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The Institute for Creative Arts’ Archive Project
Since its founding in 2008, as the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), the Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) has produced a large range of interdisciplinary projects and scholarship.
As part of a decolonial imperative to create spaces for scholarship that dissolves taut disciplinary boundaries, the work has taken several forms such as:
- Interdisciplinary events - the 3rd Space Symposia, LAND, The Beautiful Project, Film and Dance, The Hot Water Festival, to name a few.
- Festivals - The ICA Live Art Festival and the Infecting the City Public Art Festival
- Networks such as the Live Art Network Africa
- Publications such as Acts of Transgression and Live Art in South Africa
- Concerts such as Music in the City
- Fellowship Programmes such as the Digital Fellowships (on ica.online.net)
- A Scholarship Programme for master's and PhD students in Live and Public Art.
- Public Lecture Series such as Great Texts/Big Questions and the Medical Humanities Series
- Podcast Series featuring artists who curate and create interdisciplinary Live Art
- Workshop Programmes for emerging interdisciplinary artists such as the Performance Art Workshop Series.
The archive of work that has been developed is extensive. Director of the ICA Jay Pather conceived a portal through which one may access and ‘touch’ parts of this vast archive. This has taken the form of vitrines or themes.
To open this archive, the first theme is Love as Ethic, Love as Action. Over time, more will follow such as:
- Republic | The Nation State
- trans –
- pre-post-per- FORM
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