Arnolfini Brochure Dec 13 - Mar 14

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December 2013 – March 2014

WELCOME Contents It may be cold outside, but at Arnolfini we have much to warm you. Joëlle Tuerlincx’s expansive exhibition, WOR(L)D(K) IN PROGRESS? fills the gallery spaces with an overview of the artist’s practice from the past 20 years, alongside newly produced works. The exhibition is a kind of cabinet of curiosities that invites you to explore a world of poetic moments.

Our outstanding music programme features everything from Howling Owl Records taking over the auditorium for an evening to the welcome return of Several 2nds - a series of concerts, discussions and screenings on the second Wednesday of the month. Plus we have family events and screenings placing Joëlle’s exhibition in a wider global context.

The winter is an opportunity to get closer together. Much of what we will be doing this season is in partnership and collaboration.

In performance, we co-present the radical dance theatre of Holzinger & Riebeek with In Between Time - a collaboration that brought the mighty IBT Festival here earlier this year. Talks and lectures this season see the continuing partnership with Bristol’s Festival of Ideas. The new Young People’s Festival of Ideas has already created a buzz with two outstanding sold out events, next up is a debate on education. The Architecture Centre’s lecture series, in partnership with the University of the West of England, looks at practice here in Bristol and worldwide. The Art In The City series continues (in collaboration with Bristol City Council and the University of the West of England), with a new strand, Art and Design. This strand incorporates the Primary Capital Programme, where artists are selected by Arnolfini and Bristol City Council in consultation with individual primary schools to integrate contemporary art into their schools design. Artists include, Simon and Tom Bloor, Melanie Counsell and Morag Myerscough. Until 2 March 2014 at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery there is an opportunity to see works from our partnership with them to build an international contemporary art collection for Bristol, with the support of Art Fund International. In February 2014 Arnolfini collaborates with Colston Hall, University of Bristol, Spike Island, St George’s Bristol and Out of the Machine to bring the best in international new music to the city for Bristol New Music.

As always, this season is only a snapshot. Ongoing long-term projects seek to develop resilient connections with the city. The exhilarating new commission with Emma Smith, 5Hz, explores language and the use of voice for social bonding based on bio-medical research into vocal rhythm, and will culminate with an installation in Arnolfini’s exhibition spaces in February 2015.

We would like to thank all our partners, supporters and collaborators and of course that includes you the audience; thank you for your support. Come, see, enjoy, take part, and tell us what you think. We look forward to welcoming you to Arnolfini.

Exhibition 4 Music 6 Screenings 10 Performance 13 Reading Room Display 13 Family 14 Young People 15 Talks & Lectures 16 At A Glance 18 Membership 20 Bookshop 21 Café Bar 21 Venue Hire 22 Support Us 22 Visit Us / Access 23 Opening Hours Exhibition spaces open: Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm Please visit arnolfini.org.uk for Christmas opening hours Admission to the exhibition spaces is free Bookshop open: See page 21 for full details Café Bar open: Daily from 10 am

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(Cover image) Louisa Fairclough, Jeannie, 2013. Photo Jeannie Evans (Image right) Joëlle Tuerlinckx, WORLD(K) IN PROGRESS?, installation view, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2013.

Photo Max Geuter. Courtesy of Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne and Berlin (Back cover image) Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Modèle originale (Original Model), 2009.

Installation view Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2010. Photo.

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

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Tuerlinckx’s site-specific practice often focuses on the formal properties of gallery spaces, the role of museums, and the museums’ relationship to their communities. Her work is distinguished by a unique sensual and transient approach and a precise use of materials, colours, and abstract shapes, culminating in expansive, complex installations. Film projections, video, drawings, collages, photographs and found objects are often combined with subtle alterations to the spaces and gestures that highlight the time and space of the viewing experience.

With sonic contributions by Christoph Fink and Francesca Chiacchio.

The exhibition is part of a series of retrospectives by the artist and has been produced in collaboration with Wiels, Brussels, and Haus der Kunst, Munich. The exhibition was conceived with the assistance of Francesca Chiacchio, Bieke Criel, Frie Depraetere, Thomas Desmet, Christoph Fink, Alice Gadrey, Valentijn Goethals, Quentin Gubin, Cristian Valenzuela.

EXHIBITION

Joëlle Tuerlinckx: WOR(L)D(K) IN PROGRESS? Saturday 7 December 2013 – Sunday 16 March 2014, 11am – 6pm, free #JoelleT Arnolfini presents a major solo project by Joëlle Tuerlinckx. The most comprehensive presentation of her work in the UK to date, WOR(L)D(K) IN PROGRESS? offers an overview of the artists’ practice from the past 20 years, along with newly produced works. For the exhibition, Tuerlinckx revisits several of her past projects and integrates elements of these in a new installation that serves as an overview of the artist’s career to date.

