A series of all-night takeovers from club collectives exploring nightlife as a realm of self-expression. 

Artist Martin O’Brien explores mortality in a new durational performance.

Artist Martin O’Brien explores mortality in a new durational performance.

QRT reconvenes for 2020, featuring readings from Sophia Al-Maria, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Harry Burgess, Richard Porter, Tai Shani and Isabel Waidner.

An evening of readings from Vanishing Points, a new anthology of cultural criticism.

A two-day symposium on the complex models of ‘the choreographic’.

An artist-led performance and research project exploring the place, use and function of ritual action in contemporary performance and queer cultures.

Dance artist Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome’s new choreographic work explores the spaces between feeling and action.

Artist and musician Hannah Catherine Jones presents a selection of tracks and sound works for deep listening.

A night of music and performance which explores sampling, genre-bending and mixing as temporal hacking.

A night of textural experimental music curated by Helm, featuring Cucina Povera and Graham Lambkin.

In a conversation chaired by Ella Finer, artists Arjuna Neuman, Hannah Catherine Jones and Joseph Morgan Schofield explore how music connects the ethereal and the embodied.

A five-day convening exploring the transformational qualities of sound and dance practices.

An extended iteration of Lewis G. Burton and Venice Calypso’s queer techno rave INFERNO.

Presented by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and the ICA, the second episode of Closed Circuit addresses the controversial publication of protected information.

Arcadia Missa presents an evening of readings around the subject of sleep, marking the launch of the 10th edition of Arcadia Missa’s journal How To Sleep Faster.

Seven self-publishing artists read and perform their work as a prelude to the 2019 edition of the Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair.

The 2019 edition of the annual Artist Self Publishers’ Fair features over 80 UK & international independent publishers.

Electronic musician, producer and performer No Bra – aka Susanne Oberbeck – launches her third album Love & Power, supported by Nkisi.

The ICA’s annual convening takes artists’ moving image outside of the cinema, unfolding through multi-screen projections, performances and discussions.

Emerging fashion brand Weruzo presents its latest conceptual collection Sisi.

The final instalment of Colin Self’s ‘Elation’ series, a six-part opera about queer family and global transfiguration.

The first episode in a series of broadcast discussions on the status of information in the age of digital media.

A night of conversation and performance with Caleb Femi and Shingai, curated by Julianknxx.

Multidisciplinary pioneer Alan Sondheim presents Somatic Ghosting, a lecture exploring his evolving practice.

An evening of erotic readings and music curated by Nadine Ahmad (Pxssy Palace) and Naeem Davis (BBZ) for Boiler Room’s 4:3 LESBIENNALE 2019

The Berlin band Jeans Team play a special concert reviving the spirit of their founding years, translated into the present.

A rare performance from cult Berlin musician Captain Space Sex, an early collaborator of Honey-Suckle Company.

To celebrate the autumn season, a late-night programme of DJ sets in Rirkrit Tiravanija’s permanently sited work untitled 2019 (the form of the flower is unknown to the seed).

Honey-Suckle Company invite Dr Kamalroop Singh and The Blue Lions band to lead an afternoon of Indian devotional music in their exhibition Omnibus.

Skin Deep presents a sonic evening of conversation, live performance and collective listening in collaboration with dance collective House of Absolute.

DJ Lynnée Denise discusses her signature ‘DJ Scholarship’ practice through case studies from the work of Toni Morrison and Saidiya Hartman.

A newly commissioned composition by Egyptian musician and composer Maurice Louca, performed with a unique ensemble of experimental and improv musicians.

Artist, curator and educator Barby Asante invites you to join her in exploring a reading of the Adinkra communicator, Sankofa, from a Black feminist perspective.

Progressive R&B artist Azekel, interdisciplinary poet julianknxx and avant-garde musician GAIKA present a unique live experience of music, poetry and art.

Led by vocalist Elaine Mitchener, The Rolling Calf trio perform improvised electroacoustic scores alongside screenings of seminal experimental films

An improvised performance by London-based producer, musician, DJ and curator Nkisi followed by a live set by electronic musician and poet Moor Mother.

