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Photo: Tom Medwell

Live Weekends: Shunt

23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

Join us for five days of non-stop live art, performance, music, films, installation, workshops, theatre and parties. 

Building upon three years of vibrant and exciting programming at their former home, the Shunt Vaults, members of the Shunt collective invite artists to animate the ICA's ground floor with a fun fair of events: from tattoo parlours to pheasants, sewing machine races to passionate love bullets.

All free - just turn up and join in the party

  • Body Considering its Pains

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Have no fear, place you head in this interactive installation and hear the inner voice as it talks incessantly to itself.

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  • Works

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    A set of oil paintings riffles through the viewers psyche, searching for deep seated imbalance upon which to teeter.

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  • 1999 at the ICA. From the Shunt Archive: Item 382

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    A rare opportunity to see the video of a performance Hedwig & Stoller by Hannah Ringham and David Rosenberg, performed as part of the Nerve festival, filmed on Hi-8 video in 1999.

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  • Spillage Containment

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    The People Pile present a series of popping-ups and drink sharing in the ICA Bar. Keep your eyes peeled for performers amidst the crowds.

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  • I’m Talking

    23 Feb 201125 Feb 2011

    Listen to the headphones, hear the shadows speak and learn about their story. There are two screens, each hiding a reader who speaks to us. There is a man, a woman, and a story with more than one perspective.

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  • Boisei Baby

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    A prehistoric infant lies helplessly in a hospital incubator as 21st century technology monitors his vital signs.

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  • Birgit Deubner, Chorus / in vain I will away (1),  2010

    Chorus / in vain I will away

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Chorus / in vain I will away is a project by Birgit Deubner that works with the body in unconventional ways.

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  • Last Breath

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    A haunting performance and installation of stuffed pheasants and eerie sounds.

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  • Short Films

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Projected films on loop all day from 12pm.

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  • London Walls

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    New graffiti and street art photography from six of London's best photographers documenting the ephemeral graffiti and street art that constantly ebbs and flows across London's streets, rooftops and tracksides.

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  • It was so raw. It was so raw.

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    A video installation by Shunt associate artist Susanne Dietz with sound by Neil Saffer

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  • The Prisoner’s Cinema

    The Prisoner’s Cinema

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    An old piano and other instruments come to life with a cacophony of rust and stone, oak and glass, hair and bone towers incandescent. Expect sonic shivers, pelvic quivers and suffocating skittish shadows.

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  • The Dark Room

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    A mysterious and haunting live performance conceived and performed by Madaleine Trigg.

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  • The Ordinary Adventures Arcade

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Two sewing machines take on the role of street racers and city landscape in this fast-paced two player game.

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  • Photo: Jason Wen

    Holding Nothing

    23 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

    Happening partly in the dark, Bruno Humberto’s new solo explores nothingness in Western philosophy, Eastern mysticism, physics and poetry, all condensed in the absence that lies in between.

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  • Stationary Excess (Sometimes I Think I Am Helping But Really I'm Just Making Things Worse)

    Stationary Excess (Sometimes I Think I Am Helping But Really I'm Just Making Things Worse)

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Imprisoned on an exercise bicycle, a lone woman tells the story of an extraordinary man.

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  • Dumb Dog Why Are You Following Me

    23 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    A vibrant and original adaptation of the Thomas Meehan musical Annie minus the songs and the dancing.

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  • Un-Cuckoo

    23 Feb 2011

    Grotesquely merging puppetry and the human body, Un-Cuckoo creates pathways into the labyrinth of the sub-conscious.

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  • Mandado

    Mandado

    23 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

    Mandado is a site-specific and physical theatre intervention exploring notions of evil and its absurdity through the guises of businessmen, political candidates and occult leaders.

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  • Eye Constellations

    Eye Constellations

    23 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

    Book an eye test at the opticians observatory, create your own telescopic eyewear, chart a constellation then star gaze until your new lenses fall out clearer, or more blurred.

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  • Jonah non grata

    23 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

    An intermittently thrilling biblical adventure in which you are the hero.

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  • Willie Singerman

    Willie Singerman

    23 Feb 2011

    Willie Singerman is a singer-songwriter and poet from Glasgow, currently based in London and playing with the Heart Felt Hats.

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  • Ark Animalium

    Ark Animalium

    23 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

    Ark Animalium is a darkly humorous, live-art performance that re-creates an elegiac world filled with mysterious creatures, a biblically-shaped crate and just a few too many Bill Withers tracks - used as alternatives to origin of the species.

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  • Cosmetic Onion Shield

    Cosmetic Onion Shield

    24 Feb 2011

    A live performance of psychedelic electronica from Taishi Nagasaka.

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  • Action Hero's Live Art Tattoo Parlour

    24 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

    Select a design that sums up your love of all things live and then commit to ink on skin with your new (semi)permanent Live Art Tattoo.

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  • Defrag

    24 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    A light-hearted disquisition on memory, loss and artificial intelligence takes a turn into altogether stranger territory.

