CARBON T: +44 (0)117 917 2300 / 01 CLIMATE WWW.ARNOLFINI.ORG.UK C WORDS 3 OCTOBER – CAPITAL 29 NOVEMBER HOW DID YOU GET HERE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? CULTURE 2009

PLATFORM WITH 7 NEW COMMISSIONS: Opening night – join us! African Writers Abroad, Ackroyd & Harvey, ARNOLFINI Institute for the Art & Practice of Dissent at Home, SATURDAY, 3 OCTOBER 5 –7PM Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, Please join us at Arnolfini for the opening plus a full Hollington & Kyprianou with Tamasin Cave & weekend of events, starting at 11.30am on Saturday with Who’s Recuperating Who? Part 1. Spinwatch, Trapese Collective, Virtual Migrants www.platformlondon.org For full season event listings see pages 10 – 14

The energy and climate-change crisis stands as a unique social and ecological challenge... Those least responsible for climate change are the worst affected by it...

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Manifold explosion, K-dere, to courses on creativity and social bailing-out of Royal Bank of Scotland. LONDON-BASED ARTS, SOCIAL Ogoniland, Nigeria, 2009. justice; interventionist installations All of these and more are explored in Photo: Eracks Kobah to skill-shares on ecological systems. greater detail later in this newspaper, JUSTICE AND ECOLOGY GROUP and many will feature ‘live’ during This kind of practice places its work the season’s events, alongside in the thick of political and cultural Evenings and weekends are packed the concerns of PLATFORM’s PLATFORM AND COLLABORATORS change, and C Words reflects this. with events, courses, film screenings, collaborators. This year, PLATFORM’s work includes discussions and actions in the PRESENT INSTALLATIONS, key campaigning for the court case These issues may appear to be gallery and throughout Arnolfini. The against Shell in New York over the the business of a purely activist season builds towards the moment execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the organisation, yet PLATFORM’s PERFORMANCES, ACTIONS, of departure to the site of COP 15 Ogoni 9 – the Shell Guilty campaign. approach to creativity, research and in Copenhagen in December, where PLATFORM and Greenpeace have collaboration is one reason that this WALKS, COURSES AND many C Words collaborators will be also provided authoritative analysis of work has been increasingly effective in independently active. DISCUSSIONS AT ARNOLFINI. the Canadian Tar Sands, encouraging provoking real change. This approach As the central part of Arnolfini’s 100 institutional investors to question derives from PLATFORM’s straddling these developments. Together with of art, education and activism and C Words, presented over 50 days, UN Conference of the Parties on Days season, this powerful gathering World Development Movement it’s an approach recognised by the forms a collaborative investigation into Climate Change (COP 15) which of 60 artists, activists, campaigners and People & Planet, PLATFORM wider cultural world. In the past year, carbon, climate, capital and culture. opens on 7 December. For this season and educators will converge, bringing is contesting HM Treasury’s lack the group has been invited to present This broad critique of dependency PLATFORM has brought together diverse practices ranging from of adequate environmental and current work at events at Iniva on fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, and a host of collaborators to present solidarity work with diaspora and human rights considerations in the (London), Artsadmin (London), the the implications for human rights, seven major new commissions, migrant communities to art as direct investment framework laid out for the continued on page 3 takes place in advance of the 15th performances and installations. action; from performance poetry C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 2

The Carbon Map, Ultimate Holding Company, 2007. A Commission by PLATFORM for the Transport Planning Society. AS PART OF THE 100 DAYS SEASON, MARKING THE COUNTDOWN TO THE 15TH UN CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE (COP 15) OPENING IN COPENHAGEN ON 7 DECEMBER 2009, ARNOLFINI HAS INVITED THE LONDON-BASED ARTIST/ACTIVIST GROUP PLATFORM TO DEVELOP AN EXHIBITION AROUND THE KEY THEMES OF THEIR 25 YEARS OF PRACTICE.

There is of course a long tradition of artist/activists within C Words, sets out to explore the tangled web of Carbon, contemporary art, from Joseph Beuys to the Artists Climate, Capital and Culture and our implications within ... C Words sets out Placement Group, the feminist art movement of the 1970s it. Whether in terms of our own personal choices around to the current arts & ecology agenda. PLATFORM describes travel or participation in the culture of consumerism, or to explore the tangled its methodology as bringing together environmentalists, institutionally, through funding and the movement of art artists, human rights campaigners, educationalists and and artists around the world, we are all inextricably linked community activists to create innovative projects driven by with the politics of oil. Through an extraordinary range web of Carbon, Climate, the need for social and environmental justice. In particular, of projects, performances, film screenings, debate and PLATFORM’s work in challenging the economic interests courses around issues of climate change, social justice Capital and Culture, of dependency on fossil fuels and the implications in terms and the contested relationship between art and activism, of human rights as well as environmental impact, has PLATFORM and their partners invite you to join them in been highly influential. This summer alone, for example, this investigation. and our implications the Remember Saro-Wiwa campaign, co-ordinated by PLATFORM, helped support the court case against Shell TOM TREVOR within it. in New York over the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 in Nigeria. While in the UK, working in partnership DIRECTOR, ARNOLFINI with the World Development Movement and People & Planet, PLATFORM launched a legal action against the Treasury for allowing public money, poured into the Royal Bank of Scotland, to be invested in energy companies and projects linked to climate change and human rights violations. Rather than see this invitation from Arnolfini as simply an opportunity for a self-congratulatory retrospective, PLATFORM chose instead to focus on the next 25 years and to share this inquiry with a network of groups they have worked with previously, asking the question: How did you get here and where are we going? The resulting project, C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 3 C Words: PLATFORM with 7 new commissions from African Writers Abroad, Ackroyd & Harvey, Institute for the Art Questions for the & Practice of Dissent at Home, Laboratory of Insurrectionary Next 25 Years Imagination, Hollington & Kyprianou with Tamasin Cave & Posed to members of PLATFORM and commissioned groups as part of the brief, Spinwatch, Trapese Collective, Virtual Migrants; and events with and now posed to you. Amelia’s Magazine, Art Not Oil, Carbon Trade Watch, Corner House, Feral Trade, FERN, Greenpeace, Live Art Development Agency, new 1 How does thinking about economics foundation & Clare Patey, Sustrans – Art & the Travelling the next 25 years make Landscape, Ultimate Holding Company and others. you feel?

Carbon trading – the ability of COP 15 AND companies and countries to trade URGENCY OF 2 What do you think the ‘permits to pollute’ amongst CLIMATE JUSTICE themselves in order to meet reduction SLOWNESS targets – has been increasingly The upcoming COP 15 is hailed At the heart of C Words is a concern world will look like in 25 criticised on grounds of social inequity by many as a pivotal moment in to match deeds with words. How can since it was introduced into the international politics. World leaders, UK culture - which is used to cheap years time? negotiations in 1997. Yet, it is likely civil society representatives, energy on demand - operate in a low that such ‘permits to pollute’, dubious scientists, journalists and activists carbon world? Using C Words and carbon offsets, and other ingenuities will be congregating to thrash out the Arnolfini as an experimental site, of capitalism will be presented ever international climate change treaty PLATFORM and collaborators attempt more strongly as the solution, a 3 What will be the biggest that is supposed to limit the extent of to operate with carbon-consciousness solution which will do little to halt the climate crisis, a successor to the and action throughout production, climate change and a lot to hinder issues facing the world Kyoto Protocol of 1997. transportation and installation. More climate justice. than that, the season also looks at The talks represent a key landmark in between now and then? While Northern countries swamp the how aspects such as finance can act the Kyoto process because the parties talks with armies of highly trained as a hidden driver of climate change. are supposed to finalise an emissions negotiators and corporate lobbyists, Sponsorship, pensions, investment, reduction framework that will take the many of the communities at the bank and savings accounts are a world beyond 2012 when the initial frontline of climate devastation, major part of this story, yet rarely 4 Where will you be, what phase of the treaty ends. At the same such as Indigenous Peoples, small come into the public eye, most often time, some people feel that a lot of island states, peasant farmers, women overshadowed by concerns with will you be doing in 2034? the energy in campaigning around and economically disadvantaged energy efficiency. Kyoto has gone into ‘saving the climate countries in the global south, have treaty’ rather than ‘saving the climate.’ seen their voices become increasingly Further Info A long series of political deadlocks and marginalised. PLATFORM sees the 5 If Arnolfini and other such a vast amount of corporate lobbying challenges, successes, and While COP 15 will struggle to provide a has resulted in a treaty that, at times, failures of all these efforts as significant breakthrough in the logjam, cultural institutions still seems to be more about expanding part of the artwork, and they it does provide a point of focus at carbon markets and creating business will be documented and made which time all sections of society can exist, what should they opportunities, than about making the visible in the galleries, and question our carbon-based culture serious emissions reductions that are through discussion events and how it conflicts with the health of be doing? so urgently needed. such as Embedded (28 Oct), the earth’s climate, and justice for the the C Words blog, and through majority of the world. the critique of the C Words Co-Realisers.

