JUN/JUL/AUG 2012
Exhibitions MUSIC LIVE ART DANCE FILM TALKS FAMILY EVENTS BOOKSHOP CAFÉ BAR arnolfini.org.uk
Contents Full listings of events and times are in the centrefold. Exhibitions
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MUSIC
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LIVE ART / DANCE / VIDEO
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course
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Lectures / workshops / conference
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Events
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BOOKSHOP
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VISIT US
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CAFÉ BAR / VENUE HIRE
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OPENING HOURS Exhibition spaces open: Tue - Sun & Bank Holiday Mon 11.00am - 6.00pm Bookshop: See page 18 for full details Olivia Plender, The Empire City, architectural model of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
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Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science fiction, from the opening scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey to the recent feature film, District 9, set in South Africa. The Western media still tends to depict the African continent as being in a perpetual state of crisis. As part of A Parallel Universe, the exhibition Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction sets out to describe a very different landscape, speculating on alternative trajectories to the European narrative, focusing instead upon the future.
Highlights
The experimental soundtrack from 2001: A Space Odyssey by GyĂśrgy Ligeti is the starting point for an On Listening event in June. In the same month we are delighted to welcome back Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, the avant-garde composer who first performed at Arnolfini in the 1970s, returning as part of the Elektrostatic festival. We also present a Full Moon Orchestra Space Odyssey Special, in which all are welcome to participate.
Tom Trevor. Photo: Sanghorn Jung
Participation and play are themes throughout the summer. Choreographer, Zoe Dimitriou's new work, You May!, considers how the social imperative 'you can, because you must' has become inverted to 'you must, because you can'. You and Your Work present the 100 Year Old Band, with participants from 0 to 100, and Our Daily Bread, a food-based performance for general consumption. In July Olivia Plender's exhibition, Rise Early, Be Industrious, examines different historical models of participation and mass education, from a games room of the British Empire to a 1970s-style TV Studio to the rise of Google. As well as a series of talks and debates, Young Arnolfini artists will be leading participatory events within the different spaces of the exhibition throughout the month of August. As ever, there are activities for families, including a Big Green Mash Up as part of Bristol's Big Green Week. Tom Trevor, Director
EXHIBITION
DAMIEN ROACH INFRA LION THROUGHOUT 2012 FREE
Current artist in residence Damien Roach has been invited to develop a large-scale new commission for the circulation spaces at Arnolfini that is slowly evolving throughout the year. Roach is creating a series of delicate interventions across the building with sound, temperature, scents, surface textures, light, and even staff behaviour and the graphic identity of Arnolfini altered to trigger subtle shifts in the reality of the environment. Including materials from a broad spectrum of culture, Roach's interventions alter our perception of the site and its context, referencing other public spaces, such as airport lounges and shopping centres, and introducing new narratives in the spatial script of Arnolfini. The title of the project, INFRA LION, is an anagram of Arnolfini's name.
A Parallel Universe is a year-long series of exhibitions, film, music, talks, performance, online projects and special events, exploring alternative realities and co-existing worlds. One of the central themes of popular entertainment today is the idea of a parallel universe. At the same time, in the context of globalisation, it is no longer possible to argue that there is one privileged reality. The new world order is made up of multiple conflicting realities existing side by side. A Parallel Universe explores the notion of multi-fold worlds - possible, parallel, fictional, desired worlds worlds different to the one we live in.
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Kiluanji Kia Hendra, Astronomy Observatory, Namibe Desert, 2007, part of the series Icarus 13. Digital Chromogenic Print.
EXHIBITION
SUPERPOWER AFRICA IN SCIENCE FICTION UNTIL SUN 1 JUL FREE
WITH… NEÏL BELOUFA, OMER FAST, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, KILUANJI KIA HENDA, MARK AERIAL WALLER, NEILL BLOMKAMP, WANURI KAHIU, THE ARPANET DIALOGUES.
EXHIBITION TOURS
Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction surveys the recent tendency for artists and filmmakers to create science fiction narratives situated in the African continent. Presenting works by artists based across the European and African continents, it considers the undercurrents for this particular tendency occurring in visual art today, and posits other and possible realities existing simultaneously, specifically elevating the need for vigilance towards the future over a concern for the past.
Join Arnolfini staff and invited speakers to hear more about, and discuss the exhibition.
Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science fiction - from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut District 9. Imagining a new space-time to the normal "third-worldist" representations of the so-called "Dark Continent" caught in a perpetual state of crisis, the works in this exhibition project an alternative landscape of possibilities.
