fig-2 was a programme of 50 projects that took place across 50 consecutive weeks at the ICA Studio in London in 2015. fig-2 was a revival of fig-1, a ground-breaking exhibition programme conceived and developed by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling in 2000. The project presented 50 exhibitions in 50 weeks in a room in Fragile House in Soho, London. Fifteen years later, curator Fatos Ustek worked within the same exhibition structure with an energetic and ambitious interpretation, embracing the precedent of an interdisciplinary programme and opening it beyond contemporary art practice, to encapsulate the humanities and sciences. fig-2 was an exhibition with a rare pace, allowing in-depth engagement with a single project within a rapidly changing, energetic programme.
1/50 5th-11th January - Laura Eldret - '3 ; The Juicers'
2/50 12th-18th January - Charles Avery - 'Untitled (Dihedra)'
3/50 19th-25th January - Hiraki Sawa - 'Did I?', 'Lineament'
4/50 26th January - 1st February - Simon Welsh - 'Poetic Portraits'
5/50 2nd-8th February - Rebecca Birch - 'Lichen Hunting on the West Coast'
6/50 9th-15th February - Young InHong - 'In Her Dream'
7/50 16th-22nd February - Claire Hooper, Maria Loboda - 'The God Storage Unit', 'The Totality of Everything that Exists (Error)' 'Weapons Are Stashed Securely for an Unknown Future' 'Movements That Mattered (Gold Edition)'
8/50 23rd February - 1st March - Edmund Cook - 'Enumerators'
9/50 2nd-8th March - Deborah Coughlin with Gaggle - 'Yap! Yap! Yap!'
10/50 9th-15th March - Annika Ström - 'Six Lovely People'
11/50 16th-22nd March - Beth Collar
12/50 23rd-29th March - Tom Mcarthy
13/50 30th March-5th April - Shezad Dawood - 'The Room'
14/50 6th-12th April - Suzanne Treister - 'Hexen 2.0'
15/50 13th-19th April - The White Review
16/50 20th-26th April - Jacopo Miliani
17/50 27th April - 3rd May - Charlotte Moth - 'The Story of a Different Thought'
19/50 11th-17th May - Ruth Beale - 'Library of Future Societies'
20/50 18th-24th May - David Cheeseman, Ole Hagen, Roberto Trotta - 'All There Was'
21/50 25th-31st May - The Rot of the Stars - 'Residue'
22/50 1st-7th June - Marjolijn Dijkman - 'LUNÄ Talks'
23/50 8th-14th June - Block Universe: Eva Rothschild, Joe Moran 'A Setup'
24/50 15th-21st June - Ben Judd - 'Apart, We Are Together'
25/50 22nd-28th June - Cecilia Bengolea, Celia Hempton, Prem Sahib
26/50 29th June - 5th July - Anne Hardy - 'RRMMMPH, HUOOGHG, OP, MMMUUOOW, IP'
27/50 6th-12th July - Karen Mirza - 'The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism'
28/50 13th-19th July - Patrick Coyle, Francesco Pedraglio
29/50 20th-26th July - POSTmatter
30/50 27th July - 2nd August - Anna Barham
31/50 3rd-9th August - Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin
32/50 10th-16th August - Oreet Ashery
33/50 17th-23rd August - El Ultimo Grito
34/50 24th-30th August - Veronika Hauer - 'Semaphore Dance'
35/50 31st August - 6th September - Amy Stephens
36/50 7th-13th September - Eva Grubinger - 'Black Diamond Bay'
37/50 14th-20th September - Melanie Manchot - '11/18'
38/50 21st-27th September - Josh Wright, Guillaume Vandame
39/50 28th September - 4th October - Darren Bader - 'Study for Audio/Music'
40/50 5th-11th October - Una Knox
41/50 12th-18th October - FOS - 'Maggie Margaret Lives'
42/50 19th-25th October - Bruce McLean
43/50 26th October - 1st November - Karin Kihlberg, Reuben Henry - 'This Building, This Breath'
44/50 2nd-8th November - Donuts
45/50 9th-15th November - Lynne Marsh
46/50 16th-22nd November - Vesna Petresin
47/50 23rd-29th November - Allison Katz
48/50 30th November - 6th December - Seth Ayyaz - 'Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness'
49/50 7th-13th December - Manuel Mathieu
50/50 14th-20 December - Laura Eldret - 'The Juicers'
This project was supported by fig-2 patrons, Bicester Village and Phillips.
