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September – November 2013
(Cover image) Michael Dean, Hours (Working Title), 2011 Courtesy the artist, Herald St, London and Supportico Lopez, Berlin. (Image right) Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Washing, Tracks, Maintenance – Outside, 1973. Courtesy the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. (Back cover image) Jesse Ash, Stage Sculptures detail. Index—Swedish Centre for Contemporary Art, 2012. Photo Jonas Isfalt.
WELCOME Cleaning as art may seem an unlikely combination, but Mierle Laderman Ukeles has made her life’s work out of challenging the everyday hierarchies of domestic labour. Ukeles’ performances in the 1970s often involved the cleaning of art galleries, and one of her best known works, Touch Sanitation (1970 – 80), saw the artist shaking hands with more than 8,500 workers in the New York City Sanitation Department. We are proud to present the first exhibition of this pioneering artist’s work in the UK this autumn. As well as looking at the role of art in society, Arnolfini aims to foster an active conversation across the art forms, and beyond. In September the 4 Days micro-festival of performance asks: What theatricality means, where the stage is, and how expectation prepares us for a visit ‘to the theatre’ The focus on experimental theatre continues throughout the autumn with the return of some of our most popular performers, including Forced Entertainment, Ron Athey and Every House Has a Door formerly Goat Island. In the galleries, Michael Dean’s new sculptural works combine concrete objects and text in a sensory, poetic installation that appeals to the body as much as it does to the mind. Experimental music is also a big part of the programme this season, including a concert by the legendary Phill Niblock, now in his 80th year. Out of Place is an extraordinary series of music events in secret locations, including the cult West Country collective, Hacker Farm, ‘out-in-the-wilds’, and analogue noise/ techno protagonist, Container, performing in a former police cell block. Along with Several 2nds, on the second Wednesday of each month, the attention to sound comes to a crescendo at the end of November with three events dedicated to sound art and music, including Dean Blunt. As a long-time Bristol resident, Arnolfini’s new Chair, Peter Boyden, has been a pivotal figure in the development of the arts within the city, as well as regionally and nationally. After early careers in the music and publishing industries, he has spent the last 30 years working as a cultural strategist with a special interest in the performing, visual and media arts, as well as heritage organisations, conservation and environmental groups. During this period he has worked with a wide range of arts organisations in all creative disciplines across the UK and in Europe. We are delighted to welcome him to the Board. Tom Trevor, Director
Contents Exhibitions 4 Performance 10 Music 16 Events for Young People 20 Family 21 Screenings 22 Off-Site Projects 25 Talks / Lectures / Courses 26 Online Projects 29 At A Glance 31 Bookshop 33 Café Bar 33 Support Us 34 Venue Hire 34 Visit Us / Access 35
Arnolfini building. Photo Jamie Woodley.
Opening Hours Exhibition spaces open: Tuesday – Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday 11 am – 6 pm Admission to the exhibition spaces is free Bookshop open: See page 33 for full details Café Bar open: Daily from 10 am
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EXHIBITION
Ian Hamilton Finlay Until Sunday 8 September, free #IanHF An exhibition presenting works by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 – 2006), one of the most prominent post-war British artists, with a special focus on his printed works. Finlay was a poet and artist. His sculptures, stone works and neon signs, often placed in landscape or public places, combined language with physical objects and brought words into unexpected contexts. He was above all a publisher and founded Wild Hawthorn Press in 1961 which produced a great many publications, often very small in scale. The ephemeral nature of these poem cards, lithographs and booklets was intentional. Finlay understood publishing as an ongoing process of exchange between writers and readers. The postcards, more than 700 in total, shown in this exhibition can be understood as central to his practice.
Along with an extensive selection of Finlay’s published works, prints, posters and magazines, the exhibition presents a series of interventions by contemporary artists, Jason Dodge, Christian Flamm, Beatrice Gibson and Will Holder. These contributions demonstrate Ian Hamilton Finlay’s influence over artists and writers today, and open up a contemporary perspective on this artist who was an inspiration for many of his own contemporaries. The exhibition also includes a series of six sculptures by Finlay in the grounds of St George’s Bristol as an off-site project, which were installed permanently in 2002.
Events
Ian Hamilton Finlay Weekend Friday 30 August, 6pm – 10pm, Saturday 31 August, noon – 8pm, £5 / £3 concs per day A weekend of talks, film screenings, performances and readings around the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. With Amor de Dias, Stephen Bann, Christian Flamm, Beatrice Gibson, OEI magazine and others.
Auction Friday 30 August, 7.30 pm, free The three model boats on view in the exhibition will be auctioned to benefit and support the Little Sparta Trust and help maintain Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden in Stonypath, Scotland. The auctioneer will be George Ferguson, Mayor of Bristol.
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EXHIBITION
Yorgos Sapountzis: The Protagonists Until Sunday 15 September, free #TheProtagonists For The Protagonists, Sapountzis has created an imaginary park of public sculpture that blurs the boundaries of Arnolfini’s indoor gallery spaces with the outdoor sites of monuments in the city centre of Bristol. Sapountzis uses public monuments, and the way in which they relate to rituals and myths, as protagonists for his work which he activates with riotous yet elegant films, and vivid, large-scale sculptures. The exhibition presents a new video, fabric-and-frame structures, and casts from public sculptures in Bristol, in an installation that unfolds throughout the galleries and involves visitors in a scenario of bright colours, images, and sound.
A sense of openness in Sapountzis’ practice gives his work an anarchic quality, exemplified by his commitment to immediacy, improvisation, and collaborative working with non-professionals, including Young Arnolfini, with whom he worked on a series of night-time interventions around Bristol city centre. Besides the new works made at Arnolfini, the exhibition also presents previous sculptures and installations, which give an insight into Sapountzis’ ongoing concerns. Event
Yorgos Sapountzis: The Protagonists (a performance) Sunday 15 September, 8 pm – 9 pm, free See page 12 for further details
(Image left) Ian Hamilton Finlay, Installation View, Arnolfini, 2013. Photo Stuart Whipps. (Image above) Yorgos Sapountzis: The Protagonists, 2013. Installation View, Arnolfini. Photo Stuart Whipps.
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Dean’s work evolves from his extensive writing, and many of his sculptures are remodeled words in the artist’s own three-dimensional fonts, accompanied by short, poetic texts. The works explore different states of language, from the word to its representation as an object, and how we experience these in different ways, as ideas and material form. The sculptures keep a careful balance between the autonomous presence of the objects and their function as tools of communication.
EXHIBITION
Michael Dean Saturday 28 September – Sunday 17 November, free #MichaelDean Arnolfini presents an exhibition with new works by Michael Dean, one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists in Britain, working with sculpture, photography and drawing. Michael Dean’s sculptural works are often made from cast concrete and employ its subtle material quality. Concrete, though impenetrable, absorbs and reflects its environment with traces and stains, from rust marks to the polish of continuous touch. Some of Dean’s works have an uncannily familiar organic appearance – like elephant skin, or fossilised ancient material. Their rough but delicate surfaces, and sometimes monumental scale, invite interaction and seek a direct physical relationship with the human body.