SATURDAYS 2.00pm FREE / NO BOOKING REQUIRED / MEET IN ARNOLFINI FOYER
2 JUN Lizelle Bisschof, Professor of Contemporary African Cinema at University of Edinburgh.
9 JUN Sacha Waldron, Curatorial Fellow, Arnolfini.
16 JUN Fraisia Dunn, Lead Steward, Arnolfini.
23 JUN Al Cameron, Curator of Africa in Science Fiction, Arnolfini.
30 JUN AlterFutures: designing alternative futures.
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Wannri Kahiu, Pumzi, 2010, film still
film SCREENINGS AND WORKSHOPS ARTISTS FILM SCREENING: THE DESIRE CALLED UTOPIA & OTHER SCIENCE FICTIONS FREE THU 14 JUN 6.30pm Living in the 'century without a future', the utopian social projects of previous generations may now seem as distant as science fiction. Equally, in an age of total media dominance, might science fiction be the last remaining means of articulating the old shared-endeavour of the future? A programme of artists' films and videos will be followed by a discussion around these forms and issues with Al Cameron and Lucy Reynolds.
CINEMA WORKSHOP: MARTIANS OF AFRICA SAT 23 JUN 2.30pm - 6.00pm £12.00/£10.00 Concs Science fiction emerged during the height of European colonialism, and is profoundly shaped by it. But what happens, ask Mark Bould (UWE), Rehan Hyder (UWE) and Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck), if we take seriously the proposal, tentatively offered by Les Statues Meurent Aussi (Chris Marker & Alain Resnais 1953) and La Noire de… (Osumane Sembene 1966), to consider such films as works of science fiction? Join us to discuss and watch the films in this light.
Double bill: AFRICA PARADIS (18) & THE BLOODETTES (18) SAT 30 JUN 8.00pm £6.50/£5.00 Concs Africa Paradis imagines a future of European decline crisis, while a united Africa thrives. In this scenario, a French couple decide to emigrate to the United States of Africa in search of a better life. From then on, their life, and the world, is turned upside down as they experience life on the margins as illegal immigrants, precarious labourers and victims of political exploitation. Dir. Sylvestre Amoussou, Benin/France, 2006 1h 26m, Subtitled
+ Like Békolo's previous films, Quartier Mozart and Aristotle's Plot, Les Saignantes (The Bloodettes) is a surreal, genre-bending film that blends social satire with a longing for change. Set in 2025, it proposes a near future where today's corruption, cronyism, and sexual exploitation have only got worse. Two young women decide to seize the power of their own sexuality to combat those in power. Dir. Jean-Pierre Békolo, Cameroon/France, 2005, 1hr 37m, Subtitled
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EXHIBITION
OLIVIA PLENDER RISE EARLY, BE INDUSTRIOUS SAT 14 JUL - SUN 9 SEP
Rise Early, Be Industrious offers a series of colourful stage-like sets that invite investigation and playful interaction, whilst focussing on different ideas about education, with special attention to experimental models, their histories and contexts. Drawing on examples such as the educational remit of the BBC, the modern Spiritualist movement in the early 20th century and World's Exhibitions, Olivia Plender is interested in the specific ways in which societies imagine knowledge and its transmission. For the first time, the exhibition shows a series of Plender's room-sized installations, which include drawings, banners, and videos, as well as newly produced works, focusing on her research into the role of TV for mass education and experimental arts education in the UK. Other works investigate a contested side of participation - a culture of "self-improvement" and the neoliberal claim of "life-long learning". Olivia Plender's exhibition at Arnolfini is the second episode in a series of three exhibitions, in collaboration with Milton Keynes Gallery (20 Apr - 17 Jun) and CCA Glasgow (13 Oct - 15 Dec).
EVENTS SAT 14, 21, 28 JUL, 4, 11, 18,25 AUG & 1 SEP 3.00pm
FREE
Olivia Plender's installation, Open Forum, a full scale re-creation of a 1970s style TV studio, will serve as a space for meetings, discussions and events during the period of the exhibition. Every Saturday, a selected video programme will be screened, that has been developed in collaboration with the artist. For programme details, please contact the Box Office or visit Arnolfini's website.
DISCUSSION EVENT SAT 14 JUL 6.00pm
FREE
Olivia Plender will be in conversation with Chris Crickmay and David Harding about experimental art education in the UK, from Art and Environment at the Open University (1970s), the Art and Social Context course at Dartington (1978-85) and UWE, and the Environmental Art course at the Glasgow School of Art.
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Olivia Plender, Newsroom, Installation view, 'The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art,' Hessel Museum of Art, 2008, CCS Bard, New York
seminar
EXHIBITION TOURS
September
SATURDAYS 2.00pm
Arnolfini will host an international seminar exploring the notions of game and learning since the 1960s. This event will expand a social and theoretical framework of Olivia Plender's exhibition.