“An exhibition is, first and foremost, an experience of space - space composed, perhaps, of objects of space - that proposes action, or reaction, as a means of reflection, of thinking our human condition, as a common experience, it regards itself as public and open to all.”

(Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Lexicon, 2012)

With generous support from Wallonie-Bruxelles International, the Flemish authorities / Arts and heritage, Maxtrans Fine Art Transports.

Events

Film Screenings Thursdays 12 December 2013, 16 January, 13 February 2014, 6.30pm, free Films by Joëlle Tuerlinckx: ABSTRACT Film(s), STUDY Film(s): AMERICAN, CHICAGO, KOREAN STUDY Film(s), STRETCHED Film(s), WAITING Film(s), REALITY BLOCK Film(s)

Exhibition Tours Every Saturday, 2pm, free Free tours of the galleries are led by members of staff and invited guests.

Reading Art and... the WOR(L)(D)(K) Thursday 6 February 2014, 6.30pm – 8.30pm, free Reading art and… is a series of informal meetings intended to introduce participants to key themes in contemporary art theory, using excerpts from seminal texts. This session will focus on a close look at the new publication published to accompany Joëlle Tuerlinckx’s exhibition series, WOR(L)(D)(K) IN PROGRESS?, available to purchase in Arnolfini Bookshop: Price £25.

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(Image top) Joëlle Tuerlinckx, WOR(LD)K IN PROGRESS?, installation view, Wiels, Brussles, 2012 – 2013. Photo Filip Vanzieleghem. Courtesy of Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne and Berlin (Image bottom) Joëlle Tuerlinckx, WORLD(K) IN PROGRESS?, installation view, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2013. Photo Joëlle Tuerlinckx. Courtesy of Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne and Berlin

Mines & Yoni Silver

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Friday 24 January, 7.30pm, £6 / £4 concs An evening of improvised performances featuring Ilan Volkov’s trio Mines, consisting of two violins and drums, and a special set by Yoni Silver for solo bass clarinet. Mines is the improvisational trio led

by Ilan Volkov, ‘one of the world’s most adventurous conductors’ and a ‘maverick experimentalist’ The Guardian. It features Volkov and Yael Barolsky on violin, with drummer Ram Gabay.

Tertulia: Writing Sound Saturday 25 January, 12.30pm – 6pm, £8 / £6 concs

MUSIC #ArnolfiniMusic

Howling Owl Presents: Vessel, Giant Swan, Oliver Wilde & H Saturday 18 January, 7.30pm, £7 advance After a stellar 2013 of lauded releases and festival take overs, Howling Owl Records transforms Arnolfini’s auditorium for an evening of forward thinking music and visuals. Headliner Vessel will demonstrate why he is fast becoming one of the most respected names in Bristol’s electronic music scene. Support comes from Giant Swan who carve and sculpt beats and drone using two guitars and a plethora of pedals. 2013’s press and radio darling Oliver Wilde will offer you another side of his work, performing a more electronica/ glitch leaning set; H brings her wall of looped tapes and dark ambience.

An afternoon of exploring overlaps in writing and sonic arts practices. Co-curated by Tertulia (Bristol’s art and language salon) and Daniela Cascella (author of En Abime – Listening, Reading, Writing). Featuring performances and presentations from Daniela Cascella, Patrick Farmer, Phil Owen, David Toop, Salomé Voegelin and Caroline Wilkins.

Opal Tapes Showcase: Karen Gwyer, Basic House & Dwellings and Druss Friday 31 January, 7.30pm, £8/£6 concs Resolutely DIY, haunted by the spectre of the industrial north and known for releasing strictly limited-run cassettes, Opal Tapes has established itself in recent years as one of the finest record labels in the UK. Tonight, three from the label perform live: Karen Gwyer, an American artist who conjures seductively fragile and strange soundscapes out of space, sinister drones and incantatory cosmic pulses; label founder Stephen Bishop’s own solo project Basic House and Dwellings and Druss, the latest mutation of the ever-ferocious experimental rock collective Gnod.

(Image left) Vessel (Image below top) Cathy Berberian (Image below bottom) Dwellings and Druss

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Paul Lytton, Tim Hodgkinson, Dominic Lash, Denman Maroney Wednesday 8 January, 7.30pm, £9 / £7 concs Improviser and composer Tim Hodgkinson, of Henry Cow and Konk Pack fame, first collaborated with Denman Maroney’s unique hyperpiano and Dominic Lash on contrabass in September 2011 at John Zorn’s club The Stone in New York City. Here, they will be accompanied by the percussionist Paul Lytton, collaborator with Evan Parker for over forty years and a true percussion innovator.