D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem presents an interactive performance-lecture-experience followed by a performance by Black Quantum Futurism.

Los Angeles-based artist Johanna Hedva presents a new performance of guitar and voice on the final weekend of I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker.

A newly commissioned performance directed by Kate Valk of the Wooster Group, based on Kathy Acker’s 1982 play Desire.

Brooklyn-based poet and artist Precious Okoyomon performs a new long-form poem on the occasion of I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker.

A low-fi musical extravaganza written by artists and performers Carl Gent and Linda Stupart on the occasion of the exhibition I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker.

A low-fi musical extravaganza written by artists and performers Carl Gent and Linda Stupart on the occasion of the exhibition I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker.

London band Wild Daughter conjure up an evening of live performance with support from Berlin’s Die Hässlichen Vögel and video installations from artists Aaron Sharif and Gerald Paul White.

Poet Bhanu Kapil performs a new collaborative work made with artist Rohini Kapil and commissioned for the ICA Theatre on the occasion of the exhibition I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker.

Poet Bhanu Kapil performs tarot readings within the exhibition I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker.

A conversation between disability activists David Ruebain and Lela Kogbara accompanied by a play-through of Rose Finn-Kelcey and Donald Rodney’s 1994 sound installation ‘Truth, Dare, Double-Dare’.

In collaboration with London-based experimental music series Kammer Klang and Swiss ensemble Contrechamps, the ICA presents a series of programmes on the work of composer Maryanne Amacher, culminating in the UK premiere of GLIA.

Presented by writer Isabel Waidner, readings and a discussion interrogating queerness and class in interdisciplinary writing and publishing in the UK.

Poet James Massiah performs Optimism 101, a live reading of the 101 poems from his new collection which reflects on stoicism, materialism, hedonism and happiness.

A special preview of work from These New Puritans’ new album Inside the Rose featuring collaborations with artists Soojin Chang, Freya Don and Graham Sutton.

A collaborative event featuring digital media, film, animation, sound, performance, sculpture and poetry by young British artists.

An evening of readings, film and performance by Helen Cammock, Caspar Heinemann, D. Mortimer, Richard Porter and Isabel Waidner.

Improvisatory music troop Jamaica!! collaborate with noise-rock stalwarts Sly & the Family Drone for an evening of collective music-making.

New work by artist, musician and writer Steven Warwick, presented in collaboration with the Kingston School of Art.

Contemporary poetry with James Massiah, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ellen Rutten, Jackie Wang, Belinda Zhawi and Metahaven.

The fourth edition of the one-day fair features 70 UK and international independent artist self-publishers.

Live performance and DJ sets by Bonaventure, Kuedo, Safa, M.E.S.H. and Nkisi.

An evening of readings and performance featuring queer rage, prayer, diamonds and empires.

Readings on desire by Anne Boyer, Juliet Jacques, Saskia Vogel and Hannah Sullivan.

Performance, conversation and screening by boundary-pushing terrorist drag artist CHRISTEENE.

The Philadelphia-based artist presents a live audiovisual performance drawing on her acclaimed debut album fantasii.

A new play by celebrated New York director and playwright Richard Maxwell.

Late-night party centering freedom of expression for marginalized communities, femmes and women of colour.

Live music performance from ICA Social Creative Network artist-in-residence YaYa Bones.

Sound system stalwarts Nzinga Soundz share a DJ set featuring vintage roots reggae, soul and lovers rock.

Headline music performance from young south Londoner Mina Rose, showcasing her multi-layered blend of trip-hop, dub and hip-hop.

Political organisers in Rojava discuss the revolution and practice of autonomous democracy currently unfolding in Northern Syria.

Three performance-lectures by climate change communicators, artists and writers ask how information can be transmitted in more embodied, less hierarchical ways.

Performance and discussion activate Barokka’s installation and engage Paul Gauguin’s ‘Annah the Javanese’.

A new performance installation by Khairani Barokka touches on race, sexuality, disability and ownership.

Readings by poets and writers Andrew Durbin, Caspar Heinemann and Holly Pester mark the closing of the Julie Becker survey exhibition.

A reading event and dual launch of texts dedicated to queer joy.