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Welcome to ICIA

We present a mix of performances, exhibitions, talks, workshops and classes open to the general public alongside our student community, and are based on campus at the University of Bath.

This year ICIA is programming its events around a theme so far...

ICIA is an academic research centre commissioning new arts projects regionally and nationally, as well as providing training for artists, arts professionals, academics and educators with an emphasis on interdisciplinary practice. This spring/summer season's brochure is available as a pdf. Our autumn/winter season will open for booking in early September, join our e-bulletin to stay up to date.

 

University Arts Organisations:

STUDENTS UNION: ICIA supports all student led SU societies who provide arts activities for their members.
The HOLBURNE: One of the country's great small museums The Holburne Museum of Art in Bath is closing this summer for a major development project, it is due to reopen in Autum 2010.

 

What's on

>> Talks >>

Seminar - Summoning the Past

Summoning the Past

To mark the opening of Alison Marchant's exhibition Charged Atmospheres and Gob Squad's performance Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) this seminar teases out shared themes around spatialisation, documentation and historical moment.

5 Jul - Full details

 

>> Theatre >>

Gob Squad - Kitchen
You've Never Had It So Good

Gob Squad

Gob Squad set themselves the task of reconstructing Andy Warhol's seminal film, Kitchen, despite the fact that none of them have seen it as it is unavailable for viewing these days.

5 Jul - Full details

 

>> Autumn Season >>

A new season of events starts in September.

 

University chooses architects
for campus arts complex

The University of Bath has chosen architects firm McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) to develop designs for its proposed new interdisciplinary arts complex on campus.

Picture of ICIA redevelopment model
 
 

>> Current Exhibitions >>

Tim Brennan

Tim Brennan

A series of atmospheric photographs taken on a low-resolution mobile phone camera depict the North Sea, where most of the North's un-mined coal still resides.

19 Apr - 1 Aug

Full details

 

Alison Marchant

Alison Marchant

Alison Marchant’s fading photographs of once grand interiors, now abandoned and decaying, emphasise the passing of time.

5 Jul - 31 Oct

Full details