September 9, 2022–January 8, 2023
601 W Broad St
23220 Richmond VA
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–5pm,
Friday 10am–9pm
dana washington-queen: Resume at the Point of Interruption
September 9, 2022–January 8, 2023
What are freedom’s possibilities? Where can it be found; what does it feel like? Such questions animate the video installations, collages, and sculptures included in Resume at the Point of Interruption, an exhibition of new works by dana washington-queen, a lens-based artist who uses writing and video-making as an inquiry into freedom and escape. Resume at the Point of Interruption is curated by Afrikana Film Festival founder and curator Enjoli Moon.
Related programs
Saturday, September 17, 2–3pm: dana washington-queen in conversation with artist Leila Weefur.
Friday, September 23, 6–8pm: dana washington-queen in a roundtable discussion with midwife Racha Tahani Lawler Queen, designer and musician Colin Palmer, and sound artist John Dombroski.
Naima Green: I Keep Missing My Water
September 9, 2022–January 8, 2023
I Keep Missing My Water continues artist Naima Green’s ongoing documentation of intimacy in Black and queer communities. Photographs of bodies of water across the US are shown alongside custom vinyl wallpaper, videos, sound installations, and gathered ephemera to create a boundless environment that doubles as a living archive of community, ritual, and tenderness. I Keep Missing My Water is curated by ICA Curator Amber Esseiva.
Related programs
Thursday, November 3, 1–4pm: Workshop and discussion led by Naima Green and poet, essayist, and educator Ica Sadagat.
Friday, Nov 4, 4–7pm: A public portrait studio organized by Naima Green and VCUarts.
Rafael Domenech: The Medium is the Massage
September 9, 2022–June 18, 2023
Visitors to artist Rafael Domenech’s The Medium is the Massage can become authors, readers, editors, and publishers when they enter this continuously transforming publication-pavilion. The living space turns the art gallery from a site of passive reception into a site of active production, right up until it closes, when the public will be invited to take the project’s remains out of the gallery and into their homes. The Medium is the Massage is a new commission curated by ICA Senior Curator Sarah Rifky.
The Medium is the Massage part of Misread Unread Reread Reread Misread Unread Reread (MURRMUR), a year-long curatorial framework and publishing program committed to expanding how we think about exhibitions and what it means to read, publish, and distribute art, books, and ideas. Developed at the ICA in conversation with artists and educators, MURRMUR seeks to break down, massage, map, and circulate information through experiments, improvisations, and alternative curriculums. This Fall MURRMUR showcases programs by Nicole Killian on November 17 and Riley Hooker on December 7 and is curated by ICA Assistant Curator of Commerce and Publications Egbert Vongmalaithong.
Wavelength
Artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme kick off the fall season of ICA’s online lecture series Wavelength on September 20, followed by artist and independent curator Patrice Aphrodite Helmar on November 15. (Registration required.)
Wavelength invites artists, designers, curators, and scholars from around the world to share their work and ideas with the public in free online talks. The series is a collaboration between VCUarts, the ICA, and VCUarts Qatar.
Test Pattern
Composer, choreographer, and artist Kinlaw opens the fall season of the ICA’s hybrid performance series Test Pattern on October 21 with a new work translating intimate memories into movement, spoken word, and sound. Next in the series, multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood takes the stage on December 9.
Inspired by the legacy of public-access TV and alternative video movements in the US, Test Pattern invites visiting artists to use the ICA auditorium as an experimental production studio and space for music, movement, activism, collaboration with the local community, and deep conversations. Their week-long residencies culminate in a live performance and internet broadcast.
For more details on all of our fall programs, please visit icavcu.org.