Cathnor Presents: Keith Rowe, Lee Patterson, Patrick Farmer Wednesday 12 February, 7.30pm, £8 / £6 concs

Several 2nds #severalseconds A series of events including concerts, discussions, screenings and practical sessions exploring composition, documentation and improvisation.

Every second Wednesday of the month.

On Listening Wednesday 11 December, 6.30pm, free On Listening is an occasional session which treats close listening to recorded music as a collective, social activity. The playlist for this meeting is focused on experimental music for the unaccompanied voice. Including work by Cathy Berberian, Demetrio Stratos, Giacinto Scelsi, Jennifer Walshe and Alessandro Bosetti.

Three of the most influential names currently working in improvised music come together for a one-off special event. As a founder of the hugely influential group AMM in the 1960s, Keith Rowe continues to forge new ground well into his seventies. He is joined by the explosive talent of Patrick Farmer and the masterfully subtle textures of Lee Patterson.

John Zorn’s Cobra Wednesday 12 March, 6.30pm, free Cobra is the most well-known of the game pieces written by American composer and improviser John Zorn. Based on improvisation, the piece uses a system of cues to enable sudden changes from one type of activity to another. This Several 2nds workshop in the spirit of Cobra is open to everyone interested in making sound with instruments, voice, electronics, or beyond.

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Emptyset Friday 21 February, Spike Island, 8pm, £5 (or part of Friday evening pass for concerts at Arnolfini, Spike Island and Colston Hall, £10.75 incl. booking fee)

Bristol New Music Friday 21 – Sunday 23 February 2014, various times, prices & venues Bristol New Music is a consortium of six key organisations in Bristol dedicated to bringing the very best international new music to the city, while working to create opportunities for emerging regional artists.

Jeannie Friday 21 February, Arnolfini, launch 5pm, Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 February 11am – 6pm, free A new installation by artist Louisa Fairclough based on the visions and auditory hallucinations of a young composer living on the River Severn. The work comprises a recording on dubplate vinyl and live vocal interventions throughout the building.

A Bristol New Music Commission in association with ICIA University of Bath; supported by the PRS for Music Foundation.

Voices performed by members of University of Bristol Schola Cantorum.

Tarab Cuts Friday 21 February, Arnolfini, 6pm, £5 (or part of Friday evening pass for concerts at Arnolfini, Spike Island and Colston Hall, £10.75 incl. booking fee) Tarab Cuts is a new concert-length work by John Butcher working with Mark Sanders, combining composition and improvisation layered over 78rpm archival recordings of traditional Sufi music.

Produced by Out Of The Machine; commissioned by Bristol New Music; supported by the PRS for Music Foundation

Bristol-via-London duo Emptyset play a live gig in Spike Island’s gallery. Their immersive spatially informed electronic sounds and visuals are informed by aspects of Cevdet Erek’s exhibition showing at Spike Island until Sunday 20 April.

Supported by PRS for Music Foundation

Klavikon, Roly Porter and Addison Groove Friday 21 February, Colston Hall, 10pm, £5.38 incl. booking fee, (or part of Friday evening pass for concerts at Arnolfini, Spike Island and Colston Hall, £10.75 incl. booking fee) Klavikon reimagines electronic music without the use of conventional processes. Instead, pianist Leon Michener employs a system of amplified prepared piano. Roly Porter’s solo work fuses his background in sound system music with contemporary classical composition.

Keith Tippett Octet Saturday 22 February, Colston Hall, 4pm, £12.90 incl. booking fee A key figure in European art music, Keith Tippett is one of the most important jazz musicians, improvisers and composers of the last 40 years.

Christian Wallumrød Ensemble Sunday 23 February, St George’s Bristol, 7.30pm, £17.20 incl. booking fee Norwegian composer and pianist Christian Wallumrød presents his latest ensemble in a UK première performance including music from new album Outstairs. A free pre-concert talk with Wallumrød takes place at 6.15pm.

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(Image top) Louisa Fairclough, Jeannie, 2013. Photo Jeannie Evans (Image bottom) John Butcher, Tarab Cuts, Sharjah

(Image below) Hisham Mayet, Vodoun Gods on the Slave Coast (Image right) Mirage Men

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SCREENINGS #ArnolfiniFilm

Sublime Frequencies in North and West Africa: The films of Hisham Mayet Friday 13 December, 7.30pm, £6 / £4 concs Hisham Mayet joins us to premier his brand new film Vodoun Gods on the Slave Coast as well as discuss his methodology and that of Sublime Frequencies, a label he co-founded in 2003.