continued from page 1 committed in various ways, include capital and culture operate in relation New Arts Exchange (Nottingham) A NOTE AS THIS E.ON and Tate, the launch event to social justice involves getting the Hay Festival and the Institute being held at Tate Modern. As Tate our hands dirty, engaging in deep of Contemporary Interdisciplinary GOES TO PRINT Modern’s website puts it “Tate will be systemic analysis, and confronting Arts (Bath). among the first to sign-up to the 10:10 issues of privilege, unease and inertia. On Tuesday 1 September, the campaign. Tate has already made The fact that there is a current rise The question of PLATFORM’s position weeklong Camp for Climate Action cuts in emissions in recent years and in contemporary art’s engagement with regard to art and activism is a live celebrated its closing evening in supports 10:10 in their ambition to get with climate change issues across and contentious one, both within and Blackheath, London, a historic site everyone involved.” While significant a range of disciplines is significant. beyond the group. This is reflected for popular revolts, meetings, and and laudable, there are some Climate issues have featured in in the concept for PLATFORM’s festivals. On 13 September the Bristol anomalies here: Tate Britain’s major FACT’s Climate for Change (Liverpool), installation: three resonant and mobile Co-Mutiny began, working for ‘Social sponsor remains BP. ArtsAdmin’s Two Degrees (London), objects – a sailing boat, a seven-sided Change not Climate Change’. These Barbican’s Radical Nature (London), tent, a quadricycle-drawn video pod, movements plan their actions The realities of such ‘embedded and the Royal Academy’s forthcoming each with significant histories – are and live their politics through low- emissions’ – emissions through Earth: Art of a changing world situated within wood-lined walls. impact technologies, consensus finance and other core functions (London) to name but a few. The These objects habitually live outdoors decision-making and a culture of can’t be dismissed if we are serious in RSA’s Arts & Ecology (2005), Tipping – in water, along a path, on open mutuality, respect and pleasure. This tackling climate change. On the same Point (2003), Cape Farewell (2001) ground – and now find themselves year’s London Climate Camp hit the Tuesday, in the same newspaper, we Oil fires burning in the and the EU’s 2020 Network (2008) sheltered; yet displaced, and subject headlines with direct action against were told “if the Greenland ice sheet Niger Delta. Photo: Greenpeace are long-term programmes fostering to scrutiny. BP to deter it from further investment disappeared, sea levels around the culture’s engagement with climate in the Canadian Tar Sands mentioned world would rise by seven metres...” At this politically significant moment change. This phenomenon needs earlier, a protest at Royal Bank of and that “600 million people are living C Words not only cross-examines the examining, and C Words is part of it. Scotland for its continuing investment in areas vulnerable to a 1-metre rise present but looks to the next twenty- in fossil fuels and a naked protest in sea levels”. A human rights and However C Words is also set in the five years, asking ‘How did you get against Edelman, the PR company environmental issue of unimaginable context of the creativity of the direct here and where are we going?’ which handles energy company proportions is taking place right now. action movement, underpinned by the C Words investigates how everything, E.ON. E.ON is the company behind It requires critical, connected and rigour of in-depth economic research. from carbon offsets and transport, to the proposal to build a new coal-fired decisive action. It involves making C Words aims to be a usefully racism and bank accounts - play their power station at Kingsnorth. very tough decisions and taking provocative contribution across part in the ‘Carbon Web’. How will Further Info a stand. all these contexts: as art, as social culture be produced in a low energy Also on that Tuesday 1st September, a PLATFORM members and the process, as an opportunity to learn, future? And how can we imagine our major new climate campaign – 10:10 In the title C Words, we allude to C Words ‘Co-Realisers’ will and an urgent catalyst for change. way from here to there? – was launched by The Guardian. the extreme difficulties yet absolute be in residence at Arnolfini This aims to encourage individuals necessity of making work around throughout the project for and organisations to pledge cuts these issues. The C Words themselves exchange and comment. in emissions by 10% during 2010, will never become comfortable. PLATFORM (See the New Work section no small undertaking. Institutions, Looking at how climate, carbon, SEPTEMBER 2009 for details on Co-Realisers) C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 4 NEW WORK

PLATFORM has commissioned new work from seven artist/ activist groups for C Words, provoking discussion and action on climate change and climate justice through a range of artforms. They have also invited five artist-activists to form themselves into the Co-Realisers, given the task of monitoring and critiquing the project as it unfolds, and coming up with creative responses from their own practice.

ACKROYD & HARVEY THE WALKING FOREST

A call to participate: artists Ackroyd & Harvey invite you to slow travel and arrive at Arnolfini by foot, bike or boat with a small tree or sapling* gathered en route as part of their new time-based artwork, ‘The Walking Forest’. As the collection grows, the type, origin and journey route of each tree will be certificated, documented and mapped. The trees will be distributed to a holding location at Blaise Castle Estate and tended by Bristol Parks. ‘The Walking Forest’ will eventually be planted out permanently in Bristol to mark the 100 Days event and a critical moment in time. ‘The Walking Forest’ has been developed in discussion with Sustrans and PLATFORM.

Slow Travel Weekends/tree collection: 3/4 October, 24/25 October, 14/15 November

*A sapling or small tree should be carefully uprooted from a place where it would not survive or is not wanted in the long term, e.g. from under a mature tree, an allotment, a garden or a site earmarked for building development.

Download guidelines on collecting saplings at www.arnolfini.org.uk

www.artsadmin.co.uk/ackroydandharvey

AFRICAN WRITERS ABROAD THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ART & ALL CHANGE! PRACTICE OF DISSENT AT HOME HALF-TERM HOLIDAY

Above l-r: Simon Murray Extract from ‘C Words’, by Simon Murray. Dorothea Smartt ... supporter of conservative, labour, liberal, republican, democratic governments C behind all Criminal Cartel Crusading African Writers Abroad present a combination Corrupt Corporate… Stunts of performances, creative writing workshops and Chattel, Colonialism, new commissioned work from writers Dorothea neo-Colonialism Smartt and Simon Murray on issues around Corporatocracy, Consumerism, The Institute – two adults and three children There will be a schedule of events announced climate change that are close to their hearts. “Civilisation” – propose a half-term holiday for all the family for visitors and fellow dissenters to take part Throughout the season a constant stream of Columbus, Cook, Churchill, Church (27 Oct – 1 Nov 2009). This will constitute in and a number of collaborative sessions poetry will be released online and offline, on Control, Coerce, Chaos, Crisis, Crunch, a temporary relocation of the Institute from that anybody may attend. Events include a physical and virtual walls, to capture the Crush, Clash, Culture, Capture, Crooks Liverpool to Bristol. Accompanied by their eco- Family Performance-Picnic in the Gallery; Acid Crass, Class, Conflict, Convict, essence of C Words. Join Dorothea and Simon Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (eco-Au Complicity, City, Corrode, Crude… Au Pair Branka Cvjeticanin (who will slow travel in workshops to inspire and move you. Pairing in the UK); Halloween at the Home Coca Cola... from Croatia to the UK) they will seek to set up See them and others in performance an interim activist cell with guest dissenters and (Trick or Treat - a Direct Democracy version) on 7 November at the evening event, visitors to take action against carbon, climate and more... No Condition is Permanent. www.africanwritersabroad.org.uk chaos and capitalism. www.twoaddthree.org

C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 5

LIVE ART DEVELOPMENT ‘Business as Usual’ (Kayle Brandon, CO-REALISERS issues raised by the season over AGENCY – DIY 6 Heath Bunting, James Kennard tea and cake. Rebecca Beinart, Benjamin D, and Vahida Ramujkic, in the Avon DIY 6 is an opportunity for artists Beth Hamer, Pete Harrison, Individual projects will emerge Gorge, Bristol) and ‘Ritualride’ (Steve working in Live Art to take part in Simon Murray responsively during C Words. Levon Ounanian, national). These unusual training projects conceived One in advance is: will be discussed as part of the Art, Throughout the season five artist- and run by artists for artists. For Pete Harrison, Frontier Species Education & Activism event, 21 Nov. activists will work with PLATFORM DIY 6, PLATFORM partnered two to provide continuity, reflections Pete will write an ongoing response, projects around climate change: For details of DIY 6 visit and critical-poetic responses by connecting the season with everyday www.thisisliveart.co.uk engaging with the public, artists and Bristol and to larger rhythms and Arnolfini staff. The Co-Realisers will systems around us, disseminated have a base in the Reading Room at through live lectures, photocopied Arnolfini, and will be active on the booklets and podcasts. We will open C Words blog. Every Friday at 5pm up the city through one-to-one walks the Co-Realisers will host a Critical around Bristol, each bookended by Tea Party where you can discuss a silent walk around the galleries. http://blog.platformlondon.org/cwords

HOLLINGTON & KYPRIANOU WITH THE LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION EXPERIMENT 10: SPINWATCH PRESENT... OPERATION BIKE BLOCK, PUTTING THE FUN BETWEEN YOUR LEGS ADAMS & SMITH Hollington and Kyprianou proudly announce the employment of Adams & Smith to auction their collection of late capitalist artefacts. These once mass-produced, but now rare objects can be inspected in the pre-auction viewing, held throughout October. Adams & Smith will present the auction, to be held on 28th November 2009 at 5pm. The sale features fifteen lots of some of the rarest and most coveted objects from the late-Capitalist oil era on the international market today. Each of these once ubiquitous objects comes with provenance certificates provided by experts from the anti-lobbying lobbyists Spinwatch, and as The People Vs such, are guaranteed as rare surviving The Banksters, 2009 examples of mass-produced objects, not Photo: Kristian Buss bespoke replicas. Each lot comes with a history of how and why these objects came to such prominence, and how and why they fell out of use following the Peak Depression. The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination The Lab of ii will set up a workspace in the (Lab of ii) will be continuing its research into new gallery where discarded bicycles will be The future may be better than we dare think. forms of utopian community and rebellion, this transformed collectively into the elements of www.electronicsunset.org time building a new tool of creative resistance The Bike Block. The design and prototype www.spinwatch.org for the Climate Justice mobilisations taking place will be created in Bristol, via a series of public in Copenhagen. We will bring together artists, workshops. The Lab of ii will then move to activists, architects, bike hackers, welders and Copenhagen’s Contemporary Art Centre (CCAC) permaculture designers across two cities, Bristol where the final resistance machine will be built, and Copenhagen, to design and build The Bike culminating on the 16th of December in the Block - merging device of mass transportation streets of Copenhagen... and pedal powered resistance machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike. www.labofii.net

TRAPESE COLLECTIVE VIRTUAL MIGRANTS START BUILDING THE FUTURE THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD, PART 1 EXPERIMENTS AGAINST ENCLOSURE – TOOLS TO RECLAIM THE COMMONS

All around the world, thousands of people and projects are working from the bottom up, resisting the system that is causing climate change and creating a more just and sustainable world, right here and now. The Trapese Collective invite you to participate in workshops, trainings and discussions which will bring some of these possibilities of positive social change to life, from crash technologies and local food to direct action and building alternatives. Come to just one workshop or the whole three days, check out their mid-week films or browse their radical library. Join the real green (grassroots) shoots. This inspirational programme draws on ‘Do It Yourself -– a handbook for changing our world,’ edited by Trapese, and involves many local grassroots champions. The greatest single impact of climate about and connect historical and contemporary change could be on human migration.* narratives and visuals, current at any time a Daychools; Sat 17 & 31 Oct, 14 Nov 2009, visitor engages with the work. Plus performances 10.30am – 6pm. Climate change is hurtling towards a super- with live dialogue/music on 4 October and www.trapese.org holocaust mostly of the ‘Third’ world, caused by 7 November. the continuing demands of the industrialised ‘first’ economies, economies that developed Audience members can also speak live, arrange through mass exploitation and murder over the a video discussion, or contribute text via our blog www.centrecannothold.wordpress.com past few hundred years. The Centre Cannot Hold, an ongoing project, discusses climate The aesthetics aim to encourage critical imperialism, the commodification of humans and discussion and thought, a here-and-now the environment, and predictions of new and connection without commodification. vastly heightened racisms and politics of fear. Get involved [email protected] Part 1 is an evolving installation, a cultural space * according to the Intergovernmental containing projected videos and audio through Panel on Climate Change. which people locally and globally will speak C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 6

