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Good Friday – 22 April 2011 A Dying Artist ILLNESS Friday 22 & Saturday 23 April 2011 Afternoon Brian Dillon Bonnie Camplin Dominic Fox David Toop The ICA is pleased to present A Dying Artist – Matthew Barney a two-day symposium and online archive organised Dennis Potter by artists Ed Atkins and Siôn Parkinson. Evening Ed Atkins Over the Easter weekend, A Dying Artist will ex- Heather Phillipson plore notions of materiality and corporeality in Francesco Pedraglio art through their correspondence with dying and Trouble with Sian Alice Group dead bodies, featuring performances, round table Stewart Home discussions, readings, music and screenings. Ter- Siôn Parkinson minally diseased flesh, dermic maladies, murdered Raime bodies, decapitated organs and paranoiac delu- sions become analogs for flickering celluloid, High Holy Saturday – 23 April 2011 Definition, sculpture, text, sound, music, represen- tation and creative impulse. DEATH Afternoon Steven Connor Simon Martin & Ed Atkins David Raymond Conroy Laure Prouvost John Russell & Katie Barrington John Cussans Griselda Pollock Evening Michael Dean Regina José Galindo Chora Stan Brakhage Jim Wilson Old Apparatus Rudolf Schwartzkogler Rudolf Stewart Home Griselda Pollock’s video ‘Deadly Tales: A Portrait of Matthew Barney’s rarely seen first film, ‘Scab Ac- a Feminist Intellectual Obsessed with Death’ (1992) tion’ (1988, 7mins), will be screened on Friday. Made will be screened nearly 20 years after it was origi- when he was still a student at Yale School of Art, it nally delivered as a spoken performance at the ICA. marks a beginning of sorts for Barney’s practice of The video, in seven parts (like a menorah), moves in bodily metaphor, limit and desire. from an art history lesson on a single painting of a dead woman through various engagements with the Brian Dillon, UK editor of Cabinet magazine and deaths of public figures to personal bereavements prize-winning author, will deliver a talk entitled ‘Cul- in order to move back out towards psychoanalytical ture and Hypochondria’. In this presentation, Dillon and other reflections on the impossibility of mourn- will trace the history of hypochondria in medicine, ing. Benjamin and Barthes, Freud and Stoppard literature and art, and argue for the centrality of frame an exploration of the place of the death of ‘health anxiety’ to our sense of ourselves. Pollock’s mother and the failure of several pregnan- cies in the cultural narrative and psychological Brian Dillon is the author of ‘Tormented Hope: Nine Hypo- processes of mourning. chondriac Lives’ (Penguin, 2009) and ‘In the Dark Room’ (Penguin, 2005). He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine and Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histo- writes regularly for frieze, the Guardian, Artforum, Art Re- ries of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, view and theLondon Review of Books. His novella, ‘Sanctu- Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Interna- ary’, is published in May by Sternberg Press. tionally reputed for the critical rewriting of art’s histories in terms of gender, class, race and postcoloniality, Pollock Dominic Fox will present a talk entitled ‘Being is a prolific author on a range of topics in modernist and Dead’, which will look at notions explored in his re- contemporary art as well as a curator of several exhibi- cent book, ‘Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection tions. and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria’(Zero Books, 2009). In particular, he will look at the fear, not of Bonnie Camplin’s 2004 film, ‘Cancer’, features a dying, but of being dead: “to lie in cold obstruction biology professor formally presenting “the FACT of and to rot”. cancer”. This “epistemologue” itself becomes mat- ter, cellular tissue; a body corrupted in post-produc- Dominic Fox is a writer living in London, where he works as tion through video synthesis and chroma-keying; a a software developer. He has been blogging as “Poetix” for disruption from within, a cancer of the image, a cor- a little over 6 years, writing about philosophy, poetry and ruption of fact and a perverse creative proliferation. mathematics. His first book, Cold World, was published by Zer0 books in 2009, and explores the relationship between Bonnie Camplin (b.1970) is currently the visiting Professor “the aesthetics of dejection” in poetry and music, and the at Hochschule fur Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frank- politics of “militant dysphoria”. A volume of poetry, Half furt am Main. Recent exhibitions include ‘Railway Mania’, Cocks, which consists of 50 poems of 50 words each, will MIMA, Middlesborough (2010); ‘When The WInd Blows You be published by Intercapillary Editions later this year. He Up’, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2009) and ‘SAS’, Michael has two children. Benevento, Los Angeles (2009). Dominic Fox David Toop will present ‘The Act of Listening is an David Raymond Conroy (b. 1978, Reading) completed his Act of