Art Weekender & Bath Friday 30 October– Sunday 1 November 2015

Three days celebrating art across two cities

Produced by: www.artweekender.com #awbb CONTENTS Welcome to the Art Weekender — What’s On Where 4–19 Bristol & Bath 2015 Map and Venue Information centre pages Special Events 20–29 The Art Weekender blows in across both Bristol and Bath this autumn, as over 50 artists and arts organisations offer the chance to experience Visitor & Travel Information 30–31 the two cities as never before. Though just 13 minutes apart by train, Bristol and Bath offer two distinctive contexts for enjoying outstanding contemporary art, from international exhibitions and unique gallery and museum collections, new commissions and special performances, to open studios and public art. PLAN YOUR VISIT Look out for the Weekender Ambassadors across the cities with their colourful umbrellas, who have all the inside information on where to go, Whether you have an hour, a morning or the full three what to see and how to get around. Supported by Bristol and Bath Cultural days, follow one of our suggested itineraries on the Destinations Project, we’d encourage you, visitors and residents alike, Art Weekender website; these include: to explore more of these two very different but equally fascinating cities. Artists could be a guest or host of the Human Hotel, an artist-led project which began at the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen in 2009, and I’M LOOKING... offers the chance to live like a local in Bath and Bristol over the weekend. The Weekender is the perfect opportunity to open up your horizons – — TO BUILD A NEW CITY artistically and geographically. Start your day with a breakfast talk in one city, jump on a train and finish it in the other at one of the special Weekender evening events. — FOR SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS Join us in a celebration of the vibrancy of the visual arts in the South West. — TO EXPAND MY MIND USING THIS PROGRAMME — TO LOSE MYSELF IN SOUND What’s on Where events are listed A–Z by venue. Venues can be found 1 on the map (located in the centre) by their numbered markers. — FOR THE DARK SIDE Special Events (p20 onwards) are listed chronologically.

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2 3 Alexander Stevenson. NOW NOW NOW NOW TIME AND SPACE (Working Title) Richard Long Michael Dean Arnolfini Next to Arnolfini Fri & Sat 11am–9pm; Sun 11am–6pm

Fri–Sun all day Continues to 15 Nov; Free Photo: Julian Hughes Continues until November; Free A major new solo exhibition celebrating NOW NOW NOW NOW (Working Title), 2015, Bristol-based, Turner Prize winning artist, is a site-specific work by Michael Dean for Richard Long. the Harris and Co. building, located on Bristol harbourside. Dean has used wooden hoarding Part of the programme celebrating Bristol’s as a sculptural element, fly-posting the year as European Green Capital, the project surface with collaged mountain faces that looks particularly at the area where Long grew spell out the words “now…now…now…now”. up and still lives, as the start and end point This cryptic, geometric landscape stretches for many of his early walks and text works. along Farrs Lane and Narrow Quay, suggesting The exhibition focuses on the artist’s personal an abstract geography at the intersection relationship to place and local materials, between the public space of the harbourside and how the ideas and language developed and the evolving building behind. through his early career were key in the development of ideas that the artist now www.arnolfini.org.uk realises across the world. @arnolfiniarts www.arnolfini.org.uk 4 @arnolfiniarts #RichardLong Quilt Cowboy City Ideas Studio Bristol ed eve k n 4 in t l Alexander Stevenson The Architecture Centre Bristol p24 Fri 11am–8pm; Sat & Sun 12pm–5pm The American Museum in Britain Continues to 8 Nov; Free Fri–Sun 12pm–5pm Twilight Opening Fri 5pm–8pm (with drinks) £10; £9 conc.; £5.50 child; £27.50 family In Bristol’s year as European Green Capital, Alexander Stevenson will take as his starting the City Ideas Studio explores links between point the context in which American culture environmental concerns and the development and history is read, when not in America – of places. This season the focus is on for a new artwork with the American Museum ‘Resources’, presenting work by designers and in Britain. makers helping to answer the question, ‘how can we make more of the things we have?’ , 2015. Photo: Stuart Whipps Archival qualities of quilting and global Featuring building and retrofit projects in the interpretations of cowboy culture will feed city and beyond, you can explore not only how into an exciting new site-specific piece at best to use finite resources such as building the museum, with escapades into Bath’s city materials and money, but also how cities and countryside. should harness the powerful resource of human inventiveness and action. A new commission for Art Weekender Bristol TIME AND SPACE & Bath. www.architecturecentre.co.uk @ArchCentre #cityideas www.americanmuseum.org d ev ke e n n @americanmuseum 3 i t Richard Long: Bristol l p21 ed eve k n 2 in t Bath l p21

