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Body Count
Thu, 19 January 2023
The radio show returns to host a night with residents Sully and Klaar, plus Basic Rhythm, Tim Reaper, and Winston Duke on visuals.
INCHOATE BUZZ: Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome
A film by Leah Walker
Wed, 25 January 2023
A screening of Leah Walker’s new film that expands on Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome’s
INCHOATE BUZZ
performance project.
Workshop: INCHOATE BUZZ
Sat, 28 January 2023
A movement-based workshop led by artist and choreographer Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome.
P-R-E-S-E-N-T
Wed, 1 February 2023
An audio-visual experience to come together and dance. Seven artists experiment with hybrid modes of presentation across music, performance and moving image.
minus one
Curated by kast
Thu, 16 February 2023
Pretty V, Skins, Gribs & MOBBS join kast for a lush overlap of sounds, words and live performance – holding space for breath, time and sub frequencies.
Lacuna + The Well
Sat, 18 February 2023
A double-bill performance curated by Galerina with works by Teo Ala-Ruona and Maria Metsalu which push the physical and the bodily to various extremes, and process memories and lived experience as an exploration of the ontological.
Cruel Santino presents
Subaru World: The First Experience
Sat, 4 March 2023
An underwater world created through sonic audio and visuals.
minus one
Hosted by Nitetrax
Thu, 9 March 2023
A chance to lose yourself to strange rhythms and wild energies on this night of exploration. With KAVARI, Stem, PRNCSS and Nitetrax.
CLUB BUTT
Fri, 10 March 2023
All-night party celebrating
BUTT
magazine’s 32nd issue.
Bawo
Sat, 11 March 2023
Through honest storytelling, the multi-talented rapper taps into relationships, personal hardships and lessons learnt, as well as his upbringing in a Nigerian household, and the different cultures of multicultural London.
∈Y∋ (BOREDOMS)
Tue, 14 March 2023
An audiovisual set by ∈Y∋, whose uncompromising vision has resulted in decades of kaleidoscopic art and music chaos under endless aliases and project names, most notably with his work at the heart of the celebrated experimental outfit BOREDOMS.
Up the Beanstalk presents Stressing Commuters
Thu, 16 March 2023
Broadcasting project Up the Beanstalk respond to
Commuters
, a book by Toby Christian.
Tom Rasmussen
Wed, 29 March 2023
A recital of the album
Body Building
from top to bottom.
deathcrash
Thu, 30 March 2023
A performance by the London slowcore band.
King Krule – The Sssh Tour
Fri, 31 March 2023
King Krule returns with an intimate stripped back set.
One Day I Will Feel My Power
Wed, 12 April 2023
A screening of films as part of
Things I Have Learned The Hard Way
: a multi-site celebration of the life and work of Lizzy Rose (1988 – 2022).
STARS:
An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey
13 April – 4 May 2023
Theatre reimagined as a concept album on stage. Meet Mrs: an old lady who goes into outer space...in search of her own orgasm.
STARS Afrofuturist Club Nights
22 – 29 April 2023
A club night that’s out of this world.
Shasha Movies: Archive Fever
Opening Party:
Screen Practices x Shasha Movies
Fri, 28 April 2023
An evening of DJ sets in the Bar to celebrate the opening of Screen Practices. With Cõvco, Sarra Wild, Hasani.
Lucinda Chua
Tue, 9 May 2023
The London-based artist's biggest headline show to date, celebrating her debut solo album
YIAN
.
minus one
Curated by HE4RTBROKEN
Thu, 11 May 2023
Unapologetically emotional music, a haven to the lone souls longing for a dancefloor to cry on. A night of performances and screenings turning the club into catharsis. With Munix + Amalcrossing, Philip FM, Liyo and more.
Between the Lines
13 – 21 May 2023
The annual festival returns, this time taking over the ICA Theatre and bringing together experimental and leftfield artists working in the UK and Ireland. A multi-weekender of interdisciplinary performances, with DJs, performance art, and more.
Between the Lines
Nabihah Iqbal
DREAMER
Album Launch + t l k
Sat, 13 May 2023
Nabihah Iqbal returns with her long-awaited new album
DREAMER,
releasing on Ninja Tune, and premiering live at Between the Lines festival.
HMLTD
18 – 19 May 2023
The band play two shows in support of their second album
The Worm
, a concept album steeped in sci-fi and Old English mythology.
Between the Lines
Lafawndah + Happa + Maeve Moayedi
Sat, 20 May 2023
A night presenting innovation and resilience from the Iranian diaspora during a time of immense political turbulence in Iran.