The works are often produced specifically for the exhibition spaces, and Dean uses the galleries to combine the experience of different elements and media. In his recent exhibitions, Dean created reduced architectural settings for his sculptures, such as boxes or chairs and tables. For the exhibition at Arnolfini, the artist will develop a new sculptural installation. Events
Exhibition Tours Every Saturday, 2 pm, free Free tours of our galleries are led by a member of staff, or an invited guest. Learn more about the work on show, and ask any questions you may have about the exhibition. All welcome.
UWE Fine Art/Art in the City Lecture Series: Michael Dean Wednesday 30 October, 6.30 pm, £6 / £4 concs See page 28 for details
(Image left) Michael Dean, home (Working Title), 2012. Installation view, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Photo: Michael Dean. (Image below) Michael Dean, State of Being Apart in Space, 2011. Installation view, Kunstverein Freiburg. Photo Michael Dean.
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EXHIBITION
Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Works 1969 – 1980 Saturday 28 September – Sunday 17 November, free #MierleLU Maintenance Art Works 1969 – 1980 is the first comprehensive solo exhibition in the UK of early work by the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, even though Ukeles’ took a seminal position in early conceptual and feminist art and is represented in almost every anthology of 1960s and 1970s artists. The exhibition presents major works spanning a decade of production and is based on a show at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery in New York 1998.
The work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles (born 1939 in Denver, USA) concerns the everyday routines of life. In 1969, following the birth of her first child, Ukeles wrote her Manifesto for Maintenance Art as a challenge to the oppositions between art and life, nature and culture, and public and private. Her work looked to highlight otherwise overlooked aspects of social production and question the hierarchies of different forms of work, especially of housework and low-wage labour. Ukeles was interested in how artists could use the concept of transference to empower people to act as agents of change and stimulate positive community involvement toward ecological sustainability. Since 1977, Ukeles has acted as artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation, and realised radical public art as public culture in a system which serves and is owned by the entire population.
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“I am an artist. I am a woman. I am a wife. I am a mother, (Random order) I do a hell of a lot of washing, cleaning, cooking, renewing, supporting, preserving, etc. Also, (up to now separately) I ‘do’ Art. Now I will simply do these everyday things, and flush them up to consciousness, exhibit them, as Art.” (Ukeles, Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969) Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Works 1969 – 1980 is organised in collaboration with the Grazer Kunstverein and curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen, director of the Grazer Kunstverein. The exhibition will be accompanied by Ukeles’ very first publication, which focuses on her Ballet Works produced between 1983 and 2012. The publication is edited by Kari Conte and co-published by Sternberg Press, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Grazer Kunstverein in collaboration with Arnolfini.
(Image left) Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Touch Sanitation, 1979 – 1980. Courtesy the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. (Image above) Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Art Interviews at A.I.R Gallery, NY, 1973 – 1974. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
(Image top) Serena Korda, Aping the Beast, 2013. Photo Jonathan Allen. (Image bottom) Jesse Ash, Avoidance - Avoidance (A project of Transparency), CAC Bretigny, Paris. Image courtesy of the artist. (Image right) Serena Korda, Aping the Beast, on location at Blackpool Tower Circus, 2013. Image courtesy Serena Korda.
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PERFORMANCE
4 Days: Curtain Call Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 September, 11 am – 8 pm, Festival pass £12 for all six ticketed performances #4Days2013 Featuring live performance, talks, text and exhibition 4 Days: Curtain Call is a festival exploring contemporary arts’ restless relationship with the theatrical and the staged. Including such feats as a performing wall, a 15ft high dinosaur and an ever expanding number of artist-written notes Arnolfini presents four consecutive days of artist works informed by genres such as the play, the musical, the opera and the puppet show.
Edwin Burdis: The Fruit Machine (a painting & an opera) Installation: Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 September, 11 am – 6 pm, free Performances: Thursday 12, 5 pm, Saturday 14, 1 pm & Sunday 15 September, 1 pm, £5 An installation and performance centred around an allegorical painting from Burdis, depicting with absurdity how we on Earth use and abuse our fruits and resources to fulfil desire. Featuring a libretto to a musical score created with fellow artist and poet Heather Phillipson.
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Cally Spooner: And You Were Wonderful, On Stage Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 September, 11am – 8pm, free. Talk: Friday 13 September, 1pm, free
Barry Sykes: ‘It must be told.’ Installation: Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 September, 11 am – 6 pm, free Performances: Thursday 12, 6pm & Saturday 14 September, 3pm & 7 pm, £5 Presenting a dramatisation of his current research into a post-modern ghost play, Sykes will examine many of the elements that cluster around a long-running theatre production: The repeated advertisements haunting the press, the numerous casting decisions and script notes, the building that has heard countless performances and the regular-as-clockwork gasps of terror.
Jesse Ash: Avoidance–Avoidance (A project of Transparency) Installation: Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 September, 11 am – 6 pm, free Performances: Friday 13, 5 pm & Saturday 14 September, 5 pm, £5 Performed and exhibited at different venues in multiple parts Avoidance-Avoidance is a term used to describe techniques of diversion during crossexamination. Informed by recent events such as the phone hacking scandal, Ash’s work references material, personal, conceptual and political forms of transparency.
Throughout 4 Days, Cally Spooner will produce and distribute a reader containing images and text from her recently commissioned Stedelijk Museum work And You Were Wonderful, On Stage. On Friday 13, she will be discussing this and other potentialities with Vivian Ziherl, resident curator at the research, programming and production hub If I Can’t Dance.
Forest Fringe: Paper Stages Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 September, 11 am – 8 pm, free Featuring texts and instructions from artists and theatre makers written to inspire the public into performing their own works Paper Stages is an exclusive book available to anyone willing to volunteer an hour of their time and contribute to the ‘making of 4 Days’. Create your own stage!
Open Dialogues: NOTA Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 September, 11 am – 8 pm, free Performance writers Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham will be in residence throughout 4 Days at the NOTA writing station. Producing a series of time-stamped documents available immediately online, and viewable at Arnolfini visitors are invited to contribute as the artists NOTAte many of the performances during the festival.
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Serena Korda: Aping the Beast Thursday 12 September, 7.30 pm, £5 An ambitious, theatrical rendering of animal symbolism and folklore; featuring a towering monster puppet handmade in latex, volunteer performers from Colstons Primary School and a live soundtrack from Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan’s musical project Grumbling Fur.
Heather & Ivan Morison: Empire of Dirt Saturday 14 September, 6.30 pm & 8pm, £5 A play specially written by the artists for Cynan Davies, a puppeteer of international repute, that tells ‘his tale and what meaning can be taken from it’. Davies performs with a pair of bone ash and mud hand puppets, voicing the parts in collaboration with actors Tom Bevan and Victoria Gould.