4 5 Enjoy Create 2015 Radiate

The Roper Gallery, Bath Artists’ Studios Merilyn Fairskye Fri–Sun 11am–5pm Continues to 4 Nov; Free MediaWall in Commons, Bath Spa University Fri & Sat 10am–5pm An exhibition of work produced by the Continues to 21 Nov; Free

participants in Bath Artists’ Studios annual , 2015. Photo: Roser Diaz programme of practical workshops with Radiate, by Australian artist Merilyn Fairskye, local community organisations. was made for the MediaWall at Bath Spa University’s Newton Park Campus. Fairskye Pavilion Life Drawing Workshops engages you through her photographic and Sat & Sun 10am–4pm; Free video practice which explores notions of time, identity and place. Responding to sites Drop into the studio where one of the of historical significance, including Chernobyl, experienced workshop leaders will guide you Sellafield and Drigg, her work appears both Philip Cheater, through the finer techniques of Life Drawing. monumental and transient; she gives us pause for reflection on the contemporary challenges www.bathartistsstudios.co.uk faced, amid technological advances and @bathartists globalisation.

ed eve k n 5 in t www.bathspa.ac.uk l Bath p23 @MediaWallBSU

ed eve k n 6 in t Bath l p26 Pavilion The Trading Post Philip Cheater in collaboration Megan Clark-Bagnall Merilyn Fairskye, with Eifion Porter The Bearpit The Bearpit Sat 9am–4pm; Free Fri–Sun all day; Free What treasure do you collect? Stamps Radiate A dazzling structure has taken up residence from foreign shores, perfect skimming stones in the Bearpit. Part-sculpture and part-shelter, or mysterious coins? This is your opportunity Philip Cheater’s design was inspired by old to trade it! pavilions and bandstands, as well as the Bearpit’s previous hexagonal landscaping. Inspired by the historic Bristol Fair, Megan Clark-Bagnall invites you to revive the Bearpit Decorated with hazard-graphics, Pavilion as a place of exchange, and trade some brings together the visual language of warning happiness from your everyday journeys. with a warm invitation to gather, to meet and to celebrate – reflecting changing Visit www.artinbearpit.com to locate attitudes towards the Bearpit itself. the artwork through geocaching. Leave your treasure and collect another. Commissioned by Hand in Glove. Art in Bearpit is a pilot programme Commissioned by Hand in Glove. of commissions and events developed ed eve k n for the Bearpit at St James Barton Roundabout. 7 in t Bristol l p21 www.artinbearpit.com

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6 7 John Wood & Paul Harrison, Side by Side Ruined

Bristol 2015 Lab Space Hew Locke Fri–Sun 10am–5pm Private View: Fri 5pm–8:30pm; Free Brunswick Cemetery Gardens All day, every day; Free An exhibition of collaborative work produced by artists from Jamaica Street Artist Studios A permanent public artwork by Hew Locke in Bristol and Bath Artists’ Studios, responding sited in an 18th century cemetery garden. Erdkunde to the Bristol Green Capital theme of Ruined is a series of cast iron grave markers ‘Resources’. The artists were given the word relating to the share certificates and historical ‘green’ as their starting point for the project, documents of commercial companies which and the group of painters, sculptors, no longer exist or have undergone transformation photographers and illustrators found new through takeovers, bankruptcy, nationalisation creative partnerships and new ways of working. or other economic and political changes.