PLATFORM’s current work takes place DODGING TANKERS IN THE show the deep and long-term foreign in seven project streams. All of these BOSPHORUS policy backing provided by the British will be part of C Words and are introduced Our Belgrade-Istanbul sleeper curves government to Shell in its efforts to on pages 6 – 9. down to the Sea of Marmara, as we break into Libya. chug through the outlying suburbs. More >> Getting closer, I can spot tens of Submitted by mika on Tue, CIVIL SOCIETY PROJECT tankers queued up, waiting to pass 2009-09-01 17:32 through the narrow Bosphorus. Many of these will be heading for MOVING CLOSER TO THE PLACES Supsa in Georgia or Novorossiysk in Russia, to fill up with Azeri Caspian OF PHYSICAL EXTRACTION crude pumped across the Caucasus, MIKA MINIO-PALUELLO destined ultimately for European or American cars. Excerpts from blog More >> Submitted by mika on Tue, http://blog.platformlondon.org This blog will probably include As the C Words newspaper goes to print in September, 2009-07-21 01:00 postings on BP and Shell’s attempts I’m living in Yarmouk, a Palestinian Refugee Camp in WAITING FOR THE FIRST TRAIN to break into oil & gas frontier southern Damascus. I’ll stay here for another month, COMMUNITY RESISTANCE IN I’m waiting at Kings Cross – St regions, wider struggles against fossil building up my Arabic and networking with activist ROSSPORT CONTINUES Pancras with my rucksack for fuel extraction, random cultural groups across the Middle East. the 12:57 Eurostar to Damascus. references and my attempts to travel Maura Harrington – imprisoned As C Words begins, I will travel south, to examine The train isn’t quite direct – need slowly whilst working. We’ll see how for her opposition to Shell: “We all Shell’s Tar Sands operations in Jordan. By late October, to change at Brussels, Munich, often I blog – I plan to write regularly, have successes and failures. I was a I should have visited Gaza, where BG (formerly British Belgrade, Istanbul and Adana. but posting may be erratic, with teacher, my failures work inside the Gas) hold a large gas field, and be engaging with social variable distractions, workloads, gates at Glengad and Bellanaboy, my I’m leaving London – oil city and movements in Egypt. During November I will move internet access. successes are outside the gates”. finance capital where BP and Shell across North Africa and spend time in Algeria, where More >> More >> extract knowledge, loans, social BP is the largest foreign investor and the EU recently Submitted by mika on Thu, Submitted by mika on Sat, legitimacy and political power, where announced its support for a mega Trans-Sahara pipeline 2009-07-16 13:45 2009-08-01 01:00 executives sit in high offices building running from Nigeria through Niger & Algeria to the pipelines on flipcharts and hard- BP KEEPS DIGGING DEEPER BP’S EXTRACTION OPERATIONS Mediterranean coast and onto Europe. As C Words draws drives. Moving closer to the places IN BRUSSELS UNDER CASPIAN to a close and people head to Copenhagen for the UN COP of physical extraction, where oil Only in Brussels for 90 minutes, so The main workhorse of 15 mobilisations, I will be boarding a ship to the West corporations pump crude out of the not long enough to visit BP’s office Azeri oil production – the Azeri- Coast of the USA... ground, to spend time with social on Rondpoint Schumann, adjacent Chirag-Guneshli field – will peak in movements, fossil fuel workers and to the European Commission. This 2010, due to BP and consortium local communities. provides the company’s easy access members driving an aggressively Further Info As part of PLATFORM’s Civil Society for major EU lobbying of various fast extraction programme. As the This project also enables Project, I will be based in the South, EU institutions. revenues poured in over the last PLATFORM to maintain investigating the social, economic and More >> eight years, the state budget soared, its long-term engagement environmental impacts of oil and gas Submitted by mika on Thu, covering military expansion, President with civil society in Iraq projects. For the next three years I will 2009-07-16 17:20 Aliev’s opulent lifestyle and doubtful and Azerbaijan, Georgia and travel slowly, by train, boat and bus, infrastructure projects. Turkey, along the course of between the Middle East, Europe, the ROMANIAN NODDING DONKEYS More >> the Baku – Tbilisi – Ceyhan Americas and Asia. While the train passes through fields Submitted by mika on Wed, oil pipeline. To learn and of shiny wind turbines in Austria, the 2009-08-12 01:00 discuss more, come to C Our project is pretty experimental: a Romanian plains are full of ‘nodding Words Now! Civil Society tiny collective organisation basing a donkeys’, an simple means of SECRET DOCUMENTS UNCOVER Speaks – three Thursday staff member abroad, planning visits, extracting crude from shallow fields UK’S INTEREST IN LIBYAN OIL nights of independent short stays and workload so as to avoid in small quantities. PLATFORM generated two articles in films and informal discussion, any flights, basing a project around More >> Sunday’s Observer 3 days ago that programmed by Mika Minio- reactive work guided by needs and highlight the collaboration between Submitted by mika on Sat, Paluello, and facilitated by desires of affected communities. We’ll the Foreign Office and Shell over 2009-07-18 10:02 PLATFORM. 8 Oct, 15 Oct see how it develops. Libya. The documents referred to and 12 Nov.

Currently there is no oil derived from the GOG & MAGOG Canadian Tar Sands available at a petrol station in Bristol or anywhere else in the UK. The flow THE MOST of fossil fuel from Alberta to Avonmouth has not yet begun, but there is a river of capital DESTRUCTIVE flowing in the opposite direction. It flows from the pension funds, the insurance policies, the INDUSTRIAL PROJECT mortgages, the council tax payments of every Map of the Tar Sands person that visits the Arnolfini. When any one of system in North us pays such bills, some of our money is used ON EARTH America 2009 by these institutions to invest in BP or Shell JAMES MARRIOTT AND BENJAMIN D. Photo: PLATFORM/ shares – about 25% of all UK pension fund Greenpeace investments are in these two companies. There’s a river of capital that flows from our pockets to the tar sands – and there’s now an international campaign determined to try to disrupt that flow. The Tar Sands of Canada have been described as adapted refineries in Canada and the US. been working hard to stop it. And Gog & Magog? This campaign is rapidly building momentum ‘the most destructive industrial project on earth’. These were the two giants that apparently Eventually, from these refineries, emerges petrol and throughout C Words PLATFORM will be These oil deposits are a layer of bituminous founded London – as well as giving their names for America’s trucks and cars. The entire ‘tar actively engaged with it. crude buried beneath the pristine boreal forests to a pair of ancient oaks in fact they were one sands system’ stretches across a continent – of Northern Alberta – covering an area the size entity – Gogmagog. But since 2000, PLATFORM from the new offshore gas fields being opened up of England. In order for this unconventional oil to has taken them as a metaphor of the two giants in the Arctic to the refineries on the Gulf be extracted, the forests have to be felled, and that still dominate London – Shell and BP. These of Mexico. the tar strip-mined or steamed out of the ground, two are in the top three largest companies on the using boiling water injected into the substrata. The process of extracting oil from tar sands is London Stock Exchange. The fluctuations of their Both processes use vast quantities of water, so energy intensive, that the carbon dioxide profit and loss, affects the economy of London, which then – laden with toxins – flows back into emissions produced from 1 barrel of tar sands of Bristol and the entire UK. Precisely where the Athabasca River. Downstream, the impact of derived oil is approximately 5 times the CO2 these corporations begin and end is unclear. the mines is seen in deformed fish and a cancer emissions produced from a barrel of oil pumped In order to function they depend upon a web Further Info epidemic in First Nation communities, such as at in Saudi Arabia. Given that Canada’s Tar Sands of other companies and institutions – banks, Come and participate in events that the town of Fort Chipewyan. constitute an oilfield second only in size to that advertising agencies, universities, pension funds, explore this issue – the performance BP of Saudi, the extraction of this unconventional government departments, public museums and Once extracted the tar sands are ‘upgraded’, 3rd Quarter 2009 – This Petroleum Heat oil would be a disaster for the global climate. art galleries – the Carbon Web. A web that drives cleaned of the impurities of sand and clay – a on 27 Oct, the film H2Oil on 25 Oct, and The tar sands represent an industrial ‘tipping forward fossil fuel extraction, generating profit process that requires an input of natural gas an evening where we host speakers point’, paving the way to the exploitation of by moving carbon from the lithosphere to the equivalent to 1/3 of all the gas used to heat from the Athabascan Cree First Nation, unconventional oil across the world - and, atmosphere. Part of PLATFORM’s work is to help Canadian homes. The upgraded tar - or residents of Fort Chipewyan in Alberta together with a host of others, PLATFORM has describe, and dismantle this Carbon Web. ‘syncrude’ - is then piped south to specially as part of a speaker tour. C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 7