Ant Hampton & Glen Neath: ROMCOM or, The Distance Love Can Be Maintained Between Any Two Diverging Points Sunday 15 September, 3pm, 5pm & 7pm, £5 Two performers meet on stage before an audience to enact the story of a relationship. The performers agree in advance to do the show, but have absolutely no idea what is expected of them; they simply turn up and put on a set of headphones through which instructions are given to them about what to say and do. Featuring Jenna Watt, Shaun C Badham, Zierle & Carter, Jodie Hawkes and Peter Phillips.
Yorgos Sapountzis: The Protagonists (a performance) Sunday 15 September, 8 pm, free To close The Protagonists, Sapountzis will lead visitors in a theatre-like procession with props made from coloured fabric and aluminium tubes. The performance will revisit the public spaces in Bristol that were starting points for new works developed for the exhibition.
4 Days Artist Talks The Reading Room will host three conversations between the following artists and curators during the festival as follows: Cally Spooner with Vivian Ziherl Friday 13 September, 1 pm, free Barry Sykes and Edwin Burdis with Jamie Eastman Sunday 15 September, 2 pm, free Yorgos Sapountzis with Mark Sladen Sunday 15 September, 4 pm, free
(Image left) ROMCOM, Soledad Galarce & Diego Leske. Photo Britt Hatzius. (Image below) Every House Has a Door rehearsal, pictured left to right: Stephen Fiehn, Bryan Saner. Photo David Shy.
Live Art Theatre Season Four weeks, five unmissable shows and three masterclasses. A season acknowledging the increasing crossover between the fields of live art and theatre including seminal performance makers Forced Entertainment and Goat Island founders Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish (returning as Every House Has a Door).
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Artist Masterclass: Cathy Naden & Richard Lowdon Friday 25 October, 2pm – 4pm, £15 / £10 concs Ahead of their presentation of Tomorrow’s Parties, Forced Entertainment founder members Cathy Naden and Richard Lowdon lead this session designed to provide performers and artists at any stage in their careers with a practical understanding of the methods and techniques they use.
Artist Masterclass: Stacy Makishi
Artist Masterclass: Every House Has a Door
Friday 18 October, 4 pm – 6pm, £15 / £10 concs
Sunday 3 November, 2pm – 5pm, £25 / £15 concs
Ahead of The Falsettos, Stacy Makishi invites artists/performers at any stage in their careers to join her for Killing Time. Do you regularly have ideas for performance that you kill off before they’re born? Then Killing Time is the masterclass for you. Drawing inspiration from the 1970s film genre Blaxploitation, this is a masterclass that gets down and feels the funk.
Lin Hixson (director) and Matthew Goulish (dramaturg) founders of experimental theatre companies Goat Island and Every House Has a Door present a workshop/masterclass in compositional techniques engaging divergent performance forms; writing derived from a source text, constraint-based movement, and object interaction/animation.
(Images right - top) Stacy Makishi, The Falsettos. Photo Will Munro. (Image right - bottom) Forced Entertainment, Tomorrow’s Parties. Photo Hugo Glendinning
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In Between Time presents Doris Uhlich: more than enough Friday 1 November, 7.30pm, £12 / £10 concs
Live Art Theatre Season Stacy Makishi: The Falsettos Saturday 19 October, 7.30 pm, £10 / £8 concs Stacy Makishi’s stunning new solo show is a deftly woven mix of text, movement and stand up. The Falsettos is an honest and hilarious display of Makishi’s intimate reflections on murder, mortality and mid-life crisis; splicing together influences from American popular culture including The Sopranos, Barbra Streisand, and E.T.
What is a beautiful body? Internationally renowned dancer Doris Uhlich would like to know if there is a perfect body for dancing. Live, by phone, she interviews other performers, whose unorthodox bodies have become their trademarks. This baroque-inspired performance continues Uhlich’s concern with the politics of the flesh and the deployment of bodies. Join her for a passionate exploration of beauty, opulence and perfection. more than enough is a part of IBT’s showcase series, bringing extraordinary international work to Bristol. #corpulentdancer.
Sedated By A Brick Present Serrated By A Knife Present Sedated By A Brick Saturday 2 November, 7.30pm, £5
Forced Entertainment: Tomorrow’s Parties
Sedated By A Brick are accidentally possessed by their imaginary alter-ego theatre company, Serrated By A Knife. Both companies have been struggling to put the finishing touches to their astonishing productions of The Shining, which they hope one day to present to an actual audience. At least three versions of the play will be fighting it out for survival, surely nothing could go wrong...
Friday 25 – Saturday 26 October, 7.30 pm, £12 / £10 concs
Every House Has a Door: Testimonium
Commissioned by Chelsea Theatre, Colchester Arts Centre and The Basement support by The Roddick Foundation. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Produced by Artsadmin.
International innovators Forced Entertainment’s latest performance imagines a multitude of hypothetical futures. Two performers wreathed in coloured lights, like a strange fairground attraction, speculate about what tomorrow might bring. Exploring utopian and dystopian visions, science fiction scenarios, political nightmares and absurd fantasies, the audience is carried along on a flowing tide of conjectures, possibilities and dreams. Tomorrow’s Parties is a playful, poignant and at times delirious look forwards to futures both possible and impossible.
Friday 8 – Saturday 9 November, 7.30 pm, £12 / £8 concs Every House Have a Door return to Arnolfini with Chicago band, Joan of Arc, Testimonium responds to the American Objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff’s unfinished masterwork Testimony, a collection of courtroom testimonies documenting crimes of violence or workplace negligence translated into poetry. Alternating between Stephen Fiehn’s inventive movement sequences, Bryan Saner’s sober recitation of the text, and six original songs performed live onstage.
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Oren Ambarchi with Joe Talia, Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney Tuesday 15 October, 7.30 pm, £12 / £10 concs
MUSIC #ArnolfiniMusic
Vatican Shadow, Maria Chavez Friday 6 September, 7.30 pm, £8 / £6 concs A live AV performance of Dominick Fernow‘s “militant religious industrial” project, combining compelling electronic textures and machine rhythms with a confrontational aesthetic drawing on present-day global politics, conflict and belief. Fernow is also known as Purient, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, and as the man behind the Hospital Productions label. Maria Chavez is an improvisor, curator and sound artist who performs ‘chance procedures’ for turntable.
The Australian composer and multiinstrumentalist Oren Ambarchi is undoubtedly one of the key figures in experimental music today. He has played and recorded with an astounding array of artists, including in groups with Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and Stephen O’Malley. At this concert he performs his expansive music with percussionist Joe Talia. Haunting vocalist Jessika Kenney and composer and violist Eyvind Kang have collaborated widely, and as a duo they have released two mesmerising albums on the Stephen O’Malley-curated Ideological Organ imprint.
Phill Niblock & Thomas Ankersmit Friday 15 November, 7.30 pm, £12 / £10 concs Since the late-60s, New York-based artist and composer Phill Niblock has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde. This minimalist legend is now in his 80th year, and at this very special concert he will perform a series of his works and project films, in collaboration with Thomas Ankersmit, whose acclaimed work combines abstract, intensely focused acoustic saxophone work with hyper-kinetic analogue synth and computer improvisation. Ankersmit will also perform solo on vintage analogue synthesizers.