FREE / NO BOOKING REQUIRED / MEET IN ARNOLFINI FOYER Join Arnolfini staff and invited speakers to hear more about, and discuss the exhibition.
14 Jul Alice Kent, Learning and Participation Intern, Arnolfini.
28 Jul
OU TV
Claire Sharpe, Learning and Participation Intern, Arnolfini.
sun 5,12,19,26 AUG 2.00pm - 4.00pm Free, booking essential
4 Aug
For further information see page 16.
Sacha Waldron, Curatorial Fellow, Arnolfini.
Axel Wieder, Exhibitions Curator, Arnolfini.
11 Aug 18 Aug Bryony Gillard, Assistant Curator, Arnolfini.
25 Aug Robert Leckie, Curator, Gasworks, London.
1 Sep Megan Wakefield, Spike Island and UWE.
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John Cage, Variations VII
Öyvind Fahlström, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
9 EVENINGS: THEATRE & ENGINEERING WEEKLY WEDNESDAY SCREENINGS FROM 25 JULY
All at 6.30pm £3.00/£2.00 Concs
Arnolfini is pleased to present the first complete screening in the UK of 9 Evenings. In 1966 ten artists, including John Cage, Öyvind Fahlström and Yvonne Rainer, produced 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering - a series of innovative dance, music and theatre performances, developed in collaboration with engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories. These legendary events, held at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, in October 1966, were the culmination of extraordinary activity in art, dance and music in New York in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and an early moment of truly interdisciplinary artistic activities. The films present rarely seen archival material and reconstruct the artist's original work, together with interviews with the artists, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the work. The films were produced by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin for E.A.T. and edited by Barbro Schultz Lundestam. Titles and sound were created by Robert Rauschenberg.
Wed 25 Jul
Wed 8 Aug
Öyvind Fahlström: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Deborah Hay: Solo
71mins
Alex Hay: Grass Field
Steve Paxton: Physical Things
40mins
45mins
Introduced and discussed by director Barbro Schultz Lundestam, exhibiting artist Olivia Plender and other guests.
Wed 1 Aug John Cage: Variations VII
45mins
Wed 15 Aug Yvonne Rainer: Carriage Discreetness 40 mins
Robert Rauschenberg: Open Score 32mins
41mins
Wed 22 Aug
Lucinda Childs: Vehicle
David Tudor: Bandoneon! (a combine)
38mins
41mins
Robert Whitman: Two Holes of Water-3 Length tbc
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MUSIC
ELEKTROSTATIC FESTIVAL 2012 SUN 10 - TUE 12 JUN £12.00/£10.00 Concs each event unless otherwise stated £28.00/£22.00 Concs for festival pass (includes events at Colston Hall)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Photo: Martin Lengemann
Elektrostatic Festival 2012, at Arnolfini and Colston Hall, welcomes special guest Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (Master of The Queen's Music) to introduce and discuss his music. This year's events, curated by Richard Barnard, present contemporary music within a context of new technology, politics and protest: www.elektrostatic.org
FEED WORKSHOP SUN 10 JUN 12.00pm - 4.00pm
FREE, but booking required
An afternoon of experimental and exploratory listening, featuring the debut of Feed, a new multi-touch music app for ipad. During the show, a range of performers and audience members will use Feed to create improvised and spontaneous remixes and reconfigurations of the Elektrostatic evening programme.
SATSYMPH TALK SUN 10 JUN 7.00pm
FREE
On a Theme of Hermes is a GPS-triggered contemporary music and contemporary poetry soundscape work accessed through an app downloaded to your own smartphone. The participant literally walks around in the soundscape, directing what they hear by where they are. Supported by M Shed
HYMNOS SUN 10 JUN 8.00pm Feed. Photo: Miles Warren
Bristol Ensemble perform two of Maxwell Davies' early works: his arresting plainsong-derived String Quartet (1961) and the thrillingly virtuosic Hymnos (1967) featuring Roger Heaton on clarinet and James Young, piano. Maxwell Davies will present both works, alongside Marc Yeats' Tlos - a concert work derived from the SATSYMPH project - and Steven Kings' new String Quartet. With video interventions from David Gunn's FEED project.
PSAPPHA MON 11 JUN 7.00pm COLSTON HALL 2 & Foyer One of the UK's finest new music groups, Psappha, come to Bristol to perform Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' music - presented by the composer alongside works by Philippe Hurel, Sean Fryer and Anna Clyne.
