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ICA Live Art Festival 2026

This October, the Institute for Creative Arts' (ICA) Live Art Festival returns for its eighth edition, with around 30 free performances and installations in Cape Town's streets, gardens and public spaces from 14 to 18 October 2026.
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Great Text / Big Questions 2026

An in-depth Great Texts/Big Questions talk with Tiffany E. Barber on Kara Walker’s public sculptures, Black women’s visual representation, and the ethics of art, memory, and trauma. Followed by a conversation with Portia Malatjie.
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Rhodes Must Fall Dialogue Series

Rhodes Must Fall Dialogue Series

Join the ICA in collaboration with the Rhodes Must Fall Feminist Collective and African Gender Institute at UCT's Centre for African Studies (CAS) Gallery for dialogue one, commemorating ten years of the Rhodes Must Fall movement.
restless-infection

Restless Infection book OUT NOW!

The book stems from the popular Infecting the City public art festival, symbolising the persistent state of restlessness in a city still grappling with the legacies of colonialism, inequality and racial segregation.
ICA Restless Infections 2023

PUBLICATION: Restless Infections

Restless Infections is a book comprising new critical essays that analyse seminal artistic engagements with place-making and the politics of space.

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