Fiona Banner lives and works in London. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002 and her installation Harrier and Jaguar, for which she placed two fighter planes in the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain, was in 2010. The artist’s work centres on the problems and possibilities of language, both written and metaphorical. … Stanley Picker Public Lectures 2014 at ICA London: Fiona Banner
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (b. 1973, London) is a British artist whose practice intertwines performance, sculpture, painting, installation and video. Chetwynd’s performances and videos harness elements of folk plays, street spectacles, music videos and surrealist cinema. They generally employ troupes of performers—friends and relatives of the artist—and feature handmade costumes and props. Through meandering, improvisatory and … Stanley Picker Public Lectures 2014 at ICA London: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
Katrin Plavcak was born in Gütersloh, Germany in 1970 and was raised in Zeltweg, Austria. The artist graduated from the Federal Academy for Social Work in Vienna in 1995 and from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, after which she spent several study periods abroad in Africa, the United States and China. She … Stanley Picker Public Lectures 2014 at ICA London: Katrin Plavčak
Stephan Dillemuth sees art and its distinct qualities as a tool for research and critical reflection of the circumstances of contemporary life. With its inherent methods of reflection, analysis, and experimentation, art, he believes, creates beauty, but it also has the potential to change society. His inquiry into recent changes in the idea of the … Stanley Picker Public Lectures 2014 at ICA London: Stephan Dillemuth
Artist Andy Holden is currently staging his solo exhibition Maximum Irony! Maximum Sincerity! 1999-2003: Towards a Unified Theory of MI!MS at Spike Island, Bristol, having developed the project during the period of his Stanley Picker Fellowship at Kingston University. The exhibition investigated a manifesto Holden and friends wrote and distributed as teenagers for a self-initiated … Music of M!MS Performance at the Rose Theatre
10 Faces of Anna is a playful exploration of the multi-layered nature of identity and perception through a series of ten fictional monologues performed by a single actress. Like snapshots, these portraits invite the viewer to fill in the gaps in the story. Is there such a thing as a reliable narrator or an objective … 10 Faces of Anna
‘the suburbs are self-medicating, the suburbs are hallucinating, England is hallucinating’ In 2011 it was the suburbs that saw the most dramatic displays of collective violence. In Croydon, Edmonton, Catford, Streatham, the barriers broke down and the suburbs suddenly became porous, territorial markers melted and the streets became the site of collective engagement with the … Seroxat, Smirnoff, THC
Launch Event: 2-4pm Saturday 31 May / All Welcome “Seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, living, all these wait to be made fecund by an innocent potency.“Irigaray (Elemental Passions, 1992) Taking its title from Luce Irigaray’s interrogation of language and love, this exhibition features artists working with photography and conceptual practices, including archival 1970s and 1980s works … Your Tongue In My Mouth
The London Shape is the name attributed to the particular shape of teapots and cups characterized by a fanciful design, based upon Grecian ornamentation, that appeared in 1812 to almost instant popularity and became dominant over the common Bute by 1820. An observer of urban life, artist and Stanley Picker Fellow Nicole Wermers (now nominated … The London Shape