www.jamaicastreetartists.co.uk Visit the Situations website to watch an www.ysidesideb.wordpress.com interview with Hew Locke. @jamaicastreet Commissioned by Bristol City Council ed eve k n 10 in t and produced by Situations in 2010. Bristol l p27 www.situations.org.uk @situationsuk

11 death: the human Erdkunde Bristol experience John Wood & Paul Harrison

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Ruined Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun 10am–6pm Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun 10am–6pm Continues to 13 Mar; Pay what you think Continues to 3 Jan; Free

From the Day of the Dead and Victorian Artists John Wood and Paul Harrison present Hew Locke, mourning rituals, to mummification practices Erdkunde a new video work responding to and fantasy coffins, death: the human the geology collections. experience features over 200 spectacular artefacts from the museum’s extensive world ‘A lecture, a presentation, a demonstration cultures, archaeology, natural sciences, A collection, a catalogue, a display social history and art collections. Discover Of information, notes, sketches, photographs, how human beings have approached death thoughts, ideas and dying around the world and across time Letters, numbers and symbols and reveal captivating stories behind the Boxes, slides and diagrams most universal of experiences in this rich Looking at things, finding things, talking about and varied exhibition. things, making up things Classified www.bristolmuseums.org.uk Unclassified’ @bristolmuseum www.bristolmuseums.org.uk 9 @bristolmuseum Bristol age 12+ ed eve k n 9 in t Bristol l p21

8 9 The Kiosk Project Missorts Marcus Jefferies Tony White & Colin Higginson City Centre, Redcliffe area Castle Park All day, every day; Free Thurs–Mon 11am–5pm; Free Missorts is a permanent public artwork for

Jefferies and Higginson’s site-specific, Bristol. An urban soundwork delivered directly , 2015. Photo Max McClure interactive installation takes the form of to your smartphone as a mobile app, Missorts a kiosk, from which they will be dispensing combines ten location-triggered stories by ten free, purpose made, souvenirs over the writers set to a newly composed soundtrack. weekend. Through this action of exchange Boyhood Line Boyhood and dialogue, they hope to explore the nature Download the app from the Missorts website of place, history and the value systems in and access a range of digital content, including traditional heritage. a free novella by Tony White published to accompany the work. Plug in your headphones

The artists will be on site to engage with and the stories are triggered by GPS as you Richard Long: the public who will be invited to photograph walk around the Redcliffe area of Bristol. the gifted objects in a new context and post images to a dedicated website. Produced by Situations in 2012.

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Bristol Holly Davey Richard Long

Missorts. Cleveland Pools The Downs Fri–Sun 12pm–4pm; Free Fri–Sun all day Continues to 15 Nov; Free

Photo: Max McClure In celebration of one of Bath’s historic and hidden gems, artist Holly Davey brings to life Alongside his exhibition at Arnolfini, the Cleveland Pools with a sound installation Richard Long presents a new work on that captures its absent past. As the audience The Downs, Clifton wanders through the site, the sound of moving water, distant chatter and children at play Boyhood Line centres on a footpath close drifts across the landscape evoking memories to Ladies Mile, a ‘desire line’ which has been of a forgotten summer. Reflecting on the made over many months by the footprints of absence of people, this is a thought-provoking walkers, instinctively following the same route work that connects the past with the present. and establishing an unplanned path through the grass. A new commission for Art Weekender Bristol & Bath. The sculpture is made from nearly 11 tonnes of blindingly white limestone sourced from www.clevelandpools.org.uk a quarry in north Wales. Long laid the track www.hollydavey.com until the stone ran out. @hollydaveyart www.arnolfini.org.uk 13 @arnolfiniarts #RichardLong Bath ed eve k n 14 in t Bristol l p21