(Image left) Vatican Shadow. (Image below) Dean Blunt.
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Dean Blunt Friday 29 November, 7.30 pm, £10 / £8 concs Half of the enigmatic Hype Williams with Inga Copeland, this live show draws on Dean Blunt’s acclaimed recent solo material, which captures the essence of modern romance: delusional, infatuated and all-consuming.
Maya Dunietz & Ghédalia Tazartès Performance: Saturday 30 November, 6pm, free
Vicki Bennett: Notations and Consequences (One Thing Leads to Another) Saturday 30 November, 7.30pm, £8/£6 concs
Cult French/Turkish artist, vocalist and soniccollagist Ghédalia Tazartès joins forces with pianist, composer, singer, conductor and artist Maya Dunietz on a newly commissioned sound installation and a very rare live performance.
Notations is a new live AV project by artist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), performing with a prestigious trio of improvising musicians. Consequences applies the rules of the game Exquisite Corpse to collaged film footage, to wondrous (and catastrophic) effect.
Supported by Outset
Supported by Sound & Music
Shangaan Electro
Out of Place #outofplace Out of Place is an off-site roaming series of events that explores non-standard performance spaces in and around the Bristol area. A diverse line-up of international music makers and solo audio adventurers will respond to specially selected contexts including an abandoned farm, a shopping centre and a swimming pool... stirring up a sense of off-the-grid discovery for audience and performers alike. A succession of unmissable stereo field trips taking live music out of its comfort zone.
Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip Hacker Farm, Ashley Paul, Kemper Norton, IX Tab, Hugh Metcalfe Saturday 28 September, 1pm – midnight , £15 (includes return bus travel) A mythical mystery bus heads to a secret deep South West location for a long afternoon and evening in the company of cult West Country collective Hacker Farm. Expect out-in-the-wild performances, installations, film screenings, electronic campfire communion and the radical rattle & splutter of repurposed junkyard goods all harvested over a unique rural-industrial site.
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Tuesday 22 October, free pop-up events Wednesday 23 October, 7.30pm, £6 advance, at the Exchange The South African electronic music and dance phenomenon led by larger-than-life producer and animateur Nozinja visit Bristol for two days of rubber-limber dancefloor action, technicolour costumes and breakneck BPMs, with various pop-up activities around the city culminating in a full Shangaan show on Wednesday night at the Exchange.
Bunker: Container, Cut Hands, Blood Music Friday 22 November , 10 pm – 4 am, £8 advance Set in the abandoned subterranean cells of an ex-police station, BUNKER is a live/club event featuring singular and contemporary takes on industrial music. The line-up includes debut Bristol appearances from blistering US analogue noise/techno protagonist Container, UK noise music legend William Bennett (Whitehouse) presenting his relentless percussion-led project Cut Hands, and London lo-fi post-punk provocateurs Blood Music. Out of Place is a co-production between Arnolfini and Qu Junktions. It is supported by PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music Plus… UK an initiative developed in association with the hub, with funding from Arts Council England, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales, Creative Scotland, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
(Image left) Shangaan Electro, TSHE TSHA BOYS. Photo Chris Saunders. (Image below) Yann Leguay.
Several 2nds: Tracing Countercurrents in Sound #severalseconds A series of events including concerts, discussions, screenings and practical sessions exploring composition, documentation and improvisation. Each 2nd Wednesday of the month, open to all. Brought to you by: Amalgam, Arnolfini, Bang the Bore, Bath Spa University, Behaviour, Insignificant Variation, Shieldshaped
Consumer Waste presents: Yann Leguay, Stephen Cornford & Patrick Farmer, Greg Stuart, Dominic Lash & Samuel Rodgers Wednesday 11 September, 7.30 pm, £5 The inaugural Several 2nds event, presented by Consumer Waste, a low impact imprint for the publication of experimental music run by Stephen Cornford and Samuel Rodgers. Expect Yann Leguay’s unique brand of media sabotage, reel to reel experiments from Cornford and Farmer, and a special collaboration by three key figures from the improvisation scene.
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James Saunders Workshop Wednesday 9 October, 6.30 pm – 9pm, free James Saunders will present and discuss some of his recent open form compositions, offering insights into how the pieces operate through open rehearsal and performances by an ensemble of Bristol based experimental musicians. He is a composer and performs in the duo Parkinson Saunders, and with Apartment House and is Professor of Music at Bath Spa University.
Otomo Yoshihide Music(s), a film by Guillaume Dero Wednesday 13 November, 6.30 pm, free A screening and discussion around the work of Otomo Yoshihide, one of the key figures in Japanese experimental music. In 1990, he founded the mythic group Ground Zero produced by John Zorn. This film includes solo performances on turntables and guitar, as well as his New Jazz Ensemble. The subsequent discussion will explore Otomo’s work, and the wider issues of stylistic diversity and contradiction in improvised music. Guillaume Dero, 2006, 52 mins
(Image below) Young Arnolfini working with Yorgos Sapountzis. Photo Edward Tucker. (Image right) We Are Family. Photo George Scane.
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EVENTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Young People’s Festival of Ideas Wednesdays 16 October, 6 November, 20 November, 6.30pm – 8pm, free Arnolfini and Salaam Shalom are teaming up to bring you a new series of events looking at critical issues affecting young people today. Inspired by Bristol Festival of Ideas, the festival has a host of hard hitting talks and debates on issues that matter to you, including Racism in the UK, Pornography and the Power of Social Media. Panel members will be experts in their fields and will stimulate debate and discussion.
Future Forward Thursdays 17, 24 October and 14, 21 November, 2 pm – 6 pm, free, 30 minute slots, booking required Future Forward is a free portfolio and advisory service for 16 – 25 year olds. You don’t have to be in formal education (though students are very welcome), 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. Sessions are 1:1 with an experienced arts professional who will be able to advise across a broad range of media and disciplines. The sessions will be relaxed and informal, and will take place in Arnolfini’s Reading Room.
Young Arnolfini #youngarnolfini Young Arnolfini are young people from across the city aged 16 – 21. Over the autumn they will be involved in a number of exciting initiatives and collaborations. They are currently working on their second edition of the Young Arnolfini quarterly zine with the aim of establishing a bridge between the arts, culture and young people. YA offers artwork, articles, exclusive interviews, events listings and much more in a publication designed and compiled by the group’s members. Issue 2 explores the theme of ‘Perfectionism’ and will be available from the end of October. Their blog continues to offer the group’s take on arts and culture locally, nationally and internationally. To find out more visit arnolfini.org.uk and follow the links to Learning and Young People.
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Family Arts Festival
FAMILY The Marvellous World of Fruit Saturday 21 September, 2 pm – 3.30 pm, £6 / £5 concs, free for under 12’s See page 25 for further details.
Family Film Screenings Saturdays 28 September, 26 October, 30 November, 10 am – 12 pm, free Special film screenings for families will introduce you to a different theme or idea taken from our exhibitions or events. Films are suitable for all ages unless otherwise stated.