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  • Gwendolen Chatfield

    Gwendolen Chatfield

    24 Feb 2011

    Gwendolen Chatfield plays the accordion and guitar live, singing a mixture of traditional and folk songs.

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  • External

    24 Feb 2011

    External hurls a conversation about originality right out into the open, doing its own head in.

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  • Russell Swallow

    Russell Swallow

    24 Feb 2011

    Live performance from Russell Swallow whose eclectic sound invokes folk, rock, jazz and pop distilled through open hearted lyrics, powerful arrangements and an emotionally charged delivery.

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  • The Art of Time, Dir Fergus Daly & Katherine Waugh, 2009

    The Art of Time

    24 Feb 201125 Feb 2011

    A film-essay exploring the problem of time in contemporary culture, with Sylvère Lotringer, Brothers Quay, Chantal Akerman, Alexander Sokurov, Vito Acconci, Paul Morley, Peter Eisenman, Doug Aitken, Stan Douglas and David Claerbout.

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  • The One Man Show

    24 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    An actor. An audience. Why are we here?

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  • Photo: Ludovic des Cognets

    Orchestra Elastique

    24 Feb 2011

    Orchestra Elastique is a London-based music improvisation collective, formed during a residency at the Shunt Vaults in April 2010.

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  • Lullaby

    25 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

    Are you feeling sleepy? Come and have a lie down. A five minute performance with Shunt Artists Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari.

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  • Will Kluz

    Will Kluz

    25 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Live music from singer/songwriter Will Kluz. Originally from North Yorkshire, now based in London, his guitar style ranges from blues and rock to melancholic folk and more.

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  • Generous Illusion

    25 Feb 2011

    Nathan Jones's performance is part lecture, part love story, reflecting on the place of poetry in art and fatherhood.

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  • Tom Hickox

    Tom Hickox

    25 Feb 2011

    Tom Hickox is a songwriter of outstanding originality: a chronicler of our times.

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  • Jo Quail

    Jo Quail

    25 Feb 2011

    Jo Quail enchants us with a live performance on her Starfish electric cello.

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  • Kay Elizabeth

    Kay Elizabeth

    25 Feb 2011

    Kay will be performing a concert of her original compositions from from her debut album Disposition.

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  • Frank Chickens

    25 Feb 2011

    A performance from this pop cabaret performance group, founded in 1982, who had an independent chart hit with We are Ninja, released five albums, and toured worldwide.

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  • Adam Ashton

    Adam Ashton

    25 Feb 201126 Feb 2011

    Adam Ashton performs works from his repertoire of original , reversioned and covered 'casio classics'.

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  • BIN (Borrowers International Network)

    26 Feb 2011

    Kazuko Hohki and Andy Cox demonstrate Borrowers' music by playing some exquisite reconstructions of Borrowers-size instruments.

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  • Is Anybody There?

    26 Feb 2011

    Three characters inhabit the stage in front of us and we are both ourselves, something and nothing to them. But for all of us there is a raging battle offstage that is getting louder.

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  • First and Second Wilderness

    26 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Create a war scene of epic Hollywood proportions on a sandy tabletop battlefield using a tiny spy camera, head torches, obscure plastic props and soldiers, Jean Baudrillard, a one man army and some big televisions.

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  • Orlando Seale

    Orlando Seale and The Swell & Eusebius Ensemble

    26 Feb 2011

    Watch Orlando Seale and The Swell swing from from melancholy to Highbury, from intimate to Epping Forest, with the Eusebius Ensemble playing beautiful woodwinds, lush strings, and bold brass.

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  • Photo: Christa Holka

    This Headlight Is The Only Hope In The Dark

    26 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Come and join Mamoru Iriguchi's intimate little adventure in the imaginary pitch-black as his temporary lover.

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  • Kelly Paige

    26 Feb 2011

    Combining pop and country influences, Kelly Page sings and performs her guitar live.

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    Bang Bang

    26 Feb 201127 Feb 2011

    Come shoot Mamoru Iriguchi with passionate love bullets in a video shooting game.

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  • Peter Michaels

    Peter Michaels

    26 Feb 2011

    Peter Michaels' shows blends live loops with traditional fingerstyle guitar.

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  • Every Minute, Always

    26 Feb 2011

    From the intimate, low-lit vantage of the cinema seat, the participant is guided into a rich and sonically transporting world of cinematic perspective.

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  • Still Night

    27 Feb 2011

    While it is still night, the audience should stay in their seats. The doors are locked, for safety. There is only a short time in which to take the audience through everything needed to know for re-entry into the world outside.

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  • Alma Nofear

    Alma Nofear

    27 Feb 2011

    Alma Nofear draws on the delicate contradictions of her cultural migrations—from Lapland to London—to create music of sparse, shambolic power.

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  • Growing Old With You

    27 Feb 2011

    Starting this year, and for every 10 years for the rest of their lives, Search Party will create a performance exploring ideas of age, duality and accumulation.

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When

E.g., 31-07-2021
E.g., 31-07-2021