10 11 Aural-I, Gold: An Exhibition from Nahoko Kojima

The Taming of Moloch the Royal Collection The Holburne Museum Fri & Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–5pm; Free The Holburne Museum Fri & Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–5pm Japanese paper cut artist Nahoko Kojima Continues to 24 Jan; £8.50 will create a new intricate floating three- Tickets: www.holburne.org 01225 388569 dimensional sculpture to be displayed in the Wirth Gallery. An exhibition exploring gold as a material which inspires and appeals to artists through Kojima creates spectacular sculptures 60 works from the Early Bronze age to the from single sheets of paper cut by hand. twentieth century. Her previous work includes ‘Cloud Leopard’ which was awarded a place at Collect, The rarity and incorruptibility of gold means at London’s Saatchi Gallery. This life-sized it has always been associated with the highest animal, hand-cut from one sheet of black status, both earthly and divine. Its versatile paper and suspended from the ceiling, nature allows it to be used in a wide variety illustrated Nahoko’s pioneering technique of ways: beaten into thin leaves which can of turning traditionally flat, wall-hung pieces be applied to furniture or to the pages into floating sculptures. of illuminated manuscripts, or cast and shaped into cups, boxes and other precious vessels. The Holburne’s collection includes a number of important pieces of historical paper-cut www.holburne.org works including a bear cut by Mary West in @holburne about 1709.

ed eve k n Behind the Scenes The Taming of Moloch 18 in t www.holburne.org Bath l p21 at the Fashion Museum Aural-I @holburne 18 Fashion Museum Hamilton House Bath Fri–Sun 10:30am–6pm Fri & Sat 6pm–7am; Free £8.25; conc. available Throughout the Weekender, Aural-I presents A gallery display with a difference – a ‘behind awe-inspiring images projected onto the the scenes’ glimpse of the Fashion Museum’s façade of 77 Stokes Croft; illustrating Bristol’s stored collection of historic dress, set alongside transition from its past to a more balanced, original fashions from the time of Jane Austen and nature-embracing future. With the use until the First World War. of animation, projection mapping techniques and mobile technology, audiences will become The display presents hundreds of specialist immersed in a multi-sensory experience on storage boxes, all housing the museum a grand scale. collection of Victorian and Edwardian dress and accessories. www.hamiltonhouse.org

ed eve k n www.fashionmuseum.co.uk 17 in t l @fashion_museum Bristol p25

ed eve k n 15 in t Bath l p22 Nahoko Kojima. Photo: courtesy of Solo Kojima London Photo: courtesy of Solo Kojima Kojima. Nahoko

12 13 The Gain Line Looking Up Ravi Deepres Chris Russell

Institute of Contemporary Paper Arts Interdisciplinary Arts (ICIA) Sat 10am–6pm, Sun 11am–5pm;

Fri–Sun 10am–5pm Continues to 2 Nov; Free . Photo: Max McClure Continues to 19 Dec; Free An exhibition of dramatic wildlife portraits Calling all sports lovers, The Gain Line is and stunning seascapes and skyscapes. a moving-image installation by artist Ravi Follow Me Deepres, coinciding with the Rugby World Cup. Having worked as a designer and illustrator The title refers to an invisible line on the rugby on environmental projects across the globe field that measures teams’ forward progress Chris’ life-like works reflect the natural world. and their territorial advantage over their Jeppe Hein, opponents. Throwing their bodies into the fray DJ sets in Co-LAB. Taking place both days. to surpass it, and putting their bodies on the line to protect it, players attach inordinate www.paperarts.org.uk importance to getting beyond this symbolic www.bristolcolab.com threshold on the pitch. @papercic

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19 Bath Information Point Follow Me Ravi Deepres, Tom Pope Jeppe Hein

