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An immersive night of ritual, music and metamorphosis to launch EPOCH issue 2 with Panjabi Hit Squad, Yohan Kebede, James Massiah, Hannah Catherine Jones, Bones Tan Jones, Ben Pitcher, Mehrnoosh Khadivi.
Inspired by the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain on October 31. Expect live music, DJs, multisensory performance, conversation, film, poetry and dancing. A ceremonial celebratory take on All Hallows Eve with free Halloween cocktails.
EPOCH is a new publication from Creative Director Leonard Vernhet and Editor in Chief Francesca Gavin and look at the now in dialogue with history.
19.00 ICA opens
19.30 Theatre Doors Open
A soundscape knitting the night together from Dr Hannah Catherine Jones aka Foxy Moron (NTS) playing everything from opera to body altering frequencies
19:45 A mind-blowing, multisensory performance ritual from scent researcher Mehrnoosh Khadivi, sitting somewhere between movement and our noses. Please note - this 10 minute performance is limited capacity first come first served.
19:55 A film intervention by EPOCH
20:15 A panel conversation about ritual, excess and contemporary culture with artist Bones Tan Jones, broadcaster writer Ben Pitcher, artist, musician, composer, conductor and performer Hannah Catherine Jones and EPOCH Editor in Chief Francesca Gavin, led by the ICA’s Susanna Davies-Crook.
21.00 Intermission
21.20 Live poetry set drawing on sexuality, mortality and philosophy from South London’s iconic James Massiah
21.55 A film intervention by EPOCH
22:00 A live music set from keyboardist and composer Yohan Kebede (KOKOROKO, Church of Sound) fusing jazz, hip hop and alternative RnB.
23.00 - 0100 A two hour DJ set from iconic British Asian DJs Punjabi hit squad for a hedonistic finish.
ICA x EPOCH Samhain marks the launch of issue two of EPOCH Review which is themed around the idea of metamorphosis and features interviews and visual projects from Arthur Jafa, Sampha, Harley Weir, Liz Johnson Artur, Elizabeth Peyton, Tyler Mitchell, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Adam Curtis, Cali Thornhill Dewitt, Alessio Bolzoni and more. The aim of the issue is to highlight the infinite possibilities opened up by transformation. EPOCH is a new publication from Creative Director Leonard Vernhet and Editor in Chief Francesca Gavin and aims to develop new narratives for the present by looking at and connections with the past, drawing on archaeology, anthropology, visual art, fashion, technology, cultural studies, science, geology, music, language and sociology.
07:30 pm
Tue, 31 Oct 2023
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