I C A Live
April 10th, 2008 by sparky
The ICA is zipping up its boots (tents and waterproofs) and heading towards pastures green and gorgeous for a Sunday session of fine films and thrilling arty cultural mix plucked fresh from its stately mall-side residence. Representing ICA’s past, present and future adventures in motion art and with an unadulterated sense of joy firmly at the fore, the Media Mix Tent may never have seen so much fun.
The programme commences at noon on Sunday 3 August with back-to-back screenings of Films to make your heart sing. Meditations on migration, music, homelands and building dreams from rubbish are revealed in superb ICA Films: I for India, Garbage Warrior and Gypsy Caravan.
Then let the wild rumpus begin…
Lee Perry does Dub-Action Painting
Sir ‘Scratch’ and On- U Sound’s Adrian Sherwood headline the ICA Sunday Selection with a heady mixture of bass and paint exclusive to The Big Chill. Watch and wonder as master mixologist Sherwood delivers his dub soundtrack while LSP improvs with a menagerie of colours, committing to canvas live in front of your eyes. It’s hard to believe that something so simple feels so right, but what could be more righteous and blessed than these men providing audio visual entertainment as only they know how? We’re in the Media Mix tent after all. Literal visual interpretation as it happens folks.
Lustfaust do Dada
Big Chillers are cordially invited to bear witness as Lustfaust regroup especially for the fest and confirm their place within the pantheon of music legend. This first Lustfaust UK appearance since their infamous 1980 Reading Festival show, will be further evidence as to why Lustfaust are worthy of their near-seminal Dadaist status and audio-cassette activism. The band will be playing with acquaintances from the UK experimental music scene, including Vibracathedral Orchestra, Astral Social Club, Ashtray Navigations, Lanterns, The Good Anna, The ŒA Band, The Exploits of Elaine and Uniform. Their performance will combine the chaos and mystery of the Sun Ra Arkestra with the freewheeling spontaneity expected at a Lustfaust gig.
Jeffery Lewis does slides and singing
Alt-folk originator, comic-book hero and pop-culture poet Mr Lewis will give us a slideshow of his penmanship with inimitable musical accompaniment. Words slung fast and lovingly over sweet lullaby melodies have been Jeff’s stock and trade for years, bringing him a hugely dedicated fanbase. His own fandom has led him to recently record an LP of Crass covers (not to mention his minor classic track, Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror), meanwhile he adds more and more to his expansive comic book portfolio. He was at the ICA last November and jumped at the chance to join us in the Malverns for The Big Chill.
Doug Fishbone does mysterious things
Doug will take part at the Big Chill in as-yet-unclassified activity, perhaps one of his superb neo-satirical slideshows as seen recently at The Hayward, the ICA and elsewhere. Douglas is an US artist living in London and was voted one of the ‘future greats’ of the art world in Art Review last year. He is perhaps best known for putting 30,000 bananas on Trafalgar Square in 2004, for the public to take and eat, a wonderful feat similar (but about 50 per cent bigger) to his 2002 New York exhibition, 20,000 Bananas. Doug’s work gets us thinking about the more unseemly aspects of modern life, always with a smile on our face.
Aileen Campbell does vocal acrobatics
Fast emerging as a unique talent in the contemporary art world and a star of the ICA’s landmark summer exhibition Nought to Sixty, Aileen Campbell entranced gallery goers by bringing together a temporary group of non-singers and prompting them to sweet choruses via an instructional video. At the Big Chill, the operatic Campbell, heir to Meredith Monk’s experimental singing crown, will perform ‘I love my popcorn machine; it is so beautiful’ where she will be playing and singing with (you guessed it) a popcorn machine as well as improvised duets with existing audio-visual material.
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