Prior Park Landscape Garden Royal Fort Gardens Fri 1pm–4pm; Sat & Sun 11am–4pm All day, every day; Free The Gain Line £6.90; £3.80 child, £17.30 family Discover a mirrored maze in the University Contribute your own stories and discover of Bristol’s Royal Fort Gardens designed unknown facts about Prior Park at this by Humphry Repton in the early 19th century. interactive information point. Jeppe Hein’s work encourages playful Tom Pope will create audio-visual content encounters and often surprises its audience over the course of the weekend through with optical phenomena or opportunities collaboration with park visitors. A series to interact directly with the work. For an of short videos will emerge responding to interview with the artist visit the Situations each point of interest, made available to view website. instantly at the information point. Sometimes funny and occasionally instructional, videos Commissioned by the University of Bristol will blur fact and fiction. and produced by Situations in 2009.

A new commission for Art Weekender Bristol www.situations.org.uk & Bath. @situationsuk

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14 15 Charlotte Prodger, 100 paintings of Ringo Starr Sanctum Simon Hood Theaster Gates

Test Space, Spike Island Temple Church

Stoneymollan Trail Fri 12pm–5pm; Sat & Sun 11am–7pm Fri–Sun open 24 hours; Continues to 21 Nov; Free Free (limited capacity); Adv. reservations £5 Tickets: www.sanctumbristol.com Simon Hood presents 100 Paintings of Ringo Starr, a body of work inspired by American artist Theaster Gates creates his the metamorphosis of Richard Starkey who first UK public project. A remarkable structure emerged from a year-long coma aged six will occupy the bombed out remains of Temple (video still) 2015 with an interest in percussion, later seeing Church. For 24 days and nights, this site will him become the lovable popstar drummer be transformed into an intimate gathering in The Beatles. place in which to hear the city like never before.

www.topfloortestspace.wordpress.com Sanctum will host a continuous secret @testspacespike programme of sound for 576 hours sustained by hundreds of Bristol-based musicians, 26 performers and speakers. Will you join a Bristol soloist in the early hours, hear a gospel chorus at dawn, or witness a headlining band? 163 Annual Open Exhibition 8004 – 8019 Produced by Situations. Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Charlotte Prodger Fri & Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 11am–5pm www.sanctumbristol.com Continues to 29 Nov; £5; £3 conc.; Spike Island www.situations.org.uk Free under 16s; Sun: enter by donation Fri 12pm–5pm; Sat & Sun 11am–7pm @situationsuk #sanctumbristol Continues to 13 Dec; Free ed eve k n The RWA’s Annual Open Exhibition – now in 27 in t l its 163rd year – is a highlight of the region’s In her largest solo show to date, Charlotte Bristol p26 art calendar. Attracting leading artists from Prodger presents a series of new sculptures throughout the UK, it is open to all, and often alongside the feature length Stoneymollan includes work by previously un-shown Trail – her first single channel video. exhibitors alongside well-known artists. 8004 – 8019 explores in part the relationship Over the course of the weekend, activities of technology to landscape and the human and trails for adults and children will invite you body. Landscape is a recurring motif throughout to view the exhibition in a variety of ways, paying Stoneymollan Trail (taking its name from a Photo: Max McClure close attention to the detail within the work. local walk near Glasgow where the artist lives and works), and it traces a recent history www.rwa.org.uk of the medium of video intertwined with the @rwabristol artist’s personal history. A series of sculptures see Prodger use vertical and horizontal planes to consider screens as various ways of