Exhilarating, hallucinatory, harrowing, ecstatic and surreal, Hisham Mayet’s films and audio collections reveal a region’s rituals, rhythm and landscape, with an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience. Employing an unflinching methodology, his many documentaries have been redefining the nature of ethnographic film, and continue to provoke and amaze in equal measure.

Filmarmalade Presents: Art Tarts, Phantoms and Ingenious Strategies for Improved Worker Productivity Saturday 8 March, 11am – 7.30pm. Discussion with the artists, 6.15pm, free Filmarmalade is a London based publisher and DVD label specialising in contemporary artists’ film and video works. This event celebrates the launch of Pil and Galia Kollectiv’s Co-operative Explanatory Capabilities in Organizational Design and Personnel Management, Beth Fox’s A Marvellous Negative Capability and the world premiere of The Modern Language Experiment’s Imagining a Re-Synchronizing (The Phantom Twin).

The films will be showing all day, followed by a public discussion with the artists.

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Bristol Radical Film Festival 2014: An Evening with Mania Akbari: From Tehran to London & Dancing Mania Slapstick Festival: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mister West in the Land of the Bolsheviks Friday 24 January, 2.15pm, £8 / £6.50 concs Lev Kuleshov uses slapstick to mock America’s misrepresentation of Communist society. The story follows the buffoonish antics of Mr. West, an American running amok in Moscow in this mischievous, Mack Sennett-like comedy. Kuleshov hoped for a future that combined American prosperity with a socialist conscience, this film addresses that fleeting dream.

Friday 7 March, 7.30pm, £7 / £5 concs Akbari’s films have dealt with some of the most sensitive topics in the Iranian cultural landscape, politically relevant and bravely personal. From Tehran to London is the film she was halfway through shooting when she left Iran. This poetic exploration of women’s roles is paired with Roya Akbari’s Dancing Mania, an insightful analysis that explores the key themes of dance, sexual imagery and death in her sisters film. Screenings are followed by a director Q&A. Mania Akbari, Iran, 2012, 45mins & Roya Akbari, Iran/Canada, 2012, 25mins

Introduced by Director Barry Bliss with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney.

Strange Attractor Presents: Mirage Men and Urthona Live

Lev Kuleshov, 1924, USSR, 73mins

Thursday 27 March, 7.30pm, £7/£5 concs

Slapstick Festival: Her Sister from Paris Saturday 25 January, 11.30am, £9 / £7.50 concs Constance Talmadge stars here in a dual role, playing an unhappy wife betrothed to a very young Ronald Coleman, and her vivacious sister. Director Sidney Franklin caught her physical comedy in all its grace and invention perfectly, and this is their finest film together. The film, recently restored, provides a rare chance to see Talmadge at her uproarious best.

Introduced and hosted by stand up comedian Lucy Porter with live accompaniment by The European Silent Screen Virtuosi.

Sidney Franklin, 1925, US, 74mins

Strange Attractor and Perception Management present a special preview screening of the acclaimed feature-length documentary Mirage Men. In 1979 the Air Force Office of Special Investigations began a psychological warfare campaign against local engineer Paul Bennewitz to persuade him that the area was under attack by hostile extraterrestrials. The results are somewhere between The Manchurian Candidate and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Followed

by Q&A with film makers Roland Denning, Kypros Kyprianou, John Lundberg and Mark Pilkington.

Plus special live performance of music from the soundtrack by Urthona, whose music has been described by Julian Cope as “a righteous yammering of liquid infinity”.

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Film Exercise: Freeze-Frames Film Exercise relaunches with a new research framework. During 2014 we will spend a year exploring film time: Freeze Frames, Burn-Holes, Breaches. Each series of three Film Exercise events will comprise a screening of a long-form film, a screening of artists’ film and video and a round-table discussion event. Film Exercise is curated by Bridget Crone and Al Cameron.

Screening: Frozen in Time Thursday 30 January, 6.30pm, free Screening: Naheed Raza, Frozen in Time, 2013, 50mins.

Film Exercise: Curated by Tai Shani Thursday 27 February, 6.30pm, free Tai Shani is an artist, writer and programmer at the Horse Hospital.

Roundtable: Mark Fisher, John Russell and screening of Zabriskie Point (Redacted) Thursday 20 March, 6.30pm, free Mark Fisher is the author of Capitalist Realism and Ghosts of My Life and is a lecturer at Goldsmiths.

