Arnolfini Sep Oct Nov 2012 Brochure

SEP/OCT/NOV 2012

Exhibitions MUSIC LIVE ART DANCE screenings TALKS FAMILY EVENTS BOOKSHOP CAFÉ BAR arnolfini.org.uk

Front Cover: Matti Braun, The Alien, 2006, theatre play, The Showroom at the Laban Theatre, London. Courtesy The Showroom London.

Full listings of events and times are in the centrefold.

Exhibitions

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Live

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POETRY FESTIVAL

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SCREENINGS

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Online

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TALKS / LECTURES

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BOOKSHOP

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GET INVOLVED

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VISIT US

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CAFÉ BAR / VENUE HIRE

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OPENING HOURS Exhibition spaces open: Tue - Sun 11.00am - 6.00pm Bookshop: See page 25 for full details Café Bar open: Daily from 10am Admission to the exhibition spaces is free.

SUPPORT US Arnolfini is a charity that costs over £2 million a year to run. Funding from Arts Council England, South West and Bristol City Council cover 50% of this, but we need the generosity of individuals and organisations to make sure that as many people as possible can see, enjoy and take part in contemporary art. For more information on becoming a Supporter please email boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk

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In April Loveday Shewell stood down as Chair of Arnolfini after five years of tireless dedication. Some of the highlights during her tenure include Arnolfini's 50th anniversary in 2011 and the Leaders Debate in 2010, as well as major projects such as Port City (2007) and Far West (2008). Loveday was only the fifth Chair of Arnolfini in 50 years, and we are grateful to her for her expert guidance and support. Her successor is Justin Ogilvie, a Bristolian with strong family ties to Arnolfini. After working in Japan, Australia and the City of London, he returned to Bristol in 1999 to work as an investment manager for Smith & Williamson. Justin has said, “Since its foundation in 1961, Arnolfini has built an international reputation for championing new art and new ideas, making artistic excellence and innovation accessible for all. My connection to Arnolfini has always felt strong and deep; my grandfather, Lawrence, was one of the founding signatories and my cousin, Elizabeth, has exhibited at the gallery. I am delighted to have been asked to be Chair.“

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Programme highlights this autumn include a major exhibition by Matti Braun, as part of which he will flood a gallery in homage to Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray. The live programme, incorporating performance, dance and music, includes outstanding events such as the three-day Schimpfluch 'carnival' and a mini-season of sound and image, Visionary Kingdom. Working with the University of Bristol and IBT, the Performing Documents collaborative research project presents the first of a series of live events and symposia exploring the 'remains' of performance. Throughout the autumn there is a packed programme of talks, lectures and screenings, as well as participatory events. You can also get involved online through our blog and social media, as well as new online commissions such as Telekommunisten's Miscommunication Station.

Tom Trevor, Director Tom Trevor, Director, and Justin Ogilvie, Chair

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Olivia Plender, Installation view, Arnolfini, Photo: Jamie Woodley

EXHIBITION

OLIVIA PLENDER RISE EARLY, BE INDUSTRIOUS UNTIL SUN 9 SEP FREE

Olivia Plender's exhibition looks at different ideas about education, with special attention to experimental models, their histories and contexts. Drawing on examples such as the educational remit of the BBC, the Modern Spiritualist movement in the early 20th century and World's Exhibitions, she is interested in the specific ways in which societies imagine knowledge and its transmission. For the first time, the exhibition shows a series of Plender's room-sized installations, which include drawings, banners, and videos, as well as newly produced works, focusing on her research into the role of TV for mass education and experimental arts education in the UK. Other works investigate a contested side of participation – a culture of 'self-improvement' and the neoliberal claim of 'life-long learning'.

Rise Early, Be Industrious offers a series of colourful stage-like sets that invite investigation and playful interaction. The exhibition of Olivia Plender at Arnolfini is the second episode in a series of three exhibitions, in collaboration with Milton Keynes Gallery (19 Apr - 17 Jun) and CCA Glasgow (13 Oct - 15 Dec).

SEMINAR & SCReENING Work and play WED 5 - THU 6 SEP 6.30pm

£6.00/£4.00 Concs (each day)

A seminar with international speakers, including Franco "Bifo" Berardi and Lars Bang Larsen, this event explores notions of game and learning since the 1960s. The talks discuss play and education as central aspects of contemporary subjectivity and consider the utopian quality of the ludic. With a screening of the film Il Trasloco (Moving out of the Future), Thu, 6.30pm (see page 18).

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Matti Braun, R.T./S.R./V.S., 2009. Installation view Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Courtesy: BQ, Berlin; Esther Schipper, Berlin. Photo: Stefan Altenburger, Zurich© Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

EXHIBITION

MATTI BRAUN gost log SAT 6 OCT 2012 SUN 6 JAN 2013 FREE

Matti Braun's one-person exhibition at Arnolfini presents a selection of key works by the Cologne-based artist from the last fifteen years along with new works. Braun is interested in the transit of cultural forms and crafts between different traditions. His paintings, sculptures and installations reflect the way in which meaning changes in shifting contexts. His work is often based on concrete histories and stories of specific people and ideas, but abstracts away from these into his own formal and conceptual explorations. Following his research interests, Braun develops an eclectic and elaborate mesh of concepts that challenge conventional interpretations of Modernity.

The central work in the exhibition is R.T., a project about an unrealised film by the renowned Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray entitled The Alien. While Ray's film was eventually abandoned after negotiations with Hollywood producers, rumours say that the script became later the basis for Spielberg's classic E.T. Braun recreated the opening scene of the film as a spatial environment – a dark and shimmering lake in the exhibition space, which can be crossed over via logs, cut from a Douglas fir at Westonbirt Arboretum.

SCREENING

THE SHADOW OF THE PROPHET £6.00/£4.00 Concs Thu 4 OCT 6.30pm Introduced by Co-Director Christian Kobald, in discussion with Matti Braun See page 18 for further details.

SCREENING

TOUKI BOUKI THU 11 OCT 6.30pm

£6.00/£4.00 Concs

See page 19 for further details.

TALK & SCREENING

DEVIKA SINGH MAKING INDIA MODERN: INDIAN MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE AND STATE INTERVENTION Thu 8 NOV 6.30pm

£6.00/£4.00 Concs

In 1951, Le Corbusier developed a masterplan for a new large-scale city in India after decolonisation. The project became one of the architect's most ambitious ventures.

Starting with the building of Chandigarh, art historian Devika Singh will discuss the role of modernist architecture in articulating the Nehruvian vision of nation-building and the role of state patronage in the appropriation of modernism in India. With a screening of Une Ville À Chandigarh (1966, 54 mins).

CONFERENCE

TRAVELLING TEXTILES SAT 24 NOV 3.00pm

£6.00/£4.00 Concs

Many textile styles and techniques are today still connected to specific local traditions. On the other hand, as valuable objects of trade, textiles travelled across the old merchant's routes and created new trans-regional connections. International experts, including former gallerist and researcher Seth Siegelaub, collector Rudolf G. Smend, and Grant Watson, Senior Curator at Iniva, explore the role of textile crafts, collection and display, asking what do we learn from textiles?

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Damien Roach, Infra Lion, Photo: Jamie Woodley

EXHIBITION

DAMIEN ROACH INFRA LION THROUGHOUT 2012

INFRA LION is a large-scale foyer commission by artist Damien Roach. Throughout the year, a series of interventions will evolve across the building, including sound, temperature, scents, surface textures, light, staff behaviour and the graphic identity of Arnolfini, triggering subtle shifts in the reality of the environment. Visitors are invited to take a careful look at their surroundings, both inside and outside.