24 Church. , Temple Bristol punctuating architectural space; blocking, dividing and revealing as the viewer navigates their way through the galleries. Sanctum

www.spikeisland.org.uk @_spikeisland

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Trinity Centre Kurt Jackson

Sat & Sun 10am–6pm Urbanimals Continues to 5 Nov; Free Victoria Art Gallery Fri & Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 1:30pm–5pm LAX, ‘Launch of publication / lockjaws* / becomes Continues to 3 Jan; £3.50; exhibition / emerging artists from UK / and Free under 21s & Discovery Card further afield / each championed by curator / artist collectives / biennial show in a newspaper Where is your favourite, most memorable format / editorial team... editing / 2D / 3D / or significant place in Britain? video / installation / performance / BAR / artists + curators together for first time in Kurt Jackson: Place is a collaboration with Bristol / haven’t met half these artists before / 32 writers celebrating the physical diversity but we have emailed them / skyped the of the British landscape. Jackson invited each curators / old work / new work / work that writer to choose, and then justify in words climbs on rocks.’ a place in Britain. Then, in an epic series of journeys Jackson visited and worked at each www.trinitybristol.org.uk chosen location responding with a series of @lockjawspub paintings, drawings and sculptures. Writers include Richard Mabey, Mark Cocker, Michael ed eve k n 28 in t Eavis and Professor Charles Thomas. Urbanimals: Playable City Bristol l p24 Award Winner 2015 www.victoriagal.org.uk ART WEEKENDER @victoriaartbath LAX BREAKFAST TALKS

ed eve k n 29 in t City locations (map from Watershed) l Bath p26 Fri–Sun dusk–midnight Join us each morning for Continues to 19 Nov; Free a pastry and provocation

lockjaws* before delving into the Startling Urbanimals are appearing in unexpected places across Bristol, waiting busy Art Weekender. for you to play with them. Expect caffeinated Leap with the graceful dolphin, chase a shy conversation, reflection rabbit, find the secretive beetle or skip with a cheeky kangaroo. Lurking behind walls, and debate; all kick started hiding in dark corners, the Urbanimals are by a panel of guest speakers. eager to play.

Taking place at various locations across See pages 20, 23 & 27 Bristol, including city centre, Bedminster and Montpelier, full list of locations revealed in a map available from Watershed and online.

Created by LAX Poland, winners of the Playable City Award 2015. Produced by Watershed.

www.playablecity.co.uk @playablecity

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Art Weekender Breakfast Talk LOVE Family Film at Watershed Art & Writing: Critical spaces Watershed and digital audiences Fri–Sun 1pm; £6.50, £4.50 child/conc. Spike Island Tickets: www.watershed.co.uk Fri 10am–11:15am; Free (book in advance) 0117 927 5100 Tickets: www.artweekender.com Enjoy a family friendly film as part of Bristol’s What are the challenges and pressures in Family Arts Festival and the BFI’s film season creating high quality critical writing? Who LOVE, that fills our screens with all things

is it for, how are audiences engaging and where amorous. Collection Trust , Tigers Head, Royal

is the most interesting writing happening now? II 2015 © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 30 Gold Speakers: Linda Taylor, Frieze Art Prize winner Bristol 2014; Jeremy Millar, RCA MA Critical Writing in Art and Design tutor; Emma Geliot, CCQ magazine editor. Exhibition Tours Spike Island Shoe boxes & shipping containers Museums at Night: Curated by Martha King, supported Fri–Sun 2pm; Free Make your own snug home Day of the Dead Fiesta by Situations. Tickets: www.spikeisland.org.uk The Architecture Centre The American Museum in Britain 0117 929 2266 Fri 2pm–5pm; Free, drop in Fri 5pm–8pm; £10; £9 conc.; £5.50 child; 26 £27.50 family Bristol age 14+ Informal introductions to the current Create your own small-scale construction Tickets: www.americanmuseum.org Spike Island exhibition, Charlotte Prodger, project. Inspired by sustainable, micro 01225 460503 8004 – 8019, led by members of the Spike architecture projects this Family Arts Festival Please Make Up My Room Island community. workshop encourages the designers and The American Museum stays up late to The Artist Hotel interior architects of the future to model their celebrate the Mexican Festival of Day of The Factory 26 own green, ‘snug’ homes. the Dead. Wander through the atmospheric Fri 10am–4pm; Free (book in advance) Bristol period rooms as dusk gathers, pop into Tickets: [email protected] #bristolfaf the café, try out some classic Latin American