The financial heart of London at night. Photo: PLATFORM

DESK KILLER COMPARTMENTALISATION OF A MIND DAN GRETTON pipeline in Colombia or Nigeria that I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of ‘Admin’. they work on daily from their desks, The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens By shining a light into the world let alone meet the villagers of the bureaucrats, planners and intimidated, displaced or killed of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in order to enable those valuable businessmen who contributed to in concentration camps and labour camps. In those Nazism and the Holocaust, Desk Killer pipelines to operate. This distancing raises a critical question: whether creates the greatest imaginative we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered such an event can be viewed as a challenge. How is it possible to link finished, historical episode or whether human beings in London or Bristol (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, the psychology and behaviour that with human beings in Colombia? Or to carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet enabled genocide to occur then is not link the people at the Shell Centre in only still present today, but exists quite London or the Royal Bank of Scotland men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth- specifically both in the institutional with people in Southern Nigeria? shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. culture of transnational corporations “To reassure you however, of the and in the mindset and activity of dreadful things I knew nothing. The many individuals working for such Americans told me later that they corporations. never thought I did. Even so, I’m not In post-war Germany’s attempt entirely content to leave it at that, to come to a reckoning with the for I ask myself what, given my lofty Holocaust, particularly after the trial position, I could have found out had and conviction of Adolf Eichmann in I wanted to. Even then, perhaps not C.S. LEWIS 1961 the term ‘schreibtischtaeter’ everything, but certainly a great deal... was coined. This can be translated I saw my fate, if you like, as God’s as ‘desk-murderer’. Strangely this judgement – not for having infringed term has hardly ever been used any laws (for my transgressions in that been that of mental and emotional little research has been conducted Further Info outside Germany, despite its clear sense were comparatively minimal) compartmentalisation – the process into this phenomenon. With more For Desk Killer, C Words relevence to much 20th century but for the deeper guilt of having so which allows a seemingly ‘civilised’ analysis of patterns of deep-rooted presents two events: an and contemporary capitalism. This readily and unthinkingly gone along.” or ‘moral’ individual to participate in psychology and behaviour, we introduced film screening concept is at the heart of Desk Albert Speer, Armaments Minister for systems and organisations which have hope to contribute to a significant of Shoah on 10 Oct, and the Killer’s argument. the Third Reich, letter to his daughter terrifyingly destructive end results. shift in the way our society and its lecture-performance Desk Hilde, May 1953. corporations function – that we may Killer by Dan Gretton, International trade has never been Although such compartmentalisation be able to contribute to a growing on 17 Oct. less personal. The vast majority of Out of all the research carried out is a clear feature of both historical understanding of the hidden violence the workforce in London that helps so far for Desk Killer into different examples of perpetrator psychology of contemporary capitalism. organise, finance or design BP’s or aspects of what is known as and contemporary corporate Shell’s projects will never see the oil ‘perpetrator psychology’ the most psychology, it is remarkable that so disturbing and recurring theme has

notion that the Arctic zone should corporate and state, and supporting FOREIGN ENERGY POLICY be a place for experiments with communities impacted by our implicit peace, coexistence and international and tacit foreign energy policies. collaboration to combat climate SECURING ACCESS TO 3. Diplomatic Immunity: change, protect Indigenous Rights International Policy and the and safeguard our future. As such, OIL IN FOREIGN LANDS Carbon Web an oil & gas moratorium must be at A carbon web of institutions and ADAM MA’ANIT the forefront of international policy on frameworks work to support and the region as would a declaration of propagate the fossil fuel industry the Arctic as a demilitarized zone. across the globe. These include 2. Foreign Policy a dizzying array of acronymed- PLATFORM’s new project on Foreign for the oil & gas industry to access Response Unit entities such as the UNFCCC, IEA, Policy & Energy Security aims to new reserves and transport routes. Throughout the world, communities OPEC, OECD, NATO, EU, and their address the shortfall in activity and Approximately 30% of estimated in the Global South are impacted attendant biases towards business- analysis of the role that foreign unexploited fossil-fuel reserves are by policies born in Westminster as-usual petro-politics. Our aim is to policy plays in promoting the oil & said to lie within the Arctic circle. The changing of the sign on and the boardrooms of corporate highlight the role these entities play gas industry, fomenting conflict and The scramble for Arctic reserves the headquarters of Anglo- headquarters in the UK. As recent in the Carbon Web and bring greater militarism linked to fossil energy has begun with many countries in Iranian Oil Company after the revelations about the role the UK pressure to bare on their activities resources and undermining progress the region reopening bases that had corporation’s forced exit from Government has played in securing and organisational alignments in the protection of human rights, been closed since the end of the Cold Iran, 1954. access for British companies in towards narrow anti-democratic democracy and the environment. War leading some to worry whether a oil & gas-rich Libya have shown, corporate interests. renewed chill in international relations This new PLATFORM project will there is a need for greater scrutiny between competing powers may Through this body of work, we hope to have three major strands: and oversight of the foreign policy Further Info propel us into a disastrous repeat of untangle some of the densely woven apparatus in this country. PLATFORM [email protected] 1. Cold Fronts: the past. interrelationships that ultimately is working with others to bring Foreign Energy Policy Arctic Imaginings help prop up the fossil-fuel industry, The Arctic also represents for many pressure to bare on the connections features in the following The irony of fossil-fuelled climate promote conflict and militarism, people a place for experimentation between the Foreign Office and C Words film screenings change is that the melting ice in the undermine democracy and human and discovery. It is in this spirit that British fossil fuel companies, of Carbon Connection and Arctic presents new opportunities rights and destroy the environment. we will work towards advancing the building a movement to separate Crude on 1 Nov. C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 8

Ken Saro-Wiwa REMEMBER SARO-WIWA Photo: Tim Lambon, Greenpeace REMEMBERING THE PAST, SHAPING THE FUTURE BEN AMUNWA The story of Ken Saro-Wiwa is more relevant today than ever. Saro-Wiwa was a celebrated Nigerian writer and activist who led the Ogoni people I accuse the in their mass protest against the devastating impact of oil companies, oil companies operating in their homeland, in particular, Shell. of practising For thwarting an oil-giant, the Ogoni people paid the heaviest price. genocide against Following a wave of brutal military crackdowns that killed thousands of the Ogoni Ogonis, Saro-Wiwa was executed on 10th November 1995 by the Nigerian government alongside eight of his colleagues. Almost 14 years later, in June 2009, Shell paid out $15.5 million to the relatives of Saro-Wiwa and his colleagues after a landmark lawsuit in New York, which accused investors, activists, environmental Wiwa: “I accuse the oil companies the company of involvement in and human rights researchers and of practising genocide against the human rights abuses, including the legal advocacy to call a halt to Shell’s Ogoni”. This large-scale public art execution of Saro-Wiwa. crimes in Nigeria. We will take the work is ‘living’ because the issues struggle from the streets to head- are urgently alive today, and because Today, most of us are vaguely aware quarters, from the courtroom to the the bus moves from place to place, that Nigerian oil is a dirty business, boardroom. We successfully forced community to community. The and that – as consumers – we are Shell to payout $15.5 million for struggle of communities in the Niger somehow tainted with responsibility complicity in human rights abuses. Delta is part of the global movement for a system that has gone But the daily violations continue. against the injustices of climate badly wrong. change. This movement involves As a 73 year-old man from a small The painful reality is that the Niger us, our companies and our cities. village in the Niger Delta puts it: Delta, one of the world’s largest The Living Memorial exists to mark tropical rainforests has become one “Since Shell began to be active on the streets of London a constant of the worst oil-polluted ecosystems. in my community, I can neither reminder that while those nine Ogoni Oil companies like Shell contaminate find the animals to hunt nor activists were killed, their struggle rivers with impunity, flare the gas that living trees to exploit… Shell lives on and will be active at The comes mixed with Nigerian oil and by Shell, the amount of gas flared in Nigerian Federal High Court, which has poured oil everywhere in Stephen Lawrence Centre, London destroy the lives of communities we Nigeria has increased significantly. found that gas flaring was a violation the bush… the animals don’t this winter and throughout 2010. will never know. Decade after decade communities of human rights and ordered Shell like Shell’s bright lights and suffer the indignity of living next to to stop the practice. But Shell has have left our area; the trees Gas flaring is the biggest single these ‘poison fires’. refused to listen and is attempting to have died… we are dying…” contributor to climate change in Further info evade the court ruling altogether. As Sub-Saharan Africa. In the Niger For communities in the Niger PLATFORM initiated the ‘Remember Remember Saro-Wiwa features you read this, gas flaring in Nigeria Delta, these toxic plumes of fire and Delta, the struggle against climate Saro-Wiwa’ project to create a in the following C Words continues, and Shell remains above smoke burn day and night. Shell has change is a struggle against the Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa events: the performance-poetry the law. been flaring gas in the Niger Delta daily violations of their human rights in London. The Living Memorial night with African Writers for over four decades now, releasing and environment. Every person That is why PLATFORM’s project Battle Bus, created by artist Sokari Abroad No Condition is poisonous toxins into the land and has the right to a clean and healthy ‘Remember Saro-Wiwa’ is part of a Douglas-Camp, takes the form of Permanent on 7 Nov; and the water and emitting more carbon each environment, the rights to life and global coalition called ShellGuilty, a spectacular Nigerian steel bus, discussion What’s the Future year than 18 million cars. Despite dignity. These rights were upheld calling for an immediate end to Shell’s sprayed with colour and carved with of the Niger Delta? on 8 Nov. all the promises in the last ten years in a recent court judgement by the gas flaring in Nigeria. We mobilise a powerful quotation from Saro- www.remembersarowiwa.com

PLATFORM has a long tradition of Teaching classes and courses has As in all our work, we are extremely and safe space where diverse and EDUCATION doing educational work: running become increasingly significant, wary of the dangers of the ‘parachute’ sometimes diametrically opposed residencies, workshops and seminars, making its own unique contribution project, where the participants/ opinions can be aired, shared and A THIRD OF THE giving talks, and presenting papers to our work on social and ecological initiators perceive the project as worked through. With whatever group in a wide range of settings and change. It is essentially where overt landing on a particular patch from of people, our intention is to create PRACTICE institutions about past or ongoing political and methodological debate outer space, staying for a while, spaces for discussion not only of ideas and concerns. You could argue can take place, where people who stirring up emotions – good or bad – the issues at hand, but also that the JANE TROWELL that all the work is ‘educational’ in share a commitment to challenging and then airlifting out again, without a manner of the discussion is a micro- its broadest sense, but we make a the status quo through creative, trace. There is definitely a role for this model of democratic practice - bell distinction between dedicated and interdisciplinary means can come model – the circus comes to town, hooks calls this ‘engaged pedagogy’, overtly educational work such as the together. Education is a third of our the wandering minstrels, the chance Henry Giroux calls this ‘critical established course The Body Politic practice, and we take inspiration for encounter... but for our core aims, it is pedagogy’, Paulo Freire calls this (which is offered for C Words), and this part of our work from teachers, necessary to enter relationships as if ‘the pedagogy of hope’. projects which have intrinsic artists and social activists such as they were going to be long-term, educational components in that Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Henry and a true exchange. they involve sharing and spreading Giroux, Joseph Beuys and others. Further info Power relations in pedagogical work knowledge, skills and insights. For C Words, PLATFORM offers The educational work uses a mixture are always an issue: the ‘facilitator’ a seven-week course The Body of strategies – walks, talks, stories, or teacher is always in a position of Politic, Social & Ecological The highest form art techniques, music, group-work power. Yet, to paraphrase bell hooks, Justice, Art, Activism; with lots of time for discussion the issue is not one of denying one’s of creativity is that Trapese Collective is running and feedback, and we’ve worked power, but of knowing that it can be three Saturday dayschools across all ages, social groupings and abused in many subtle and not so which promotes the Experiments against contexts. We also work with academic subtle ways, even by well-intentioned Enclosure; Tools to reclaim researchers, students, campaigners people. Power and responsibility creativity of others the Commons; African Writers and journalists to provide information should be raised as an issue from Abroad offers All Change! – two and access to our archive, and to the start. half-day workshops in poetry advance their own work through In our education work, what each and creative writing on 7 Nov; discussion. Like many organisations, participant brings to the discussion Laboratory of Insurrectionary we often take students on placements, becomes the starting point and the Imagination offers Operation some of which have turned into long- role of the facilitator/educator is to Bike Block – a weeklong series term creative relationships. help frame and create an imaginative of workshops. JOSEPH BEUYS C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 9