John Russell is an artist, writer and Professor of Art at the University of Reading.

Curating the Moving Image: Exercising Images in the Gallery and Beyond Friday 21 & Saturday 22 March, 10am – 5.30pm, £65 / £50 concs Exploring artists’ film and video as object, installation and live event, this two-day intensive course will address practices related to the curating of artists’ film and video within the context of the gallery, auditorium and beyond.

Combining an overview of the exhibition histories of artists’ film and video, discussion with invited guests and curated screenings. Led by Bridget Crone, a curator and writer who teaches curating at Goldsmiths and The University of Essex, the course will draw on the discursive and practiceled methodology of Film Exercise.

(Image left) Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Co-operative Explanatory Capabilities in Organizational Design and Personnel Management, 2010 (Image below) Holzinger & Riebeek, Spirit. Photo Phile Deprez

PERFORMANCE In Between Time Presents Holzinger & Riebeek: Spirit Friday 14 February, 7.30pm, £12 / £10 concs Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek want to take you to the limits of devotion. With passion and abandon, the disarming duo present an ode to spiritual life. The dancers are renowned for radical theatre that redraws the line between beauty and revulsion. Join a playful Valentine journey of discovery through yoga, pop songs and tarot cards.

Spirit is a part of IBT’s showcase series, bringing extraordinary international work to Bristol. Holzinger & Riebeek return after their thrilling sell-out show in February 2013.

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READING ROOM DISPLAY I See You Everywhere: Works from Zitouna Press over 25 years Tuesday 4 February – Sunday 2 March, 11am – 6pm, free A showcase of 25 years of Valentine’s Day prints from one of the foremost letterpress artists working in the US, Roni Gross, curated by Nancy Campbell, will be on display in the Arnolfini Bookshop and Reading Room. These bookworks are a reflection on love and human relationships articulated through every walk of life, from song lyrics to sign language to horticulture. A variety of papers and printmaking techniques are employed, with structures including matchbooks, volvelles, flipbooks and flagbooks.

(Image below) We Are Family. Photo George Scane (Image right) Young Arnolfini. Photo Kamina Walton

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We Are Family Saturdays 25 January, 22 February, 29 March, 1pm – 5pm, free Join our learning team on the last Saturday of every month to explore Arnolfini’s exhibitions and events through exciting activities for families to do together. Get creative and join in with engaging, fun, practical activities such as gigantic drawings, 3D collages and artist-led workshops. Drop into the Light Studio and see what fantastic creations you can make.

FAMILY Family Film Screenings Saturdays 28 December, 2pm, 25 January, 22 February, 29 March, 11am, free As part of the family programme of events, join us for a special film screening just for families. Each screening will introduce you to a different theme or idea taken from our exhibitions or events. Films are suitable for all ages.

Most suitable for ages 5+ but all ages are welcome to have go.

Storytelling Tuesdays (except Christmas and New Years Eve), 10.30am – 11.15am, free While you are sitting on bean bags and cushions, storytellers will amaze you, make you giggle, make you jump and provide a morning of fun. Meet in the Café Bar at 10.30am, where stories from books - carefully selected from Arnolfini Bookshop, will start the morning, followed by home made cookies and squash in the Café Bar.

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Young People’s Festival of Ideas: Class and Education Wednesday 22 January, 6.30pm – 8pm, free #Ypfoi Is Education widening the class divide?

YOUNG PEOPLE Perfectionism: Young Arnolfini exhibition at The Station, Silver Street Friday 6 December 2013 – Friday 3 January 2014 Monday – Friday, 9am – 10pm, Saturday, 10am – 6pm, Sunday closed, free #Youngarnolfini Young Arnolfini present their first group show, hosted by The Station. Building on the theme of Perfectionism, as explored in Issue 2 of the YA zine, the group explore their idea of the perfect exhibition through text and film.

Inspired by Bristol Festival of Ideas, Young Arnolfini and Salaam Shalom Youth Council have teamed up to curate a unique platform allowing young people to share ideologies and philosophies with a panel of high profile speakers. Bring along yourself, a mate, and your opinions.

Future Forward Thursdays 27 February, 13 & 20 March, 3 April, 2pm – 6pm, free Future Forward is a free portfolio and advisory service for 16 to 25 year olds. The sessions are 1:1 with an advisor who will be an arts professional based in the South West. You don’t have to be in formal education, or even be 100% sure whether or not you want to be an artist! All we expect is that you have some interest in the sort of work Arnolfini programmes, and a desire to find out more about how to pursue a future in the contemporary arts.