The title of the project is an anagram of Arnolfini's name.

Follow the project on twitter/INFRALION and interact live with the hashtag #infralion.

SATURDAY EXHIBITION TOURS 2.00pm - 3.00pm

FREE / NO BOOKING REQUIRED / MEET IN ARNOLFINI FOYER

Each Saturday during Arnolfini's exhibitions we offer informal staff tours highlighting our thoughts on the themes and ideas behind the artwork. Visit arnolfini.org.uk for further details.

FOYER COMMISSION TOUR sat 17 NOV 2.00pm

FREE

In this tour Damien Roach, will discuss thoughts and ideas relating to INFRA LION.

A Parallel Universe is a year-long series of exhibitions, film, music, talks, performance, online projects and special events, exploring alternative realities and co-existing worlds. One of the central themes of popular entertainment today is the idea of a parallel universe. At the same time, in the context of globalisation, it is no longer possible to argue that there is one privileged reality. The new world order is made up of multiple conflicting realities existing side by side. A Parallel Universe explores the notion of multi-fold worlds – possible, parallel, fictional, desired worlds – worlds different to the one we live in.

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EXHIBITION EXTERNAL PROJECTS

Maria Thereza Alves Seeds of Change: A Floating Ballast Seed Garden Designed by gitta Gschwendtner

Maria Thereza Alves, Seeds of Change: A Floating Ballast Seed Garden, 2012. Courtesy of Bristol City Council.

Photo © Max McClure

ONGOING

The garden is located on the Floating Harbour adjacent to Castle Park, access is by boat.

Seeds of Change is the overall title of an ongoing investigation of ballast flora in the Port Cities of Europe by the Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves.

Between 1680 and the early 1900s, ships' ballast (earth, stones and gravel from trade boats from all over the world) used to weigh down the vessel for its journey to Bristol, was offloaded into the river or onto the quayside at Bristol. This ballast contained the seeds of plants from wherever the ship had sailed. Maria Thereza Alves discovered that ballast seeds can lie dormant for hundreds of years, but that by excavating the river bed, it is possible to germinate and grow these seeds into flourishing plants.

Working with the University of Bristol Botanic Garden, Arnolfini and Bristol City Council and utilising a disused grain barge, Maria Thereza Alves has created 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. A pilot Ballast Seed Garden was grown at the Botanic Garden, University of Bristol in 2010.

FFI & visitor info for the University's Botanic Garden, visit www.bristol.ac.uk/botanic-garden

Events £5.00/£4.00 Concs (except 31 Oct) Please meet at Arnolfini box office for each tour.

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SAT 8 Sep 2.00pm - 3.30pm An afternoon boat trip and tour led by Gitta Gschwendtner, Designer of Seeds of Change: A Floating Ballast Seed Garden.

WED 12 Sep 6.15pm - 7.30pm An evening boat tour with Nick Wray, University of Bristol Botanic Gardens, to uncover the botanical background to the Ballast Seed Garden.

SAT 29 Sep 2.00pm - 3.30pm A micro-sound tour with the artist Matt Davies, sound recordist for Plant Orchestra. Listen to the extraordinary secret sounds of plants from the Ballast Seed Garden. Hear clicks, gurgles and more unusual noises as they respond to light and water.

fri 19 oct 6.30pm Storytelling on the barge See Page 11 for details.

WED 31 Oct 6.00pm - 7.30pm £5.00/Children under 12 free A Halloween Ghost Tour by boat of the Ballast Seed Garden. Dress up as your favourite ghost or ghoul and join our storyteller for a river tour to uncover the ghostly secrets of the Harbourside.

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, Avon and Somerset Probation Trust Community Payback team and Bristol Packet Boat Trips.

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Every House Has a Door. They're Mending the Great Forest Highway © John W. Sisson, Jr

Special event

Performing documents PERFORMING DOCUMENTS: REMAKE FRI 14 & SAT 15 SEP Performing Documents is a collaborative research project and series of events funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Hosted by the University of Bristol in partnership with Arnolfini and In Between Time the project draws on creative, curatorial and research strategies to present a wide-reaching investigation into the problems and potential of performance and its documents.

September 2012 sees the first of four Performing Documents presentations at Arnolfini, followed by activity in December and Spring 2013. The theme of this first instalment is 'remaking' – experimenting with creative ways of engaging with documents and recordings authored by other artists.

On the invitation of Performing Documents, a collective of artists, curators and researchers have explored the theme of 'remaking' in a series of workshops. Ideas from these workshops are now shared in performances, debate and screenings under the heading 'Remake'.

EVERY HOUSE HAS A DOOR 9 BEGINNINGS FRI 14 SEP 7.30pm & SAT 15 SEP 9.00pm £10.00/£8.00 Concs (15 Sep performance is free with 'Remake' Symposium ticket) 9 Beginnings is a performance from Every House Has a Door developed in response to an invitation from Performing Documents. Every House Has

a Door will restage the beginnings of 9 historical performances by 9 different artists or companies found in Arnolfini's archive or University of Bristol's Live Art Archives, and re-imagine them as a new composition. Presenting 9 Beginnings will be director, Lin Hixson; dramaturg, Matthew Goulish; performers, Selma Banich (Croatia) and Sebastián Calderón Bentin (Panama); and three UK-based participants (one assistant director and two choreographed stagehands).

PERFORMANCE RE-ENACTMENT SOCIETY GROUP SHOW FRI 14 & SAT 15 SEP 11.00am - 6.00pm

FREE

Performance Re-enactment Society (PRS) present an intangible exhibition curated from Arnolfini's archive and displayed through performance, choreography, conversation and exhibition tours.

This is an intervention into Arnolfini's archive, which remakes the gallery's history as fiction.

Group Show is selected from an imagined Arnolfini collection of visual art and performance, bringing together works from different times that were not originally shown together, as a new event.

In the galleries and behind the scenes, PRS will share the research they have carried out, whilst in residency as part of Performing Documents. For this project PRS are Paul Clarke, Tom Marshman, Clare Thornton, with dance artist Laura Dannequin and other guests.

(Please note, elements of 'Group Show' may require booking in advance via box office, please ask for details)

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Robin Deacon

Performance Re-enactment Society and Carl Newland. After Richard Hughes Love Seat, 2005. From Becks Futures, Arnolfini 2006 Photo: Carl Newland

'REMAKE' SYMPOSIUM SAT 15 sep 10.30am - 5.00pm £50.00/£30.00 Concs (To book tickets contact the University of Bristol http://shop.bris.ac.uk/browse. Ticket price includes lunch, refreshments and entry to all Performing Documents: Remake performances on the day) A day considering the legacy, potency and potential pitfalls of re-enactment, re-use and appropriation in performance and visual art practices via lecture, panel discussion and conversation. Confirmed speakers include Adrian Heathfield, Robin Deacon, Rosemary Butcher, James Yarker (Stans Cafe), Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Janez Janša, Every House Has a Door & Performance Re-enactment Society. The full schedule will feature on Arnolfini's website. Ticket holders for the symposium gain free entry to 15 Sep performances by Robin Deacon, Every House Has a Door and PRS.

remnants of the original performance tell a partial, fragmented and sometimes contradictory story, Robin will set about deconstructing his re-enactment of Sherman's original. Produced with Ruth Holdsworth.

