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Institute of Contemporary Arts
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The Mall, London
Joined January 2009
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    Graffiti in Hong Kong, which reads: ‘We can’t return to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem.’ Today’s #ICADaily includes Paul B. Preciado, Lynne Tillman, Quantum Natives, NTS + more ica.art/ica-daily
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    ANNOUNCEMENT: WE HAVE A NEW DIRECTOR! In March 2022, @bengiunsal will become the first woman to serve as the ICA's director in 55 years. We're enormously excited that Bengi is joining us at this crucial moment in the ICA's history, on the year of our 75th anniversary. 1/5
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    2020’s BLM movement saw much attention drawn to the global state sanctioned violence that Black communities experience, though the stories of many families on the frontlines often go unheard. This weekend, we have some of the UK’s leading grassroots organisations on our panel.
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    Today (Saturday 21 October) from 12pm – 11pm, the ICA will remain a space for water, toilets and shelter from the rain for those in the area attending demonstrations for Palestine. Find us at The Mall in London / SW1Y 5AH #london #icalondon
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    We’ve unearthed this rare gem of the late Palestinian-American professor Edward Said in conversation with Salman Rushdie at the ICA in 1986. Professor Said launched his book After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, discussing Palestinian identity, exile + the right of return.
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    📣📍 Final days of #WarInnaBabylon saw a record breaking 651 yesterday! This Saturday, the public programme closes with the very beginning… Tottenham Rights & Forensic Architecture present the digital reconstruction of the Killing of Mark Duggan. 🎟 ica.art/learning/totte…
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    📍📢 “Family campaigns differ from political justice campaigns as they are victim-centred and led by families mournful reverberations of deadly police violence in their daily lives.” Join us for Sunday’s screenings of Ultraviolence and Lawful Killing! ica.art/learning/ultra…
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    The documentary 'Blacks Britannica', commissioned by PBS in Boston in 1978, examines racism through the lens of black, working-class Brits including interviews with several black activists. It was banned outright in the UK. Watch: bit.ly/2UtXWU4 ica.art/ica-daily
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    Ten years after the police killing of Mark Duggan and UK wide unrest, #WarInnaBabylon raises the question of state accountability and the process for seeking justice on this weekends programme. 🎟 ica.art/learning Read more from charity INQUEST: inquest.org.uk/learning-from-…
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    Our next exhibition is Decriminalised Futures, a group exhibition that speaks to the multiplicity of sex worker experiences. Led by members of SWARM in partnership with Arika, a UK-based political arts organization.
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    Award-winning anime IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD is a vivid, heartbreaking ode to wartime Japan. Tomorrow 8.30 ica.art/whats-on/corne…
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    “Cinema is being trapped in the dark with an image. Nothing more. The rest is nonsense. There is no theory that can support it.” ICA and Another Gaze Editions @anothergaze announce a major retrospective: ‘Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin: The Cinema of Marguerite Duras’ 18 Jul–25 Aug
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    The ICA is pleased to announce that Wolfgang Tillmans has been elected as the new Chair of the ICA Board of Directors. This marks the ICA’s return to an artist-led board for the first time in over 30 years.