Stones (performed at St George’s Church in Venice 2009). The video works include texts by the writer Mel Gooding spoken by the actor Julian Bird. This performance includes Linda Hirst, Miguel Tantos, Oliver Coates and Danny Standing.

AURA SATZ - 9 May
TURNTABLE TABLEAU, a film performance.
Aura Satz performs a talking book ventriloquist act, followed by a live soundtrack to her film on gramophone grooves. The hypnotic footage of spinning sound patterns is accompanied by a spiralling multivocal counterpart, a cornocupia of voices recounting a tale of mourning and technology, a forensic love-story of sorts in which the voices overlap, echo and pre-empt each other. The cinematic stage is animated by a voice-over carousel, a spinning tableau vivant, a canon of voices amplified by horns set on a rotating stage.

BRIAN CATLING - 9 May
Mr Rapehead- a new live performance
Mr Rapehead is new 30 minute work made for the ICA extends his obsessive manipulation of the mysterious and enigmatic atmospheres by interrogating them with threats of violence and humour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8VlTi4nuc

http://davidgryn.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/live-at-the-ica-sunday-9-may-brian-catling-aura-satz-terry-smith-performances/

Thurs 6 May
Midday – 11pm Lower Gallery - David Blandy
7pm – 11pm Theatre & Bar – Artprojx Screenings, David Blandy and Ninja Tune DJ's

Fri 7 May
7.30pm and 9.15pm Lower Gallery – Tai Shani performances x 2
(Get In for performances from midday – 6pm - public access)
Midday – 11pm – Theatre - Tai Shani selected & Artprojx screenings
FREE ENTRY (advance booking required – limited capacity – 150 each performance)

Sat 8 May
Midday – 11pm Lower Gallery – boyleANDshaw
7pm – 11pm – Theatre & Bar – boyleANDshaw selected & Artprojx screenings

Sun 9 May
Midday – 9pm Lower Gallery – Terry Smith performance and rehearsals
4pm – 8pm Theatre – Brian Catling, Aura Satz performances and Artprojx Screenings