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Talks & Learning
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Current Programme
echoes, feelings and meanings
3 September 2021 – 3 September 2022
A collection of newly commissioned audio/visual works exploring ‘the archive’ as personal, familial, and cultural; as past, present and future-oriented.
Sistrens in the Struggle: Black Women in Britain – a Symposium
Sat, 23 October
This half-day symposium features the voices of activists, academics and artists reflecting on Black feminist/womanist traditions, the legacies of creative and political practices since the 1970s to contextualize and resist our 21st century realities. 
Ear Worms
Fri, 1 October
A fortnightly listening circle/write-in, and a collaboration between the ICA Bookstore and Worms Magazine.
Members’ Tour of War Inna Babylon:
The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights
Tue, 21 September
Exclusive guided tour led by the exhibition curators Stafford Scott, Kamara Scott and Rianna Jade Parker.
Ultraviolence + Lawful Killing + Q&As
Sun, 19 September
Screenings of documentaries Lawful Killing and Ultraviolence, followed by Q&As with directors Jaimie D’Cruz and Ken Fero. Introduced by War Inna Babylon co-curator Stafford Scott.
Cinema 3
Paul B. Preciado with Jack Halberstam
1 June 2021 – 21 December 2026
Philosopher and writer Paul B. Preciado discusses agency, gender, dissent and subjectivity with queer theorist Jack Halberstam.
Cinema 3
Carceral Aesthetics
12 April 2021 – 12 April 2026
A captioned audio recording of artist and writer Sable Elyse Smith and author Nicole R. Fleetwood as they discuss their research into the carceral, the personal and the political.
Cinema 3
Staying with the Violence: Womb Work and Family Abolition
15 February 2021 – 15 February 2026
Captioned audio of writer Sophie Lewis' lecture drawing on theories of surrogacy, gestational justice and family abolition, followed by a discussion with poet Anne Boyer.