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND VS ROYAL BANK OF SUSTAINABILITY MEL EVANS AND KEVIN SMITH

Since the banking crisis of 2008, the World Development Movement RBS has remained firmly in the and People & Planet, has lodged an public eye as the most controversial application for a Judicial Review over bank in the UK. the lack of adequate environmental and human rights considerations in Beyond the populist pillorying of the recapitalisation of RBS. Fred Goodwin’s undeserved pension bonanza and the most recent wave For some years, RBS has been of outrage over the size of the new targeted by NGOs and climate activists Chief Executive’s pay packet, lie as being the UK high-street bank most the government has a more fundamental questions over associated with pumping billions into the relationship between public fossil fuel projects across the globe. responsibility... to ensure money, climate change and the role Until it recently wised up to the need of finance in fuelling the expansion of for a greener public image, it even coal, oil and gas around the world. went as far as promoting itself on the that the public isn’t paying www.oilandgasbank.com website that Because the Treasury didn’t provide it set up. Before the recapitalisation, it any satisfactory answers when to expand further fossil fuel had financed companies that were not we asked them these questions, only disastrous in terms of emitting PLATFORM, working alongside developments. This isn’t a particularly radical demand, it’s just common sense.

countless tonnes of carbon into the the investment strategies of those branches. Students have staged atmosphere, but were also accused banks in which the state had a protests at the RBS AGM in April of human rights abuses – companies controlling stake.” and climate activists super-glued such as Lundin Petroleum, which themselves to the RBS London The Treasury has claimed it needs is active in Sudan and listed by the trading floor in September. to take an ‘arm’s-length’ approach to Sudan Divestment Task Force in its the management of RBS to maximise Further info “Top Five Highest Offenders”. the financial return for the taxpayer. As part of this campaign, Since November last year, such In reality, it already showed that it PLATFORM submitted the finance decisions have been more could get more ‘hands on’ when it ‘Royal Bank of Sustainability’ outrageous because RBS is now intervened over the issue of capping to the Sustainable using public money to do it. In executive bonuses. We need to Development Commission for March the Guardian reported that ask if the interests of the taxpayer their 2009 ‘Breakthrough’ in the six months following the initial would be better served by ensuring Awards. It was selected bailout of the banks, RBS had been that RBS was not actively involved as one of 19 ideas “which involved in financing loans to coal, in making huge carbon emissions could transform the UK oil and gas companies worth nearly increases all over the world. This into a sustainable society”. £10bn (£9,941m) – over a quarter important decision should be made Subsequently, PLATFORM the amount the bank had received in a transparent and accountable has teamed up with Amelia’s from taxpayers at that point. These fashion, rather than left to the whims Magazine to launch a design included finance (or assistance in of individuals in the banking sector, competition to reinvent the obtaining finance) to oil companies especially given the appalling mess Royal Bank of Scotland as the to expand their operations in that these individuals have already Royal Bank of Sustainability. controversial or politically sensitive left us in. You are invited to submit regions (such as Tullow Oil in ideas for logos or a poster by With enough political will, RBS Uganda, and Cairn Energy in arctic 2 Nov. The finalists will be could even go further by not only Greenland) as well as to energy giant displayed and awarded during committing to stop financing the E.ON, which has received a great C Words. ‘bad stuff’ but also taking on an deal of bad press over its efforts to www.ameliasmagazine.com investment mandate of providing construct a new coal-fired plant in much-needed capital to Britain’s Kingsnorth, Kent. For more information on cash-starved renewables industry, the RBS campaign, see the We are not suggesting that the providing microloans for households PLATFORM website or join banking bailout shouldn’t have to install proper insulation and the Facebook group ‘Stop RBS happened. We are saying that now providing career development loans using public money to finance that it has happened, the government for the retraining of workers involved climate change’. has a responsibility, especially given in carbon-intensive industries. its posturing in the international There are numerous possibilities for The RBS campaign, and the political arena as being a “global transforming a beleaguered financial broader issue of financing leader on climate change”, to ensure institution whose name has been Climate Change, will be that the public isn’t paying to expand dragged through the mud into the discussed in C Words at further fossil fuel developments. Royal Bank of Sustainability. the RBS weekender on 21 This isn’t a particularly radical There will be a High Court hearing and 22 Nov. Also on 21 Nov, demand, it’s just common sense. on the 20th October as to whether the winning design for the The cross-party Environmental permission will be granted for the competition for the Royal Audit Committee has already made Judicial Review to take place. Public Bank of Sustainability will top: Bristol Rising Tide the recommendation that the pressure on the issue is mounting, be announced. bottom: RBS Climate Rush Treasury should “look at the benefits and the past year has seen the and practicalities of imposing some public campaign grow and diversify form of environmental criteria on as grassroots groups have targeted C WORDS – CARBON CLIMATE CAPITAL CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 10

C WORDS LISTINGS

To mark the beginning of a season of over fifty C Words events, you are invited to the Opening Weekend where PLATFORM, Arnolfini, and C Words collaborators will present and discuss their work for the season. C Words starts on Saturday 3 Oct at 11.30am with ‘Who’s Recuperating Who?’, followed by an afternoon event ‘How did we get here?’ where collaborators present their projects, and ends with the Arrivals Night at 5pm. On Sunday 4 Oct, Virtual Migrants present the performance ‘Passenger 5: Climate Racism’, and the weekend finishes with the first of ten Critical Tea Parties.

SAT 3 & SUN 4 OCT SUN 4 OCT THURS 8 & THURS 15 OCT SAT 24 & SUN 25 OCT PASSENGER 5: THURS 12 NOV SAT 14 & SUN 15 NOV CLIMATE RACISM C WORDS NOW! VIRTUAL MIGRANTS CIVIL SOCIETY SPEAKS SLOW TRAVEL WEEKENDS LIVE PERFORMANCE FILM & DISCUSSION TAKE PART IN THE 2pm – 4.30pm / Gallery 3 / Free 6pm – 8pm / Reading Room / Free WALKING FOREST Booking advised Booking advised ACKROYD & HARVEY Artists, guests and participants – live and C Words Now! are informal discussion events recorded – discuss racial and imperialist prompted by topical screenings of short films, 11am – 5pm / Gallery 3 backgrounds to climate change interacting performances, readings. Civil Society Speaks is In the spirit of slow travel, bring a small tree or with sampled documentary, interviews, music an indy film programme selected by Mika Minio- sapling to add to The Walking Forest – Ackroyd and video. Special guests: Arun Kundnani Paluello from PLATFORM, who is currently on & Harvey’s Bristol time-based artwork. Each (virtual) from Institute of Race Relations and a research journey in North Africa and the Middle East. weekend you can meet the artists for informal Guy Bailey OBE (live) originally of the 1963 conversations about trees, climate and Bristol Bus Boycott and vice-chair of the Read more on p6 slow travel. On Sat 24 Oct at 3pm the artists Black Development Agency. are joined by Vassili Papastavrou from Bristol www.virtualmigrants.com Street Trees. Download guidelines on collecting FRI 9 & SAT 10 OCT saplings at www.arnolfini.org.uk SUN 4 OCT CARBON GENERATIONS SLOW TRAVEL AGENCY FRI 9, 16, 23 & 30 OCT PLATFORM Sustrans, Art and the SUSTRANS: ART & THE PERFORMANCE Travelling Landscape TRAVELLING LANDSCAPE FRI 6, 13, 20 & 27 NOV 6.30pm – 8.30pm / Gallery 3 / Free 10.30am – 6pm / 1st Floor Foyer SUN 29 NOV Booking advised Visit the Slow Travel Agency for all your CRITICAL TEA PARTIES Who was the first person in your family to smell low-carbon travel needs – by foot, bike, boat, paraffin? Will your great-grandchildren recognise SAT 3 OCT 5pm – 6pm / Reading Room / Free the sound of the internal combustion engine? bus and train from Weston-super-Mare to Sun 29 Nov, 2pm – 4pm / Gallery 3 / Free WHO’S RECUPERATING the Great Wall of China. A performance looking at family history and Come to a Critical Tea Party to discuss the rise and fall of coal, gas, oil, followed by WHO? PART 1 issues raised by C Words events over cake, a discussion. Tim Fairs, James Marriott and DISCUSSION SAT 3 OCT hosted by the Co-Realisers. Throughout the Benjamin D weave intimate stories from their season the Co-Realisers – five artist-activists own family histories, depicting the rise and fall 11.30am – 1pm / Gallery 3 / Free C WORDS ARRIVALS NIGHT Rebecca Beinart, Benjamin D, Beth Hamer, of coal, gas and oil across seven generations. What are the power relations between art, 5pm – 7pm / Gallery 3 / Free Pete Harrison, Simon Murray – will work with activism and the institutions of mainstream art? PLATFORM to provide continuity, reflections Come and celebrate C Words. With a taste of Who ultimately benefits from this relationship? and critical-poetic responses through engaging H[earth], an alimentary installation by artist and As a ‘convergence’ of partners arrive in with the public, artists and Arnolfini staff. culinary activist Miche Fabre Lewin. Savour a the galleries, PLATFORM and their invited morsel of ‘Bread of Belonging’, golden with a collaborators, along with Arnolfini and other dipping of artisan oil. invited speakers, discuss the critical issues around what it really means to use the spaces TUES 6 OCT of art for activism. PRE-XMAS SHOPPING RUN FERAL TRADE SAT 3 OCT TALK/PERFORMANCE C WORDS: HOW DID WE 5pm – 6pm / Gallery 3 / Free GET HERE? A Feral Trade delegation departs Bristol tonight, on an attempt to open up a new grocery trade DISCUSSION route through the Middle East, navigating via SAT 10 OCT 2.30pm – 5pm / Gallery 3 / Free solely social contacts. On the eve of departure, the presentation by artist and trader Kate Rich, SHOAH (PG) + INTRO PLATFORM and key collaborators present is accompanied by Rasha Shaheen on guitar and C WORDS SCREENING and discuss their aims, vision and the political- loop pedal. cultural context for the C Words season, ending 2pm / £6.00 / £4.50 concs with the launch of the Art Not Oil 2010 Diary. Feral Trade At the end of the exhibition, the C Words event An extraordinary film recording the most Where are we going? on 28 Nov will reflect on barbaric act of the 20th century. Lanzmann the season. spent eleven years spanning the globe for surviving eyewitnesses of the Final Solution. C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 11