SPECTACLE: A PORTRAIT OF STUART SHERMAN (Extract) (A documentary by Robin Deacon) FRI 14 & SAT 15 sep FROM 11.00am

FREE

Described by one commentator as “the Buster Keaton of Linguistics”, Stuart Sherman was a key figure in the downtown New York performance scene. Using interviews conducted over four years, as well as original and re-enacted footage of Sherman's performances, this film extract by Robin Deacon explores the life, work and methodology of this unique artist.

Produced with the support of The Estate of Stuart Sherman.

STUART SHERMAN'S HAMLET (A CAREFUL MISREADING BY ROBIN DEACON) SAT 15 sep 7.00pm / WICKHAM Theatre £5.00/£4.00 Concs (or Free with 'Remake' Symposium ticket) This performance lecture explores the process of Robin Deacon's re-enactment of Stuart Sherman's ensemble performance Hamlet: A Portrait.

Deacon will revisit his re-staging of the original piece through video, photographic and textual documentation, as well as the highly complex set and objects utilised. In looking at how these

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Plus additional PRE-EVENT screening

Marina AbramoviC’ : Seven Easy Pieces Thu 13 SEP 6.00pm £6.00/£4.00 Concs Introduced by Paul Clarke of the Performance Re-enactment Society For details see page 18.

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Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido Photo: Carl Newland

LIVE

Activating spaces on a regular basis, liveness happens throughout the year at Arnolfini informed by a wide range of artistic disciplines. The following performance events form part of this Autumn's season.

Live Art / Performance

IN BETWEEN TIME PRESENTS: PIETER AMPE AND GUILHERME GARRIDO STILL STANDING YOU SAT 6 OCT 7.30pm

£7.00/£5.00 Concs

In Between Time (IBT) is the international production company behind some of the most extraordinary performances in Bristol. Here IBT presents Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido's mischievous, eye-watering Still Standing You. An outstanding success of In Between Time Festival, this show is a one-off, a revelation, a work of genius. Offering a wry glimpse at male friendship, dancers Ampe and Garrido shamelessly seek out what they mean to each other. Friends, lovers, rivals, enemies, this show entwines ruggedness, anger and love in one great, all-encompassing embrace.

Produced by CAMPO with Stuk, Leuven and Buda, Kortrijk, Belgium

Dance / LIVE ART WORKSHOP

PIETER AMPE AND GUILHERME GARRIDO: COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE SAT 6 OCT 12.00pm - 3.00pm £7.00/£5.00 concs (Or if you have booked a ticket for Still Standing You) Dancers and participants are invited to create new performance with European dance iconoclasts Ampe and Garrido. Stealing from dance, architecture, theatre and engineering, you will celebrate heroic deeds, big adventures and common goals to portray the epic in each of you. ”One for all and all for one”.

IBT13 is almost here… from 14-17 Feb 2013, 50 extraordinary art works will weave across Bristol's arts venues, streets, docksides and warehouses. Over an intense four days, UK premieres and major new commissions will explode out of theatres, galleries, living rooms, trees and alleys. With its finger firmly on the pulse of the profound or unusual, IBT13 presents intimate performances, international one-offs and mass-participatory artworks.

Screening / Performance

BEACONS, ICONS & DYKONS: THE INTERGENERATIONAL ISSUE FRI 12 OCT 7.30pm

£5.00/Free to over 60s

A playful ode to gay and queer cinema featuring performances, talks and surprises inspired by queer heroes and heroines in celluloid. Tonight the hero is writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999). A screening of the seminal documentary Resident Alien with Crisp as the archetypal Englishman in New York, will be supported by performances from Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw, known iconic gay rights activists spanning decades. Also featuring resident 'Glitter Dispenser' Liz Clarke and compere beyond compare Tom Marshman.

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Andy Holden 2012

Liz Aggiss in Survival Tactics photographer Matthew Andrews

Music

Live Art / Performance

STORYTELLING ON THE Barge (A floating Ballast Seed Garden) FRI 19 OCT 6.30pm

£5.00/£4.00 Concs

Two performance events on the Seeds of Change: A Floating Ballast Seed Garden indebted to the art of storytelling. Travel to the garden by ferry for an evening rendezvous with two performers, each with a story to tell. Refreshments will be available in situ (performance time approx 45 mins).

Live Art / Performance

SAT 17 NOV 7.30pm

£15.00

Whether dreaming up coruscating noise, minimal ambient meditations or electro-acoustic, Norwegian ensemble Supersilent, featuring John-Paul Jones, instinctively push to the outer limits and are capable of creating compositions of both profound beauty and elemental power. Aki Onda (USA/Japan) uses the cassette Walkman to create spellbinding electro-acoustic performances.

Theatre / Performance

comings and goings TUESDAYS 23 OCT - 27 NOV 6.45pm / Café Bar FREE Arnolfini institute a programme of short, sharp Tuesday evening performances, defiantly low-fi and deliberately informal. Join us in the Café Bar every Tuesday at 6.45pm for new ideas and unusual occasions created by remarkable artists from across the UK. Activate your Tuesday with an artist encounter and then stay for a drink with us afterwards.

Performances to be announced weekly via Twitter.

Live art / Performance

LIZ AGGISS: SURVIVAL TACTICS FRI 9 NOV 7.30pm

SUPERSILENT & AKI ONDA

£7.00/£5.00 Concs

From a glamorous, blonde bombshell in high-heels to a pigeon toed, bow legged, oddball in big pants – Survival Tactics upturns the usual perception of the female stage body on its head. Inspired by the expressionist dance phenomenon Ausdruckstanz with its fascination for grotesque dance plus Aggiss' penchant for British music hall, the artist pays comedic homage to both her historical mentors and herself, through a seamless fusion of movement, text and film.

BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN by David Foster Wallace (Adapted for the stage by Andy Holden and David Raymond Conroy) FRI 23 NOV 7.00pm

£5.00

Conceived and designed by visual artists Holden and Conroy, Arnolfini presents a selection of pieces from Foster Wallace's collection of short stories characterised by dark dry humour, alienation, and unconventional sexuality. A cast of four actors, along with projections, live music and props are involved in the presentation of four interviews and one short story from the author's remarkable book, which through a series of unspoken questions examines the possibility of complete sincerity and truth within a modern relationship. Foster Wallace's text is examined through a variety of staging techniques, incorporating ear-pieces and autocues, as well as dramatic monologues - punctuated by unspoken questions from the audience in the form of a projected letter Q.

“…a rare and wonderful talent from well outside the square.” New Zealand Herald

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Aura Satz

VISIONARY KINGDOM FRI 26 OCT - SAT 3 NOV Individual event tickets: £4.00 - £10.00 Mini-season pass: £20.00/£18.00 Concs Across four evenings,Visionary Kingdom presents the UK premier of Kode 9; MFO & Ms. Haptic's Her Ghost; a powerful live reworking of Chris Marker's La Jetée; new performances by Aura Satz and Tai Shani; cult electronic musicians Russell Haswell and Kevin Drumm; subterranean techno from Raime and Emptyset; screenings of Ben Russell and People Like Us films, and more.