Exhibition Tours, dance styles, and create your own traditional Welcome to The Artist Hotel, Knowle West. 3 decorations over a glass of wine in the It doesn’t exist yet. But join artists and Bristol make-and-take workshop. architects, including 00:/ and Studio Weave to explore how a city-fringe community can 2 manufacture and host its own hotel. Includes Erdkunde and other stories Bath age 14+ Photo: Max McClure a curated tour of Knowle West, provocations Iain Biggs & Luci Gorell Barnes and charette style discussions, and hands-on Bristol Museum & Art Gallery rapid prototyping. & Royal West of England Academy Up Late Fri 5pm meet at Bristol Museum, The Holburne Museum Includes lunch and refreshments. 5:30pm proceed to RWA; Free Fri 5pm–9pm; Free; Gold exhibition £8.50 Tickets: www.bristolmuseums.org.uk Tickets: www.holburne.org 01225 388569 www.kwmc.org.uk @knowlewestmedia View John Wood and Paul Harrison’s new video An evening of after-hours access to the commission at Bristol Museum, then proceed galleries and special exhibitions. Relax and 16 to the RWA where Iain and Luci will lead an enjoy music in the Garden Café. Admission Bristol age 14+ inclusive exploration of the city across space to Gold includes a cocktail. and time. 18 9 Bath Bristol

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Nancy Holt Revolve PLAYPEN Art Weekender Breakfast Talk Please Make Up My Room Introduced by Charlotte Prodger Arnolfini Art and Architecture: Gathering Family Fun Re-Mix Spike Island Fri 8pm–11pm; £10; £8 conc. in urban spaces The Factory Fri 6pm; £5; £3 conc. Tickets: www.arnolfini.org.uk 0117 917 2300 The Architecture Centre Sat 10:30am–1pm Tickets: www.spikeisland.org.uk Sat 10am–11:15am; Free (book in advance) Free, drop in 0117 929 2266 Featuring Bill Orcutt, Mark Stewart, Gnod, Tickets: www.artweekender.com Liberez, The Evil Usses, XXX Tippex & more. Welcome to The Artist Hotel, Knowle West. Revolve is a video by influential American Is there a particular need for gathering places It doesn’t exist yet so we need your help. land artist Nancy Holt. Through multiple PL AYPEN is an evening of artfully engineered in the city now? How are artists and architects What should it be like? Dens instead of camera angles and minimal repetition, she chaos taking over the auditorium: powerful, responding and what role can temporary rooms? Slides instead of lifts? Foraged food presents her friend David Wheeler’s personal colourful and energising music performances structures or interventions play in urban spaces? instead of room service? narrative of his battle with leukemia. Her and A/V interventions taken apart in the editing procedure both frees Wheeler’s moment. Audience members mingle with acts, Speakers: muf architecture/art; Art in Bearpit Get hands-on with different craft, art and tech narrative and closes in on it, effectively sound engineers become performers and artists: A-PEG and Philip Cheater; and Shankari materials to develop your ideas and see new projecting the personal into the conceptual. setting up the stage becomes part of the Raj-Edgar: Nudge Group. Chaired by Aldo Rinaldi, digital manufacturing technology in action. show itself at this lo-fi, hi-jinks meta-gig. Senior Public Art Officer, Bristol City Council. 26 www.kwmc.org.uk Bristol Produced by Qu Junktions in collaboration Curated by Martha King, supported @knowlewestmedia with Arnolfini. by Situations. 16 In Conversation www.qujunktions.com 3 Bristol Hormazd Narielwalla Bristol age 14+ Fashion Museum 4 Fri 6:15pm–7:30pm; £12 Bristol age 14+ Creative Activities for Children Tickets: www.bathboxoffice.org.uk Bath to Bristol: Life Drawing on Trains Bristol 2015 Lab Space 01225 463362 Trains between Bath Spa and Sat 11am–4pm; Free, drop in Art Weekender Launch Party Bristol Temple Meads stations Come and join us for an after-hours talk Arnolfini Sat & Sun 10am–4pm; Free with a train Call in at the Lab Space to join the Bristol with artist Hormazd Narielwalla, who works Fri 8pm–12am; Free ticket, drop in 2015 team for fun, creative activities. Family in collage and uses bespoke Savile Row Tickets: www.arnolfini.org.uk 0117 917 2300 friendly, educational and inspirational, they will tailoring patterns to create artworks exploring Bath Artists’ Studios will be bridging the be exploring the Green Capital theme of the body in abstract form. Join us for the Art Weekender launch in 13-minute train journey between Bath and ‘Resources’. Arnolfini’s foyer spaces and Café Bar, located Bristol by providing a ‘have a go’ introduction 15 on Bristol’s buzzing harbourside. Kick up your to life drawing. 10 Bath heels to live Qu Junktions DJ sets plus special Bristol

