Category Archives: 2011: set in play

Artist Talk – Bobby Baker, On the Drawing of Breath


Bobby’s illustrated talk explored how painting, breathing and madness led to her remarkable drawings forming a critically acclaimed exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London, touring internationally and eventually becoming a book.

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Matthew Shipp

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A standing-room-only solo piano concert by leading American free-jazz pioneer Matthew Shipp; one of the most respected and influential musicians of his generation.
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Matthew Shipp in Conversation with Philip Clark

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Clark is a music journalist and author, as well as being composer and improviser in his own right, working with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orphy Robinson, Kate Westbrook, Ian Pace and Eddie Prevost. more…

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Practice -Sat 26 Nov 2011


Practice is a platform giving artists and audiences the opportunity to test and see new and innovative contemporary performance and dance in development. more…

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Film – La Regle du Jeu

Wed 23 Nov, 2011 The Rules of the Game La Regle du Jeu  Introduced by Steve Wharton from the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, Renoir’s brilliant social comedy is today hailed as a masterpiece and widely recognised as … more…

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Bryony Kimmings – 7 Day Drunk


From Jackson Pollock to Keith Richards; Oscar Wilde to Charlie Sheen, everyone’s on something, but why? From the Total Theatre Award winning creator of Sex Idiot (seen at ICIA earlier in 2012), came a hilarious and moving one-woman show investigating the historical links between artists and mind-enhancing drugs.
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Kiku Day – Shakuhachi

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Kiku Day specialises in jinashi shakuhachi; a bamboo flute closely associated with Japanese meditative practice. more…

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Artist Talk – Wendy McMurdo in Conversation with Professor Vikki Bell


Wendy McMurdo in conversation with Professor Vikki Bell, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. more…

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bgroup – The lessening of difference


Co-commissioned by ICIA, award-winning choreographer Ben Wright (South East Dance Associate Artist) created his most ambitious work to date for his inspirational and distinctive dance company, bgroup. more…

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Bobby Baker – Mad Gyms & Kitchens


Bobby Premiered Mad Gyms & Kitchens at ICIA. She developed this show out of her own experiences of illness and hard-won recovery. Designed in collaboration with sculptor Charlie Whittuck, an extraordinary set of fantastical ‘recovery’ apparatus delivered surprises galore as well as state-of-the-art technical equipment, all developed with wellbeing in mind. more…

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