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Five Rooms, Propeller installation and book launch H2OiL

Without dramatic enactment or archival footage, published by Acts of Language with a short but with harrowing testimonies extracted with talk at 3.30pm. SAT 17 & 31 OCT SUN 18 OCT patience, sometimes with tenacity, Shoah Five Rooms is commissioned by the Transatlantic Arts SAT 14 NOV THE BIGGER PICTURE: renders the machinery of extermination step- Consortium, a collaboration between CalArts, Idyllwild by-step. It is an immensely disturbing, even Arts and the Dartington Hall Trust, a registered charity. EXPERIMENTS AGAINST TALES OF HOW IT TURNED shattering experience, yet in its solemnity and beauty there are few works of art which leave ENCLOSURE – TOOLS TO OUT RIGHT one with such a deep appreciation for the RECLAIM THE COMMON NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION preciousness and meaning of life. TUES 13 – SUN 25 OCT INSTALLATION / DISCUSSION Claude Lanzmann, France, 1985, 10h 30m, TRAPESE COLLECTIVE 11am – 5pm / Gallery 3 / Free includes three intervals, Subtitles CAMP FOR CLIMATE 10.30am – 6pm / Meet in Gallery 3 Booking Advised ACTION EXHIBITION Free / Donations welcome / Booking advised Dan Gretton from PLATFORM and With nef policy director, Andrew Simms, Jayati Professor David Williams, Royal 10am – 6pm / Gallery 3 SAT 17 OCT Ghosh of Nehru University, Stacy Mitchell of the Holloway College, London will PRODUCING THE FUTURE Institute for Local Self Reliance, artist Clare Patey In the run-up to The Great Climate Swoop AND EMERGING POSSIBILITIES introduce the film. on 17 & 18 October, this is a chance to and many more. Programmed to accompany the lecture/ see Climate Camp’s mobile exhibition. SAT 31 OCT Beginning with the terrible freedom before perfortmance Desk Killer on Sat 17 Oct OPENING QUESTIONS: dusk, we’ll be telling tales of how it could POPULAR EDUCATION turn out. Scattered here and there, the seeds AND CULTURAL ACTIVISM of a new economy are taking root. Farmers SAT 10 OCT markets, rooftop solar cells, community banks WEDS 14, 21 & 28 OCT SAT 14 NOV and local shops are multiplying and new ISN’T THIS ALL JUST WEDS 4, 11, 18 & 25 NOV DIRECT ACTION: A CATALYST currencies emerging. The Ministry of Trying to FOR POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE do Something About It will issue personal ration GREEN IMPERIALISM? books exploring value, justice and rationing over THE BODY POLITIC: The Trapese Collective present three a nice cup of tea. Join us. Talk to a scientist, DISCUSSION dayschools where you can discover crash SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL make homes for bees, stop clone towns, start technologies, explore creative vandalism, 2pm / Light Studio / Free living, share stories, be wild, grow food in the JUSTICE, ART, ACTIVISM learn communication tools, debate economy Speakers include James Panton, John city, get activist, sow seeds, connect, be active, vs ecology or join the feral choir. A potent mix Cunningham and Jane Trowell A SEVEN-WEEK COURSE WITH PLATFORM take notice, keep learning, give. Get the of inspiring workshops for collectively changing This panel discussion raises critical questions bigger picture. 6pm – 8.30pm / Reading Room our world. Join the real green (grassroots) around privilege and environmental activism, £90 / £45 concs shoots, start producing the future. asking whether this tendency could represent What makes you want to act for justice? www.trapese.org a form of class-oriented imperialism – i.e. a Racism? Climate change? Poverty? The price Western middle-class perspective of how the For full details visit: of food? Are you looking for new creative ways Tues 20 Oct citizens of the world should live their lives. It www.arnolfini.org.uk to make change happen? Do you need a space also looks at whether the ethos and rhetoric Royal Bank of to reflect, think and refuel? This course, run by of green activism is now being employed much PLATFORM is for people who want to study how Scotland Judicial more effectively by corporations, and whether SAT 17 OCT social justice, the environment, arts and activism locating such concerns within an art context work together. Participants are invited to a five- Review hearing is simply preaching to the converted. DESK KILLER year Body Politic gathering on Sat 21 Nov, which PLATFORM PLATFORM, World Development is followed by a public event on art, education Movement and People & Planet contest and activism co-run with Trapese Collective, Lab A lecture-performance on the psychology the government’s bail-out of RBS on of Insurrectionary Imagination and others. of white-collar genocide grounds that the company fails to SUN 11 OCT meet the government’s own low- 2pm – 6pm / Dark Studio / Free carbon principles. FIVE ROOMS Booking advised PROPELLER Sat 17 & Sun 18 Oct “This book is going to be extraordinary INSTALLATION AND BOOK LAUNCH – both in its originality and in the impact it is likely to have” John Berger 12pm – 4.30pm / Gallery 3 / Free The Great Dan Gretton has for the last decade been “Within these pages co-exist gods and dogs, Climate Swoop researching the world of the bureaucrats, dream and fear, love and loss, the exhaustion Mass blockade of one of the UK’s biggest planners and business people who colluded and hope of flesh and stone. We are invited coal-fired power stations, in the run-up in the Holocaust (currently in development to inhabit the spaces between fragility and to COP 15. as a book – The Desk Killer). In this event he persistence, chance and fate, regimes of http://climatecamp.org.uk asks whether the psychology and behaviour order and the apparent formlessness of that enabled genocide to occur then is still a deeper grammar of complexity.” present today, in the institutional culture of David Williams, Professor of Theatre, transnational corporations. Dan will focus on Dartington College of Arts the emotional ‘compartmentalisation’ that is Propeller arts collective create a temporary a feature of both perpetrator psychology and installation to launch their first book, corporate psychology. The event complements Five Rooms: A collaborative writing project, the screening of Shoah on Sat 10 Oct. C WORDS – CARBON CLIMATE CAPITAL CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 12

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SAT 31 OCT Crude EXPERIMENTS AGAINST ENCLOSURE – TOOLS TO THURS 22 OCT RECLAIM THE COMMON TRAPESE COLLECTIVE THURS 5 & 19 NOV Tues 27 Oct 10.30am – 6pm / Meet in Gallery 3 C WORDS NOW! BP 3rd Quarter Free / Donations welcome / Booking advised FILM & DISCUSSION WITH Financial Results TUES 27 OCT TRAPESE COLLECTIVE OPENING QUESTIONS: POPULAR PLATFORM, Greenpeace, Indigenous BP 3RD QUARTER 2009 EDUCATION AND CULTURAL ACTIVISM 6pm – 8pm / Reading Room / Free Environmental Network and New – THIS PETROLEUM HEAT Three evening events, looking at grassroots Internationalist are campaigning to PLATFORM activism, permaculture, politics. prevent BP’s investment in Canada’s Tar Sands. LECTURE/PERFORMANCE SAT 31 OCT THURS 22 OCT 2pm – 4pm / Gallery 3 / Free HALLOWEEN AT ROCKING THE FOUNDATIONS (1985) Booking advised THE HOME A film by Pat Fiske about the Australian ‘Green Bans’ when the Builders Laborers Federation TUE 27 OCT Timed with the financial calendar of the 5pm onwards / Meet at Arnolfini (builders union) refused to build on the city’s two oil giants BP and Shell, Benjamin D green areas, claiming that they are a union that – SUN 1 NOV and James Marriott use stories, film and INSTITUTE FOR THE ART & PRACTICE doesn’t just build, they are accountable to the economic analysis to trace the link between OF DISSENT AT HOME INSTITUTE FOR THE our wallets and ‘the most destructive project wider community. With discussion. DISCUSSION AND ACTION ART & PRACTICE OF on earth’ – the Canadian Tar Sands. This project THURS 5 NOV has been active over the past five years with What’s Halloween got to do with the C Words? ESTABLISHING A FOOD FOREST: THE DISSENT AT HOME’S participants from the business community, All welcome for discussion and possible action. socially responsible investment analysts, Trick or Treat, a direct democracy version! PERMACULTURE WAY (2008) HALF-TERM HOLIDAY artists, and environmental campaigners. An inspiring and practical film from permaculturist Geoff Lawton about the potential Events will take place daily in Arnolfini, of permaculture forest gardening to design out and about, and ‘at Home’. abundant human ecosystems. With discussion. The Institute – two adults and three children SUN 1 NOV – propose a holiday for autumn half term. WED 28 OCT THURS 22 NOV This will constitute a temporary relocation of PERFORMANCE REPORT THE FOREST FOR THE TREES (2006) the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent EMBEDDED! Judi Bari and the loggers. The amazing story at Home from Liverpool to Bristol. Accompanied INSTITUTE FOR THE ART & PRACTICE of Judy Bari, Earth First! activist and Industrial by their eco-Au Pair Branka Cvjeticanin, they will ARTS, ENERGY AND OF DISSENT AT HOME Workers of the World (IWW) member, who set up an interim activist cell in Bristol with CLIMATE CHANGE 2pm – 3pm / Free / Gallery 3 pioneered the recombination of red and green guest dissenters and visitors to take action politics, opening up new possibilities. against carbon, climate chaos and capitalism. CONFERENCE A Performance Report at Arnolfini on The www.twoaddthree.org 11.30am – 4.30pm / £20.00 / £10.00 concs Institute’s Half-Term Holiday and initial reflections on our interim actvist cell-making. Aimed at arts organisations, this practical What’s next? To COP 15... TUES 27 OCT conference will discuss organisational best SUN 25 OCT practice whilst examining the hidden investment THE ALTERNATIVE FOOD of arts institutions in climate change such as SUN 1 NOV H2OiL sponsorship, pension funds, the transportation SHOPPING TOUR! of artists, curators and artefacts. Speakers C WORDS SCREENINGS C WORDS SCREENING From 10.30am / Meet at Arnolfini 10.15am from arts institutions, art schools, Arnolfini, 6.30pm / £6.00 / £4.50 concs FILM AND DISCUSSION PLATFORM and others. The day includes Join the Institute for the Art and Practice of a performance by the Institute for the Art 7pm / £6 / £4.50 concs Dissent at Home and James from Action Hero CRUDE & Practice of Dissent at Home with Branka on a guided tour around Bristol’s alternative Focused on Alberta’s oil sands – a province Cvjeticanin of ‘About planes trains and slow A polished and haunting work of humanistic food shopping. They need to shop for the rushing towards large-scale oil extraction travel’, including Branka’s slow travel to journalism from acclaimed filmmaker Joe whole week. Help them choose, cook and – H2Oil weaves together a collection of Bristol from Zagreb and initiatives for slow Berlinger, Crude is the story of the infamous eat it! Followed by discussion ‘How did we disparate but intersecting characters as they travel to COP 15. ‘Amazon Chernobyl’ case: one of the largest seek solutions to the wavering balance between get here and what exactly are we eating?’ and most controversial environmental lawsuits the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh on the planet, which pitted 30,000 rainforest water resources and the mad clamoring to dwellers against the U.S. oil giant Chevron, meet the global demand for oil. accused of systematically contaminating one Dir. Shannon Walsh, Canada, 2009, 1h 16m of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Dir. Joe Berlinger, USA, 2009, 1h 40m There will be a discussion after the film about the campaign against Tar Sands with campaigners from PLATFORM. + THE CARBON CONNECTION At Grangemouth in Scotland, refineries pollute the air, causing emphyesema and other C WORDS – CARBON, CLIMATE, CAPITAL, CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 13