We Are Family Saturdays 28 September, 26 October, 30 November, 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 our Light Studio and see what fantastic creations you can make. Most suitable for ages 5+ but all ages are welcome to have go.
Friday 18 October - Sunday 3 November, 11 am – 5 pm, free Arnolfini is joining up with other cultural organisations from across Bristol to take part in the Family Arts Festival. During the festival lots of exciting family activities will take place at venues including Watershed, SS Great Britain, Mshed, Architecture Centre and Arnolfini, bringing you activities including giant drawing-inspired by the Big Draw theme Draw Tomorrow, family boat tours to our Floating Ballast Seed Garden and an artist workshop with illustrator Rose Robbins in which you can design your own football kit or mascot.
We Are Family: Global Roots of Football Saturday 26 October, free drop in activities in Light Studio 1pm – 5pm, boat tour between 2pm – 3.30pm, £6/£5 concs, free for under 12s Join Dr Matthew Brown, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol, on a football themed boat tour to Brazilian artist Maria Theresa Alves’ Floating Ballast Seed garden. What were the first rules of football? Who were the first players? Just as Alves has traced the journeys of South American seeds, Dr Brown will uncover the fascinating stories of the origins of football in South America. Try some of the exercises that the visiting players did on-board ships and design your own football kit or mascot with illustrator Rose Robbins.
Family Film Screenings
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Saturdays 28 September, 26 October, 30 November, 10 am – 12 pm, free See page 21 for further details.
Greg Pope & Stephen Cornford in Performance Thursday 10 October, 7.30 pm, £6 / £4 concs Two expanded cinema performances for multiple 16mm projectors, manipulating image and optical sound tracks to explore the productive and selfreflexive potential of the cinematic apparatus.
SCREENINGS
The Film Exercise
#ArnolfiniFilm
Thursday 17 October & Thursday 14 November, 6.30 pm, free
Animated Encounters
The Film Exercise is a monthly programme of screenings and discussion that explores the urgency, social or political timeliness in curatorial approaches to artists’ film and video, as well as delighting in the diversity of artists’ work in the field of the moving image. Join us for a new series of events this autumn.
Tuesday 17 – Sunday 22 September, 10 am – 10 pm, Ticket prices between £7.50 – £10 / £6 – £8 concs Animated Encounters returns to Arnolfini with an inspiring animation programme featuring screenings of the best new short films from around the globe, special guests, debates, live performance and art installation. During a packed six days the festival invites you to discover over 100 short animated works battling it out in competition, of all styles and genres: from stop-motion puppets to CGI creations, from light-hearted comedy to moving drama, as well as special guests such as the legendary Richard Williams (The Pink Panther), Peter Lord (Aardman Animations) and Shelley Page (DreamWorks Animation). As part of the festival’s focus on Switzerland, Franz Treichler of post-industrial rock band The Young Gods will be performing a live score of classic 20th century shorts influenced by the Dada movement and the Dark Studio will host an installation of visual artist Yves Netzhammer’s latest experimental short film trilogy. Complete your festival experience with a visit to Brief Encounters at Watershed, for a taste of the very best live action short films. There will also be free events around the city, including an Outdoor Solar Cinema Tour. Animated Encounters is part of Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, the UK’s leading international showcase of short format cinema. encounters-festival.org.uk
High Rise Film Screening Thursday 7 November, 6.30 pm, £6 / £4 concs Artist Peter Bobby’s current project, showing at the Architecture Centre, examines the sociopolitical, architectural and visual discourse surrounding high-rise constructions. This collaborative event will expand on themes of the exhibition via a programme of contemporary and historical film and video work.
Haze and Fog Preview Night Friday 27 September, 6pm – 8pm, free. Weekend Screenings Saturdays & Sundays 28 & 29 September, 12 & 13 October, 16 & 17 November, 2pm – 6pm, free A new commission by artist Cao Fei, Haze and Fog is an alternative type of zombie movie set in modern China. The film will explore how the collective consciousness of people living in the time of what the artist calls “magical metropolises” emerges from seemingly tedious, mundane, day-to-day life. A new commission by Eastside Projects and Chinese Art Centre/Salford University, Arnolfini/Bath Spa University with Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing.
(Image top) Haze and Fog. (Image bottom) Dialogical Abrasion, Yves Netzhammer / Encounters.
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(Image below) The Act of Killing (Image right) Floating Ballast Seed Garden at dusk. Photo Max McClure.
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The Globalisation Tapes Thursday 31 October, 7.30 pm, £6 / £4 concs
Director Focus: Joshua Oppenheimer In October and November, we will show Joshua Oppenheimer’s much discussed recent documentary The Act of Killing alongside newly re-mastered versions of his early works.
The Act of Killing (15) Thursday 24 October, 7.30 pm, £6 / £4 concs The much-discussed ‘documentary of the imagination’, in which former members of Indonesian death squads re-enact their own murders in the style of the American movies they love. The Act of Killing is a journey into the memories and imaginations of mass killers, and represents a powerful cinematic attempt to “understand not only what we see, but also how we see, and how we imagine” (Oppenheimer). Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia/USA, 2012, 115 minutes
Oppenheimer’s 2006 documentary exposes the devastating role of militarism and repression in building the global economy. Through chilling first-hand accounts, hilarious improvised interventions, collective debate and archival collage, The Globalisation Tapes explores the relationships between trade, third-world debt, and international institutions like the IMF and the World Trade Organisation, offering a densely lyrical and incisive account of how these institutions shape and enforce the corporate world order (and its ‘systems of chaos’). Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia, 2003, 70 minutes (produced with Christine Cynn)
The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase + These Places We’ve Learned to Call Home Thursday 21 November, 7.30 pm, £6 / £4 concs A double bill of early Oppenheimer films, both of which employ his trademark mix of documentary, archival footage and fiction to produce evocative, unsettling portraits of contemporary America. Joshua Oppenheimer, USA, 1998, 56 minutes Joshua Oppenheimer, USA, 1996, 30 minutes
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The Marvellous World of Fruit Saturday 21 September, 2pm – 3.30pm, £6/£5 concs, free for under 12’s, boat tour leaves from Arnolfini Join Professor Peter Coates, Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, and Shane Jordan, local Bristol chef, to learn about the strange histories and quirky tales of some of our most familiar fruit. This will be followed by the creation of some interesting and unusual fruit smoothies.
OFF-SITE PROJECTS
Documenting Plants: Art and Photography in Dialogue
Maria Thereza Alves Seeds of Change: A Floating Ballast Seed Garden
Wednesday 25 September 6.30 pm, £6/£5 concs, boat tour leaves from Arnolfini
Ongoing #ballastseed Working with Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves and designer Gitta Gschwendtner, Arnolfini has utilised a disused grain barge to create a Ballast Seed Garden on Bristol’s Floating Harbour, populated with a variety of non-native plants, creating a living history of the city’s trade and maritime past. The Garden is visible from Castle Park and can be accessed through Arnolfini’s public programme of boat tours running until the end of October 2013. Seeds of Change: A Floating Ballast Seed Garden was commissioned by Bristol City Council as part of its public art programme and designed by Gitta Gschwendtner. The project was funded by the Ashley, Easton & Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Partnership, with the kind support of Bristol Harbour Authority, Arnolfini, Ramboll, University of Bristol Botanic Garden and Avon and Somerset Probation Trust Community Payback team and Bristol Packet Boat Trips.