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TALKS & LECTURES The Architecture Centre Lectures The Architecture Centre lecture series, in partnership with UWE, continues to welcome leading practitioners to Bristol to speak about their work and ethos.

Fuensanta Nieto (Nieto Sobejano) Wednesday 11 December, 6.30pm, £6 / £4 concs, Fifth Floor, Arnolfini. Entrance via Bush House Prince Street Winner of the competition to redevelop Bristol Royal Infirmary Queens building façade, Nieto Sobejano founding director, Fuensanta Nieto, presents recent work from the internationally renowned Spanish practice.

Grimshaw Architects Wednesday 19 March, 6.30pm, £6 / £4 concs As part of the Architecture Centre’s season of events focussing on housing, this lecture by Andrew Whalley, Deputy Chairman at Grimshaw Architects, will discuss a number of public projects developed under New York’s Design Excellence Programme. Projects include the RIBA International Award winning mixed-use and affordable housing development, Via Verde in the Bronx, as featured in the Architecture Centre’s current exhibition.

Art and Design Talk Series This new bi-monthly lecture series explores connections between art and design with leading practitioners and thinkers. The series is co-organised with Bristol City Council as part of the Art in the City Lecture Series, and Primary Capital Programme, a series of public art commissions for Bristol primary schools.

Design and Use Wednesday 5 February, 6.30pm, £6 / £4 concs Artist Jeremy Hutchinson, with design writer Emily King and curator Emily Pethick, Director of The Showroom London, discuss the role of the user and social process that evolves through the design process. Jeremy Hutchinson is currently working on a commission for the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

Supported by Bristol City Council, the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and Above and Beyond.

(Image left) Proposed new façade for Bristol Royal Infirmary by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos Image © Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Image below) Simon and Tom Bloor, Formula for Living (linear composition), 2011. Cotham Secondary School, Bristol. Photo Jamie Woodley, courtesy of Bristol City Council

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Andrea Büttner Wednesday 5 March, 6.30pm, £6 / £4 concs

UWE Fine Art/Art in the City Lecture Series

Andrea Büttner, winner of the Max Mara Art Prize will be in conversation with Arnolfini Exhibitions Curator Axel Wieder, following a presentation of examples from her recent film works. Inspired by the stories of St Francis of Assisi, the relationship between shame and poverty is important for Büttner and her work.

£6 / £4 concs, free for UWE staff and students with ID. Tickets can be collected in person from Arnolfini Box Office from 11am on the day of the event

Simon and Tom Bloor

Organised by Arnolfini, Bristol City Council, and the University of the West of England. Supported by Bristol City Council

Artists Simon and Tom Bloor will focus on projects they have created for and about the public realm. Their recent practice has related to the fabric of urban environments, children’s play and twentieth century art & design. They will talk about their work ideas and processes, including recent commissions at West Town Lane Primary Academy in Bristol.

Roger Hiorns Wednesday 19 February, 6.30pm, £6 / £4 concs Artist Roger Hiorns is concerned with how we sustain materiality, how we can translate substance, propose new technological surface, and even insult objects. He uses unlikely materials from brains, to copper sulphate crystals to transform found objects or even change architectural spaces into extraordinary new forms, where the familiar is remodelled into what he describes as ‘possibilities of an inconsistent future’.

Wednesday 12 March, 6.30pm, £6 / £4 concs

Ed Atkins Wednesday 26 March, 6.30pm, £6 / £4 concs Ed Atkins works largely in video to explore the disparities between the immateriality of digital media and the reality of the subject which they represent.

(Image below) Arnolfini building. Photo Jamie Woodley.

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AT A GLANCE Exhibitions Exhibition spaces open 11am – 6pm, Tuesday – Sunday & Bank Holiday Mondays