Dying’, using sound, image and spoken text. MA at the Royal College of Art, London in 2007. Recent Drawing from his recent book, ‘Sinister Resonance: exhibitions include; ‘Octet, or, Construction and Modifica- The Mediumship of The Listener’ (Continuum, 2010), tion’, Seventeen, London; ‘Anti-Photography’, Focal Point David’s presentation will listen deeply, entering the Gallery, Southend-on-Sea; ‘She has the Sense of Limited deafening silence of the body. Time’, amt_project, Bratislava, Slovakia and is also part of ‘What it is Not / New Works UK’, a LUX Touring Pro- David Toop is a composer/musician, author and curator. gramme. He has published five books, including ‘Ocean of Sound’, ‘Haunted Weather’ (both Serpent’s Tail) and ‘Sinister Res- Artist and poet Heather Phillipson will present onance: The Mediumship of The Listener’; recent albums ‘Talking Pictures: Well, This is Embarrassing. Half include ‘Screen Ceremonies’, ‘Black Chamber’ and ‘Sound an hours in 12 Episodes’: a film with live voiceover. Body’. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at London It begins in the supermarket and proceeds in the College of Communication. imagination. A new video work by Stewart Home will be Forthcoming and recent events and exhibitions include: screened, featuring the intensive pedicuring of his ‘What It is Not: New Work UK LUX’ touring programme own feet. Home’s ‘Necrocards’ will also be distrib- (event, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2011); ‘The Stage uted throughout; donor cards which bear the leg- has Eyes’ (Shortwave Cinema, London, 2011) and Versuch: ends, ‘I support sexual liberation’ and ‘I want to help Notes and Projects (Hollybush Gardens, London, 2011). others experiment sexually after my death’. Phillipson is also a prize-winning poet, published by Faber and Faber, and has performed at venues across the UK Stewart Home was born in south London in 1962. When he and in Europe, including Whitechapel Gallery, Latitude was sixteen he held down a factory job for a few months, Festival, Foyles, Southbank Centre, King’s Place, Bonn an experience that led him to vow he’d never work again. University (Germany), Shakespeare and Co (Paris), Arvon After dabbling in rock journalism and music, in the early Foundation and the Faber Academy. eighties he switched his attention to the art world. Now Home writes novels as well as cultural commentary, and Episode five (‘Pitter Patter’) of Dennis Potter’s ‘The he continues to make films and exhibitions. He has long Singing Detective’ (BBC 1986) will be given a rare been an underground legend in Europe, North America screening with an introduction by Siôn Parkinson, and Brazil. His most recent novel Blood Rites of the Bour- in this, the drama’s 25th anniversary year. geoisie was published by Book Works in June 2010. “[U]nable to move much else besides my David Raymond Conroy will deliver a talk with left arm and maybe my penis, in an occa- internet video clips entitled ‘A Talk (The One That sional erection which imperiously seemed Begins with David Foster Wallace)’, in which the to take no account of my collapsed hands, artist will try to talk honestly about loss, taking in caked and cracked skin and feverishly Simone Weil, Allen Ginsberg, Hank Williams and swollen joints”. Ludwig Wittgenstein. David Toop David Potter Dennis Ed Atkins and Siôn Parkinson are the organisers maze that gets built bi-annually in New York City, and of ‘A Dying Artist’, and as such will perform the features three weeks of live music and performance under role of comperes and interlocutors, but will also be less than ideal circumstances. creating ambient sounds and images, mixes and positions; and performing corporeal music together John Cussans will present a talk around notions of under the cadaverous ensign, ‘Jim Wilson’. art practice towards posterity, with particular refer- ence to the life and work of Jo Spence. What to do Ed Atkins’ recent exhibitions include ‘Death Mask’ at Cabi- with an artist’s work after they pass? net Gallery, London (2011), ‘What it is Not: New Work UK’ LUX touring programme (2010/11), ‘A Killer Whale Breach- John Cussans is currently a Research supervisor at Chel- ing in Soft Focus’, Transmission, Glasgow (2010), New sea College of Art. Current research explores the historical Contemporaries 2010 and ‘The Plurality of One’, Monitor, relation between psychological models of mind - espe- Rome (2010). He will present a solo project for Art Now at cially those concerned with memory, consciousness and Tate Britain in October 2011. perception - and the evolution of media technologies. This interest coincides with survivals and revivals of the Siôn Parkinsons’ recent exhibitions include ‘That philosophical debate between Spiritualism and Materi- Which Doesn’t Kill Us Is Often Made of Foam’ at Chert alism. This interest is contextualised within a broadly Galerie, Berlin; ‘New Contemporaries 2010’ at the ICA, psycho-political framework and asks how the discourses London;’Session_9_Object’, at Am Nuden Da, London; of psychology function within the broader social field.