ICA Off-Site: The Old Selfridges Hotel A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now

A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now
ICA Off-Site: The Old Selfridges Hotel

«A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now illustrates a perceived thread of creativity between the post-punk era and the present day - a legacy that underpins London's incredible creative potential in the present.» [PR]

Screening of Kutlug Ataman's 'Lola and Billy the Kid'

Kutlug Ataman's 1999 feature film entitled 'Lola + Bilidikid'.

The film, written and directed by Ataman, was shot in Berlin and deals with the Turkish subculture there, as well as the taboos of gay life, transgender and transvestite men and the concomitant effects on family dynamics. It presages many of the themes further explored in his most famous art works, such as 'Never My Soul', 'Women Who Wear Wigs', 'KUBA' and 'Turkish Delight'.

The film will be introduced by Gregor Muir, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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In sociology, anthropology and cultural studies researchers engage in a systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. One condition is the study of subcultures within a predetermined larger culture, that is, the analysis of a group of people often having beliefs or interests (whether distinct or hidden) at variance with those of the larger. In London we have a diverse ethnic and wealthy world of cultural mix, as the one we can find in China Town or in Little Portugal, through the Caribbean Carnival, at an African Safari or in the Girls Courtyard and many others subcultures, which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong.

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Nico Vascellari, Untitled Landscape, 2008
Collage on paper, 27.5X21cm

Being both musician and artist, Nico Vascellari combines his sculptural installations with sound performances. Through his performances he investigates the relation between the viewer, the space and the action. He is drawn to cult figures connected to the music scene with whom he collaborates or to which he reacts in his work. Inspired by his fascination with rituals, spiritualism and cult, he reflects on the thought of destruction as a driving energy to the construction of things. This leads him into the idea of mapping spaces, energies, sounds and nature, all of which are central themes in his work. [...]

Nico Vascellari (Born in Vittorio Veneto, Italy in 1976) is a hardcore punk musician and a visual artist. Vascellari work's with different media including performance, sculpture, video, sound installation and collage. In 2005 Vascellari was awarded “The First International Prize for Performance_01D” and in 2007 was short-listed for the Furla Prize. His work has been exhibited at the “DB Collection Italy”, Deutsche Bank, Milan and “Apocalittici e Integrati”, MAXXI Museum, Rome. His work was included in the 52nd Venice Biennial (where he was awarded the Prize for Italian Art) the Manifesta (2008) and the Quadriennale di Roma (2008). He also presented a performance at Marina Abramovic Institute in 2010.

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Kraut, Linda and Loser, Members of Hell's Henchmen, Chicago, Illinois, and Loser, Member of Hell's Henchmen, and his Bike, Chicago, 1971 by Dennis Carlyle Darling

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New York City, from the series "42nd Street", 1978 (1980), by Larry Clark

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American Adventure I and American Adventure II (1998) by Dieter Blum

C-Print, Diasec (100x149cm). Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in silver felt-tip pen. From an edition of eight numbered copies. Gallery label on back of frame.

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium €15.860 [Lot 1339] / €14.640 [Lot 1340] (Grisebach, Berlim, November 25th, Lot 1339-1340)
Estimate €12.000-18.000 (US$16,700-25,000)

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Anne W. BRIGMAN (American, 1869-1950)

Untitled
Photogravure, 12.7x24.1cm, on tissue tipped on to paper

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium US$657.25 (Heritage Auction Galleries, NY, December 2010, Lot 74004)
Estimate US$800-1,200

Born in Hawaii, Anne Brigman moved to California when she was sixteen years old. Trained as a painter, she turned to photography in 1902. "[S]lim, hearty, unaffected women of early maturity living a hardy out-of-door life in high boots and jeans, toughened to wind and sun" were Brigman's favored subjects, and she photographed them nude in the landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California.

Brigman was one of two original California members of the art photography group the Photo-Secession, founded by Alfred Stieglitz, and she was the only Western photographer to be made a Fellow of the group. Three issues of Camera Work featured her photographs, and the British Linked Ring society of photographers elected her a member. Around 1929 she moved to Long Beach in Southern California, where she continued to photograph, focusing on a series of sand erosions. A year before her death in Eagle Rock, near Los Angeles, in 1950, she published a book of her poems and photographs titled Songs of a Pagan. [...]

The Bubble, from Camera Work Vol. 25 Page 13, 1909
Photogravure, 16.2x23.5cm, tipped on to Camera Work page and matted

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium US$1,553.50 (Heritage Auction Galleries, NY, December 2010, Lot 74003)
Estimate US$800-1,200

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Tomboy examines the degrees to which identity and gender influence meaning in the work of six contemporary queer women artists. From painterly gestures to performative acts, sculptural installations to digitally altered photographs, this exhibition explores the variety of approaches artists take in negotiating notions of identity. These works turn away from the essentialism of early feminist art and the specificity of “identity art,” and instead employ identity in intentionally ambiguous, mercurial, and peripheral ways. Tomboy delves into the murky spaces between the personal, the political, and the formal in order to ask viewers the question: “can and should what we know about an artist be separated from how we experience their work?”

Participating Artists: Kelli Connell, Dana DeGiulio, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Mary George, Allison Halter, Leeza Meksin
Curated By: Betsy Odom