The Trouble with Productivity
18:45
£12 / £10 Concessions / £8 ICA Members / £5 ICA Student Members (Call Box Office) / Free to NC 2011 participants (Call Box Office)
Artists, writers and curators today, more than ever, take part in a time-pressured culture of high performance. One is constantly expected to be productive, professional, and to deliver good work. Is this the way we really want to work? How do people working within the arts manage the imbalance between work and life? Can one be productive by being less productive? Are there creative possibilities in exhaustion, failure and laziness? Writer and critic Laura McLean- Ferris, Paul Pieroni, curator of Space, and writer and philosopher Lars Iyer, author of Spurious, discuss the potentials in being less productive.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: Touring Talks
18:00Join curators, artists, critics and other cultural practitioners on a tour through Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: In the Presence. Inspired by the work in the exhibition, each tour offers a unique perspective on emergent art practice and the state of cultural production in the UK today.
1 December - Charlotte Cotton
18:30
Charlotte Cotton is creative director of Media Space (a partnership between the National Media Museum and the Science Museum). Previously, she was curator of photographs at the V&A, head of programming at The Photographers’ Gallery, and head of the Wallis Annenburg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is the author ofThe Photograph as Contemporary Art and founder of Words Without Pictures.
8 December – Kim Noble
18:30
Kim Noble is one half of Perrier Award-winning, BAFTA-nominated experimental art-comedy duo Noble and Silver. His dry, provocative style exposes matters such as death, sexuality, gender and religion, and his multi-disciplined approach has led him to work across theatre, TV, film, and art. His work has ranged from producing a modern day manifesto for the British Library to writing and presenting Channel 4 and BBC programmes.
15 December – Touring Talk with Siobhan Davies
18:30
Siobhan Davies is a dancer and choreographer, born in London, UK. She studied art and then modern dance at the London Contemporary Dance School, and joined the company in 1969, later becoming joint director and resident choreographer. She started her own company in 1981, joined with Ian Spink and Richard Alston to found Second Stride, and launched her own company again in 1988. Her works include Relay (1972), Plainsong (1981), and Wyoming(1988). Among later works are The Art of Touch (1996), Bank (1997), Eighty-Eight (1998), andPlants and Ghosts (2002). In 2006 she toured with a new show, In Plain Clothes. She has twice received the Laurence Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in dance (1993, 1996).
12 January
18:30
Speaker to be confirmed.
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