LONDON, ENGLAND.-The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents London in Six Easy Steps: Six Curators, Six Weeks, Six Perspectives, on view through Sunday September 25, 2005. Six London-based curators, representing a diverse range of curatorial approaches, have been invited by ICA Exhibitions to present their interpretation of the current artistic and cultural life of London.

Each curator has been asked to organise a one-week long exhibition in the Lower Gallery of the ICA identifying the shifting realities that make up the city from their particular perspective.

London in Six Easy Steps attempts to examine London as it is today, to make sense of how the city’s social and political imperatives condition the production, presentation and interpretation of art. After a decade dominated by what came to be known as the Young British Artists London has over recent years, begun to accept the global condition of today’s art world. While other narratives in London’s art context were overshadowed by the market-driven practice of the 1990s, in particular those with unfamiliar cultural and theoretical origins, the success of the media-savvy UK-based artists of the 1990s is revealing of the particular nature of the London art world.

Both these overlooked histories, and the forces driving the mainstream of the London art scene are of significance to London in Six Easy Steps, which has deliberately been conceived to allow for multiple viewpoints, mirroring the diversity and fragmentation of contemporary art production and its discourse in London. The sequence of six quickly changing exhibitions of London in Six Easy Steps will refer to the constantly changing fabric of London, a city that is characterised by a multi-layered and shifting urban landscape, and a nascent contemporary art scene that has yet to establish its terrain.

Each exhibition runs from Tuesday to Sunday (closed Monday). Every Tuesday at 7.30pm in the Upper Gallery, the curators will give a personal introduction to their exhibition, and discuss what lies behind their particular approach to the exhibition.