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you from the frontlines of climate injustice to CARBON TRADING: radical hopes for a sustainable future. The event WHO PROFITS AND WHO PAYS? marks the 14th anniversary since the writer and LARRY LOHMANN – THE CORNER HOUSE activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by Nigerian government for his campaign against the impact 12.30pm – 1.30pm of oil companies, in particular Shell, on the We are told that carbon trading is ‘the most environment in the oil-rich Niger Delta. cost effective way of dealing with climate change.’ www.remembersarowiwa.com In this talk, Larry Lohmann (Editor of ‘Carbon trading – a critical conversation on climate change, privatisation and power’) looks at who stands to gain by this ‘cost effectiveness’ and how it is often communities in the Global South that SUN 8 NOV end up paying. WHAT’S THE FUTURE THE COPENHAGEN CLIMATE TALKS: OF THE NIGER DELTA? WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG? REMEMBER SARO-WIWA JUTTA KILL – FERN DISCUSSION 2.30pm – 3.30pm 2pm – 5pm / Gallery 3 / Free We are hearing all the time that there needs Booking Advised to be ‘a good deal’ at the UN climate talks in Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home A round table discussion led by PLATFORM’s December. Jutta Kill of FERN outlines why Remember Saro-Wiwa project and partners, we should prepare ourselves for the worst, in the wider racialised context of climate and and why we can’t afford to pin all our hopes illnesses. In Sao Jose di Buriti, in Brazil, smog and efforts towards ecological balance. resource injustice. on this particular process. is ‘offset’ with plantations of eucalyptus trees – Participants will get the opportunity to read a ‘carbon neutral’ scheme that in fact causes their writing at the evening event No Condition TEN WAYS THE EU IS FAILING untold environmental damage. This film follows is Permanent. ON CLIMATE CHANGE... AND groups of people from each community who Tues 10 Nov MANY MORE ALTERNATIVES make their own films about living at the sharp OSCAR REYES – CARBON end of the carbon market. SAT 7 NOV Anniversary of the TRADE WATCH Fenceline Films, 2008, 40m execution of writer PASSENGER 6: 3.30pm – 4.30pm Following the screenings there will be Ken Saro -Wiwa a discussion on the issues raised in THIRD RESISTANCE The European Union routinely the films, led by members of VIRTUAL MIGRANTS 14th Anniversary of the execution claims ‘leadership’ on climate change. PLATFORM. LIVE PERFORMANCE of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight But in creating the world´s largest carbon fellow Ogoni activists who had been market, promoting agrofuels and Carbon 2pm / Gallery 3 / Free / Booking Advised campaigning against exploitation by Capture and Storage as solutions, it is failing A narrative montage combining live dialogues oil companies Shell and Chevron. to offer environmentally sustainable and SAT 7 NOV with sampled documentary, interviews, music socially just alternatives for tackling the and interactive video. This will evolve with new climate crisis. This workshop will look at ALL CHANGE! material continually added in response to global how the EU´s carbon market is failing, show AFRICAN WRITERS ABROAD events that are yet to take place. Featuring SAT 14 NOV how EU negotiators are contributing to a bad A DAY OF CREATIVE WRITING AND interviews from the Declaration of Rights for deal in Copenhagen, and highlight how the EXPERIMENTS AGAINST EU subsidises some of the dirtiest industries POETRY WORKSHOPS Indigenous People Conference at Bristol’s Pierian Centre on 12 October. ENCLOSURE – TOOLS TO in the name of ‘clean’ technology. It will then All Change! is about changing minds, attitudes www.virtualmigrants.com look at the alternatives needed to promote and lifestyle. Two poets from African Writers RECLAIM THE COMMON climate justice in the EU and beyond. Abroad (PEN) Centre, Simon Murray and TRAPESE COLLECTIVE Dorothea Smartt share ideas and encourage INTRODUCING ‘OPERATION you to share yours, to produce stimulating and 10.30am – 6pm / Meet in Gallery 3 BIKE BLOCK: PUTTING THE thought provoking poetry and prose on ‘C’ topics Free / Donations welcome / Booking advised – from climate to cars, colonial to corporations FUN BETWEEN OUR LEGS’ LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY and have the opportunity to take part in the DIRECT ACTION: A CATALYST FOR evening event, No Condition is Permanent. POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE IMAGINATION Workshops suitable for ages 15 +. 5pm – 6pm For further details visit KILLING TINA, EMBRACING TABOO www.arnolfini.org.uk You’ve heard why COP is a problem. Come to CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP a presentation on forms of creative resistance LED BY SIMON M MURRAY, AFRICAN and the potential of bicycles. An opportunity WRITERS ABROAD. to hear how you can take part in the Lab of ii’’s latest experiment and help plot a rebel swarm 10.30am – 1.30pm / Meeting Room of bicycles in the coming weeks, with plans The Living Memorial Battle Bus SUN 15 NOV Free / Booking Advised aCOPalypse NOW! for Copenhagen. We were told “There Is No Alternative” (T.I.N.A.). C Words helps prove that “There Are Billions Of CARBON TRADE WATCH, FERN, Options” (T.A.B.O.O.)... Come and explore some SAT 7 NOV THE CORNER HOUSE, LAB OF of these and the power of your own creative voice INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION to write back at the madness that surrounds us. NO CONDITION IS DISCUSSION EVENTS Participants will get the opportunity to read their PERMANENT 11am – 6pm / Gallery 3 / Free writing at the evening event, No Condition Booking advised is Permanent. AFRICAN WRITERS ABROAD AND REMEMBER SARO-WIWA A day of teach-ins and discussion critiquing FULL CIRCLE PERFORMANCE COP 15 and carbon trading. POETRY WORKSHOP LED BY DOROTHEA SMARTT, AFRICAN WRITERS ABROAD 6.30pm – 8.30pm / Gallery 3 / Free Booking advised CARRY ON POLLUTING: 2.30pm – 5.30pm / Meeting Room / Free A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE A poetry and performance with Dorothea Smartt, Booking Advised FARCE OF CARBON TRADING Carbon Generations Simon Murray, Zena Edwards and participants “Poetry is a political action undertaken for the in the day’s creative writing workshops, hosted OSCAR REYES – CARBON TRADE WATCH sake of information, the faith, the exorcism, and by PLATFORM’s Remember Saro-Wiwa project. 11.30am – 12.30pm the lyrical invention, that telling the truth makes For over 40 years the multinational oil giant The UK is at the heart of the global trade in possible.” June Jordan’s Poetry For The People Shell has been flaring gas in Nigeria. This carbon – but is this a system that is aimed at ‘poison fire’ releases toxins and carbon dioxide dealing with the threat of climate change, or Using visual images and other eco-poems on a vast scale, devastating the environment allowing carbon-intensive companies to carry as inspiration, together with a mix of writing and the global climate. But no condition is on polluting? Oscar Reyes of Carbon Trade exercises and group discussion we’ll develop permanent. Join three performance poets and Watch looks at the EU Emissions Trading and draft poems exploring the power of poetry young writers, on intimate journeys that take to give voice to our environmental destruction Scheme and what it all means. C WORDS – CARBON CLIMATE CAPITAL CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 14

