ICA Student Forum

Join assistant curator Charlotte Bonham-Carter for a chance to hear more about the exhibition and participate in a concrete poetry workshop led by the ICA's student forum.

A big beautiful birthday party for our music-and-illustration monthly night, with bands, DJs, drawing pictures and drinking cocktails.

This month for our Little Pencil workshop we have the student forum here to share the delights of drawing, scribbling and making a barely controlled mess.

Liam Cobb and guest illustrators from Comica 2009 take a creative response to the day's news.

Join James Cartwright and Dorothy Pickard from the ICA’s student forum for a gallery talk on For the blind man...

There may be a Groundhog Day theme, you’ll have to wait and see.

Tonight sees the joint launch of in-house quarterly publication Institute and our friends, Off Modern's first full colour, risograph printed Journal.

Illustrator Marcus Oakley draws cheery hippy characters and plays cheery hippy music, the student forum and YOU join in.

Led by the ICA’s Student Forum, this student night brings together a host of young creative talents to thrash out ideas, inspiration and creativity in our bar.

James Cartwright from the ICA’s Student Forum leads a workshop where participants explore London landmarks around the ICA using film and photography.

Two short films by students artists give a fresh perspective on their experiences of living in London.

This free night brings together a host of creative talents to thrash out their ideas and inspirations, with appearances from Cassette Playa, Katie Guggenheim, London’s Russolo and Rafal Zajko, music from Radiant Dragons and DJs Abstract Sexy.

Led by the ICA’s Student Forum, Everything brings together a host of creative talents in the ICA bar.

Live art, live music, live everything, as the ICA’s Student Forum brings together a host of creative talents in the ICA bar.

Led by Tom Shickle and Aisha Christison from the ICA’s Student Forum, Everything brings together a host of creative talents in the ICA bar.

Everything is a regular alternative club night curated by up-and-coming artists Thomas Shickle and Aisha Christison.

A night of DJ’s, film and karaoke curated by the ICA Student Forum.

This weekend of panel discussions, presentations and screenings will explore the societal impulse that draws us to the darker side of life, looking at the influence of the gothic in contemporary art, literature, film and music.

In conjunction with Template for Terror: The Revival of the Gothic weekend join young artists and musicians to celebrate this resurgence of darkness all night long at this free night of creative talent.

Live music, performance and DJs to entertain you all night long at this free night of creative talent led by Thomas Shickle and Aisha Christison from the ICA’s Student Forum. SoundFjord present a collection of sound art in the ICA’s Theatre.

Four artists will lead a guided tour around the back streets of the ICA with each discussing the significance of a building/public sculpture/intervention they feel is significant to the discussion and to their own practice.

A panel of speakers discuss the virtues of non-visual documentary and the impact on notions of authorship and authenticity.

Responding to the Remote Control exhibition, members of the ICA Student Forum curate a late night screening of short films and videos by a diverse group of artists and directors.

A late night performance by noise research laboratory and live performance platform, Noise=Noise is programmed by the ICA Student Forum.

Curator Daniel Muzyczuk and artist Mark Peter Wright discusses the medium of sound in an exhibition context with the ICA Student Forum.

LUPA artist collective present an intervention in the ICA Café Bar with emerging and established artists.

Film Salons are curated by Bloomberg New Contemporaries artists and will combine film screenings and discussions. 

In this forum, a panel discuss the challenges curators encounter when exhibiting emerging artists as a part of group show.

This evening comprises a panel discussion exploring the process of photographing artists’ actions and performances as a creative dialogue between photographer and performer, followed by a series of films that shed light on the issue of a creative dialogue between the artists and filmmakers.

A live performance in response to Bernadette Corporation's 2007 screenplay Eine Pinot Grigio Bitte. Taking the never-to-be-filmed script as its jumping board, artists Lauren Godfrey and Siôn Parkinson perform sections of dialogue cut to music and animated gifs, warping BC's original tale into a narrative of sport history and the undead.

What happens to radicalism when it is re-contextualised? Taking the current exhibitions Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years and The Independent Group: Parallel of Art and Life as a point of departure, this seminar will question if the relationship of radical collectives and institutional structures in the arts is paradoxical.

Looking to establish a reading beyond a Western model of gender illustration, Manga Made seeks to be reflexive of the concepts explored in Keep Your Timber Limber, by opening the dialogue to other regions of the world, exploring how they have expressed identity politics in popular culture.

