Dear ICA LA Community,

Don’t miss our Open House celebration on Saturday, February 11 ushering in ICA LA’s spring season of exhibitions! In the main galleries we are featuring Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency, a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the life and enduring legacy of the revolutionary artist and musician Milford Graves. In the Elsa Longhauser Project Room, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork presents a new sound and sculptural installation in the form of a maze, marking the first museum solo exhibition by this Los Angeles-based artist. Commissioned for the ICA LA building façade, Christine Sun Kim: Bounce Back is a new outdoor mural by Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim whose work characteristically invokes American Sign Language (ASL) to deconstruct the politics of sound and the spoken word.

More details on the opening activities below, as well as information on the incredible month of programs ahead. We can’t wait to welcome you back!

Team ICA LA

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Upcoming Programs

ICA LA x CalArts
Anthony Paul Farley: Abolition & the Inversion of Surveillance
Friday, February 3, 7pm, In-person

In partnership with the School of Critical Studies, ICA LA and CalArts present Structures of Dissonance: Aesthetics Beyond Capital?, a three-part lecture series exploring the proposition that aesthetics should be utilized as a form of resistance to dominant power structures.

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Open House
Saturday, February 11, 3pm, In-person

Join ICA LA in celebrating our spring exhibitions. Activities kick off at 3pm with an Art Talk on Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency with exhibition curators Danielle A. Jackson (Artists Space, New York) and Mark Christman (Ars Nova Workshop, Philadelphia), moderated by Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, followed by a public reception from 4–6pm.

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A Museum for the Afterlife
Gala Porras-Kim + Mariana Fernández in Conversation 
Monday, February 13, 7pm, In-person

Join us for a conversation between artist Gala Porras-Kim and writer and curator Mariana Fernández. In her essay for the latest issue of X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, Fernández looks closely at Porras-Kim’s practice, which challenges museological norms in relation to the preservation and presentation of repatriated objects. The discussion will be moderated by Nora N. Khan, Executive Director of Project X Foundation, publisher of X-TRA.

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Introduction to ASL 
Saturday, February 18, 3pm, In-person

Learn a new language! Held monthly on Saturdays through July, ICA LA begins a new series of free introductory ASL courses led by Shmuel Khorsandi in partnership with the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness (GLAD).

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Performance: Tatsuya Nakatani
Presented in partnership with LAXART 
Sunday, February 19, 5pm, In-person

In conjunction with Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency, we invite you to an evening of live performance with the internationally celebrated avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound, Tatsuya Nakatani. Nakatani’s distinctive music is centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. Committed to improvisation and experimentation, Nakatani conceives of his sound as an arrangement of vibrations that are incorporated into shimmering layers of silence and texture.

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Artist POV Tour: Corey Fogel
Wednesday, February 22, 7pm, In-person

Join artist and percussionist Corey Fogel for an intimate point-of-view tour of Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. Like Graves, Fogel has maintained an interdisciplinary practice that examines music and its materiality. 

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Beats & Beats Thursdays: Zach Gotler
Thursday, February 23, 5pm, In-person

Celebrating Graves’s legacy in Los Angeles, Beats & Beats Thursdays features local percussionists who are invited to perform in dialogue with Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency. 

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MILATIDO: Nuestro Árbol 
Sunday, February 26, 12pm, In-person

Join us for the continuation of Nuestro Árbol (Our Tree) — a year-long cultural project examining our roots and our evolutionary growth into active, creative individuals in the world. Organized and led by artist Mercedes Gertz in collaboration with the youth community organization MILATIDO, visitors participate in grounding exercises, enjoy a meal, and contribute to the creation of Nuestro Árbol (Our Tree) with photographs, drawings, and other ephemera. All ages are encouraged to participate. 

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