Joëlle Tuerlinckx: WOR(L)D(K) IN PROGRESS? Until Sunday 16 March 2014

Exhibition Tours every Saturday, 2pm, free

December Tuesday 3

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Friday 6 – Friday 3 January

Young People

Perfectionism: Young Arnolfini Exhibition

9am – 10pm

P.15

Tuesday 10

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 11

Music

On Listening

6.30pm – 9pm

P.7

Wednesday 11

Talk

Fuensanta Nieto

6.30pm – 8.30pm

P.16

Thursday 12

Screenings

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

6.30pm – 8pm

P.4

Friday 13

Screenings

Sublime Frequencies in North & West Africa

7.30pm – 10pm

P.10

Tuesday 17

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Saturday 28

Screenings

Festive Family Film Screening

2pm – 4pm

P.14

January

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Tuesday 7

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 8

Music

Several Seconds

7.30pm – 10.30pm

P.7

Tuesday 14

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Thursday 16

Screenings

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

6.30pm – 8pm

P.4

Saturday 18

Music

Howling Owl Presents

7.30pm – 11pm

P.6

Tuesday 21

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 22

Talk

Young People’s Festival of Ideas

6.30pm – 8pm

P.15

Friday 24

Screenings

Slapstick Festival

2.15pm – 3.30pm

P.11

Friday 24

Music

Mines & Yoni Silver

7.30pm – 10pm

P.6

Saturday 25

Music

Tertulia: Writing Sound

12.30pm – 6pm

P.6

Saturday 25

Screenings

Family Film Screening

11am – 1pm

P.14

Saturday 25

Screenings

Slapstick Festival

11.30am – 12.45pm

P.11

Saturday 25

Family

We Are Family

1pm – 5pm

P.14

Tuesday 28

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Thursday 30

Screenings

Film Exercise: Freeze-Frames

6.30pm – 8.30pm

P.12

Friday 31

Music

Opal Tapes Showcase

7.30pm – 11pm

P.6

Tuesday 4

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Tuesday 4 – Sunday 2 March

Reading Room

I See You Everywhere – Zitouna Press

11am – 6pm

P.13

Wednesday 5

Talk

Design and Use

6.30pm

P.16

Thursday 6

Talk

Reading Art and... the WOR(L)(D)(K)

6.30pm – 8.30pm

P.4

Tuesday 11

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 12

Music

Cathnor Presents

7.30pm – 10pm

P.7

Thursday 13

Screenings

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

6.30pm – 8pm

P.4

Friday 14

Performance

Holzinger & Riebeek: Spirit

7.30pm – 8.30pm

P.13

Tuesday 18

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 19

Talk

Roger Hiorns

6.30pm – 8pm

P.17

Friday 21

Music

Bristol New Music: Tarab Cuts

6pm – 7pm

P.8

Friday 21

Music

Bristol New Music: Jeannie Launch

5pm – 6pm

P.8

Saturday 22 – Sunday 23

Music

Bristol New Music: Jeannie

11am – 6pm

P.8

Saturday 22

Screenings

Family Film Screening

11am – 1pm

P.14

Saturday 22

Family

We Are Family

1pm – 5pm

P.14

Tuesday 25

Family

Storytelling

10am – 11.15am

P.14

Thursday 27

Screenings

Film Exercise: Freeze-Frames

6.30pm – 8.30pm

P.12

Thursday 27

Event

Future Forward

2pm – 6pm

P.15

Tuesday 4

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 5

Talk

Andrea Büttner

6.30pm – 8pm

P.17

Friday 7

Screenings

Bristol Radical Film Festival

7.30pm – 10.30pm

P.11

Saturday 8

Screenings

Filmarmalade Presents

11am – 7.30pm

P.10

Tuesday 11

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 12

Music

John Zorn’s Cobra

6.30pm – 9pm

P.7

Wednesday 12

Talk

Simon & Tom Bloor

6.30pm – 8pm

P.17

Thursday 13

Event

Future Forward

2pm – 6pm

P.15

Tuesday 18

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 19

Talk

Grimshaw Architects

6.30pm – 8.30pm

P.16

Thursday 20

Event

Future Forward

2pm – 6pm

P.15

Thursday 20

Screenings

Film Exercise: Freeze-Frames

6.30pm – 8.30pm

P.12

Friday 21 & Saturday 22

Course

Curating the Moving Image

10am – 5.30pm

P.12

Tuesday 25

Family

Storytelling

10.30am – 11.15am

P.14

Wednesday 26

Talk

Ed Atkins

6.30pm – 8pm

P.17

Thursday 27

Screenings

Mirage Men and Urthona

7.30pm – 10.30pm

P.11

Saturday 29

Screenings

Family Film Screening

11am – 1pm

P.14

Saturday 29

Family

We Are Family

1pm – 5pm

P.14

February

March

Benefits of membership include:

ARNOLFINI MEMBERSHIP Join Arnolfini and enjoy an exciting range of exclusive benefits. Becoming a member is a great way to get involved with Arnolfini, and be part of the creative landscape of Bristol.

“One of the main factors that attracted us here was the lively cultural scene centred around Arnolfini… an invaluable cultural asset in the South West!”

— Jeff Lucas, Member of Arnolfini since 1996

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— Contributing to the cultural wellbeing of Bristol and beyond — Being part of a friendly and vibrant artistic community — Discounts in the Café Bar and Bookshop — Exclusive offers for performances and events — Receiving a regular e-bulletin, including updates about our charitable activities — Invitations to exclusive events, with the chance to meet the artists, staff and other supporters — Acknowledgement on the Wall of Thanks in Arnolfini’s main foyer and website If you have a student card you can get free membership at Arnolfini, which gives you a fantastic range of benefits. Just show your student card at Arnolfini Box Office to join.