SOUNDS OF PROTEST TUE 12 JUN 7.00pm Full Moon Orchestra
An evening event which travels between Arnolfini and Colston Hall. At Arnolfini Maxwell Davies gives an illustrated talk on his latest opera Kommilitonen! (Young Blood) with live excerpts. The event then moves across to Colston Hall with sound and music inspired by protest and politics. This will feature work by artist Rory Pilgrim, Berio's 'O King' and performances by Bristol Ensemble and composer Victoria Bourne.
FULL MOON ORCHESTRA SPECIAL: A SPACE Odyssey JUN 5 7.00pm - 9.00pm
FREE
The Full Moon Orchestra, open to all ages and abilities, convenes for a special event inspired by the classic soundtracks to science fiction movies. No experience is required to lead this spontaneous orchestra in a rendition of your favourite film theme. To propose a space odyssey in advance, please contact Jesse D Vernon at jesse@gothmag.org.uk
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EXHIBITIONS
at a glance
Exhibition spaces open Open 11am - 6pm, Tue - Sun & Bank Holiday Mondays DAMIEN ROACH THROUGHOUT 2012 SUPERPOWER: AFRICA IN SCIENCE FICTION 5 MAY - 1 JULY OLIVIA PLENDER RISE EARLY, BE INDUSTRIOUS 14 JULY - 9 SEPT
TICKETED PERFORMANCES, FILMS AND EVENTS Book by ringing Box Office on 0117 917 2300 / 01, email boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk or book online at www.arnolfini.org.uk 10% off in Café Bar for ticket holders (Terms and conditions apply).
JUNE DATE event TIME
Price
Sat 2 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Tue 5 Music: Full Moon Orchestra Special: A Space Odyssey 7.00pm - 9.00pm Sat 9 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Sat 9 Family: Big Green Mash Up 1.00 - 4.00pm Sun 10 Music: Elektrostatic Festival 2012: FEED Workshop 12.00pm - 4.00pm Sun 10 Music: Elektrostatic Festival 2012: Satsymph Talk 7.00pm Sun 10 Music: Elektrostatic Festival 2012: Hymnos 8.00pm Tue 12 Music: Elektrostatic Festival 2012: Sounds of Protest 7.00pm Wed 13 Event: Common Cause Ethical Debates in Advertising 4.00pm - 5.30pm Wed 13 Event: The Big Green Week - Patterns of Change 8.00pm - 10.00pm Thu 14 Film: The Desire Called Utopia & Other Science Fictions 6.30pm Thu 14 Event: A Quick Introduction to Common Cause 2.15pm - 3.45pm Thu 14 Event: Common Cause Personal Challenges 4.15pm - 5.45pm Thu 14 Event: The Big Green Week - Growth on a Finite Planet 8.00pm - 10.00pm Fri 15 Event: A Quick Introduction to Common Cause 2.15pm - 3.45pm Fri 15 Event: Common Cause: The Next Generation 4.15pm - 5.45pm Sat 16 Live: You & Your Work 9 - Here and There 3.00pm - 9.00pm Sat 16 Event: You & Your Work 9 - Panel Discussion 4.00pm Sat 16 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Wed 20 Talk: Thoughts on the Architecture of Bristol 6.00pm Thu 21 Film: Film Exercise 6.30pm Fri 22 Dance: You May! 7.30pm Sat 23 Dance: You May! Symposium 11.00am - 2.00pm Sat 23 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Sat 23 Film: Workshop: Martians of Africa 2.30pm - 6.00pm Thu 28 Talk: RIBA Stirling Prize Lecture 6.00pm Thu 28 Event: On Listening 2 6.00pm Fri 29 Conference: Tue Greenfort 11.00am - 4.00pm Sat 30 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Sat 30 Film: Africa Paradis (18) & The Bloodettes (18) 8.00pm
Free* Free* Free* Free* Free Free £12/£10 Concs per event £28/£22 Concs festival pass £12/£10 Concs per event £28/£22 Concs festival pass £5 Free Free £5 £5 £7.50 £5 £5 Free* Free* Free* £6/£4 Concs Free £10/£8 Concs £8 Free* £12/£10 Concs £6/£4 Concs Free Free Free* £6.50/£5 Concs
JULY DATE event TIME
Price
Mon 2
Free
Event: John Hegley
7.30pm
Sat 7
Event: Live Art Crash Course
10.00am - 4.00pm
£30/£20 Concs
Sun 8
Event: Live Art Crash Course
10.00am - 4.00pm
£30/£20 Concs
Wed 11
Live: Our _________ Home: A Triple Bill
7.30pm
£5/£3 Concs
Thu 12
Live: Our _________ Home: A Triple Bill
7.30pm
£5/£3 Concs
Sat 14
Event: Shortstoryville: Bovine Histories
11.00am - 6.00pm
Free
Sat 14
Event: Shortstoryville: Struthio Camelus
11.00am - 6.00pm
Free
Sat 14
Event: Shortstoryville: Fairfield School Short Stories
12.00pm
Free
Sat 14
Event: Shortstoryville: The Bloody Chamber
1.30pm
£4
Sat 14
Exhibition Tour
2.00pm
Free*
Sat 14
Film: Olivia Plender Video Programme
3.00pm
Free*
Sat 14
