Institute of Contemporary Arts

Artists

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  Nina Beier and Marie Lund

  Beier and Lund present a trilogy of works that interrogate the social fabric and institutional culture of the ICA.

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  Juliette Blightman

  The quietness and simplicity of Blightman's work serves to frame spaces and to mark the passing of time.

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  Erik Blinderman and Michael Eddy, Jonty Lees, Alastair MacKinven

  Invited artists Erik Blinderman and Michael Eddy, Jonty Lees, and Alastair MacKinven are presenting a two-day project centred on the contemporary relationship between performance and photography.

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  Brown Mountain College

  Brown Mountain College of Performing Arts' activities emphasise interdisciplinarity and collaboration.

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  Andrea Büttner

  Büttner works in a variety of media, sometimes using old-fashioned items such as woodcuts and pressed flowers, and is especially interested in the area where art and religion overlap.

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  Aileen Campbell

  Campbell's work demonstrates an investigation into the voice's connection to the body.

• Duncan Campbell

  Archive footage reused to make dense social and historical narratives.

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  Nina Canell and Robin Watkins

  Canell and Watkins have made a new gallery-specific installation, bringing together a number of recent works to form a sculptural whole.

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  Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth with Boyle Family

  Coleman and Hogarth work collaboratively, placing emphasis on the participatory and performative aspects of art practice.

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  Stephen Connolly

  Connolly is an artist filmmaker whose work adopts the investigatory and archival conventions of documentary.

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  Mike Cooter

  Multimedia installations pinpoint collisions between the world of TV and cinema and that of 'real' human behaviour.

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  Matthew Darbyshire

  Darbyshire gives the ICA's public spaces the coloured lighting schemes of other public, retail and corporate spaces from across London.

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  Sean Edwards

  Edwards investigates the sculptural potential of the everyday, often using remnants of previous activities as his starting point - including found or borrowed objects, bits of other works and studio knickknacks.

• ELECTRA

  A contemporary art agency whose wide-ranging activities span commissions, facilitations and production in addition to its curatorial and educational roles.

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  Redmond Entwistle

  Entwistle's work employs documentary and abstract modes of filmmaking, often investigating histories of social displacement.

• Ruth Ewan

  An ongoing collaboration with a London busker.

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  Freee

  Freee's polemical slogans and attitudes find their expression in a variety of media and space.

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  Maria Fusco

  Fusco is a writer, as well as the editor of The Happy Hypocrite journal.

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  Babak Ghazi

  Ghazi invokes the shifting territory of selfhood, and the borderline areas of public imagery that are at once superficial and politicised.

• Guestroom

  Guestroon create communities by inviting other artists and cultural practitioners to take part in their projects.

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  Seamus Harahan

  Harahan's work uses video footage of the urban environment, its incidental detail and fugitive nature.

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  Hardcore Is More Than Music

  Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky and Nina Manandhar have collaborated on a series of varied and hybrid collaborative activities since 2002.

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  Emma Hart and Benedict Drew

  Collaboration, playfulness and the structure of film are at the core of Hart and Drew's series of new works.

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  Alexander Heim

  Heim addresses intrusions into urban life where animals, processes and chance routines create self-sustaining pockets of otherness.

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  Iain Hetherington

  Hetherington's paintings are satirical portraits of 'cultural workers' and play on artistic conventions and on notions of political correctness.

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  Will Holder

  Holder is an artist, designer and editor whose work investigates the gap between language and object.

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  Andrew Hunt

  Writer and curator Hunt organises a special weekend event comprising of a series of actions, working with artists Blinderman, Eddy, Lees and MacKinven, to create a multi-layered project.

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  The Hut Project

  The brainchild of artists Chris Bird, Ian Evans and Alec Steadman, The Hut Project takes a wry look at the art world through events which employ surprising conceptual strategies.

• Fiona Jardine

  Installations using sculpture, drawing and photography.

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  Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock

  A venue without a space, operating through instructions and invitations disseminated by post and email.

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  Jesse Jones

  A new film work by Jones looks at the history of Marxism to the ghostly strains of the Internationale.

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  Junior Aspirin Records

  The home of a range of performers whose work moves between the worlds of art and music.

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  Anja Kirschner and David Panos

  Kirschner and Panos' Trail of the Spider addresses themes of class conflict and displacement through the transposition of the Western genre onto contemporary London.

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  Thomas Kratz

  Kratz works across different media, playing with the iconography of art in an often visceral manner.

• Torsten Lauschmann

  The technophilia of the amateur inventor, and the aesthetic of glitches.

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  Lorna Macintyre

  Macintyre's practice combines photography and sculpture, drawing both on simple and formal processes and on the heady language of nineteenth-century Symbolism.

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  Alastair MacKinven

  MacKinven's humour satirises the value systems of the art world, whilst wryly deflecting to a more corporeal practice of involuntary evaluation.

• Macroprosopus Dancehall Band

  A thirty-piece band, with scores are influenced by the mathematics of insect formations.

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  Ursula Mayer

  Mayer's films consider the representation of women through the twin poles of classical Hollywood glamour and the Modernist avant-garde.

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  Matthew Noel-Tod

  Questioning how cinema mediates our lived experience.

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  Open Music Archive

  Recording out-of-copyright music with new artists.

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  David Osbaldeston

  Osbaldeston’s work is concerned with the production, positioning and reception of art.

• Garrett Phelan

  Sources of sound literally and metaphorically buried, using paint and cement.

• Gail Pickering

  Tableaux vivants combining historical and modern references.

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  Sarah Pierce

  Pierce – who since 2003 has operated under the heading The Metropolitan Complex – works in a number of discursive formats, often incorporating the personal and the incidental.

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  Clunie Reid

  Clunie Reid uses cheap material and gaffer tape to create aggressive and rampant photo-collages.

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  James Richards

  Richards works with an archive of video footage that he scavenges and remixes.

• Hannah Rickards

  Rickards' work shifts between different modes of perception and representation - including the linguistic, the visual, the natural and the artificial.

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  Ben Rivers

  Rivers’ films focus on lives led at one remove from society, commenting on the desire to achieve liberty through the simplification of lifestyle.

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  Giles Round

  Round’s installations fuse modernist sculpture and design – and the trappings of bourgeois living – with the hedonism of music sub-cultures.

• Alun Rowlands

  Researching failed utopian projects for political fictions.

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  Support Structure

  Developing relationships with people and organisations, engaging with spatial experimentation and research.

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  Stephen Sutcliffe

  Sutcliffe’s video work combines romanticism with the hard-edge of media manipulation.

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  Tris Vonna-Michell

  Vonna-Michell's performances and installations function as chapters within a non-linear story, combining personal myth with historical traces.

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  Andy Wake

  Working in a variety of media, including video, installation and performance, Andy Wake seeks to disrupt the observer's 'neutral' relationship to an artwork.

• Mark Aerial Waller

  Films that move across science fiction, Greek tragedy and documentary, unveiling fantastical narratives.