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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.
Ear Worms
Fri, 5 November
A fortnightly listening circle/write-in, and a collaboration between the ICA Bookstore and Worms Magazine.
Vitalist Aesthetics: ​​
Dean Kenning in Conversation with Lindsay Seers
Sat, 30 October
Dean Kenning and Lindsay Seers are in conversation at the ICA to mark the end of Kenning’s Mark Tanner Sculpture Award exhibition Evolutionary Love at Standpoint Gallery.
The Right to Sex: A Close Reading
23 – 26 October 2021
Sita Balani and Bryony White lead a close reading of Amia Srinivasan’s publication The Right to Sex.
Cinema 3
A Superabundance of Nothing:
Hedva & Staff In Conversation
20 October 2021 – 20 October 2027
Johanna Hedva and Patrick Staff in conversation as they inquire into the relationship between collapse and surrender.
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.