Event: Shortstoryville: Digital Short Stories
3.30pm
£4
Sat 14
Event: Shortstoryville: Bloomsbury's Year of the Short Story
5.00pm
£4
Sat 14
Event: Discussion Event
6.00pm
Free*
Thu 19
Event: Tertulia
7.30pm
Free*
Sat 21
Live: Hidden Fields
11.30am & 3.00pm
£5/£4 Concs
Sat 21
Live: danceroom Spectroscopy
1.00pm - 3.00pm
Free*
Sat 21
Film: Olivia Plender Video Programme
3.00pm
Free*
Sun 22
Live: danceroom Spectroscopy
11.00am - 5.00pm
Free*
Wed 25
Exhibition: 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
6.30pm
£3/£2 Concs
Fri 27
Live: Live Notation
TBC
Free*
Sat 28
Exhibition Tour
2.00pm
Free*
Sat 28
Film: Olivia Plender Video Programme
3.00pm
Free*
AUGUST DATE event TIME
Price
Wed 1
£3/£2 Concs
Exhibition: 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
6.30pm
Sat 4
Exhibition Tour
2.00pm
Free*
Sat 4
Film: Olivia Plender Video Programme
3.00pm
Free*
Sun 5
Workshop: OU TV
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Free
Wed 8
Exhibition: 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
6.30pm
£3/£2 Concs
Sat 11
Exhibition Tour
2.00pm
Free*
Sat 11
Film: Olivia Plender Video Programme
3.00pm
Free*
Sun 12
Workshop: OU TV
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Free
Wed 15
Exhibition: 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
6.30pm
£3/£2 Concs
Sat 18
Exhibition Tour
2.00pm
Free*
Sat 18
Film: Olivia Plender Video Programme
3.00pm
Free*
Sun 19
Workshop: OU TV
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Free
Wed 22
Exhibition: 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
6.30pm
£3/£2 Concs
Sat 25
Exhibition Tour
2.00pm
Free*
Sat 25
Film: Olivia Plender Video Programme
3.00pm
Free*
Sun 26
Workshop: OU TV
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Free*
* unticketed event
YOU & YOUR WORK 9
LIVE art/ DANCE/ VIDEO
HERE AND THERE FRI 15 JUN Wellspring Healthy Living Centre 6.00pm; SAT 16 JUN Arnolfini 3.00pm - 9.00pm FREE You & Your Work (Y&YW) is back, this time in partnership with Arnolfini, The Wellspring Healthy Living Centre and The Walled Garden Project. Their ninth festival Here and There presents and explores risk-taking participatory performance in relation to shifting locations and contexts. Here and There will showcase outcomes from three new ambitious commissioned projects including Iconikit, a performative and interactive online survey, 100 Year Old Band with participants aged between 0 and 100, and food based performance work Our Daily Bread. The festival also presents international participatory mapping project Kansas, and four other exciting live works from UK based artists.
YOU & YOUR WORK 9 PANEL DISCUSSION SAT 16 JUN 4.00pm
FREE
Y&YW presents an open panel discussion on participatory performance practices, with guest speakers Joshua Sofaer (Artist), Theron Schmidt (King's College London), Ilana Mitchell (Wunderbar Festival), Y&YW commissioned artist Sue Palmer and participants. For up to date information, the festival schedule and how to participate go to: www.youandyourwork.org.uk
THE FILM EXERCISE
Photo: Pekka Maklnen
THU 21 JUN 6.30pm
FREE
A programme of screenings and discussion that explores the urgency, social or political timeliness in curatorial approaches to artists' film and video, as well as the diverse potential in approaches to the form, produced by Bridget Crone and Al Cameron. For June's event, Anne-Sophie Dinant presents Acting for the camera. Acting with the camera, a programme focused on historical film and video presenting different angles of the relation between performance and camera. Dinant is Associate Curator at South London Gallery, and a freelance curator. www.film-exercise.com
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You May! Photo: Ludovic Des Cognets
ZOI DIMITRIOU COMPANY YOU MAY! FRI 22 JUN 7.30pm
£10.00/£8.00 Concs
You May! is a new dance theatre work that asks what it is to live in contemporary society, where the old paradigm of 'you can, because you must' has been inverted to 'you must, because you can'. Using photography, sound and video, this interdisciplinary piece offers the spectators propositions in the realms of imagination, desire and risk. Choreographed by Zoi Dimitriou, and inspired by Chris Marker's photographic science fiction film La Jetée.
