ICA Experiences
Cinema
free drinks offered in the bar for the person that can name the member of staff caught shagging on the cinema stage
happened: 1996 ish by: bud light

me and allison and phillip went to see 'superstar' which is that film about karen carpenter with the barbie dolls. although this was about 8 or 9 years ago i can still crack them up by saying 'but ken....... im constipated'

its one of the greatest films of all time.
happened: 1991 by: betty snake

i went to see 'mccabe and mrs miller' with hunny. it was very cold in the cinema but the film was absolutely fucken amazing. i think it was when we had all the snow and we went toboganning in springfield park in clapton on the big chrome armchair
happened: 1989 by: betty snake

when i was still disabled and had post traumatic stress disorder i ran out of money at work and i couldnt get the bus anywhere or any lunch. then i went to meet my lovely friend phillip to go and see a film about a soap opera scriptwriter with alexis arquette in it. we went and had a spliff under the big horse statue opposite the ica. i felt so happy with my lovely friends. afterwards, mike gave us a lift back to hackeny in his yellow mini and showed us these amazingly strong condoms that he'd been handing out in public toilets in greenwich. they were german.
happened: 1994 by: betty snake

when i was still disabled and had post traumatic stress disorder i ran out of money at work and i couldnt get the bus anywhere or any lunch. then i went to meet my lovely friend phillip to go and see a film about a soap opera scriptwriter with alexis arquette in it. we went and had a spliff under the big horse statue opposite the ica. i felt so happy with my lovely friends. afterwards, mike gave us a lift back to hackeny in his yellow mini and showed us these amazingly strong condoms that he'd been handing out in public toilets in greenwich. they were german.
happened: 1994 by: betty snake

once i took some acid. then the next day i went to see manufacturing consent which is the noam chomsky film. it was very good, if a little long.
happened: 1992 by: betty snake

I was seventeen and I wanted to be sophisticated, so I went on this date to see a Wim Wenders film.

Fifteen years later met her again at a rock festival in Germany.
happened: 80 by: Walter

in 1993 i went for a second interview at the ica as live art officer
i was sent up stairs in the lift and had to share it with a proper looking man in a suit
i farted badly and it was only during my interview that i realised that he was the then chairman of the ica
i did not get the job
the lift is a very small one
lois keiden was the successful candidate - a am sure this is because she does nto suffer from flatulence
happened: 93 by: mike stubbs

I now work at the ICA but I was invited to see a film at the cinema
with a friend at a time when I had hardly ever visited the building
before. This was one of my older friends who has always taken a
slightly parental stance towards me in our friendship, probably
due to her meeting and haveing alot in common with my mother.
She asked me to come and see 'Super 8 and a Half' with her which
she told me on the phone before was a comedy according to the bullitin.
For those of you who havent had the pleasure this is a 'art'porn film,
boys and girls, boys and boys, girls and girls + toys. Only two other
people sat quietly at the back of the cinema while we had chosen seats in
the front row. At the time it was quiet an eye opener and we did stay till
the end, mostly I think due to my friends embarasment. Afterwards there was
a sucession of explainations and apologies from my fiend to me which were not
at all nessesary. She finished with "don't tell your mother it was me how
brought you" and I think she still feels badly responsible to this day regardless
of anything I can say.
So that was my introduction to the ICA and I haven't been able to keep away since.
happened: not sure by: ****

I managed to persuade my brother to see "FRISK" with me.
I had warned him about the content. I am Bi-sexual - he is straight. Throughout the film he just sat erect - not moving an inch.
After he said he found it interesting.
We then put our heads into the art gallery (Modern Italian )
saw an Ostritch with its head in the sand - looked at each other with dismay and left
happened: nov 97 by: james Burden