// MARCH

Closing This Month: Brian Weil, Glitter and Folds, and Open Video Call will be on view through the end of this month, closing March 31st.

What They're Saying:
What seems intangible becomes physically material in [Glitter and Folds], so come prepared to be dazzled.
— Lin Zheng, 34th Street

Weil's deep engagement with his subjects [emerges] through his characteristic scrim of grainy film. And though time and tragedy now separate us from his dark beauty and charisma, the gulf will be partially bridged by the catalogue's texts.
— Donald Moffett, Artforum

On View Through July 28: White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart

installation images: photos by Aaron Igler / Greenhouse Media

// WITH TOMORROW'S SUN:
A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE AND POETRY

Wednesday, March 13, 6:30pm

Enter the ICA for a historical unfolding of the cultural capital of glitter, a surfacing of shimmering abandon at times of political and economic precariousness. The festivities will begin with a site-specific performance in ICA's Project Space by artist Field Kallop: and upon each stood a siren, borne around in its revolution (2013). The performance will be followed by a talk on the exhibition Glitter and Folds by 2011-2013 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow Jennifer Burris in ICA's auditorium. Philadelphia poet Frank Sherlock—author of Over Here (2009) and The City Real & Imagined (with CAConrad, 2010)—will conclude the evening with a reading of his utopian verse.

image: Weegee (Arthur Fellis), The Gold Painted Stripper, ca. 1940. Courtesy of the International Center of Photography. Getty Images. Special thanks to Erin Barnett, Assistant Curator, International Center of Photography.

// EXCURSUS IV: PRIMARY INFORMATION // OPENING PROGRAM

With Performances By Alan Licht and C. Spencer Yeh
Wednesday, March 20, 6:30pm

Leading up to ICA's 50th anniversary in Fall 2013, Primary Information has been invited to delve into our archive and reflect on its contemporary potential. Through an engagement with ICA's own critical history of publishing, Primary Information's project will unfold over the coming weeks with a series of events in the installation and interventions on the Excursus website. Join us for an opening program featuring performances by experimental musicians Alan Licht and C. Spencer Yeh. Follow the project at Excursus.

// PENNDESIGN FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES AT ICA
MARY REID KELLEY AND PATRICK KELLEY

Thursday, March 21, 6:30pm

Hear directly from artists about the ideas, obstacles, evolutions, and retrenchments that inform their work.

Mary Reid Kelley was born in South Carolina in 1979. She studied Art and Women's Studies at St. Olaf College and received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2009. She has had solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London. The videos she makes in collaboration with her husband, new media artist Patrick Kelley, have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, and Art in America. An interest in language, literature, and history informs their work, which combines video, poetry, animation, performance, and painting. The making of their project The Syphilis of Sisyphus (2011) was documented in Season Six of Art21, episode "History."

// FREE FOR ALL // AN EXPANSIVE EVENING OF ART AND MUSIC

With Artists Trevor Paglen and Patterson Beckwith
Wednesday, March 27, 6:30pm

Question notions of meaning and perception with Trevor Paglen as he joins ICA's Student Board to discuss his project The Last Pictures. Following the presentation, have your Polaroid taken in Patterson Beckwith's portable portrait studio and enjoy live music from Philadelphia's Pet Milk. As always, we will have tasty local treats. This event is organized in conjunction with Penn's year-long investigation of "proof."

images: (l to r) Trevor Paglen, Dead Military Navigation Satellite (COSMOS 985) Near the Disk of the Moon, 2012, C-print, 44 x 36 inches, Edition of 5. (MP# 52). Patterson Beckwith, from Portrait Studio.

// PENN MFA LIGHTNING LECTURES

Thursday, March 28, 6:30pm

Join the Penn Fine Arts MFA candidates for an evening of five-minute lectures. First-year students will share topics of interest from their artistic research and outside elective courses in the University. Graduating students will present the key works of their thesis.

// MIRANDA // THE ICA BLOG

This week Miranda listens to a conversation about the complications and ambivalence in Brian Weil's AIDS photographs—grainy, scratched, blown out, riveting—and learns what a difficult photograph has to do.

"I worked with Brian for a year before I knew he was an artist," Ric says...

// Read more...

To stay up to date with all of ICA's complications, email miranda@icaphila.org

image: Brian Weil, Woman with AIDS at Baragwana Hospital, Soweto, South Africa, 1990. Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Brian Weil Archive.