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Nova' 78 is a time capsule of the legendary 1978 Nova Convention, bringing never-before-seen footage from Howard Brookne...
30/08/2026

Nova' 78 is a time capsule of the legendary 1978 Nova Convention, bringing never-before-seen footage from Howard Brookner’s archive to the screen.

Featuring William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson and a host of cultural radicals at the explosive intersection of punk, performance, literature and the avant-garde.

Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias.

🗓️ Fri 11 Sep, 6:30pm
🔗 Book tickets: rb.gy/cp56ms

Part of a landmark programme of restored and rediscovered films tracing Howard Brookner’s legacy, 11 – 13 September.

🚨 Final call for emerging producers, artists and cultural organisers! We're looking for three Young Schemers to support ...
30/08/2026

🚨 Final call for emerging producers, artists and cultural organisers! We're looking for three Young Schemers to support ICA Creatives × RESOLVE ✨

This is an opportunity to work alongside the ICA team and RESOLVE Collective to help shape a welcoming, inclusive and artist-led public programme. As a Young Schemer, you’ll support participants throughout their year-long ICA Creatives programme, gaining hands-on experience in producing, facilitation and artist development within a major arts institution.

🗓️ Apply by 31 August
📍 Open to ages 22–30
🔗 Full job description + application details: rb.gy/8b51wq

Image: Jana Dardouk

30/08/2026

PVA’s dark, visceral electronics fuse tension with hard-won optimism. Since their acclaimed debut Blush, the London trio have become one of the UK’s most intriguing live acts.

Their new album No More Like This pushes their sound further, blending R&B, alt-rock, weirdo-pop and experimental electronica. Here them live and in the round at ICA on 23 October 📌

Tickets going fast 🎫 Get yours: rb.gy/z7d2vv

Supported by d&b audiotechnik

💘 GLUE Book Fair returns in September, and we’re spotlighting some of the independent publishers joining us this year.El...
29/08/2026

💘 GLUE Book Fair returns in September, and we’re spotlighting some of the independent publishers joining us this year.

Elastic is an award-winning print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, publishing work that bends time, genre and perspective and otherwise breaks form. Their latest Interspecies Issue explores porous selves, ecological grief and the strange and sublime experience of being alive among other living things.

Able Zine is a publication and creative agency by disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent creatives, platforming disability culture and challenging ableism through arts and media. They create print, digital and event-based work that centres disabled perspectives and legacies.

Public Knowledge Books is an independent distributor and Walthamstow bookshop championing emerging and established publishers and under-represented voices across architecture, poetry, activism, food and more. Their GLUE selection brings together zines, literature, photobooks and magazines exploring contemporary and underground cultures.

Library Mothership® is a London-based independent library founded by artist Athena Mothership, collecting and archiving books on visual media, non-human life, technology and its infrastructures. Expect strange, rare and fascinating books spanning art, philosophy, nature, manuals, recipes and encyclopaedias.

📚 GLUE 2026, 12 & 13 Sep
💸 Free entry

For the final screening in our film programme accompanying Elisa Giardina Papa's solo exhibition, filmmaker and curator ...
29/08/2026

For the final screening in our film programme accompanying Elisa Giardina Papa's solo exhibition, filmmaker and curator Valentina Manzoni presents five short films centring archipelagos and their histories of dispossession.

Featuring:
The Coast, dir. Sohrab Hura, India, 2020, 17 min
Nöbetçi (The Watchman), dir. Ali Cherri, Italy/France, 2024, 26 min
a so-called archive, dir. Onyeka Igwe, Nigeria/UK, 2020, 20 min
Journey to a Land Otherwise Known, dir. Laura Huertas Millán, Colombia/France, 2011, 22 min
Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word, dir. Coco Fusco, USA, 2021, 12 min

📍 Wed 2 Sep, 6:30pm
🎟️ Limited tickets: rb.gy/wtmu2o

🎬 New releases in the cinema🐂 Matador – Pedro Almodóvar's erotic thriller explores the intimate relationship between ple...
28/08/2026

🎬 New releases in the cinema

🐂 Matador – Pedro Almodóvar's erotic thriller explores the intimate relationship between pleasure, desire and death.

🫦 I Want Your S*x – A directionless twentysomething gets entangled with a provocative artist in a relationship that pushes his desires and boundaries.

🧙🏻‍♀️ Kiki’s Delivery Service — Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved coming-of-age classic follows a young witch who starts a delivery service, and loses her ability to fly when self-doubt takes hold.

✨ Coming soon: Late Fame and Sherman’s March 🔗 rb.gy/5qey2c

At the centre of Claude Chabrol's films is a simple proposition: beneath the surface of ordinary life, something has alr...
28/08/2026

At the centre of Claude Chabrol's films is a simple proposition: beneath the surface of ordinary life, something has already begun to unravel.

Presented alongside the BFI retrospective, we’re excited to present Claude Chabrol: Elements of Crime – a season bringing together seven defining works by one of French cinema’s most incisive filmmakers.

Patient, precise and laced with mordant humour, Chabrol’s thrillers expose the tensions simmering beneath relationships, families and communities, with an unsparing eye.

🗓️ 11 – 25 September
🔗 Discover the programme + book: rb.gy/vercc5

The first stage of our cinema upgrades is complete! 🎬 Thanks to the incredible support of the ICA community, Cinema 1 & ...
27/08/2026

The first stage of our cinema upgrades is complete! 🎬

Thanks to the incredible support of the ICA community, Cinema 1 & 2 now have new carpets, improved soundproofing, and automatic masking for the screens. Soon we’ll install new screens in both cinemas, ready for our upcoming Shōhei Imamura retrospective.

There’s more work to do – if you’d like to help us to develop our venue and programme ambitious new work across film, music, and the visual arts, please consider making a donation 🔗 rb.gy/nmyr58

27/08/2026

Last chance to visit She Flickered In and Out of History ⌛

In 1831, a volcanic landform emerged between Sicily and Tunisia, sparking a sovereignty dispute before disappearing back beneath the sea just six months later.

Accompanied by a score by duendita and a poem by Megan Fernandes, Elisa Giardina Papa’s 18-minute video work and glass installation revisits this extraordinary episode, exploring the island’s elemental refusal.

Closing 6 September, 2026.

🎟️ Book online or buy tickets on the door
💙 £4 Under 25s

In association with Mute (MUTE), we’re pleased to announce that Duet Emmo will join ICA’s October In the Round series fo...
27/08/2026

In association with Mute (MUTE), we’re pleased to announce that Duet Emmo will join ICA’s October In the Round series for a world premiere performance.

The sole collaboration between The Normal’s Daniel Miller and Wire’s Graham Lewis and B.C. Gilbert, Duet Emmo first assembled at Blackwing Studio in London nearly 45 years ago to record Or So It Seems – an assemblage of electronic sound collage, drone and abstract art pop.

Their pioneering hybrid electronics are reflected in the project’s name – an anagram of Mute and Dome – and in the album’s striking artwork: a collage by the Brothers Quay, redesigned by Bart van Damme.

Nearly four and a half decades after they first came together, Duet Emmo will perform live for the first time in the round, and using d&b Soundscape, the venue’s 360° spatial soundsystem.

🧷 Tue 27 Oct, 7:30pm
🎫 Tickets on-sale 28 August, 10am
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