YOU MAY! SYMPOSIUM SAT 23 JUN 11.00am - 2.00pm £8.00 (includes lunch) In conjunction with Zoi Dimitriou Company's new production, join us for this symposium which will use the work as a foundation for discussion about the collaborative process within contemporary dance. Artists, academics and producers will explore issues including the 'devaluation' of the performer and the emancipation of the audience.
PAUL HURLEY LIVE ART CRASH COURSE SAT 7 JUL & SUN 8 JUL 10.00am - 4.00pm
TRAVELLING LIGHT THEATRE COMPANY YOUTH THEATRE OUR _________ HOME: A TRIPLE BILL WED 11 & THU 12 JUL 7.30pm £5.00/£3.00 Concs Arnolfini's Live Art and Learning & Participation teams are collaborating to present Our _________ Home, a triple bill of performances by Travelling Light Youth Theatre, in which young people have worked with professional artists to create ambitious work exploring the nature of home and belonging. Can you define your home, your city, your world? What are the characteristics of the places we live and how do they shape us? Our _________ Home is a three-piece festival from Travelling Light's Youth Theatre, featuring a short film and two short plays that explore the place of young people living in a city. They have been devised by the casts, and regular Travelling Light collaborators Craig Edwards, Remi Tawose, Adam Peck and Rachael Cross. This project has been funded by: Arts Council England, The Monica Rabagliati Trust, The Community First Fund, The Mall Fountain Fund and The Quartet Community Foundation.
LIVE NOTATION FRI 27 JUL £30.00/£20.00 Concs
This is an intensive weekend course, led by performance artist and teacher Paul Hurley, that introduces the broad and varied field of live art performance. Participants will find out about examples of experimental performance from the 1960s to the present day and will explore some of the ideas surrounding them. You will also have a chance to try practical exercises and to develop a collaborative performance idea. No previous experience is necessary - just an interest in the area and an openness to trying new things!
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Free
The Live Notation Unit takes over Arnolfini using its spaces as an experimental laboratory in which to combine two radical performance practices: Live Art and Live Coding. On the menu are improvisational sound works (where computer code and the artists' bodies become instruments), site-specific time based art works (where notation becomes the 'piece' as opposed to its recording device) and a series of position papers proposing what the LNU's new term 'live notation' might signify. Please check www.livenotation.lurk.org for further information about the group and specific times for public events.
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Photo: Paul Blakemore
bristol harbour festival HIDDEN FIELDS / DANCEROOM SPECTROSCOPY HIDDEN FIELDS: SAT 21 JUL 11.30am & 3.00pm £5.00/£4.00 Concs/U12 FREE DANCEROOM SPECTROSCOPY: SAT 21 JUL 1.00pm - 3.00pm SUN 22 11.00am - 5.00pm
FREE
Hidden Fields is a high impact and accessible dance performance. Combining stunning visuals and self-composing soundscapes it offers a glimpse into the beauty of our everyday movements, showing how we interact with the hidden energy fields surrounding us. Using the danceroom Spectroscopy technology, dancers within the performance are transformed into energy fields, and control the behaviour of the otherwise invisible atomic world that surrounds us all. danceroom Spectroscopy is part video game, part art installation, part immersive science visualization, and part social experiment. In a fusion of 3d imaging with cutting edge-science, your energy controls the sound and images in the room. Come and play in the atomic world! This activity has been supported by the University of Bristol, the EPSRC, and the Pervasive Media Studio.
COURSE
MA PERFORMANCE WRITING • Develop and deepen your writing practice • Work with internationally recognised practitioners and academics • Draw on the experience of curators, editors and arts professionals The MA Performance Writing in partnership with University College Falmouth is a cross-artform Masters degree which investigates 21st century modes of writing. It examines how writing collides or collaborates with other art forms - visual, sonic, digital, performative, time-based, sited/installed, page-based - in the context of contemporary culture and new technologies. This course is practice-led and lasts one year full-time or two years part-time. We are currently recruiting for the academic year 2012-13. Bursaries are available to students in need of financial support. If you are interested in writing that moves beyond the page, this is the course for you. FFI contact the course leader Jerome.Fletcher@falmouth.ac.uk
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Credit: London Velodrome by Hopkins Architects. Nominated for the 2011 RIBA Stirling Prize. Image © Anthony Palmer
ON LISTENING 2: SCIENCE FICTION AND AFRICAN MUSIC
LECTURES/ WORKSHOPS/ conference
THU 28 JUN 6.00pm
THOUGHTS ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF BRISTOL WED 20 JUN 6.00pm
£6.00/£4.00 Concs
Author of Bristol's 100 Best Buildings and An Architectural History of Bristol, Mike Jenner gives us his thoughts on the pendulum of fashion within architecture. Using case studies and anecdotes he explores how different generations have a lovehate relationship with buildings and styles that have defined Bristol's development into a modern city. This lecture is part of the Love Architecture festival (15 - 24 June), and is a partnership event between RIBA and The Architecture Centre.