Details of our membership schemes are available at arnolfini.org.uk or, if you are interested in learning more about joining Arnolfini please contact the development department on 0117 917 2337 or email developmentadmin@arnolfini.org.uk

(Image above) Matti Braun, installation image, Arnolfini, 2012. Photo Jamie Woodley (Image right top) Arnolfini Café Bar. Photo Justin Yockney (Image right bottom) Arnolfini Bookshop. Photo Jamie Woodley

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BOOKSHOP Open Tuesday 11 am – 6 pm, Wednesday – Saturday 11 am – 8 pm, Sunday 11 am – 7 pm Monday 11am – 6pm (December only) Mulled cider and mince pies, plus 10% off everything on Thursday 12 & 19 December.

Sale starts 14 January.

Arnolfini is home to one of the UK’s leading specialist contemporary art bookshops.

As ever we have gone out of our way to bring you the very best on offer in the field of contemporary arts and culture, including a children’s selection with some of the most innovative and creative storytelling, activity, colouring, and stickering books to be had in the South West. Visit the bookshop page at arnolfini.org.uk to view a range of Christmas recommendations with thought provoking gifts including jewellery, original archive posters for sale, which date back to 1968 and much more.

Contact Bookshop with enquiries or orders on 0117 917 2304 or bookshop@arnolfini.org.uk Follow us on Twitter @arnolfinibooks Arnolfini members get 10% off all purchases (see page 20)

CAFÉ BAR Open daily from 10am Arnolfini Café Bar are welcoming the winter nights with candlelight, cocktails, an extended all day brunch menu and a new tapas menu.

The Mediterranean-inspired menu uses locally sourced ingredients: find slates of antipasti, pizzas, wild hare carpaccio, homemade lemon and parsley gnocchi, a special Christmas menu, as well as delicious homemade cakes and pastries available to eat in or take home. Starting in December, homemade sourdough bread, jars of chutney, piccalilli and relish will be available to buy in the Café Bar and Bookshop.

Contact Café Bar with enquiries or bookings on 0117 917 2305 or cafebar@arnolfini.org.uk 10% off food for ticket holders to Arnolfini events Follow us on Twitter @arnolfinicafe

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(Image top) Jutta Koether, Seasons and Sacraments, Arnolfini preview, May, 2013. Photo Justin Yockney (Image bottom) Fifth Floor, Bush House. Photo samueldocker.com

SUPPORT US

VENUE HIRE Arnolfini is a unique event venue with an enviable position on Bristol’s Harbourside, offering customers superb spaces and excellent service for all types of events.

There are now up to 15 meeting rooms available each day with capacities ranging from 4 – 250 people. Arnolfini is the perfect venue for all your meetings, large screenings, product launches, seminars and training. We offer fully catered events with homemade food provided by our Café Bar.

For over 50 years Arnolfini has been a meeting place, a catalyst for ideas, and a unique showcase for world class contemporary art and performance.

In this time, we have supported now-influential artists early in their careers and have encouraged people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with the arts. As a registered charity we depend on the support and generosity of our supporters to help us grow our innovative programme of exhibitions and events.

For more information on becoming a Supporter please email boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk Arnolfini would like to thank all of our members, supporters and friends who help to keep great art free for all.

As a registered charity, Arnolfini depends on the generosity of our supporters to help us deliver our programme of exhibitions and events. By hiring our spaces you are helping to sustain this valuable public resource.

Arnolfini Founding Patrons

For all new enquiries please call us on 0117 917 2300 or email events@arnolfini.org.uk

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ACCESS

Arnolfini is situated by the water at Narrow Quay in Bristol’s Harbourside. It’s a 15 minute walk from Temple Meads railway station, and Marlborough Street bus station. Most buses stop in the city centre, a short walk from Arnolfini.

We aim to make all visitors welcome. There are parking spaces for disabled visitors outside our main entrance, access via Farr’s Lane.

Wheelchairs are available inside the building, and guide dogs are welcome.

If travelling by car, follow brown tourism signs.

The nearest car park is The Grove.

Large print and Braille versions of this brochure are available on request, and an MP3 version can be downloaded from the access page of our website. There is an induction loop system within the Auditorium. Please inform Box Office of any special requirements.

For further information visit arnolfini.org.uk or ring 0117 917 2300 Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA Supported by

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