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Against Gravity

Live Weekends: Against Gravity

26 Nov 201028 Nov 2010

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s notion that ‘lightness is a value, rather than a defect’, the Against Gravity Live Weekend at the ICA invites audiences to explore contemporary art face to face. Immerse yourself in Davide Savorani’s performance and Matthew Stone’s multimedia live art performance, explore Conrad Ventaur’s installation, watch intimate film screenings and premieres, submerge yourself into the landscapes of HTRK and more.

Conceived by the talented young curator Catherine Borra, this lively and immersive weekend is generous with experience and emotion, challenging the constraints of creatives to ‘represent their own time’.

Against Gravity demonstrates the ICA’s continued dedication to promoting emerging artists, artists’ film and future generations of creative minds.

  • Live Weekends: Against Gravity

    26 Nov 201028 Nov 2010

    Against Gravity is a programme of performances, screenings and events curated by Catherine Borra ,showcasing some of today’s most promising young artists.

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  • Laure Prouvost, Charlie, 2010

    Laure Prouvost: Charlie

    26 Nov 2010

    In contrast to Prouvost’s sensuous work in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010, Charlie is a light, fresh and ironic short video composed around her grandfather.

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  • Photograph by Ruth Beale

    Ruth Beale: Art for Virtue’s Sake

    26 Nov 2010

    This performative lecture provocatively explores the relationship between culture and governance, education and emancipation throughout the twentieth century.

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  • Matthew Stone: Anatomy of Immaterial Worlds

    26 Nov 2010

    Sharpen your senses with an immersive theatrical experience. Part cathartic spectacle and part sensory-deprivation, Matthew Stone’s dream-like performance involves a hypnotic musical score, dance, opera and computer-generated video.

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  • Live DJ set with Pandora's Jukebox

    26 Nov 2010

    Sample the delights of the more perverse and moody side of dance music with the electronica of Pandora’s Jukebox. This is a beautiful, sometimes surreal and eminently danceable listening experience which makes strange bedfellows of the likes of Philip Glass and Skinny Puppy, Prince and Autechre, Cocteau Twins and Snoop Dog.

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  • David Ferrando Giraut: Journeys End in Lovers Meetings

    27 Nov 2010

    UK premiere of David Ferrando Giraut's new work which considers adolescent love, the undead, and the idea of cinema as the ruin of a past which emerges in the present

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  • Photo by Francesco Pedragllio, Something I haven't seen and yet I still remember

    Francesco Pedraglio: Something I Haven't Seen and Yet I Still Remember

    27 Nov 2010

    An event in which, through a selection of texts and visual material, he tries to evoke the influence of never-experienced memories on imagining the existence of abstract sculptures.

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  • Hate Rock

    HTRK

    27 Nov 2010

    Showcasing songs from their second and as yet unreleased album, the HTRK project enters tech-noir terrain compared to previous slow noise audio landscapes. The music is aminated with a kaleidoscopic installation by Conrad Ventur.

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  • Jason Underhill, Universal City (Production Still), 2010. Photo: Alexis Hudgins

    Jason Underhill: Universal City

    28 Nov 2010

    Partly filmed in Jim Morrison’s house in LA, Universal City contains fragments of Californian suburban teenage life interspersed with dark cultural phenomenon.

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  • Caption: Conrad Ventur

    Conrad Ventur: Will to Power

    28 Nov 2010

    A kaleidoscopic installation by Conrad Ventur created from filmed performance footage of iconic artists as Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Bassey.

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  • Davide Savorani: And Guests

    28 Nov 2010

    Italian artist Davide Savorani has a strong background in performance as well as working for Italy’s most significant groups of experimental theatre.

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  • Monaco Magazine issue two, cover design by Babak Ghazi

    Launch of Monaco Magazine 2

    28 Nov 2010

    Launching its second edition, Monaco Magazine is a publication, a website and a programme of events. Instead of reviewing or previewing, the magazine is devoted to sharing ideas and information about things that haven’t happened, and maybe never will.

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