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Events and Live Listings at the Arnolfini

Arnolfini supports group visits and tours with activities ranging from introductions to exhibitions or live events to practical and discussion-based workshops. Some sessions are available free of charge, but for artist run workshops there is a charge made.

Live Listings:
Far West Live

To mark Far West, Arnolfini Live has brought together artists who concoct and challenge East and West stereotypes to dig into the fissures between us.

Yuan Cai and JJ XI: Mad For Real
Sat 26 Jul 4.00pm - 4.30pm
Free
Yuan Cai and JJ Xi make strong use of irony in their performance and photographic work, infamously jumping on Tracey Emin’s Bed or pissing on Duchamp's Urinal. Drawing on seemingly banal subject matter they make witty and absurd commentaries through ironic actions and posturing.

Visitors to Arnolfini and passers by will be greeted by the sight of the artists engaged in a soy sauce and ketchup fight in a glass cube on the quayside. Using strong physical and vocal gestures which evoke Tai Chi and Qi Gong, they create splurges of colour slowly obliterating the space around them and their own bodies. After a short time, the audience is literally blocked out through the covered walls. The work is about globalisation and marginalisation: although the popular products of global consumerism are instantly accessible and immediately recognisable, the gradual erosion of clarity through the process of splashing the coloured liquids causes chaos and confusion, and eventual obscurity.

Marcus Young: Pacific Avenue
Thu 7 - Sat 9 Aug
Contact Arnolfini box office for exact location and times.
Minneapolis-based conceptual artist Marcus Young offers a counterpoint to the object and commodity focus of the Far West exhibition with a work that takes place outside the traditional and institutional definitions of art. Following previous performances in cities across the world Hong Kong-born Young brings his project Pacific Avenue to the streets of Bristol. Young performs modest acts of extreme slowness to disrupt the usual urban city pace and the way people relate to one another causing reactions ranging from intrigue to bewilderment. The work is created primarily for an accidental audience: those who just happen upon the performance.

Events Listings:
Completing Your Novel Course Tutor Glenn Carmichael
Thu 5 Jun - 17 Jul 7.00pm - 9.00pm
£47.00*
Bring in your manuscripts whether finished or half-written. This practical course is aimed at supporting you to develop a finished novel for presentation to publishers. The course runs over seven weekly sessions and is organised by WEA. For further information contact Glenn Carmichael on 07870 748134. (If you have a household income of £15,050 or less you may be eligible to claim the full fee via the Learners Support Fund. For details please contact WEA on 01392 490970.)

Neville Gabie & David Ogden: Cabot Circus Cantata
Performance, book launch and film screening
Tue 10 Jun 7.00pm
£5.00 / £3.00 concs
Cabot Circus is a large retail, leisure and office development in Bristol's city centre. The Cantata is an original musical score inspired by the huge variety of traditional songs submitted by construction workers on the site, representing 60 nationalities. Excerpts of the Cantata will be performed live and together with DVD footage documenting this unique participatory public art project which was first performed on site by the City of Bristol Choir.
Commissioned by InSite Arts on behalf of the Bristol Alliance, Neville Gabie is artist in residence during the redevelopment of Cabot Circus. In addition to developing his own work, Neville instigated bs1 which involves temporary projects from six other artists.

Travelling Light Youth Theatre Summer School
Sat 2 Aug 2.30pm & 3.30pm
Free / No Need to Book
Following their successful project in 2007, Travelling Light Youth Theatre, based in East Bristol, return to Arnolfini this summer. Young people supported by theatre directors and other artists will use the Far West exhibition and Arnolfini’s building as inspiration for developing a new performance. These two performances are a chance to see the results.

Philosophy and Film / Film and Philosophy: A Multidisciplinary Conference
Fri 4 - Sun 6 Jul (TIMES TBC)
£75.00 / £45.00 concs
Keynote speakers: Stephen Mulhall (Oxford), Vivian Sobchack (UCLA), Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie), Catherine Constable (Warwick), Karin Littau (Essex) and Julian Baggini (editor, The Philosophers' Magazine). In what ways is film philosophically informative? What is philosophical analysis of film? The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from philosophy and film studies to examine these questions and display the current range of philosophical film analysis. The conference is aimed at anyone with an interest in either area. During the conference, there will be special screenings of films and a video art programme.

For bookings and information please see http://amd.uwe.ac.uk and follow links under Events and News. Tel. 0117 328 4810 or email amd.shortcourses@uwe.ac.uk

For details of forthcoming events, activities, talks and workshops click on the 'more information' link.

Venue

Arnolfini, Harbourside

Dates

Date 1 Jun 2008 - 31 Aug 2008

Road Directions

From M32: Follow signs to the City Centre. At large roundabout, take 1st exit onto Haymarket .Keep to the left and you will come to The Centre, Cenotaph
and water feature. Keep in the left lane until you have to filter left onto Baldwin Street. Take 2nd right onto Queen Charlotte Street then 1st left. At river turn right . At the end take the 2nd exit off the mini roundabout onto The Grove (look for the Severnshed and Riverstation bars). Arnolfini is at the end of The Grove.

Public Transport Directions

Arnolfini is a 15 minute walk from Templemeads railway station. A taxi rank can be found outside the station.

Most city centre bus services stop within walking distance of Arnolfini. The nearest stops are at The Centre and Queen Square. Marlborough Street Bus Station is 15 mins walk away.

For more information on trains call +44(0)8457 484950
For more information on buses call +44(0)117 955 3231 or +44(0)870 6082608