Visionary Kingdom takes its title from the speech of a time travelling character in the notorious Futurist opera, Victory over the Sun (1913). In its welcoming of a world in which euphoria and terror overlap, the mechanical is confronted by the ritual, and sound and image configurations dream up collapse, the opera drew on an underground futurist current that has always escaped modernity's assumed

light and rational order: visionary machines, time experiments, visceral electronics, synaesthetic encodings, mystical connections, punk aesthetics and crash velocities.

RUSSELL HASWELL [OSCILLOGRAPHIC SET] KEVIN DRUMM, THOMAS ANKERSMIT FRI 26 OCT 7.30pm KODE 9, MFO & MS. HAPTIC HER GHOST AURA SATZ IN AND OUT OF SYNCH BEN RUSSELL TRYPPS SERIES THU 1 NOV 8.00pm TAI SHANI OF THE BRIMMING FREEZE FRAME PEOPLE LIKE US THE ZONE FRI 2 NOV 7.30pm RAIME, EMPTYSET, BUGBRAND SAT 3 NOV 8.00pm

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Joke Lanz. Photo Agnieszka Zwara

EXTREME RITUALS: A SCHIMpFLUCH CARNIVAL FRI 30 NOV - SUN 2 DEC

FESTIVAL PASS: £40.00 (Ltd Early Bird tickets available) DAY TICKETS: £15.00

A three-day series of performances, talks and more devoted to the legacy of Swiss performance group Schimpfluch. Founded in Zürich in 1987, Rudolf Eb.er created Schimpfluch – a platform for extreme and outsider artists which generated highly disturbing and irritating audio/visual works. Gradually expanding to the Schimpfluch-Gruppe art-collective, Eb.er and Joke Lanz have since channelled grotesque humour into an ongoing series of confrontational radio broadcasts, physically demanding performances, 'abreaction plays' and 'psycho-physical tests and trainings'. Rejecting any given norm and genre, the collective's celebrated work aims to unlock an awareness of existence and encourages the audience to 'get off the plane of miseducated adulthood'.

The Extreme Rituals carnival acts as a long-overdue retrospective and a celebration of the Schimpfluch. An extensive programme that highlights the influence Schimpfluch has had since the late 80s, with audiences treated to a selection of performances, sound-installations, films, photographs and contextual panel discussions. Alongside core Schimpfluch acts such as Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, Sudden Infant, G*Park and Dave Phillips this carnival weekender features rare UK appearances by international guest artists such as GX Jupitter-Larsen, Phurpa and Vagina Dentata Organ.

Presented by Sound and Music in association with Tusk, Second Layer, Harbinger Sound and Arts Council England.

Full schedule at arnolfini.org.uk

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EXHIBITIONS Exhibition spaces Open 11am - 6pm, Tue - Sun & Bank Holiday Mondays

at a glance

OLIVIA PLENDER RISE EARLY, BE INDUSTRIOUS UNTIL SUN 9 SEP MATTI BRAUN Gost LOG SAT 6 OCT - SUN 6 JAN DAMIEN ROACH THROUGHOUT 2012 SEEDS OF CHANGE: A FLOATING BALLAST SEED GARDEN Daily: Access by boat or organised event

TICKETED PERFORMANCES, FILMS AND EVENTS Book by ringing Box Office on 0117 917 2300 / 01, email boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk or book online at www.arnolfini.org.uk 10% off in Café Bar for ticket holders (Terms and conditions apply).

SEPTEMBER DATE event TIME Sat 1 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Wed 5 Event: Work and Play 6.30pm Thu 6 Screening/Talk: Il Trasloco (Moving Out of the Future) 6.30pm Sat 8 Event: Ballast Seed Garden: Boat Trip / Tour 2.00pm Wed 12 Event: Ballast Seed Garden: Boat Tour 6.15pm Thu 13 Screening: Marina Abramovic’ + Intro 6.00pm Fri 14 Live/Screening: Spectacle: A Portrait of Stuart Sherman (Extract) From 11.00am Fri 14 Live: Performance Re-enactment Society 11.00am - 6.00pm Fri 14 Live: Every House has a Door 7.30pm Sat 15 Event: Remake Symposium 10.30am - 5.00pm Sat 15 Live/Screening: Spectacle: A Portrait of Stuart Sherman (Extract) From 11.00am Sat 15 Live: Performance Re-enactment Society 11.00am - 6.00pm Sat 15 Live: Stuart Sherman's Hamlet (at Wickham Theatre) 7.00pm Sat 15 Live: Every House has a Door 9.00pm Tue 18 Screening: Animated Encounters From 10.00am Wed 19 Screening: Animated Encounters From 10.00am Thu 20 Screening: Animated Encounters From 10.00am Fri 21 Screening: Animated Encounters From 10.00am Sat 22 Screening: Animated Encounters From 10.00am Sun 23 Screening: Animated Encounters From 12.00pm Tue 25 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival Exhibition (until Sun 30 Sep) 11.00am - 6.00pm Wed 26 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival - Philip Gross, Kathryn Symmonds, 7.30pm

Jo Bell, Matthew Barton Thu 27 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival Exhibition Launch 6.30pm Thu 27 Screening: The Film Exercise - Ben Rivers 6.30pm Thu 27 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival - Poetry Slam 8.00pm Fri 28 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival - Benjamin Zephaniah 7.30pm Sat 29 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival Exhibition Talk 11.00am Sat 29 Event: Ballast Seed Garden: Micro Sound Tour 2.00pm Sat 29 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival - Dennis O'Driscoll 3.00pm Sat 29 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival - Elaine Feinstein, Helen Dunmore, 7.30pm

Dennis O'Driscoll Sun 30 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival - The Firebird Poets with 2.00pm

Claire Williamson Sun 30 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival - Next Generation Poetry Slam 7.30pm

Price Free £6/£4 £6/£4 £5/£4 £5/£4 £6/£4 Free Free £10/£8 £50/£30 Free Free £5/£4 £10/£8 £6.50/£5 (screenings) £6.50/£5 (screenings) £6.50/£5 (screenings) £6.50/£5 (screenings) £6.50/£5 (screenings) £6.50/£5 (screenings) Free £7/£5 Free Free £7/£5 (£10/£6 for both slams) £10/£7 Free £5/£4 £5/£4 £7/£5 £5/£3 £7/£5 (£10/£6 for both slams)

OCTOBER DATE event TIME Tue 2 Event: Bristol Poetry Festival - Tim Key 7.30pm Wed 3 Talk: Architecture Talk - Architecture and Parallel Practice 6.00pm Thu 4 Screening/Talk: The Shadow of the Prophet 6.30pm Sat 6 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Sat 6 Live: Workshop - Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido 12.00pm - 3.00pm Sat 6 Live: Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido 7.30pm Wed 10 Talk/Music: Word Events 6.30pm Thu 11 Event: Future Forward 2.00pm - 6.00pm Thu 11 Screening: Touki Bouki 6.30pm Fri 12 Live/Screenings: Beacons, Icons & Dykons: 7.30pm

