ICA Archive - Institute of Contemporary Arts

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Information and resources on "ICA Archive" at Tate Online.

The Tate Archive holds the archive of the Institute of Contemporary Arts from 1947 to 1987. The archive is an incredibly rich resource for anyone interested in the visual arts, theatre and performance art, dance, critical thought, music and sound art, and film. As well as providing a record of events, the ICA’s publicity material reflects the changes in graphic design through the decades, and the correspondence and press-cuttings document British society’s changing attitudes to contemporary art.

The ICA’s archive has now been catalogued and the catalogues are available online. To celebrate this, and the ICA’s 60th Anniversary, this microsite has been created to give a flavour of the history of the ICA and its documentary evidence. The ICA archive is also available to view by making an appointment at the Hyman Kreitman Research Centre.

Explore the ICA archive using the interactive timeline below.

ICA Timeline

 

 

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• The first nuclear weapon built & tested (1945)
• American director Kenneth Anger shows his films at ICA for first time in UK (1955)
• First transatlantic telephone cable goes into service (1956)

• Radical architectural thinking becomes a key component of the ICA (1960)
• Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous "I Have A Dream" speech (1963)
• Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin are the first men on the moon (July 1969)
• Joseph Beuys spends 8 hours a day at the ICA in dicussion
   with the general public during an exhibition (1974)
• Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister of Great Britain (1979)
• Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace Prize (1979)

• ICA opens the Cinematheque & Video library (1981)
• AIDS virus is discovered (1984)
• Thousands occupy Tiananmen Square in Peking (1989)
• The "World Wide Web" started up for home use (1992)
• World's first successfully cloned mammal - Dolly the sheep (1997)
• ICA opens their new digital New Media Centre (1997)