Dissent

The first major project in the UK by the Russian collective Chto delat? (What is to be done?), The Urgent Need to Struggle extends their identity as ‘a self-organising platform for cultural workers’.

The ICA hosts a 48 hour event that aims to create an intensity of relations between its participants; through sleeping, eating, entertaining, performing and discussing together.

Presented by Factory of Found Clothes, Nina Gasteva, Chto delat? and the participants of the 48 Hour Communal Life Seminar.

InC, Continental Philosophy research group, hosts a programme of three weekend seminars, each followed by public talks by leading philosophers including Dr Alberto Toscano and Prof. Alexander Garcia Duttmann.

15 September - 13 October 2010

During the course of the Chto delat? exhibition the ICA cinema hosts a weekly screening event addressing filmmaking which exists at the intersection between art and activism.

Where should the arts look for funding in an era of austerity?

The Old School of Capitalism addresses the first wave of workers' revolts to hit Serbia after the advent of capitalism.

A panic-inducing cinematic storm warning: Michael Ruppert, a former LAPD officer turned independent reporter and radical thinker, lays out in articulate fashion where the world is heading.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed until further notice.

Class Wargames presents Guy Debord's Game of Wa, a collective playing of the board game using a replica of the original 1977 design.

Dziga Vertov's first sound film, Enthusiasm captures the lives of coal-miners in the Donbass region in Eastern Ukraine.

Artists and activists Cat Phillipps and Peter Kennard lead an open debate around creative resistance, revolt and protest.

As part of the Chto delat? programme, the ICA presents a ‘Night of Angry Statements’ in which cultural workers as well as members of the public are invited to use to make statements about how they would like to change the ‘art world’.

Writer Stewart Home will be in discussion with Tony D publisher of Kill Your Pet Puppy and zine maker Laura Oldfield Ford about the anarchist history and DIY culture of zines. Chaired by Malcolm Hopkins from Housmans Bookshop.

The global economic meltdown of 2008 brought the world economy to its knees and destroyed three decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. A panel of speakers ask what’s the future of free market economics?