The Intergenerational Issue Sat 13 Event: Dance Symposium 11.00am - 2.00pm Sat 13 Family: Mash Up 12.00pm - 5.00pm Sat 13 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Tue 16 Talk: Design Talk - David Pearson & Teresa Monachino 7.00pm Wed 17 Talk: Artist's Talk - Steven Claydon 6.30pm Thu 18 Event: Future Forward 2.00pm - 6.00pm Thu 18 Film Lecture: Je t'aime, Je t'aime 6.30pm Fri 19 Live: Storytelling on the Barge 6.30pm Fri 19 Screening/Talk: Film Exercise Symposium 6.30pm Sat 20 Screening/Talk: Film Exercise Symposium 10.00am - 8.00pm Sat 20 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Tue 23 Live: Comings and Goings 6.45pm Wed 24 Talk: Artist's Talk - Heather & Ivan Morison 6.30pm Thu 25 Talk: Bristol Festival of Ideas - Will Self 6.00pm Thu 25 Screening: The Film Exercise - The Bioskop 6.30pm Fri 26 Live/Music/Film: Visionary Kingdom: Russell Haswell, 7.30pm

Kevin Drumm and Thomas Ankersmit Sat 27 Family: The Big Draw 2012 12.00pm - 4.00pm Sat 27 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Mon 29 Talk: Bristol Festival of Ideas - Peter Hitchens 6.15pm

and Howard Marks Tue 30 Live: Comings and Goings 6.45pm Tue 30 Talk: Going Underground 7.00pm Wed 31 Event: Ballast Seed Garden - Halloween Boat Trip / Tour 6.00pm Wed 31 Event: On Listening 3 6.30pm Wed 31 Talk: Artist's Talk - Marc Camille Chaimowicz 6.30pm

Price £15/£13 £6/£4 £6/£4 Free £7/£5 £7/£5 Free Free £6/£4 £5/Free to over 60s £8 Free Free £12/£10 £6/£4 (UWE Staff & Students Free) Free £6/£4 £5/£4 tbc tbc Free Free £6/£4 (UWE Staff & Students Free) £7/£6 Free Pass £20/£18 Tickets £4-£10 Free Free £7.50/£6.50 Free £8/£6 £5/Free for U12 Free £6/£4 (UWE Staff & Students Free)

NOVEMBER DATE event TIME Thu 1 Live/Music/Film: Visionary Kingdom: Kode 9, MFO & , 8.00pm

Ms. Haptic, Aura Satz and Ben Russell Fri 2 Live/Music/Film: Visionary Kingdom: Tai Shani 7.30pm

People Like Us Sat 3 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Sat 3 Live/Music/Film: Visionary Kingdom: Raime, 8.00pm

Emptyset, Bugbrand Tue 6 Live: Comings and Goings 6.45pm Wed 7 Event: The Children's Bookshow 2012 10.30am & 1.30pm Wed 7 Talk: Artist's Talk - Graham Dolphin 6.30pm Thu 8 Event: Future Forward 2.00pm - 6.00pm Thu 8 Screening/Talk: Une Ville Á Chandigarh / Devika Singh 6.30pm Fri 9 Live: Liz Aggiss 7.30pm Sat 10 Event: Tertulia 1.30pm - 3.30pm Sat 10 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Tue 13 Live: Comings and Goings 6.45pm Thu 15 Event: Future Forward 2.00pm - 6.00pm Thu 15 Screening/Talk: Remembrance of Things to Come 6.30pm Fri 16 Event: Breaking Out 7.30pm Sat 17 Exhibition Tour: Foyer Commission Tour 2.00pm Sat 17 Music: Supersilent & Aki Onda 7.30pm Tue 20 Live: Comings and Goings 6.45pm Wed 21 Talk: Architecture Talk - Sean Griffiths 6.00pm Thu 22 Screening: The Film Exercise - Al Cameron 6.30pm Fri 23 Live: Brief Interviews...

7.00pm Sat 24 Exhibition Tour 2.00pm Sat 24 Conference: Travelling Textiles 3.00pm Tue 27 Live: Comings and Goings 6.45pm Wed 28 Talk: Architecture Talk - Alison Brooks Architects 6.00pm Thu 29 Screening: Eames: The Architect & The Painter 6.30pm Fri 30 - Live: Extreme Rituals - A Schimpfluch Carnival tbc Sun 2 Dec

Price Pass £20/£18 Tickets £4-£10 Pass £20/£18 Tickets £4-£10 Free Pass £20/£18 Tickets £4-£10 Free £4 Children/Teachers Free £6/£4 (UWE Staff & Students Free) Free £6/£4 £7/£5 Free Free Free Free £6/£4 £5 Free £15 Free £6/£4 Free £5 Free £6/£4 Free £6/£4 £6/£4 Festival Pass £40 / Day Tickets £15

The Woman Who Slept With Bones

BRISTOL POETRY FESTIVAL

POETRY FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: THE WOMAN WHO SLEPT WITH BONES HAZEL HAMMOND AND ALISON WELLS TUE 25 - SUN 30 SEP 11.00am - 6.00pm

FREE

A collaborative conversation about the nature of the night through photography and poetry.

LAUNCH event TUE 25 sep - TUE 2 OCT The 17th Bristol Poetry Festival brings together the most entertaining, inspirational and award winning poets and performers from Bristol, the South West, the UK and the world in an annual celebration of language, imagination and life.

THU 27 SEP 6.30pm

FREE

Alison Hammond and Hazel Wells celebrate the exhibition in poetry and images.

PHILIP GROSS, KATHRYN SYMMONDS, JO BELL, MATTHEW BARTON WED 26 SEP 7.30pm

£7.00/£5.00 Concs

Philip Gross won the T S Eliot Prize in 2009 for The Water Table. His work explores the borderlines - between childhood and adult life, between fantasy and reality. Kathryn Symmonds' collection Sunday at the Skin Launderette was the winner of the Forward Society Prize for Best First Collection in 2008. Jo Bell's work explores themes of sex, friendship and life as a boat dweller. Matthew Barton is a writer, translator, editor and teacher of poetry and creative writing. His accolades include BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year in 2007.

POETRY SLAM: BRISTOL VS DUBLIN: HOSTED BY GLENN CARMICHEAL AND CLAIRE WILLIAMSON WITH SPECIAL GUEST ELVIS MCGONAGALL THU 27 SEP 8.00pm £7.00/£5.00 Concs

(£10.00/£6.00 Concs for both slams) Bristol Poetry Festival is delighted to welcome the mighty team of strolling Dublin slammers to take on four of Bristol's finest performance poets in the most exciting slam of the year.

Dublin: Stephen James Smith, Ophelia McCabe, Elayne Harrington, John Cummins.

Bristol: Lucy English, Anna Freeman, Steve Duncan, Jonny Fluffypunk.

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AN AUDIENCE WITH BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH FRI 28 SEP 7.30pm

£10.00/£7.00 Concs

One of the UK's best-known and best-loved poets, Benjamin Zephaniah is the author of numerous collections of poetry, novels and plays for stage screen and radio. He will share some of the key experiences of his life and career, talk poetry, politics, philosophy and music and answer questions from the audience.

POETRY FESTIVAL EXHIBITION TALK SAT 29 SEP 11.00am

FREE

Alison Wells and Hazel Hammond will talk about their individual practice and the development of their collaboration with a Q&A session.

DENNIS O'DRISCOLL STEPPING STONES: WORKING WITH HEANEY SAT 29 SEP 3.00pm £5.00/£4.00 Concs Irish poet and critic Dennis O'Driscoll's landmark book of conversations with Seamus Heaney takes the reader through Heaney's life and career up to the publication of District and Circle. Dennis will talk about working with Heaney and the process of making this highly acclaimed and award winning book.