Between the Lines
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals + Brian Nasty
Sat, 20 May 2023
The experimental hip-hop duo from Baltimore that shook both the underground rap and neoclassical world.
Between the Lines
New Weird Éire: Acid Granny + Elaine Howley + Maïa Nunes
Sun, 21 May 2023
This part of the festival highlights a burgeoning underground Irish scene.
Between the Lines
Pan Daijing + John Bence
Sun, 21 May 2023
New works from two artists on the edge of sonic and narrative experimentation.
Daniel Blumberg presents GUT
Tue, 23 May 2023
The London-based musician and artist presents a new solo performance in an intimate live environment, led by soaring vocals and an exploratory palette of instruments.
bar italia
Thu, 25 May 2023
The elusive London-based band perform a headline set in the Theatre. With releases on Dean Blunt’s
World Music
record label.
Liv.e
Fri, 26 May 2023
The Contemporary neo-soul artist performs a headline set with special guests.
AQNB: 2012–2022 Book Launch + Club Night
Fri, 2 June 2023
AQNB announce the release of their 2012 – 2022 anthology, with a club night and book launch.
Hyperdub:
Ikonika, Nazar, Proc Fiskal
Thu, 8 June 2023
A night by the boundary-pushing record label, featuring live performances from Ikonika, Nazar and Proc Fiskal.
minus one
Enter the Noid
Thu, 15 June 2023
Powerelectronics to despondent pop sounds. Music to make your hair stand up on end. Furious, serene, strings or synth – all is welcome here.
Choreographic Devices
Sat, 17 June 2023
An annual event that activates the
choreographic
as a methodology for trans-disciplinary research.
How do institutions choreograph us?
Tue, 20 June 2023
An afternoon of thinking through practice on the way visitors move in institutions, and how institutions move
Tora-i
Wed, 21 June 2023
A headline set from the R&B artist, with special guests.
Jana Rush / Zoë Mc Pherson / Ans M
Fri, 23 June 2023
A late night of dancefloor experiments from three producers at the edges of club music.
Okkyung Lee
Sun, 25 June 2023
Presenting a rare appearance by the South Korean composer and improviser, who with cello moves between artistic disciples, creating vast sonic landscapes across noise, jazz, western classical, as well as her homeland’s traditional and popular music.
Emma dj / Rainy Miller / LC
Thu, 29 June 2023
A triple bill of live sets fusing hybrids forms of rap with introspective ambience.
Kahil El’Zabar conducts MOKI (Music / Opening / Kinetic / Improvisations)
Sat, 1 July 2023
The legendary improviser and percussionist conducts a large ensemble of musicians committed to the art of collaborative improvisation.
minus one
EDZ
Thu, 17 August 2023
EDZ/Eternal Dragonz invites Flora Yin Wong, Organ Tapes, Tzekin and x/o to test the limits of speed and stillness in the rave.
Denied Parties
Fri, 18 August 2023
Florence Sinclair, Jawnino, LC, Lol K and Platinum Blonde bridge live performance, DJing and movement; designing an escape from club conventions and towards liberating sonics and intimate atmospheres.
Workshop:
Our Suspended Corridors
Sat, 2 September 2023
A participatory workshop led by artist Claudia Palazzo and producer Conrad Kira, exploring the materiality of concrete and its relationship to movement and bass.
Marika Hackman + Pencil
Wed, 6 September 2023
The English singer-songwriter returns with a headline set.
minus one
Hyperlocal
Thu, 7 September 2023
An experiment in exchange, Hyperlocal is an annual music festival and event series split between Buenos Aires and London. With Bride, Charles Verni, IMITATION, GLAMOUR djs.
GAUNT
Wed, 13 September 2023
Alongside the release of debut album
Blind at The Age of Four
, GAUNT presents a live spatial audio show performed in complete darkness.
GAUNT (2nd show)
Wed, 13 September 2023
Second show – a live spatial audio show performed in complete darkness.
Impact Driver
28 – 30 September 2023
Artist and performance maker Eve Stainton’s new choreographic commission.
LSDXOXO
Thu, 5 October 2023
The Philly-born, Berlin-based artist mixes pop hooks with high energy club rhythms, performing a headline set in support of the
Delusions Of Grandeur
EP.
Bendik Giske
Fri, 6 October 2023
Solo performance from Berlin-based Norwegian musician who expresses physicality, vulnerability and endurance through the saxophone.
The Spiral
Fri, 13 October 2023
An evening celebrating Ignota’s fifth birthday. Performances from Jaar, Flora Yin Wong, Chooc Ly Tan, TFT (Stephen McLaughlin).