Join John and Anne Bebbington on a boat tour to the Floating Ballast Seed Garden, where they will demonstrate how they work together, using both photography and botanical illustration to unravel and record the structure, science and beauty of plants. John, a zoologist, is an experienced photographer while illustration has always played an important role in Anne’s work as a field botanist.
Moving Places Wednesday 9 October, 6.30 pm, £6/£5 concs, boat tour leaves from Arnolfini Explore with Dr Lucy Donkin, Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, how people have carried pieces of earth as keepsakes or that have symbolic meaning, transporting them from one geographical location to another. Thus, allowing exiles to make a link with their homeland and believers to own a part of sacred sites.
We Are Family: Global Roots of Football Saturday 26 October, 2 pm – 3.30 pm, £6/£5 concs, free under 12’s This event is part of the regular We Are Family events. See page 21 for details.
(Image below) Chiara Fumai reads Valerie Solanas, 2013, video performance. Photo courtesy the artist. (Image right) Sky is the Limit, 2008, Tea House, Yang Yang, South Korea. By Didier Faustino. Photo Didier Faustino / Hong Lee & Mésarchitecture.
TALKS / LECTURES / WORKSHOPS Drawing Resource Exchange Tuesday 3 September, 10 am – 1 pm, £12 (including all materials) The Drawing Resource Exchange is an event for artists, tutors, teachers, students and drawing enthusiasts. Are you planning a Big Draw event and need ideas? Are you an art tutor needing to take a fresh look at drawing? Are you an artist or student who needs to shake up your practice? As part of the Campaign for Drawing’s CPD programme, it is an opportunity to network with other local drawing practitioners and educators, to share ideas and to freshen up your range of skills.
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Writing & Poverty Saturday 14 September – Sunday 15 September, 11 am – 5pm, £20 (for both days) This two day workshop will explore the notion of ‘poor’ forms in relation to performance (Grotowski’s ‘Poor Theatre’), technology (Aravind Adyanthaya’s notion of ‘Poor Techno Theatre’) and the object or prop (Arte povera). We will also look at the idea of ‘poor writing’ as performative. What does ‘poor writing’ look like and how does it intersect with contemporary experiences of austerity and precarity?
The Marvellous World of Fruit Boat Tour Saturday 21 September, 2 pm – 3.30 pm, £6 / £5 concs, free under 12’s See page 25 for further details.
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Ron Athey: Book Launch Thursday 26 September, 6.30 pm, free Ron Athey is a central figure in the development of performance art since the early 1990s. This book launch marks the publication of the hugely anticipated first book devoted to his practice, Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey. This event will include readings from the book by Athey, screenings of his short films including Solar Anus, and live vignettes from his new solo performance Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains, as well as special guests and book signings. Presented in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency.
Teachers Exhibition Preview Wednesday 2 October, 5.30 pm – 7 pm, free, no booking required If you are a teacher or work in education we’d like to invite you to our free exhibition preview to learn how you and your pupils can get involved in our programme of events. The evening will include welcome refreshments, an introduction from Axel Weider (Arnolfini Curator of Exhibitions), mini tours of the exhibition, information about upcoming events and insets and a chance to meet our knowledgeable learning team.
WEDF Talk: Design, Dyslexia and Dressing for a Party Wednesday 2 October, 7 pm, £12 / £10 concs The West of England Design Forum talk is from ‘brand guru’ Steve Edge, a regular speaker at the Do Lectures, with a Twitter description of ‘Prophet, Madman, Wanderer, Brand Guru and Fisherman’. Having been diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age, art and design was the way that Steve Edge expressed himself. In 1982 Steve established his own agency, Edge Design Ltd. Since then, he has worked with some of the best-known names in the country including Dior, Cartier and Hamleys.
Reading Art and Maintenance Wednesday 6 November, 6.30pm, 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, including Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Manifesto for Maintenance Art.
The Architecture Centre Lectures High Rise and Other Stories Lectures: To coincide with the Architecture Centre’s Autumn exhibition, High-Rise by Peter Bobby (9 October – 17 November), two of Britain’s most accomplished architects present their work, including two radically different approaches to high-rise design, curated by the Architecture Centre in partnership with UWE.
Chris Wilkinson Wednesday 9 October, 6.30 pm, £6 / £4 concs Founding director of multiple award winning practice Wilkinson Eyre (architects of Explore At-Bristol, Bristol Metropolitan and Brunel Academies and the Dyson Headquarters at Malmesbury) Chris Wilkinson will present recent work, including the 2012 Lubetkin prize winning 105-storey Guangzhou East Tower in China. Promoting a fresh new approach to architecture, he has combined a lifelong interest in art with a fascination for science, technological innovation and a sense of history.
(Image below) Andy Holden and David Raymond Conroy: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ICA, London. Photo Andy Holden. (Image right) Roger Hiorns, De Hallen Haarlem, 2013. Courtesy Corvi-Mora London. Photo Gert Jan van Rooij.
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UWE Fine Art/Art in the City Lecture Series £6 / £4 concs, free for UWE staff and students with ID. Tickets can be collected in person from Arnolfini Box Office from 11 am on the day of the event.
Graham Stirk Wednesday 16 October, 6.30 pm, £6 / £4 concs Senior Director of the world renowned practice Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (architects of the Centre Pompidou - with Renzo Piano, the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff and current expansion of the British Museum), Graham Stirk returns to Arnolfini to present recent work, including the design and construction of the 50-storey Leadenhall Building currently on site in the City of London.
Didier Faustino Thursday 21 November, 6 pm, £6 / £4 concs, Fifth Floor, Arnolfini. Entrance via Prince Street Artist and architect Didier Faustino explores the intimate relationship between body and space. His work ranges from installation to experimentation, from the creation of subversive visual art to spaces exacerbating the senses. Several of his projects entered the collections of major institutions such as MoMA, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain and the Centre Georges Pompidou. This is an Architecture Centre lecture in affiliation with the international Architecture and Humanities Research Association (AHRA) conference on Transgression, hosted by the University of the West of England.
Organised by Arnolfini, Bristol City Council, and the University of the West of England.
Andy Holden Wednesday 23 October, 6.30 pm Join artist Andy Holden as he speaks about his practice in relation to his current major exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection, London. Polymorphic in nature, Holden’s practice encompasses a diverse creative output, from monumental outdoor sculpture to lectures on birdlife to his band The Grubby Mitts, yet it is tied together by a fascination with how we imbue the things that surround us with meaning through both mental and physical manipulation.
Michael Dean Wednesday 30 October, 6.30 pm Michael Dean’s work, often made from cast concrete or other industrial materials, evolves from his extensive writing. Many of his sculptures, photographs and drawings are remodeled words in the artist’s own enigmatic fonts and are accompanied by short, poetic texts. While exploring the transmutation of language, from the word to its graphical representation and its reading, they also often seek a direct relationship to the human body.