ELAINE FEINSTEIN, HELEN DUNMORE, DENNIS O'DRISCOLL SAT 29 SEP 7.30pm

£7.00/£5.00 Concs

THE FIREBIRD POETS WITH CLAIRE WILLIAMSON GAMES PEOPLE PLAY SUN 30 SEP 2.00pm

£5.00/£3.00 Concs

Following their successful collaboration with The Nine Lessons of Caliban writer Claire Williamson and The Firebird Poets explore the nature of games and their meaning in this Olympic year.

NEXT GENERATION POETRY SLAM HARRY BAKER, VANESSA KISUULE, EMMA WARD, Lydia Beardmore, JACK DEAN BRISTOL VS APPLES AND SNAKES Hosted by Tim Gibbard SUN 30 SEP 7.30pm £7.00/£5.00 Concs

(£10.00/£6.00 Concs for both slams) Five young Bristol performance poets, all under 25, take on their peers from around the UK in the second exciting poetry slam.

TIM KEY MASTERSLUT TUE 2 OCT 7.30pm

£15.00/£13.00 Concs

Tim Key is back at Arnolfini. Since his last visit he has cropped up in Newswipe, Cowards and We Need Answers and appears as Alan Partridge's sidekick in Mid Morning Matters. Tim won The Edinburgh Comedy Award for his 2009 recital, Slutcracker, was nominated for a Bafta in 2008 and he's got a late night poetry programme on Radio 4.

Tim Key

Ophelia McCabe

Elaine Feinstein is a prolific poet, novelist, playwright, biographer and translator with more than fifteen collections to her name she has also published biographies on Ted Hughes, Anna Akhmatova and Pushkin. Helen Dunmore launches her beautiful new collection The Malarky in Bristol.

Author of eleven novels and three collections of short stories, her poem The Malarky won the National Poetry Competition in 2010. Poet and critic Dennis O'Driscoll has published nine books of poetry, he will read from his new collection Dear Life.

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Une Ville À Chandigarh

SCREENINGS TICKETS £6.00/£4.00 Concs (except where shown) Arnolfini cinema is fully licensed An ongoing programme of regular Thursday evening screenings with a focus on artists' film and video, experimental documentary, underseen cinema and discourse. Plus an opportunity to consider encounters between cultures in early modernism in relation to Matti Braun's exhibition on 4 Oct and 8 Nov.

IL TRASLOCO (MOVING OUT OF THE FUTURE) With Franco "Bifo" Berardi and Federico Campagna, in discussion Thu 6 SEP 6.30pm As they move out of the Bologna squat, a key site where the Autonomia movement was organised during the 1970s, Bifo and other residents reminisce about the house and its role in three decades of radical political struggle. Framed within personal memories, this film is a funny, moving account of Italian revolutionary history, and a document of a moment of epochal transition.

Renato de Maria, Italy, 1991, 75mins, Subtitled

MARINA ABRAMOVIc’: SEVEN EASY PIECES Introduced by Paul Clarke of the Performance Re-enactment Society Thu 13 SEP 6.00pm In Nov 2005 at the Guggenheim Museum, Abramovic’ re-enacted seminal performance works by Nauman, Acconci, Valie Export, Gina Pane and Joseph Beuys, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score. Documenting this process, Seven Easy Pieces examines the possibilities of representing and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral.

Babette Mangolte, USA, 2007, 93mins This screening precedes Performing Documents season on 14 & 15 Sep (see pages 8 & 9).

Plus Marina Abramovic’: The Artist is Present screens at The Cube at 8.30pm.

THE SHADOW OF THE PROPHET: Remake With Co-Director Christian Kobald and Matti Braun, in discussion Thu 4 OCT 6.30pm Considering the power of images in a culture where worshipping them is a wholly foreign idea, Mayrhofer and Kobald investigate the past and present of the only surviving photograph of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, founder of the Sufi order, one of Senegal's most influential Islamic groups, which was taken by French colonial police in 1913.

Philipp Mayrhofer and Christian Kobald, Austria, 2010, 52mins, Subtitled

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Touki Bouki THU 11 OCT 6.30pm A shifting and fragmentary tale of two young lovers, Mory and Anta, and their attempts to flee Senegal for Paris, Touki Bouki is Senegalese auteur Djibril Diop Mambéty's masterpiece.

reality within a larger reflection on the surrounding social concerns.

This screening follows Devika Singh's lecture on Chandigarh, part of the Matti Braun exhibition events, see page 5.

Alain Tanner, India, 1966, 54 mins, Subtitled

Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1973, 85mins, Subtitled

FILM LECTURE: Je t'aime, je t'aime Introductory lecture by Mark Bould, UWE Thu 18 OCT, Lecture: 6.30pm, Screening: 7.00pm A suicidal publishing executive, through a malfunctioning time-travel experiment, is thrown into a fragmentary revisiting of his past life. As it slowly pieces together the amorous reasons for his despair, Je t'aime, je t'aime, one of Resnais's very best, powerfully and surprisingly humorously explores his recurring themes of time and memory, echoing the concerns of La Jetée.

Alain Resnais, France, 1968, 91 mins, Subtitled

UNe VILLE À CHANDIGARH Screening and talk with Devika Singh Thu 8 NOV, Talk: 6.30pm, Screening: 7.30pm

Introductory lecture by Angela Piccini, University of Bristol THU 15 NOV, Lecture: 6.30pm, Screening: 7.00pm Ostensibly a portrait of photographer Denise Bellon, in typical Marker fashion this hypnotic cine-essay meditates upon questions of memory and history, surrealism, the city of Paris, and most of all, cinema.

Chris Marker, France, 2003, 42mins, Subtitled

EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER Thu 29 NOV 6.30pm Despite their unrivaled impact on American design, the personas of the steadfastly private Charles and Ray Eames have remained oblique. This film draws extensively from archival material, interviews, love letters, photographs and artifacts to share a candid view of the emotional inner lives of two great designers and a rich and visually stunning portrait of their work.

Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey, USA, 2011, 84 mins

The Shadow of The Prophet

Dubbed the 'utopian poster city of the 20th Century', Le Corbusier's masterplan for the capital of the Punjab was never completed, but a year after his death, Swiss director Alain Tanner began filming the early stages of construction. John Berger's commentary inscribes the visual beauty of that

FILM LECTURE: REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME

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BABELDOM by Paul Bush (2012) Copyright Ancient Mariner Productions

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: ANIMATED ENCOUNTERS COMPETITION

Screening £6.50/£5.00 Concs (unless otherwise stated) Screening pass (entry to all short film screenings) £32.00 Delegate pass (entry to all screenings plus workshops, talks etc) £50.00 - £125.00 September sees the welcome return of the annual Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (18 - 23 Sep). Six packed days will feature the best in international animation talent, as the Animated Encounters strand returns to Arnolfini. Don't miss a very special conversation with the creators of Aardman Animations, a focus on the work of British experimental animator Paul Bush, and a selection of stereoscopic discoveries from 1930s Russia.

This year for the first time Animated Encounters will also be using Arnolfini's gallery for a range of guest exhibits designed to complement the screenings and events programmes – keep an eye on the Encounters website for more information at encounters.org.uk Across the harbourside, Brief Encounters brings live action and mixed format shorts to Watershed, and there'll be free events for all ages around the city with a pop-up Cine-Sauna, big top circus tent and Outdoor Solar Cinema Tour.

The Animated Encounters competitive programme brings the best of today's home grown and international short animated films to Bristol. There will be on offer something for everyone; from children's favourites to late night horrors.