CTM × ICA
20 – 21 October 2023
CTM Festival for Adventurous Music & Art Berlin partners for a two-day programme, marking the first time the acclaimed festival arrives in the UK, testing the current possibilities and limits of music while supporting a wide range of artists and sound cultures.
RIDNE part 1 / Rybachka: Katarina Gryvul & Alex Guevara (live)
Fri, 20 October 2023
A programme of screenings and live AV inviting us to visualise the experiences and realities of people who have to defend themselves against war and state oppression in various places.
Stefanie Egedy, Pollution Opera (Nadah El Shazly & Elvin Brandhi with visuals by Omar El Sadek), Sote, Born In Flamez, Sarah Farina
Fri, 20 October 2023
A night of forward-thinking club sounds to sub-bass and spatial sound, visceral postmodern opera through to gabber and apocalyptic noise.
RIDNE part 2 / Rybachka: Diana Azzuz & Nazanin Noori (live)
Sat, 21 October 2023
The second night in a programme of screenings and live AV inviting us to visualise the experiences and realities of people who have to defend themselves against war and state oppression in various places.
PLUS44KALIGULA (live), Prison Religion (live), Opium Hum, Gabber Modus Operandi (live), Diana Azzuz
Sat, 21 October 2023
The final night of the festival, featuring Gabber Modus Operandi’s UK debut.
EPOCH: Samhain Rituals
Tue, 31 October 2023
A immersive night of ritual, music and metamorphosis with Panjabi Hit Squad, Yohan Kebede, James Massiah, Hannah Catherine Jones, Bones Tan Jones, Ben Pitcher, Mehrnoosh Khadivi to celebrate the launch of EPOCH issue 2 + complimentary cocktails.
Art School Girlfriend
Thu, 2 November 2023
The singer, songwriter and producer aka Polly Mackey performs a headline set in the wake of her second album release with
Soft Landing
.
Gray Wielebinski:
The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low
Workshop with bones tan jones
Sun, 5 November 2023
A workshop responding to the exhibition’s central motif, the sun.
Sweatmother: Dyke, Just Do It
7 – 8 November 2023
A multimedia live performance focusing on modes of dyke counternarratives and desire.
Forest Swords
Fri, 10 November 2023
The electronic producer and composer aka Matthew Barnes returns for his first live London performance in years, of the back of a long awaited new single on Ninja Tune.
minus one: Kelora & Ribbxn present Earthstars
Thu, 16 November 2023
The band fusing folk elements with dark synthesised landscapes heads an evening of live music between the arcane and the futuristic, with evocations of London’s ancient sacred sites.
Will Butler & Sister Squares + Rhumba Club
Fri, 17 November 2023
Performing their first new material as a collaborative outfit, including the ghostly and oceanic single ‘Willows’.
eye to eye (dreaming hyper in visibility)
25 – 26 November 2023
A new ICA commission by artist Jose Funnell, grappling with the politics of looking, seeing and fantasizing.
Galya Bisengalieva + Ans M
Tue, 28 November 2023
A headline set by Kazakh-British composer, violinist and London Contemporary Orchestra leader, with vast sonic environments and unyielding drones weaving across genre.
Subcontinental Synthesis
Fri, 1 December 2023
An evening with Paul Purgas exploring the legacy of electronic music at the National Institute of Design, India between 1969-1972.
Gray Wielebinski:
The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low
The Toxic Consultancy: Game Edition
Sat, 2 December 2023
The Toxic Consultancy is a game that deepens and disrupts the relationship between taxonomies and toxicities. Held in the exhibition space and led by artist Mary Maggic.
Hinako Omori + Aga Ujma + Akiko Haruna
Sat, 2 December 2023
A spectrum of synths and vocals, performing selections from her album
a journey...
Gray Wielebinski:
The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low
Dragging Workshop
Tue, 5 December 2023
A somatic and participatory workshop led by artist Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome working with Egle Budvytyte’s dragging practice.
Shabaka Hutchings presents a tribute to Pharoah Sanders
Thu, 7 December 2023
Shabaka Hutchings presents a tribute to Pharoah Sanders
Gray Wielebinski:
The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low
Choreographic workshop with Maria Metsalu
Sat, 9 December 2023
A workshop of group choreographic instructions to dance together, embody feelings and explore a sense of safety in stillness with one another.
minus one
Tutto Questo Sentire: Landscapes
Thu, 14 December 2023
Landscapes is the latest act of the collective Tutto Questo Sentire, bridging video pieces and live performances to form a single set, involving musicians Kenichi Iwasa, Maxwell Sterling, Jan Hendrickse, Coby Sey, Akihide Monna and light artist Charlie Hope.
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