Experience Afterlife, a choreographic work by the Danish artist Louis Schou-Hansen. The performance will explore narratives previously muted by Western colonialism and anti-queer perspectives. The choreography dives into a wide referential landscape of dance, touching on the late Italian Renaissance to distorted yoga gone wrong, with subtle hints to Britney Spears’ 2005 hit “Hit me baby one more time”. Afterlife will be at the ICA on 26-27 April. Photo: Chai Saeidi
Find out more »Templates for Liberation is the UK’s first exhibition of artist Rheim Alkadhi. Addressing ongoing consequences of war and colonialism in present-day Iraq and the region at large, this exhibition presents sculptures, archival documentation, and emancipatory counter-histories. The ICA’s main gallery will feature a series of sculptures fabricated from the heavy-duty transport tarpaulins of cross-border industrial vehicles. These sculptures bear the traces of their transnational passage; the material itself embodies the environmental and sociopolitical violence consuming the region. The adjacent reading…
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