TALKS Leading international industry experts will be on hand for panel discussions on scriptwriting for animation and successful co-productions.

Nick Park, David Sproxton and Peter Lord from Aardman will appear together in a rare on-stage interview that promises to be a hugely popular and entertaining evening.

SPECIAL FOCUS EVENTS This year's Encounters features outstanding guest programmes, including the best in Finnish animation and a European premiere of early 3D innovations from 1930s Soviet Russia. There will also be a retrospective of the work of Paul Bush, the British filmmaker and animator whose experimental approach has challenged the boundaries of fiction, documentary and animation.

Full schedule details feature on Arnolfini and Encounters websites.

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THE FILM EXERCISE 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. Co-presented by Bridget Crone and Al Cameron.

BEN RIVERS Thu 27 SEP 6.30pm

FREE

ONLINE

Ben Rivers is an artist. His first feature film Two Years at Sea won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival.

THE BIOSKOP Thu 25 OCT 6.30pm

FREE

The Bioskop is an ontological cinema that puts on elaborate and free screenings in spaces around Bristol.

AL CAMERON Thu 22 NOV 6.30pm

FREE

Al Cameron is Associate Curator at Arnolfini.

FILM EXERCISE SYMPOSIUM: WHAT CAN THE IMAGE DO? FRI 19 OCT 6.30pm & SAT 20 OCT 10.00am - 8.00pm Posed as both a provocation and a question for future action, The Film Exercise has invited artists and theorists to respond to questions of the image's role and efficacy in relation to political representation and action, as well as questions surrounding the affective capacities of the image today. Following The Film Exercise's regular format of screening and active conversation in equal measure, the symposium is an opportunity to come together for a weekend of discussing the languages, actions and future possibilities for the image.

TELEKOMMUNISTEN: Miscommunication Station http://project.arnolfini.org.uk Miscommunication Station is a video bridge with built-in translation capabilities that allows users to communicate with each other while speaking different languages. The app presents itself as being a revolutionary new technology that bridges not only space but also culture, allowing people to speak to everyone in the world in their native language.

However, errors in speech recognition, translation and speech synthesis, combine with processing delays and the fact that you can only hear the synthesized computer voices and not the users' real voices result in a platform that allows you to communicate only with great difficulty.

Co-commissioned by Arnolfini and Abandon Normal Devices.

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You May! Photo: Paul Blakemore

TALKS/ LECTURES

WORD EVENTS - PERSPECTIVES ON VERBAL NOTATION

ON LISTENING 3 - HAUNTED RESONANCE

WED 10 OCT 6.30pm

WED 31 OCT 6.30pm / Reading Room

FREE

Composers John Lely and James Saunders discuss approaches to the use of text as notation in experimental music making, to mark the launch of their new book Word Events - Perspectives of Verbal Notation (Continuum, 2012). The evening will include a performance of a text score, and copies of the book will be available to buy.

YOU MAY! DANCE SYMPOSIUM SAT 13 OCT 11.00am - 2.00pm £8.00 (includes lunch) Join us for this symposium exploring collaboration in contemporary dance. Using film extracts of Zoi Dimitriou Company's new work You May! as a jumping off point, we'll hear artists and academics responses, and invite discussion about who 'authors' dance, and how art can respond to revolutionary times.

THE Design and Industries Association present

GOING UNDERGROUND TUE 30 OCT 7.00pm

£8.00/£6.00 Concs

A personal insight by Howard Collins, the Chief Operating Officer for London Underground into why quality of design has always been a constancy for the world's oldest subterranean passenger transport system. Design has been focal to over 150 years of continuous evolution and transformation, enabling the service to meet the challenges and expectations of today.

FREE

From the nostalgic to the distinctly creepy, join us for a Halloween session of On Listening.

We are so used to listening to recorded music that we rarely think today about the eerie or uncanny qualities of disembodied sound. Some musicians and artists, however, have deliberately worked with the capacity for sounds to evoke other times and other worlds in mysterious ways.

TERTULIA SAT 10 NOV 1.30pm - 3.30pm Bristol Records Office

FREE

To celebrate the completion of a catalogue of Arnolfini's collection of artists' books (see the Archive page on Arnolfini website), there will be a special meeting of Tertulia at the Bristol Records Office - home to Arnolfini's archive, and an exhibition of the collection (9 Oct to 18 Jan, Tue - Fri, 9.30am - 4.30pm). A selection of the books will be presented and performed by local artists, and will be available for handling.

All welcome. http://tertuliablog.wordpress.com www.bristol.gov.uk/page/records-and-archives

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ARCHITECTURE CENTRE TALKS ARCHITECTURE AND PARALLEL PRACTICE WED 3 OCT 6.00pm £6.00/£4.00 Concs Launching The Changing Face of British Architecture exhibition, this lecture presents two parallel streams of practice that address architecture and the built environment in differing ways. Award winning architect Deborah Saunt (DSDHA) discusses her career and her forthcoming book on how to be an architect, alongside Louis Rice, lecturer at UWE who will present ideas from a research programme on Transgression: Architecture without architects.

THE CHANGING FACE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE SERIES Book all 4 lectures for the price of 3 £18.00/£12.00 Concs SEAN GRIFFITHS, FAT WED 21 NOV 6.00pm

£6.00/£4.00 Concs

Alison Brooks is founder of the first British practice to receive all three of the country's most prestigious awards, winning the Stephen Laurence Prize for Wrap House (2006) the Manser Medal for Salt House (2007) and the Stirling Prize for Accordia, Cambridge (2008).

SIMON ALLFORD ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS WED 5 DEC 6.00pm £6.00/£4.00 Concs As the A in AHMM, Simon Allford was the director in charge of the Angel Building, The Saatchi Gallery and Yellow Building, and former Vice President of The Royal Institute of British Architects (Education) and a Chair of Design Review CABE.

SHEILA O'DONNELL O'DONNELL AND TOUMEY WED 12 DEC 6.00pm

£6.00/£4.00 Concs

Sheila O'Donnell is the co-founder of the Dublin based practice, O'Donnell and Tuomey, architects for the Sean O'Casey Community Centre (2008), and the Stirling Prize shortlisted Glucksman Gallery (2004) An Gaelaras (2009) and the recently completed Lyric Theatre in Belfast.

OCCUPY movement in London - a protest that revealed the extent of private ownership in UK cities. Image courtesy Louis Rice.

Kicking off this series of lectures that explore the changing face of British Architecture, Sean Griffiths is co-founder of FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste) and Louis I Kahn, Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University.

ALISON BROOKS ALISON BROOKS ARCHITECTS WED 28 NOV 6.00pm £6.00/£4.00 Concs

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Little Shining Man, 2011, Photo: Ivan Morison

UWE FINE ART / ART IN THE CITY LECTURE SERIES £6.00/£4.00 Concs / Free for UWE staff and Students with ID Organised by Arnolfini, Bristol City Council, and the University of the West of England.

Supported by Bristol City Council. www.aprb.co.uk

STEVEN CLAYDON WED 17 OCT 6.30pm Steven Claydon's work brings together objects recalling historical artefacts, cultural ephemera and geological samples, skilfully mixing different cultures and periods of history. Merging reality with fiction, and appearing at once meaningful and useless, Claydon's works oscillate between an idea of truth and fantasy, seeming to offer a fragmented image of a future civilisation's past. He will talk about his practice and new work in Bristol.