Roger Hiorns Wednesday 13 November, 6.30 pm 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 remodeled into what he describes as ‘possibilities of an inconsistent future’. Hiorns will talk about his practice, followed by a discussion with critic and ArtReview Associate Editor JJ Charlesworth.
Chiara Fumai Wednesday 27 November, 6.30 pm The performative practice of Italian artist Chiara Fumai belongs to the tradition of female psychics, who are ‘spoken to by’ different controversial entities, which the artist freely (mis)interprets and combines into new stories, questioning their symbolic meaning and representation in the mind of the viewer. Dealing with radical feminism, media culture, language and repression, her starting point is performance, later transformed into installations, videos, collages and performative displays. Chiara Fumai will present a selection of unexpected female guests that were channelled in her recent exhibitions.
ONLINE PROJECTS Slub World Slub World is a new, on-line, sonic world co-inhabited by beatboxing robots. Participants are able to make music together by reprogramming their environment in a specially invented language, based on state-of-the-art intarsia, campanology and canntaireachd technology. The result is a cross between a sound poetry slam and a live coded algorave, experienced entirely through text and sound. http://slub.org/world/ Slub World is commissioned by Arnolfini in collaboration with Kunsthal Aarhus.
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Bristol Poetry Festival Open Poetry Slam Friday 4 October, 7.30 pm, £7 / £5 concs Always a highlight in the performance poetry calendar the Bristol Poetry Festival Slam is back. Eighteen poets showcase their talents with three minutes per poem, knock out rounds and a final face-off between the last two poets standing, all overseen by your slam hosts Glenn Carmichael and Claire Williamson.
BRISTOL POETRY FESTIVAL Bristol Poetry Festival brings you a programme of readings, performances and poetry activities at Arnolfini and across the city, from Bristol, the South West, the UK and beyond…
Bristol Poetry Festival Display: Inner Skin Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 October, 11am – 6 pm, free. Launch event, Wednesday 2 October, 6.30 pm Working with Elders of the Chinese community in Bristol, visual artist Barbara Disney and poet Karen Hayes have brought together this unique collection of self-portraits and poetry reflecting on their lives and experiences through texts and textiles. The launch event features music and readings of poems from the display, plus very special guests.
Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival International Screenings and Panel: Thursday 3 October, 10.30 am – 5.10 pm, £5 / £3 concs Liberated Words II & Four by Four Films: Thursday 3 October, 7 pm, £5 / £3 concs £8 / £4 concs for both sessions Celebrating all forms of moving digital poetry Liberated Words presents a day of International screenings and discussion and an evening of films specially created for the festival in response to poems by Philip Gross, Jo Bell, John Fluffypunk and Lucy English. Special guests include T S Eliot Prize winning poet Philip Gross and award winning Bristol-based artist and filmmaker Joe Magee.
Leo Aylen and Prunella Scales: An Assortment of Sibyls Saturday 5 October, 2 pm, £10 / £7 concs Celebrated actress Prunella Scales joins poet Leo Aylen in a performance that examines the politics of the relationships between men and women. Like miniature plays, Leo Aylen’s poetry draws on the past to examine the politics of the present as Prunella Scales takes on a range of roles from the murderous Medea, to a nameless hiker lying face down on a granite outcrop.
Martin Figura with readings by Helen Ivory and Deborah Harvey: Whistle Saturday 5 October, 7.30 pm, £7 / £5 concs Martin Figura’s Whistle centres on his mother’s death at the hands of his father when he was nine years old. This profound and uplifting work transcends this shocking central event and presents us with a tender and beautiful comingof-age story. Poet and artist Helen Ivory is the author of four collections of poetry, Bristol based Deborah Harvey is a poet and novelist.
Louis de Bernieres: Imagining Alexandria with Rachael Boast and David Briggs Sunday 6 October, 7.30 pm, £7 / £5 concs Celebrated novelist Louis de Bernieres returns to his first literary love with his debut collection of poetry, taking us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction, his poems about the distant past, the erotic and the philosophical acknowledge a debt to the great Alexandrian poet C P Cavafy. Rachel Boast will read from her new collection Pilgrim’s Flower. David Briggs will read from his new collection Rain Rider.
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AT A GLANCE Exhibitions Exhibition spaces open 11am – 6pm, Tuesday – Sunday & Bank Holiday Mondays
Ian Hamilton Finlay Until Sunday 8 September
Yorgos Sapountzis: The Protagonists Until Sunday 15 September
Michael Dean Saturday 28 September – Sunday 17 November
Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art Works 1969 – 1980 Saturday 28 September – Sunday 17 November Exhibition Tours every Saturday, 2pm, free
September Tuesday 3
Event
Drawing Resource Exchange
10am – 1pm
P.26
Friday 6
Music
Vatican Shadow, Maria Chavez
7.30pm – 11pm
P.16
Wednesday 11
Music
Several 2nds: Consumer Waste presents
7.30pm – 10pm
P.19
Thursday 12 – Sunday 15
Performance
Barry Sykes: It must be told
11am – 6pm
P.11
Thursday 12 – Sunday 15
Performance
Edwin Burdis: The Fruit Machine
11am – 6pm
P.10
Thursday 12 – Sunday 15
Performance
Cally Spooner
11am – 8pm
P.11
Thursday 12 – Sunday 15
Performance
Open Dialogues: NOTA
11am – 8pm
P.11
Thursday 12 – Sunday 15
Performance
Jesse Ash: Avoidance-Avoidance
11am – 6pm
P.11
Thursday 12 – Sunday 15
Performance
Paper Stages
11am – 8pm
P.11
Thursday 12
Performance
Serena Korda: Aping the Beast
7.30pm – 8pm
P.12
Friday 13
Performance
Talk: Cally Spooner with Vivian Ziherl
1pm – 1.45pm
P.12
Saturday 14 – Sunday 15
Talk
Writing & Poverty
11am – 5pm
P.26
Saturday 14
Performance