RIBA STIRLING PRIZE LECTURE: HOPKINS ARCHITECTS LONDON VELODROME: DESIGN IN PURSUIT OF EFFICIENCY THU 28 JUN 6.00pm £6.00/£4.00 Concs The Bristol and Bath branch of the RIBA, Bristol Society of Architects (BSA) and The Architecture Centre are pleased to present this RIBA Stirling Prize lecture by Senior Partner of Hopkins Architects, Mike Taylor, focussing on the design of the Olympic Velodrome.
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Free, but ticketed
On Listening is a workshop focussing on sound as a way in to thinking about and around Arnolfini's programme. For the soundtrack of his film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick made extensive use of the music of György Ligeti, one of the most innovative and influential composers of the 20th century. Of great significance to his development of compositional technique was Ligeti's interest in the music of other, more ancient cultures. One of the most striking of these is the highly complex polyphonic music of the Mbenga-Mbuti 'pygmy' tribes of Central Africa. Join us for an exploration of this and other connections between musical 'parallel universes'.
CONFERENCE TUE GREENFORT FRI 29 JUN 11.00am - 4.00pm FREE, BUT TICKETED Internationally acclaimed Danish artist Tue Greenfort has created a new permanent artwork on Bristol's Feeder Canal in the form of a functional Sand Martin roost. This conference launches the project with contributions from the artist, ornothologists and local historians to explore the relationship between ecology, industrial history and global trade. Tue Greenfort's work is commissioned by Foreground as part of Bristol City Council's Art in the Public realm programme.
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events Events for Families and young People John Hegley MON 2 JUL 7.30pm FREE BOOKING ESSENTIAL at www.bbc.co.uk/showandtours/tickets Join performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter John Hegley and guests, for this recording of With Great Pleasure - one of BBC Radio 4's longest-running and best loved series, as Hegley guides us through examples of his favourite writing. Expect a good serving of the poetry which inspires him, as well as some pleasant surprises. This is part of an exciting double-bill of recordings, look online for details of the other special guest.
TERTULIA THU 19 JUL 7.30pm
Free
Tertulia is a salon event open to anybody working with or interested in language, both vocal and textual. Focussing on language as it is used as a creative tool by people working in many different disciplines, both within and beyond the arts, and aims to function as a supportive platform for new work and experimentation. Tertulia is supported by Arnolfini and Spike Island. FFI http://tertuliablog.wordpress.com/ or contact readingroom@arnolfini.org.uk
BIG GREEN MASH UP (PART OF BRISTOL'S BIG GREEN WEEK EVENTS) SAT 9 JUN 1.00pm - 4.00pm FREE Mash Up is Arnolfini's regular family friendly activity event. Recycle and reuse. Green is the order of the day! Bring all your recyclables including, old bicycle wheels, wheel hubs, lampshade frames, wire, twine, string, coloured rope, botlte tops, colourful netting, balls and floating rings to create beautiful floating sculptures inspired by the work of Fiona Campbell one of the Green Capital Artists in Residence for Bristol's Big Green Week.
OU TV Sun 5,12,19,26 AUG 2.00pm - 4.00pm booking essential
Free
OU TV, is a workshop run by a group of young artists for young people. Set in a 1970's style TV studio, visitors will have the opportunity to explore some of the ways in which young people were invited to become a part of Open University TV programmes in the 1970s. Using the current exhibition as a stage, you are invited to direct and film your own episode. Resulting films will be screened as part of Saturdays programmes in Olivia Plender's Open Forum installation (see page 6).
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A QUICK INTRODUCTION TO COMMON CAUSE
COMMON CAUSE: ethical debates in advertising
An interactive workshop run by Rich Hawkins, Director of PIRC and Tom Crompton, Change Strategist at WWF-UK, exploring cultural values and their importance in shaping our responses to a range of social and environmental problems.
WED 13 JUN 4.00pm - 5.30pm £5.00
COMMON CAUSE: PERSONAL CHALLENGES
WWF-UK, the Bristol Pound, and the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) have teamed up to run this series of workshops under the 'Common Cause' umbrella. This session will look at ethics in advertising with Jon Alexander, former adman turned industry whistleblower and co-author of Think of Me as Evil?; Agnes Nairn, co-author of Consumer Kids; and Guy Shrubsole, Director of PIRC.