HEATHER & IVAN MORISON WED 24 OCT 6.30pm Heather and Ivan Morison work collaboratively and make art that ranges from spectacular sculptural kites to site-specific projects on an architectural scale, including the establishment of an arboretum in a remote village in Wales. The Morison's will discuss their work's relation to ideas of escape, shelter and refuge, narratives from the past and our potential futures.

MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ WED 31 OCT 6.30pm Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a seminal figure in the development of installation and performance work in the UK since the 1970s. This event provides a rare

opportunity to witness his performance lecture Le Parc: An Illustrated Text for two Voices (1986) - a live reading for two voices and two slide projectors.

GRAHAM DOLPHIN WED 7 NOV 6.30pm Working across a multitude of media; drawing, sculpture, text, ready-mades, sound and film, Dolphin's current work re-authors and re-stages the last works and final notes of the icons of music, literature and film, alongside the heartfelt, earnest graffiti left by fans on banal objects such as doors and park benches. Simultaneously critiquing and subject to the motivations and tensions surrounding these intensely personal and also very public items, Dolphin opens up this peculiar economy of text and mark making through the sheer force of his labour.

WEST OF ENGLAND DESIGN FORUM Talk COVER TO COVER An evening of Book Design with David Pearson and Teresa Monachino TUE 16 OCT 7.00pm £12.00/£10.00 Concs Open any recent D&AD annual and chances are you will see work by David Pearson and Teresa Monachino, so we are delighted that they will join us for an evening that celebrates book design in all its forms. David Pearson began his career at Penguin Books as typographer and later, cover designer, where he helped reinvigorate the brand, before leaving to set up his own studio. Teresa Monachino is a graphic designer whose work touches many design disciplines from exhibition and branding to books and packaging. www.wedesignforum.co.uk

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Bristol festival of ideas in association with the observer Throughout the autumn, Bristol Festival of Ideas continues to present a vibrant programme of talks, events, readings, debates and discussion at venues across the city. For further information on festival events both at Arnolfini and elsewhere visit www.ideasfestival.co.uk

WILL SELF UMBRELLA THU 25 OCT 6.00pm

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Radical in its conception, uncompromising in its style, Umbrella is Will Self's most extravagant and imaginative work to date. Following his abandoned experiment in running his R D Laing-influenced therapeutic community, maverick psychiatrist Zack Bustner arrives at Friern Hospital under a personal and professional cloud. Although determined to avoid further controversy he soon becomes

involved in an attempt to bring the asylum's post encephalitic patients back to life – with wholly unforeseen circumstances.

PETER HITCHENS AND HOWARD MARKS THE WAR ON DRUGS? MON 29 OCT 6.15pm

£7.50/£6.50 Concs

British politicians, commentators and celebrities often argue that 'The War on Drugs' has failed and say that this is why we should abandon all attempts to reduce drug use through the criminal law.

Journalist, author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens, who believes all drugs are dangerous, thinks that the 'War on Drugs' has never been a serious one. He debates drug policy and its effectiveness and what should happen in the future with Howard Marks - the man the media 'calls the most sophisticated drugs baron of all time' – who campaigns vigorously for the legalisation of recreational drugs.

Bookshop

Open: Tue 11.00am - 6.00pm, Wed - Sat 11.00am - 8.00pm, Sun 11.00am - 7.00pm NUS get 10% off all purchases on Wednesdays.

Arnolfini is home to one of the UK's leading specialist independent art bookshops with an exceptional range of books on contemporary art and culture.

We also have a great selection of children's titles from exciting activity books to quirky story books as well as flip books, greetings cards and some very fine wrapping paper. We carry over 100 magazines on art, architecture, design, illustration, photography, performance, craft, graffiti and literature.

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Photo: Jamie Woodley

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The Big Draw © Max McClure

GET INVOLVED

family events PARALLEL UNIVERSE MASH UP SAT 13 OCT 12.00pm - 5.00pm

EVENTS BY YOUNG PEOPLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Over the next few months we will focus a spotlight on young people and their place within the organisation.

Working with individuals from across the city we will be producing a young people's manifesto for Arnolfini and programming a series of events for young people by young people.

FUTURE FORWARD Thu 11 & 18 oct, Thu 8 & 15 Nov 2.00pm - 6.00pm

FREE

Building on the success of The Event, a careers development evening for young people held in July, we will be offering a series of workshops and portfolio sessions in our Reading Room through Sep/Oct. Run by arts professionals they will provide a range of support to ease the transition from school to university, and from university to the world of work.

EXHIBITION TOUR sat 10 NOV 2.00pm

FREE

Whether you're young or not, join one of the young people's alternative reality tours offering a whole new take on Matti Braun's work.

Breaking out FRI 16 NOV 7.30pm

£5.00

Feast your eyes and ears on an evening of live performance drawing on young Bristol talent in music, dance, theatre and film programmed by young people.

FREE

Mash Up is Arnolfini's regular family friendly activity event. Come and join a team of young artists who will help families design their own parallel universes - from bedrooms to playgrounds, classrooms to art galleries.

THE BIG DRAW 2012 SAT 27 OCT 12.00pm - 4.00pm FREE All ages drop-in event (children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult) What would you look like as a building? Inspired by the Architecture Centre's The Changing Face of Architecture season and Arnolfini's Parallel Universe theme, join us for a creative day of drawing activity. We invite you to re-imagine yourself, or create an alter-ego, through buildings and places. There will be opportunities to sketch, draw and collage your architectural self-portrait before adding it to a unique cityscape of faces.

Find out more at www.thebigdraw.org.uk

THE CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOW 2012 VALERIE BLOOM WED 7 NOV 10.30am & 1.30pm CHILDREN £4.00/ACCOMPANYING TEACHERS FREE Children will be thrilled by this exuberant and interactive poetry performance by Valerie Bloom.

You will find yourself at the market, bargaining Jamaican-style for groceries,or balancing an imaginary tray on your head and swaying as you sing the cake seller's song. This performance bursts with fun and flavour.

Suitable for children in Years 4,5 & 6.

FFI visit www.thechildrensbookshow.com For bookings contact Kate Arafa on 07740 256330 or kate.bookshow@gmail.com

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Visit us

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 at The Centre, a short walk from Arnolfini.

If travelling by car, follow brown tourism signs to the nearest car park, The Grove. FFI visit www.arnolfini.org.uk/pages/visit-us or ring 0117 917 2300.

ACCESS 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.

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.

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Café Bar Food inspired by the flavours of Italy and cooked with the best local produce is served all day. Come and join us for free spuntini - little Italian bar snacks - every Friday from 6.00pm, plus our monthly Tuscan Sunday lunch. Sign up to our mailing list by emailing cafebar@arnolfini.org.uk or follow us on Twitter @finicafebar Arnolfini Café Bar is operated by Market QV, a small local independent. We also provide event catering for Arnolfini's venue hires and beyond.

Fifth Floor is a new space for hire at Arnolfini. It has a stunning 360 degree view reaching from St Mary Redcliffe, across Bristol's historic harbourside, to Bristol Cathedral and beyond. This space is ideal for weddings, conferences and large launch events.

A view from Arnolfini Fifth Floor

FFI contact kate.robinson@arnolfini.or​g.uk or 0117 917 2313

Photo: Jon Craig

VENUE HIRE

Photo: Jamie Woodley

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