This screening explores how experimental filmmakers have addressed the issue of sex as a political gesture, including films by Jean Genet, Carolee Schneemann and Luther Price.

This discussion looks at how (toilet) cubicles have functioned as sites for drawings to investigate the potentialities of such contested, even inconsequential, spaces in sustaining counter-cultural practices.

This screening brings together Steven Cohen and Zanele Muholi's work in sole dialogue for the first time as a much needed geographic expansion to the ways discourses about gay lives, and counter-cultures, are charted globally.

This workshop aims to open up the discussion around the Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition by exploring alternative ways of reading issues around the body and its representation, through a collective sound investigation.

Love Me, Love Me Not is a new work situated within the Lutz Bacher: Black Beauty exhibition, where artist Emma Smith invites individuals to meet with her to visit the gallery together.

Black Out is a springboard for debate on the state of installation art in Africa by female practitioners in relation to post-blackness.

Taking Lutz Bacher’s interest in identity as a starting point, this selection of artists’ videos looks at portraits, guiding us through the different forms of relationships between subject and filmmaker.

This symposium discusses the characteristics of 'intermediality' - the combination of diverse media and references, often in a quasi-curatorial gesture - focussing on the appropriation of digital images and environments and their combination with traditional media.

This film programme takes Hamilton’s fascination with mobility, mechanisation, speed, and innovation as its starting point to question how contemporary artists in the field of moving image explore these concepts.

Join the ICA Student Forum in the first part of a series of free contemporary art theory reading groups that respond to the ICA’s programme of exhibitions and events.

Responding to the ICA Reading Room display Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists' Scrapbooks, this screening presents the films of three artists engaged in life-long recording projects.

Inspired by the work of David Robilliard, this event invites a series of artists to contribute textual pieces (their own, or of others) to be presented as readings in an evening over wine at the ICA Bar.

A Return to Pre-Modernity is a film programme that seeks to investigate the connections and divergences between post-colonial globalisation and the current worldwide ecological crisis.

Restaging Exhibitions: Reconsidering Art History and Exhibition Making is a panel discussion that explores the restaging of exhibitions and the complex mediation between art history and their own materiality.

Exploring avenues of questioning such as William S Burroughs cut-up techniques, collage and other anti-narrative strategies to deconstruct institutional favouritisms.

Critically engaging with current debates in arts education, while insuring that a historical perspective remains stimulus for current critical investigation into this highly debated topic.

Exploring the concept of 'The Democratic Table' to investigate how shared culinary encounters can create alternative (radical?) spaces for affective education.

Crafting a trans-discursive response: this dynamic, participatory workshop opens an (inter)space for trans-discursive dialogue in response to the question, When is Art?

Expanded-form magazine and artist collective Da Thirst present a Village Fête in the ICA Theatre.

This Friday Salon provides a platform to rethink the relationship photographers have with their commercial and creative practices.

A screening of George Hoellering’s Shapes and Forms and Mark Aerial Waller’s The Sons of Temperance, followed by a discussion between Mark Aerial Waller and Lucy Rose Bayley.

Presentations from artists and writers in response to the question: Artists, what is your collective value?

This programme considers the choppiness of teenage years through the lens of the outcast, misfit, queer.

Wrestling with Bacon is a curated evening of screenings and talks which explores the links between popular culture in 1950s Britain and the more controversial subject matter of Francis Bacon's early canvases.

This performance looks at affective online alienation in relation to corporeality and identity production and consumption.

In response to Lives on Wire by Eloise Hawser, this screening event explores the use of sound in experimental film, video, music and expanded cinema practice from the 1930s until now.

Join artist Leah Capaldi on a gallery tour through the Isa Genzken: Basic Research Paintings exhibition.

A reading group led by The Alternative School of Economics, the collaborative name for artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck.

This event explores Hito Steyerl’s essay The Terror of Total Dasein. The discussion and presentation looks at ways in which artists utilize the notion of ‘proxy politics’ in their practices.

A live event that explores interiority as a collective experience and the affective potential of the surface.

A curated programme of trailers from Student Forum member Nan Moore, this event promotes questions surrounding the concept of the film trailer.

A conversation with female curators of colour examining ‘blackness’ in the curatorial.

An evening of poetic readings and live performances by poets and artists, curated by ICA Student Forum.

The launch of 'Collective Body', a publication of poetry, sound works, essays, blog posts, photography, malware, and film celebrating a year of the ICA Student Forum's work as a collective and non-hierarchical body within ICA.