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TUES 17 – SAT 21 NOV activists. Why does Arnolfini want to work Mon 30 Nov THE ROYAL BANK OF SUSTAINABILITY with activists? Why do activists want to work SUN 22 NOV DESIGN COMPETITION with Arnolfini? Why does the Arts Council 10th Anniversary fund a project on art and activism? What OPERATION BIKE 5pm / Gallery 3 / Free / Booking Advised critical role can art and/or activism have? of the world shattering The public judging and prizegiving of a design And above all, what is to be done (with art)? BLOCK OPENS Speakers include Ursula Biemann, Geoff anti-capitalist LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY competition for a rebranded RBS as the Royal Bank of Sustainability. Convened and co- Cox, Peter Fend, Brian Holmes, Esther Leslie, protests in Seattle IMAGINATION Sebastian Lutgert, PLATFORM and Tom Trevor. judged by designer Amelia Gregory, artists and Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the INSTALLATION designers were asked to create logos or posters world shattering anti-capitalist protests 10am – 6pm / Gallery 2 / Free communicating something ‘new, possible in Seattle, a day of action will target and radical’. Climate Criminals across the world. The The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination’s THURS 26 NOV Lab of Insurrectionary Imagination’s installation is open throughout the week in The finalists will be exhibited from Tues 17 prototype Bike Block will have preparation for the following week’s workshops. – Sun 22 Nov and the brief can be viewed at: C WORDS NOW! its first outing in the streets of Bristol. Visitors are invited to start imagining their own www.ameliasmagazine.com LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY http://tinyurl.com/mwyj7q rebel bike contraptions and leave their plans IMAGINATION and sketches in the space. SUN 22 NOV THE WHY AND THE HOW OF PLATFORM’S 6pm – 8pm / Reading Room / Free OIL BANK OF SCOTLAND CAMPAIGN Come and meet the Lab of ii for conversation PRESENTATION / DISCUSSION during their week-long participative residency Bike Block! SAT 21 NOV 1pm – 3pm / Gallery 3 / Free / Booking Advised ART, EDUCATION & Campaign history – PLATFORM’s research into ACTIVISM RBS’ fossil fuel investments and the student and community activists who have blockaded banks SAT 28 NOV PLATFORM, LABORATORY OF across the country. INSURRECTIONARY IMAGINATION, C WORDS: WHERE ARE TRAPESE AND LIVE ART DEVELOPMENT SUN 22 NOV WE GOING? AGENCY’S DIY 6 ACTION SESSION DISCUSSION CLOSING DISCUSSION 4pm – 6pm / Gallery 3 / Free / Booking advised 4pm – 6pm / Light Studio / Free 12 – 4pm / Gallery 3 / Free Ideas and planning for anyone interested in PLATFORM and collaborators present their “Education involves ethics and aesthetics getting together to take action on RBS. hand in hand...” Brazilian radical educator reflections on the C Words season’s work Paulo Freire. and look to the future of carbon, climate, capital, culture. Followed by discussion A discussion in the context of the C Words and the Adams & Smith Auction. courses, workshops and experiments. SPEAKERS CORNER SAT 21 – SUN 22 NOV SAT 28 NOV SAT 29 AUG – 6 DEC CAPITAL AND CARBON ADAMS & SMITH: 1PM TUE – SUN AN AUCTION OF Speakers Corner is an open space in Arnolfini WEEKENDER PLATFORM foyer where public speaking, performances, PLATFORM LATE-CAPITALIST PERIOD displays, offerings, presentations, recitals, ARTEFACTS reviews, spectacles, and stunts, are encouraged THE OIL BANK OF SCOTLAND VS THE in response to the 100 Days: Countdown to the HOLLINGTON & KYPRIANOU, Climate Change Conference. ROYAL BANK OF SUSTAINABILITY SPINWATCH WALKS, TALKS, WORKSHOPS, TUES 24 – SUN 29 NOV At 1pm, Tuesday to Sunday, Speakers Corner INSTALLATIONS, RESOURCE LAB, 5pm – 6pm / Auditorium / Free invites you to have your say, or come and see COLLECTIVE ACTION AND MORE. OPERATION BIKE BLOCK Booking advised how others respond to issues of climate change and alternatives to the culture of consumerism. Over the past year RBS has hit the headlines LABORATORY OF INSURRECTIONARY An auction of historic artefacts from the IMAGINATION last depression. 15 Lots, all with provenance If you are interested in speaking or performing, like an adulterous celebrity or a fraudulent contact Arnolfini box office to book a date. politician. Now the bank is 70% owned by WORKSHOPS certificates provided by Spinwatch. Adams & Smith are proud to present an auction. the British taxpayer, and with it comes an 10am – 6pm / Free / Location tbc For latest information visit investment portfolio stuffed with carbon-intensive The 15 Lot sale of late-capitalist period artefacts www.100days.org.uk and socially irresponsible loans and project The Lab of ii team will be in the installation all is bequeathed by the estate of Hollington & finance arrangements. In just over two days week, welcoming new participants to take part Kyprianou, featuring some of the rarest and we cover broad social topics from the history of in the design and build of the prototype Bike most coveted objects from the late-Capitalist peoples’ struggle to reform banking, to student Block. A series of free drop-in workshops will run oil era on the international market today. Each campaigns calling for climate friendly banking, for the first three days (24 – 26 Nov) introducing of these once ubiquitous objects comes with the judicial review of the lack of environmental permaculture design principles, building affinity provenance certificates provided by experts from considerations in the investment framework groups, decision making by consensus, activist the anti lobbying lobbyists Spinwatch, and as a full-colour such, are guaranteed as rare surviving examples for the bailed-out banks, and the case for an street strategy, bike engineering, welding and celebration of environmentally sustainable banking sector. non-violent direct action techniques. From Friday of mass-produced objects, not bespoke replicas. to Sunday, Lab of ii and friends hold Open Lab. Each lot comes with a history of how and why climate SAT 21 NOV Live and direct, build the prototype bike block. these artefacts came to such prominence, and justice-fuelled SUING THE GOVERNMENT – LESSONS, All welcome. how and why they fell out of use following the art & action Peak Depression. The objects will be previewed against oil OBSTACLES, POSSIBILITIES For full details visit: throughout the season at Arnolfini. DISCUSSION www.arnolfini.org.uk industry sponsorship 2pm / Gallery 3 / Free / Booking advised of UK culture! In June, PLATFORM, World Development SAT 28 NOV Movement and People & Planet launched a THURS 26 NOV court case against the Treasury over the lack of C WORDS: environmental considerations in the investment WHO’S RECUPERATING DEPARTURES NIGHT framework laid out for the recapitalised banks. This case follows other high-profile challenges WHO? PART 2 Details tba that have been made by groups like Friends of SYMPOSIUM An evening leaving event and party to mark the Earth and the Corner House. What hope do 11am – 6pm / Auditorium / Suggested the end of the season and to celebrate what’s small, under-resourced organisations have in donation £15.00 / £7.00 concs to come. taking on the legal might of the government and what do they hope to achieve by it? A one-day symposium examining critical questions raised by the presentation of PLATFORM at Arnolfini, Who’s Recuperating Who? aims to explore some of the paradoxes of the artworld’s interest in working with artist/ C WORDS – CARBON CLIMATE CAPITAL CULTURE 3 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2009 PAGE 15

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A Brox quadricycle chassis, with a solar-powered the wood is sourced from Bristol Wood Recycling flip-up video pod which was designed and Project; the classic 1920’s clinker-built dinghy constructed with eco-architect Nick Edwards from its owner on Bristol’s Floating Harbour; and, and BTEC 3d Design students at Southwark at the time of writing, PLATFORM’s heavy tent College, London. The Agitpod will be active in and other items will arrive] either by train, or by PLATFORM’s installation for C Words, having chip-fat-fuelled van. Artist-activist Richard been cycled from London to Bristol by a relay Houguez is the researcher and planner behind team of riders. The other elements of the this for PLATFORM, and will publish the findings installation are also part of PLATFORM’s slow as part of C Words. travel and low-impact investigations:

CREDITS AND THANKS

PLATFORM C Words team is: Sincere thanks to the following: Jane Trowell, James Marriott, Alana Jelinek, All participating artists, campaigners, activists Natasha Rivett-Carnac, Benjamin D, Richard and Agitpod cyclists, Bristol Wood Recycling Houguez, Richard Howlett. Project; also David A Bailey, Alan Boldon, C Words Co-Realisers Cameron Cartiere, Patrick Field, Salette Gressett, Rebecca Beinart, Benjamin D, Beth Hamer, Pete Gary Grizzell, Lois Keidan, Steve Portchmouth Harrison, Simon Murray. and Brenton Smith. Supported by the rest of PLATFORM For their long-term constructively critical take on the whole project: Ben Amunwa, Mel Evans, Dan Gretton, Sarah Gary Anderson, Kooj Chuhan, Wallace Heim, Legge, Adam Ma’anit, Mika Minio-Paluello, Mark and Co-Realisers. Roberts, Kevin Smith; Trustees: Wallace Heim, Rosey Hurst, Charlotte Leonard, Rodney Mace. A very big thank you to all the staff of Arnolfini for their great efforts on behalf of this season. The PLATFORM texts in this newspaper are copyleft. The authors permit others to copy, distribute, display, quote and create derivative works based on them.

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100 Days 29 August – 6 December 2009

Marking the countdown to the 15th UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 15) opening in Copenhagen on 7 December, Arnolini presents 100 Days of exhibitions, performances, screenings, debate and engagement around issues of climate change, social justice and the contested relationship between art and activism.

The title ‘100 Days’ references the inluential project for Documenta V (Kassel, 1972) by artist/activist Joseph Beuys, as well as aiming to give a sense of urgency in the lead-up to the Copenhagen conference. The issue of climate change is a concern for us all, and this season encourages people to come together to share projects, ideas and plans.

100 Days exhibitions

Ursula Biemann: Black Sea Files, 12 Septr – 8 Novr Platform: C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture, 3 Oct – 29 Nov Ocean Earth: Situation Room, 21 Nov – 17 Jan Barbara Steveni: Beyond the Acid Free: Artist Placement Group Revisited, 21 Nov – 17 Jan

Exhibition spaces open 10am – 6pm Tue – Sun Free.

Events include

Speakers Corner Tue – Sun 1pm at Arnolini from 29 Aug – 6 Dec. Speakers Corner invites you to have your say, or come and see how others respond to issues of climate change and alternatives to the culture of consumerism.

Mash Up family event Sat 7 Nov 12 - 4pm. Exploring themes of climate change and consumerism by showing you how to create your own animation, making badges and telling stories.

C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture events as listed on pages 10–14, Reading Groups and more. For further information visit www.arnolfini.org.uk

Visit www.100days.org.uk for full event details, to book a slot at Speakers Corner, contribute to the climate change blog, or if you wish to add an event to the 100 Days season.

Info & Booking Opening Times Getting here Access Contact Arnolfini for info or booking Exhibition spaces open Arnolfini is situated on the water’s edge at We aim to make all visitors welcome. There are on 0117 917 2300 / 01 10am – 6pm, Tuesday – Sunday / Free Narrow Quay, in Bristol’s harbourside. We are a parking spaces for disabled visitors outside the or email boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk 15 minute walk from both Temple Meads railway main entrance, accessed via Farr’s Lane. We Bookshop open station and Marlborough Street bus station. have wheelchairs available inside the building. 10am – 6pm, Tuesday – Wednesday Most city centre bus services stop within a short Guide dogs are welcome. We have an induction 10am – 8pm, Thursday – Sunday walking distance of Arnolfini – the nearest bus loop system in our cinema / theatre. If you have stops are on The Centre and Prince Street. any concerns about access issues, please ring Cafe Bar open us and we will do our best to help. Daily 10am – 11pm (10.30pm Sundays)

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