http://www.icaphila.org/events/ Calendar of events at ICA Philadelphia. en-US Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EST Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EST http://www.zerodefectdesign.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification For their contribution to First Among Equals, Marginal Utility has organized a series of installations in the exhibition. Using the tools and materials of scenic fabrication and sign making, Daniel Lefcourt's work continually point outwards, towards conventions of exhibition and display. Like the industrial composite wood with which the artworks are made -- Lefcourt's work is at once real and solid, and simultaneously a mere semblance or substitute.]]> As part of their participation in First Among Equals, Machete Group has organized a series of performances that will take place in the exhibition gallery. "Unsearchable" with Daniel Snelson and Mashinka Firunts. Examining citation and erudition, Machete Group member Avi Alpert joins Philadelphia-based artists Danny Snelson and Mashinka Firunts to present an untraceable lecture performance that asks, “what remains beyond the database?”]]> As part of their participation in First Among Equals, Machete Group has organized a series of performances that will take place in the exhibition gallery. "Attention" with Order of the Third Bird. Art and Attention: The Protocols of Practical Aesthesis. An extramural foray by indiscreet members of The Order of the Third Bird, who may be expected to lead interested and suitable participants through peculiar rites of sustained attending on made things. Temporary metempsychosis may occur, but must not become permanent. Space limited.]]> Artist Liam Gillick talks about dogs, Karl Marx as a comic novelist and irresolvable divisions in contemporary art. image: SIK-ISEA Zürich (Philipp Hitz) ]]> As part of their participation in First Among Equals Bodega has organized a series of performances that will take place in the exhibition gallery. In conjunction with First Among Equals with Jen Rosenblit. 'When we eat and drink the way we do it: a lunch n' lecture' Jen Rosenblit lectures on the body, dance, theory, desire and distraction, all the while hosting a delicately curated lunch. We will break bread, we will submerge ourselves into purity and we will put things in our mouths. We will never be so full. image: In Mouth, (2012). Photo: Ian Douglas at New York Live Arts. ]]> The project's title: "Passing the Veil: of tXX XXXXXXX XX XXXXX" is a reference both to the KOL early quasi-Masonic initiation ceremony, where the outer veil was the larger world, and the inner veil the space of solidarity, and Passing the Veil, an entering into the organization; and also the process of passive forgetting and active erasing that characterizes American labor history, so instead of "Passing the Veil: of the Knights of Labor," the title is blacked out or lost, thus: "Passing the Veil: of tXX XXXXXXX XX XXXXX." The intention at the ICA is to create an installation that expands the gesture of the monument and reframes the KOL's potential relevance to the present, asking: how could such history have become lost, and what limits or kindles in the viewer a sense of identification—a possibility of "joining," that activates any popular movement. In the KOL's egalitarian fraternalism, is there a model for the Occupy age?]]> In conjunction with First Among Equals.image: Courtesy of the artist.]]> As part of their participation in First Among Equals, Bodega has organized a series of performances that will take place in the exhibition gallery. In conjunction with First Among Equals with Xavier Cha. Four actors will rhythmically exchange roles of hyperbolic emotion within the artifice of two staged interactions.images: 4 block image as follows from top left to bottom right: Video still from Body Drama, 2011, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Performance with actor and body-mounted video camera; and video color, silent; time variable, looped. Body Drama, 2011, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Performance with actor and body-mounted video camera; and video color, silent; time variable, looped. Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins.Body Drama, 2011, (installation view) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Performance with actor and body-mounted video camera; and video color, silent; time variable, looped. Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins. Video still from Body Drama, 2011, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Performance with actor and body-mounted video camera; and video color, silent; time variable, looped. ]]> For their contribution to First Among Equals, Marginal Utility has organized a series of installations in the exhibition. ]]> As part of their participation in First Among Equals, Bodega has organized a series of performances that will take place in the exhibition gallery. 'Keynotes' We set the criteria to match the fit, the speed, the charisma, the performance and the velocity of style as unsurpassed elegance - a mirror of our time. From this vantage point, you can experience a lifestyle, a kind of joie de vivre, a je ne sais pas or a je ne sais quoi. And we can make a lot of money together.image: Nick Paparone]]> In conjunction with First Among Equals.image: Courtesy of the artist.]]> For their contribution to First Among Equals, Marginal Utility has organized a series of installations in the exhibition. ]]> @International House ($7 Students + Seniors; $9 General Public; Free for ICA and IHouse Members) Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has beenhome for Latin/LBGT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-realist flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens when agroup of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance party (organized by director Wu Tsang and DJs NGUZUNGUZU & Total Freedom) called “Wildness,” which explodes into creativity and conflict. What does “safe space” mean, and who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter, the search for answers to these questions creates coalitions across generations. WILDNESS first premiered at MoMA's Documentary Fortnight and has been screened as an official selection at the SXSW Film Fetsival and as part of the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The screening at International House is organized in conjunction with the ICA exhibition First Among Equals. Director Wu Tsang joins us in person. image: Wu Tsang, WILDNESS, 2012, Silkscreen, glitter, 40 x 27 inches Courtesy the Artist and Clifton Benevento, New York.]]> "Is your leisure time private?" with Wendy Yao, Wu Tsang, and special guests! Leading up to Excursus III, Wendy Yao (Ooga Booga) hosts a series of events. ]]> Please check back soon for more details. ]]> Cruise the freeways with two of L.A.'s most famous ex-pats in the seldom-screened BBC documentaries, Cracked Actor (1974), and Reyner Banham Love Los Angeles (1972) featuring David Bowie. @ INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (3701 Chestnut St.) In collaboration with International House.]]> As part of their participation in First Among Equals, Bodega has organized a series of performances that will take place in the exhibition gallery. Work Ethic is a conversation between two women who work in creative industries in New York City—one an artist and the other in the world of fashion. Set to reverberating bass lines, and in proximity to a string and video that horizontally split the space —they engage in dialogue about profession and economy. Performers: Lee Maida and Anna-Karin LoureiroPhoto: Elizabeth Orr]]>