Hear directly from artists about the processes, ideas, and obstacles that inform their work. Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have been collaborating since 1995, exploring ideas of authorship, nationality, borders, democracy, and global society. They utilize sculpture, photography, video, performance, and sound to create metaphors and experiments that explore the relationship between an object and…

Hear directly from artists about the processes, ideas, and obstacles that inform their work. Sharon Hayes utilizes video, performance, and installation to investigate the intersections of history, politics and speech. Many of her works put the viewer between acts of public and private speech or make the viewer navigate different political rhetorics and historical periods.…

The season’s second Salon engaged taboo as a subject and strategy in the work of Jason Rhoades and centered around Rhoades’s notorious, storied, interactive final project: the Black Pussy Soirée Cabaret Macramé. Each of the three participants approached this series of charged events, staged in the artist’s Los Angeles studio, from different vantage points and…

Penn History of Art PhD candidate Anastasia Amrhein led an intimate conversation over complimentary La Colombe coffee prompted by the themes in Jason Rhoades, Four Roads. Organic systems versus manmade systems, systems of power and of commerce: Rhoades made use of many kinds of systems in the ideas and structures of his art. This conversation…

Hear directly from artists about the processes, ideas, and obstacles that inform their work. Tim Davis is a photographer whose work explores how the medium of photography can reveal and obscure its subjects–light, objects, and the culture being documented. His project topics include politics, suburban antiquity, light, and commercial signs, among others. He received his…

This World Aids Day, join ICA and more than 8,000 organizations nationwide in an annual campaign to draw attention to the work of artists living with HIV/AIDS and art about AIDS. During gallery hours, boogie to Visual AIDS’s disco-infused Spotify playlist and read fierce pussy’s For the Record posters, which express thoughts about those who…

The season’s final Salon brought together two curators and a conservator to talk about the systems involved when a complex body of work moves from the contemporary to the historical—a topic peculiarly relevant to the work in ICA’s current exhibition Jason Rhoades, Four Roads. Founder of Contemporary Conservation Ltd. Christian Scheidemann described some of the…