Heather & Ivan Morison: Empire of Dirt
6.30pm & 8pm
P.12
Sunday 15
Performance
Talk: Barry Sykes and Edwin Burdis
2pm – 2.45pm
P.12
Sunday 15
Performance
Ant Hampton & Glen Neath: ROMCOM
3pm, 5pm & 7pm
P.12
Sunday 15
Performance
Talk: Yorgos Sapountzis with Mark Sladen
4pm – 4.45pm
P.12
Sunday 15
Performance
Yorgos Sapountzis: The Protagonists
8pm – 9pm
P.12
Tuesday 17 – Sunday 22
Screenings
Animated Encounters
10am – 10pm
P.22
Saturday 21
Boat Tour
The Marvellous World of Fruit
2pm – 3.30pm
P.25
Wednesday 25
Boat Tour
Documenting Plants
6.30pm – 8pm
P.25
Thursday 26
Book Launch
Ron Athey: Book Launch
6.30pm – 8.30pm
P.27
Friday 27
Screenings
Preview: Haze and Fog
6pm – 8pm
P.22
Saturday 28 – Sunday 29
Screenings
Haze and Fog
2pm – 6pm
P.22
Saturday 28
Screenings
Family Film Screenings
10am – 12pm
P.21
Saturday 28
Family
We Are Family
1pm – 5pm
P.21
Saturday 28
Music
Salvage: A Hacker Farm Field Trip
1pm – midnight
P.18
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Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6
Poetry
Inner Skin
11am – 6pm
P.30
Wednesday 2
Exhibition Event
Teachers Exhibition Preview
5.30pm – 7pm
P.27
Wednesday 2
Talk
Design, Dyslexia and Dressing for a Party
7pm – 9pm
P.27
Thursday 3
Poetry
Liberated words Poetry Film Festival
10.30am & 7pm
P.30
Friday 4
Poetry
Open Poetry Slam
7.30pm
P.30
Saturday 5
Poetry
Leo Aylen and Prunella Scales
2pm
P.30
Saturday 5
Poetry
Martin Figura: Whistle
7.30pm
P.30
Sunday 6
Poetry
Louis de Bernieres
7.30pm
P.30
Wednesday 9
Music
Several 2nds: James Saunders
6.30pm – 9pm
P.19
Wednesday 9
Talk
Chris Wilkinson
6.30pm – 8pm
P.27
Wednesday 9
Boat Tour
Moving Places
6.30pm – 8pm
P.25
Thursday 10
Screenings
Greg Pope and Stephen Cornford
7.30pm – 9pm
P.22
Saturday 12 – Sunday 13
Screenings
Haze and Fog
2pm – 6pm
P.22
Tuesday 15
Music
Oren Ambarchi
7.30pm – 10.30pm
P.16
Wednesday 16
Talk
Graham Stirk
6.30pm – 8pm
P.28
Wednesday 16
Event
Young People’s Festival of Ideas
6.30pm – 8pm
P.20
Thursday 17
Event
Future Forward
2pm – 6pm
P.20
Thursday 17
Screenings
The Film Exercise
6.30pm – 8.30pm
P.22
Friday 18
Performance
Masterclass: Stacy Makishi
4pm – 6pm
P.13
Saturday 19
Performance
Stacy Makishi: The Falsettos
7.30pm – 8.30pm
P.14
Wednesday 23
Music
Shangaan Electro
7.30pm – 11pm
P.18
Wednesday 23
Talk
Andy Holden
6.30pm – 8pm
P.28
Thursday 24
Event
Future Forward
2pm – 6pm
P.20
Thursday 24
Screenings
The Act Of Killing
7.30pm – 9.30pm
P.24
Friday 25
Performance
Masterclass: Forced Entertainment
2pm – 4pm
P.13
Friday 25 – Saturday 26
Performance
Forced Entertainment
7.30pm – 8.50pm
P.14
Saturday 26
Family
We Are Family: Global Roots of Football
1pm – 5pm
P.21
Saturday 26
Boat Tour
Global Roots of Football
2pm – 3.30pm
P.21
Saturday 26
Screenings
Family Film Screenings
10am – 12pm
P.21
Wednesday 30
Talk
Michael Dean
6.30pm – 8pm
P.28
Thursday 31
Screenings
The Globalisation Tapes
7.30pm – 9.30pm
P.24
Friday 1
Performance
IBT presents Doris Uhlich
7.30pm – 8.25pm
P.14
Saturday 2
Performance
Sedated By A Brick
7.30pm – 8.30pm
P.14
Sunday 3
Performance
Masterclass: Every House Has a Door
2pm –5pm
P.13
Wednesday 6
Event
Young People’s Festival of Ideas
6.30pm – 8pm
P.20
Thursday 7
Screenings
High Rise Film Screening
6.30pm – 8.30pm
P.22
Friday 8– Saturday 9
Performance
Every House Has A Door: Testimonium
7.30pm – 9.10pm
P.14
Wednesday 13
Screenings
Several 2nds: Otomo Yoshihide Music(s)
6.30pm – 9pm
P.19
Wednesday 13
Talk
Roger Hiorns
6.30pm – 8pm
P.29
Thursday 14
Event
Future Forward
2pm – 6pm
P.20
Thursday 14
Screenings
The Film Exercise
6.30pm – 8.30pm
P.22
Friday 15
Music
Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit
7.30pm – 10.30pm
P.16
Saturday 16 – Sunday 17
Screenings
Haze and Fog
2pm – 6pm
P.22
Wednesday 20
Event
Young People’s Festival of Ideas
6.30pm – 8pm
P.20
Thursday 21
Event
Future Forward
2pm – 6pm
P.20
Thursday 21
Talk
Didier Faustino
6pm – 7pm
P.28
Thursday 21
Screenings
Joshua Oppenheimer Double-Bill
7.30pm – 9.30pm
P.24
Friday 22
Music
Bunker
10pm – 4am
P.18
Wednesday 27
Talk
Chiara Fumai
6.30pm – 8pm
P.29
Friday 29
Music
Dean Blunt
7.30pm – 11pm
P.17
Saturday 30
Screenings
Family Film Screenings
10am – 2pm
P.21
Saturday 30
Family
We Are Family
1pm– 5pm
P.21
Saturday 30
Music
Maya Dunietz & Ghédalia Tazartès
6pm – 7pm
P.17
Saturday 30
Music
Vicki Bennett: Notations and Consequences
7.30pm – 10pm
P.17
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(Image above) Arnolfini Bookshop. Photo Max McClure. (Image below) Arnolfini Café Bar. Photo Mark Simmons.
CAFÉ BAR Open daily from 10 am
BOOKSHOP Arnolfini is home to one of the UK’s leading specialist contemporary art bookshops. Open Tuesday 11 am – 6 pm, Wednesday – Saturday 11 am – 8 pm, Sunday 11 am – 7 pm As the summer draws to a close and the nights start getting longer the publishing industry goes into overdrive bringing out its big guns in the run up to the festive season. 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 not forgetting our exceptional range of children’s books. And for those of you looking further ahead we have a good crop of calendars and diaries for 2014. Follow us on Twitter @arnolfinibooks Contact bookshop with enquiries or orders on 0117 917 2304 or bookshop@arnolfini.org.uk NUS get 10% off all purchases on Wednesdays.
The Café Bar will be hosting some exciting food and drink led events throughout the Autumn, including a brand new supper club, wine tasting evenings and meet the producer. Be the first to hear about these opportunities and receive discounts by becoming an Arnolfini member. There are delicious new seasonal menus using local game, with hearty, robust wines to match. Plus with a mouth watering selection of home baked breads and cakes each day, the Café Bar is a great place to pop in for a sandwich and coffee, a board of antipasti or a drink after work. Follow us on Twitter @arnolfinicafe 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.
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(Image top) Jutta Koether, Seasons and Sacraments, Arnolfini preview, May, 2013. Photo Justin Yockney. (Image bottom) Arnolfini Auditorium. Photo Carl Newland.
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