The exhibition is being curated by English art critic Guy Brett, who was recently a Visiting Scholar in Art History at Harvard University. The exhibition is the fourth in a new series of shows organised by Jens Hoffman, Director of Exhibitions at the ICA London, with the ICA Exhibitions team. The series is entitled "London in Six Easy Steps: Six Curators, Six Weeks, Six Perspectives".

David Medalla's exhibition will feature large-scale prints in limited editions of a selection of Medalla's impromptus and performances in the last forty-five years. Three iconic sculptures by David Medalla will be on show: the exquisite "Micro -Merz -Bau: in homage to Kurt Schwitters" (a miniature study for a large-scale fountain); the Gold-Glazed Ceramic Incense Burner; and the micro-installation for David Medalla's Palindromic Play entitled "Tar Pot Eb Ot Woh". David Medalla's "Bubble Machine" of 1963 (the first work of auto-creative art) is illustrated in the book "Art Since 1900" by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Yve-Alain Bois. A vitrine in the exhibition will contain the three books of Eros-Arrows by London Biennale Artists, lovingly compiled by Spanish artist Marisol Cavia.

The exhibition opens on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, at 6 p.m., with a parade of Self-Portrait - Effigies by London Biennale artists, starting from the Eros statue on Piccadilly Circus in central London and culminating in the lower main gallery of the ICA on the Mall. Inside the gallery, Australian artist Adam Nankervis (founder & director of MUSEUM MAN of Liverpool and Berlin) will perform "The Midas Moth" in homage to David Medalla, co-founder with Nankervis of the MONDRIAN FAN CLUB. At 7:30 the same evening, Guy Brett will give a talk on David Medalla's art in the upper gallery of the ICA.

Throughout the time-span of the exhibition severalLondon Biennale artists will give performances. These include an afternoon of poetry readings and songs on Wednesday, September 7, 2005, featuring Chris Burke, Adrian Fisher, Ricardo Gaete, Jon Gershon, Roberta Kravitz, Luna Montenegro, Richard Niman, Sarah Reilly, Jill Rock, Ernesto Sarezale, and Tzuzumi.

On Thursday, September 7, 2005, David Medalla will continue his participatory art propulsion entitled "Destiny" which he began this summer on Brighton Beach in Sussex, England, during "Long Short Drift" organised by Katie Sollohub. German artist Andreas Uhl will do an intervention, followed at 6:30 p.m. with a performance entitled "Network" by Frauke Ehmke, supported by "Detour Consulting".

On Friday, September 9, 2005, throughout the afternoon, three London-based French artists (Regine Elliott, Geraldine Gallavardin and Cyril Lepetit) will give three separate performances. The occasion will also be the London launch of Cyril Lepetit's book, "Infidelites Respecteuses", published on the occasion of his solo show at the Centre Culturelle de Basse-Normandie in Caen, France.

On Saturday, September 10, 2005, there will be separate performances by English artists Jill Rock and Calum Kerr, Regine Elliott of France & Mabel Encinas of Cuba, Saso Stanojkovik from Macedonia, and Mmmm (Luna Montenegro from Santiago de Chile & Adrian Fisher from Camberwell, London).

On Sunday, September 11, 2005, at three in the afternoon, Mexican artist Raul Pina will give a performance, followed by a talk and slides-show by Gulsen Bal about Sexy Male Wrestling in her native Turkey. The talk will segue into the main event of the exhibition, which is being eagerly awaited by the art world in London: the COSMIC WRESTLING MATCH between Adam Nankervis (as "The Ghost of Joseph Beuys") versus David Medalla (as "The Spirit of Marcel Duchamp aka Rros Selavy"). The referee for this metaphorical wrestling match (a unique live event which will last several rounds) will be Guy Brett. The Gong Master will be Marko Stepanov. English artist James Moores will be the Bets Vetter aka The Bookie. The viola player will be Miles Christie. The seconds will be Dan Bourke, Gordon Johnstone and Tiago Slewinski. The ICA in London was the venue of a live event by Joseph Beuys, while the founders of the ICA (Sir Herbert Read and Roland Penrose) were personal friends of Marcel Duchamp. Nankervis and Medalla's Wrestling Match will be their Double-Homage to those two Masters of Modern Art.

After the wrestling match, there will be a Grand Dance of the Effigies. Among London Biennale artists living abroad who have sent Effigies for David Medalla's exhibition are American artists Reynolds, Raphael Norman-Tenazas and Nick Kuskin, and Canadian artists Nancy Petry and Bryan Mulvihill aka World Tea Master Trolley. Many London Biennale artists living in England have created a wonderful collection of beautiful Effigies. They will dance with their Effigies and exchange Effigies with one another after tossing them in the air with a hand-held trampoline made of a red silk cloth embroidered with celestial dragons. Filipino artist David Medalla, the founder and director of the London Biennale, has shown previously in the ICA London: in 1973 with American artist John Dugger, Banner Arts master and creator of the participatory project entitled "People Weave A House", and in 1978 with Catalan artist Oriol de Quadras, when they gave their multi-media performance entitled "Magellan and the Circumnavigation of the World".