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What’s coming up at GLUE Book Fair next weekend? 📚 Alongside the free book fair, join us for insightful conversations ex...
05/09/2026

What’s coming up at GLUE Book Fair next weekend? 📚 Alongside the free book fair, join us for insightful conversations exploring contemporary publishing.

📖 What’s next for photobook publishing? Gem Fletcher, Gabby Laurent and Campbell Addy discuss new approaches to photobook making, publishing and distribution.

🗣️ Jesse Glazzard in conversation with Biogal & Hannah Geddes exploring friendship, community and the relationships that shape artistic practice.

📰 S**T Press, HELA Press & Tummy Ache with Flora Gau: a conversation on independent publishing, taste, visibility and who gets to shape the zeitgeist.

💸 Free entry to the book fair
🎟️ £5 for talks, performances and workshops
🔗 Limited tickets: rb.gy/f0qhcg

Beginning next weekend: a landmark programme of Howard Brookner’s restored and rediscovered films 🎞️ 11 – 13 SeptemberFe...
05/09/2026

Beginning next weekend: a landmark programme of Howard Brookner’s restored and rediscovered films 🎞️ 11 – 13 September

Featuring NOVA ’78 – a UK premiere drawing on never-before-seen footage from the 1978 Nova Convention – alongside Burroughs: The Movie, Robert Wilson and the CIVIL warS and Uncle Howard. A remarkable journey through downtown New York, the avant-garde and q***r cultural history.

📍 ICA Cinema
🎟️ Tickets going fast: rb.gy/v0dw3d

Final chance to see Elisa Giardina Papa’s She Flickered In and Out of History 🌋 Closing tomorrow at 8pmIn 1831, an under...
05/09/2026

Final chance to see Elisa Giardina Papa’s She Flickered In and Out of History 🌋 Closing tomorrow at 8pm

In 1831, an underwater volcanic eruption gave rise to a new landform between Tunisia and Sicily, sparking a sovereignty dispute among European powers before disappearing beneath the surface six months later.

Through a video work and glass installations, the exhibition explores the geological, mythological and political histories of the Mediterranean through the historical and speculative story of an island that refused to be captured.

💙 £4 Under 25
🔗 Book online or buy on the door

Images: Elisa Giardina Papa, A Naked-Eye Blue: Cotisso, 2026; Elisa Giardina Papa, She Flickered In and Out of History, 2026; Elisa Giardina Papa, A Naked-Eye Blue: Cotisso [detail], 2026. Installation view at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2026. Photograph © Rob Harris.

Visible Justice, ICA Research Collective in Residence, continues its enquiry into the body as a site of injury and resis...
04/09/2026

Visible Justice, ICA Research Collective in Residence, continues its enquiry into the body as a site of injury and resistance with a special screening of The Battle of Algiers (1966), introduced by a conversation between art historian Taous Dahmani and film scholar Luca Peretti.

At 60, the film remains a visceral testament to revolutionary resistance, guerrilla warfare and state violence – and to the political force of cinema.

🗓 Wed 16 Sep, 6:30pm
🎟 Limited tickets: rb.gy/bcvv8w

Experience the best in new films, series and immersive storytelling at the 70th BFI London Film Festival, taking place 7...
04/09/2026

Experience the best in new films, series and immersive storytelling at the 70th BFI London Film Festival, taking place 7 – 18 October 🎬

Celebrating its 70th year, LFF brings together bold new voices, exciting discoveries and unforgettable stories from around the world.

🎟️ Discover the ICA programme and book your tickets: rb.gy/aiczr0

Just announced: Dis Fig + Microplastics live at the ICA for a special double bill – 9 December 🖤Known for intensely phys...
04/09/2026

Just announced: Dis Fig + Microplastics live at the ICA for a special double bill – 9 December 🖤

Known for intensely physical live performances, Dis Fig uses her acrobatic voice and full body to explore emotional complexity beyond language – from overwhelming walls of sound to barely audible whispers, inviting collective catharsis.

Microplastics, featuring 96 Back, aya and Jennifer Walton, is a new live band born from Sunday afternoon Bangface chalet sh*tchat. Having mutated from Raucous DJ Troupe to Clandestine Production Powerhouse, it now resides firmly in the territory of Rock Band.

🎫 Tickets on sale now: rb.gy/j48wf8

50 years ago today, on 3 September 1976, Throbbing Gristle – Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (...
03/09/2026

50 years ago today, on 3 September 1976, Throbbing Gristle – Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950–2020) and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (1955–2010) – activated⚡️

To mark the anniversary, the ICA and Mute Records present TG50 on 18 October: a day of films, talks and music bringing together Throbbing Gristle fans to share memories, stories and reflections on the band and the enduring impact of their work. The date also marks 50 years since TG’s incendiary live performance at the ICA, staged as part of their infamous Prostitution exhibition.

More of the programme will be announced soon. Tickets are now live for a talk with Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti, moderated by The Quietus' Luke Turner.

📅 18 October, all day
🎫 Free entry. Separate tickets apply for limited-capacity cinema screenings and talks.
📌 Find out more: rb.gy/6dm7g7

Closing this Sunday ⏳ Just a few days left to see Elisa Giardina Papa’s She Flickered In and Out of History Exploring t...
03/09/2026

Closing this Sunday ⏳ Just a few days left to see Elisa Giardina Papa’s She Flickered In and Out of History

Exploring the geological, mythological and political temporalities of the Mediterranean, the exhibition traces the historical and speculative story of an island that refused to be annexed.

Following ‘U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale’ (2022), premiered at the 59th Venice Biennale, this new body of work forms part of Giardina Papa’s () ongoing trilogy of video installations exploring forgotten Mediterranean histories – and the forms of knowledge and desire that have been lost or neglected.

📍 On view until 6 September
🎟️ Book online or purchase tickets at the door

Images: 1 Christa Holka; 3 Elisa Giardina Papa, A Naked-Eye Blue: A Naked-Eye Blue: Linguacce, 2026. Installation view at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2026. Photograph © Rob Harris; 4 Elisa Giardina Papa, She Flickered In and Out of History, 2026. Installation view at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2026. Photograph © Rob Harris.

What’s on at the ICA this September 🍂📚 GLUE Book Fair returns for a weekend of talks, workshops, exhibitions and more, w...
02/09/2026

What’s on at the ICA this September 🍂

📚 GLUE Book Fair returns for a weekend of talks, workshops, exhibitions and more, with Jesse Glazzard’s The Sound of Dirt and Beauty, plus conversations with Gem Fletcher, American Artist, Jonas Patrick Marvin and more.

🎈Catch the final days of Elisa Giardina Papa’s immersive She Flickered In and Out of History, before Autumn Knight opens on 29 Sep with a newly commissioned installation and performance about the act of complaining.

🎬 In the cinema: Off-Circuit continues with the UK premiere of Pin de Fartie and The Seasons. Also coming up: a landmark celebration of Howard Brookner, a Claude Chabrol retrospective, Juliet Binoche in conversation for the UK premiere of In-I Motion, and the return of the Hong Kong Film Festival.

🔊 On stage: Loraine James headlines with a live drummer, GHOSTWOMAN, Destroyer and Klein. Berlin’s CTM Festival returns for two nights of leftfield electronic sound, featuring Tyondai Braxton, Rian Treanor with Rotherham Sight and Sound, Cyst, Alpha Maid and Europa.

See you there 👋

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