THE BIG GREEN EVENING EVENT: PATTERNS OF CHANGE
THU 14 JUN 2.15pm - 3.45pm
£5.00
THU 14 JUN 4.15pm - 5.45pm
£5.00
Rosemary Randall, psychotherapist and founder of the 'Carbon Conversations' project will lead this workshop which deals with working effectively with intrinsic values, that is, connecting deeply with the values that mean most to us.
THE BIG GREEN EVENING EVENT: GROWTH ON A FINITE PLANET THU 14 JUN 8.00pm - 10.00pm
£7.50
An evening of short TED-style talks, and entertaining interventions looking at climate change, energy security, food security and the natural world through the lens of growth on a finite planet. The panel includes Peter Madden (Forum for the Future), Polly Higgins (Environmental Lawyer), Maria Adebowale (Capacity Global) and Kevin Boot (Ocean Acidification Scientist) and George Marshall (communication and public engagement expert).
WED 13 JUN 8.00pm - 10.00pm FREE BUT TICKETED
A QUICK INTRODUCTION TO COMMON CAUSE
Researchers from the University of Bristol's new Cabot Institute will highlight our changing world they study - from largescale environmental trends in ice sheets and oceans, to social and economic patterns, and changes to the built environment. Short, visually arresting talks will be interspersed with footage from the provocative films Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance and Powaqqatsi: Life in Transition, followed by an audience discussion.
An interactive exploration of cultural values and their importance is run by Rich Hawkins, Director of PIRC and Tom Crompton, Change Strategist at WWF-UK.
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FRI 15 JUN 2.15pm - 3.45pm
£5.00
COMMON CAUSE: THE NEXT GENERATION FRI 15 JUN 4.15pm - 5.45pm
£5.00
Morag Watson, Senior Education Policy Officer for WWF Scotland discusses how educators ensure that educations impact on childrens values are positive.
THE LATE LOUNGE AT ARNOLFINI CAFÉ BAR WED 13 & THU 14 JUN 10.00pm - 12.00am
FREE
Green Pass holders enjoy a discount in the Late Lounge.
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Bookshop Open: Tue 11.00am - 6.00pm, Wed - Sat 11.00am - 8.00pm, Sun 11.00am - 7.00pm
Bristol's annual celebration of all things short story related returns with a day of talks, readings and activity to celebrate the publication of the 5th annual Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology
Bovine Histories SAT 14 JUL 11.00am - 6.00pm
FREE
Contact bookshop with enquiries or orders on 0117 917 2304 or bookshop@arnolfini.org.uk
Showing throughout the day animated adaptations of Ian Burton's short story Bovine Histories published in last year's Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology created by pupils from Henbury, Fairfield and Redland Green schools in Bristol.
NUS get 10% off all purchases on Wednesdays
Struthio camelus
Arnolfini is home to one of the UK's leading specialist independent art bookshops with an exceptional range of books on contemporary art and culture. We also have a great selection of children's titles from exciting activity books to some really quirky story books as well as flip books, greetings cards and some very fine wrapping paper. We carry over 100 magazines on art, architecture, design, illustration, photography, performance, craft, graffiti and literature. @arnolfinibooks
SAT 14 JUL 11.00am - 6.00pm
FREE
An exhibition of work by students from Henbury school inspired by Joanna Campbells' short story Struthio Camelus published in last year's Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology.
FAIRFIELD SCHOOL SHORT STORIES SAT 14 JUL 12.00pm
FREE, but booking required
Celebrated short story writer, Tania Hershman, whose latest collection My Mother Was An Upright Piano (Tangent Books) was published to universal acclaim earlier this year, introduces some short story writers from Fairfield School in Bristol.
THE BLOODY CHAMBER SAT 14 JUL 1.30pm
£4.00
Writer, campaigner, critic and broadcaster Bidisha chairs a discussion on the influence and impact of Angela Carter's 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber. Bidisha is joined by Dr Marie Mulvey-Roberts from UWE English Department and two fantastically talented writers Kirsty Logan and Cassandra Parkin.
DIGITAL SHORT STORIES SAT 14 JUL 3.30pm
£4.00
Writer and academic Patricia McNair discusses the rise of digital short story publishing with a panel of publishers including Dan Franklin, Digital Director at Random House.
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BLOOMSBURY'S YEAR OF THE SHORT STORY SAT 14 JUL 5.00pm
£4.00
Literary Consultant and former Random House editor Ali Reynolds interviews three outstanding writers and their collections all published by Bloomsbury this year - Roshi Fernando, D.W.Wilson and Lucy Wood.
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