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Against Interpretation Club: Courtesy, Lolina, Roomer, Josephine Pryde, Galerina DJs, Hanna Stiegeler
Institute of Contemporary Arts

Goodness × Against Interpretation Club

Courtesy
brings her Against Interpretation Club to the ICA – part group show, part club night – where musicians, DJs, and contemporary artists explore performance, music and sound. 

For this iteration, Against Interpretation Club has commissioned a text written and performed by artist Josephine Pryde who currently lives and works in Berlin. Musician Lolina (fka Inga Copeland) will play a concert as well as the German dream-rock band Roomer. 

Roomer recently released their debut album Leaving It All to Chance, with lead singer song writer Ronja Schößler, and band members Ludwig Wandinger from Caterina Barbieri’s light-years label, and Luka Aron who is currently participating in the La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Musica 2025. 

The performances and concerts are accompanied by DJ sets by Courtesy and a DJ crew assembled by the London based art gallery Galerina. An edition of custom-made fans by German artist Hanna Stiegeler will be sold for the occasion. 

Against Interpretation Club is curated by the Danish artist Courtesy and is an ongoing event series which most recently was held at Schinkel Pavillon and OHM in Berlin. The event at ICA is organised in collaboration with London’s experimental club music promoter Goodness.  

Line up:

Courtesy (DJ) 
Hanna Stiegeler (custom-made fans) 
Josephine Pryde (reading) 
Lolina (LIVE) 
Roomer (LIVE)
Galerina (DJ)

Courtesy is a Danish artist and DJ who lives and works in Berlin. She is best known for her dance music selections across various genres. With a fluid relationship between her work as a DJ, composer, musician and visual artist, Courtesy is interested in making cross-referential connections between sound, image, text, and performance, as seen in her music video work and her sound and choral series Gossip II. Courtesy has exhibited and performed at CCA Berlin, Treize, Den Fri Udstillingsbygning, Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center, k-t z, Arken, and Schinkel Pavillon. As a DJ, Courtesy has toured extensively around the world, and played venues and festivals such as Berghain/Panorama Bar, Tresor, Sonar, Primavera, Club to Club, Atonal, Hamburger Bahnhof, Städel Museum and Sustain-Release. She maintains a residency on NTS Radio and is the founder and artistic director of the interdisciplinary arts platform Against Interpretation Club fka. Kulør, curating epochal music releases, publications and events. She released her sophomore studio album intimate yell in October 2024.

Presented by Goodness.
 
06:30 pm
Sat, 06 Dec 2025
Stage

There will be a paid cloakroom available for this event. Tickets are £2.50 per item and are available to purchase at the box office.

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