Hi All,

I just popped in to the ICA to get a ticket for 'What Have you Done Today Mervyn Day? (a film about the Lower Lea Valley), and saw a couple of other events that may be of interest. The pick is probably Rebecca Solnit's talk on the philosophy of walking.

Incidently the ICA Bookshop has two shelves marked 'PSYCH-GEO' full of interesting stuff (note to Cathy: do we still have a budget for books?).

 

Oh...I'm going to see Mervyn Day on the 9th June if anyone wants to join me.

Here's some details of the other stuff:

 

New Series: The Philosophy of the Overlooked. Part 1: Walking

Talks:
Mon 19 Jun 2006. 

A new series celebrating the continued relevance of phenomenology, a philosophy aimed at making explicit structures of lived experience and modes of human existence in the world: those things that are encountered every day without thought, those actions that are repeated automatically.

 

Dust, breathing, hesitation, walls, accents and spit count among what Michel Serres would call quasi-objects, at once objects that exist in the world and markers of subjectivity.  Tonight’s speaker: Rebecca Solnit, author of the bestselling Wanderlust: A History of Walking, (out in June) who will discuss the fascinating but often-overlooked significance of the first human mode of transport.

Venue(s) : Nash Room.

Mon 19 Jun	19:00 Nash Room

Full Price : £8.
Concession : £7.
ICA Members : £6.

 

odz: Features - What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day?

Film:
Dates between Sun 04 Jun - Fri 09 Jun 2006. 

A continuation of Kelly and Saint Etienne’s deep-seated fascination with the city of London, its inhabitants and buildings.

Set in the vast, mysterious pylon-covered wasteland that is the Lower Lea Valley, East London, on the eve of the Olympic redevelopment.  David Essex, who features on the band’s critically acclaimed latest album, Tales From Turnpike House narrates alongside Linda Robson, with accompanying musical score by Saint Etienne. 
Dir: Paul Kelly, UK, 2005, 57 mins
Screening with Today’s Special (Paul Kelly, UK, 2004, 3 mins) capturing London’s fast-disappearing ‘caffs’.

Sun 4 Jun, 2pm
Screening followed by Q&A with Saint Etienne and the director Paul Kelly. 
Venue(s) : Cinema 1.

Sun 04 Jun	14:00 Cinema 1
Fri 09 Jun	21:30 Cinema 1

Full Price : £6.50.
Concession : £5.50 (no concs weekends).
ICA Members : (and onedotzero10 Members) £4.50.

 

odz: Innervisions - city in flux

Film:
Sat 03 Jun 2006. 

Continuing onedotzero’s exploration of the city, this session presents exclusive new work-in-progress from forthcoming onedotzero live narrative audiovisual commission, ‘Four Points of Coincidence’.

It has been created by acclaimed director Kieran Evans (co-director Finisterre) with musical collaborator, Argentinian producer Gustavo Lamas (Trauma / Kompakt). The project is centred upon both collective and individual narratives of the city and London, and will present new ways of experiencing filmic narrative within a live context. Evans and Lamas will be joined by audio-visual experimentalist, Scanner, and Daily Telegraph Film Editor Sukhdev Sandhu, who will present works from their collaborative ArtAngel project Nighthaunts.
180 minutes approx with break

Showing as part of a series of sessions which explore the future of work, gaming and entertainment platforms, offering unparalleled access to key speakers, creators and innovators. Continuing onedotzero’s commitment to demystifying the creative process.

Venue(s) : Theatre (seated).

Sat 03 Jun	14:00 Theatre (seated)

Full Price : £6.50.
Concession : £5.50.
ICA Members : (and onedotzero10 Members) £4.50.

 

SPECIAL EVENT: The Psychoacoustic Geographers

Film:
Dates between Tue 13 Jun - Wed 14 Jun 2006. 

Emotional exiles from the Land of Opportunity, experimental filmmakers Ben Russell and Jonathan Schwartz come to the ICA on the last leg of their European tour – equipped with 16mm films, vocal distortion effects and optical soundtracks, these kindred spirits engage in a kino-cartography of the audiovisual contract.

Through a combination of psychedelic cinema, mash-up animations, mask ceremonies (with live sound!), and pinhole lenses these intrepid explorers map out a new world of Image and Sound where vision travels in waveforms and audio flickers like explosions in the night.  Ben Russell is a Providence, RI-based filmmaker who runs a microcimena called Magic Lantern (www.magiclanterncinema.com), has screened as far afield as Tokyo, Belgrade, Rotterdam, and Iowa City, and recently completed a 16mm hour-long structuralist Western. Jonathan Schwartz is a filmmaker living in Boston, MA. He has made Indian ethnographies, cinema-records of family memory, and is currently working on a 33.3 minute “concept album” of collage films.
Running-time: 73 mins, followed by Q&A

Visit www.magiclanterncinema.com/tour.htm  for more details of this touring programme

Venue(s) : Cinema 2.

Tue 13 Jun	20:45 Cinema 2
Wed 14 Jun	20:30 Cinema 2

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