Hormazd Narielwalla. Photo: Denis Laner drinks offers and the chance to meet the Follow @bathartists to find out where they festival artists and organisers. are on the train. In Conversation 4 Supported by Cass Art, the UK’s leading Richard Long with Teresa Gleadowe Bristol independent art supplies retailer. Arnolfini Sat 11:30am–1pm; £6; £4 conc. Tickets: www.arnolfini.org.uk 0117 917 2300 Bristol Bath A unique opportunity to join in the conversation with renowned artist Richard Long. Considered to be among the most important artists of his generation, Long won the Turner Prize in 1989 and has made artworks across seven continents.

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Halloween Life Drawing ‘Day of the Dead’ Mask Making James Alexander Paper Arts Paper Arts Sat 2pm–3:30pm; £5 Sat 12pm–1:30pm; £5 Tickets: www.paperarts.org.uk 0117 925 8601 Tickets: www.paperarts.org.uk 0117 925 8601

Breathtakingly colourful masks have long been BS2 RESIST & REVOLT A Halloween life-drawing session with a part of Mexican culture. Dive into the rich history spooky twist. Explore dark and deathly of this artistic tradition, with an overview of themes, inject a lethal dose of mystery and the fascinating background of the art before theatricality into your drawing, and get some hand-painting a mask. Bring your own mask, top trickery tips from a professional artist. or purchase one for a small extra cost.

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Bristol Family Arts Festival Finale: lockjaws* BS2 RESIST & REVOLT: ‘Day of the Dead’ Face Painting My Green City Trinity Centre BLACK HISTORY – LIVE TRANSMISSION Paper Arts Arnolfini Sat 2pm–5pm; Free BEEF, 25 Portland Square Sat 4pm–6pm; £5 (book in advance) Sat 1pm–5pm; Free Sat 2pm–6pm; Free Tickets: www.paperarts.org.uk 0117 925 8601 lockjaws* launch their exhibition and Try your hand at animation, make a spooky publication alongside a number of artist Explore the architectural ghosts of St. Pauls, Our face-painters will help you celebrate plant costume, help us to feed the future city, performances and artist collective discuss the future of the city’s iconic carnival, the Day of the Dead in style, by transforming and take part in many more creative activities. interventions, including a bar. discover why black history is everyone’s your face into a traditional sugar skull. Have history. Libita Clayton, artist and member of a unique, individual style this Halloween and 4 28 BEEF (studio and art collective) will open her learn some top make-up skills in the process. Bristol Bristol studios and curate an alternative and playful

Bristol Family Arts Festival, 2014, Image courtesy of Justin Yockney panel discussion around the narrative of Black 21 History Month, transmitting as a live podcast. Bristol

www.beefbristol.org @bristolbeef The Moon (Brothers Grimm) – A shadow puppet tale 8 Hamilton House Bristol Sat 5pm–7pm; Free

Presenting a shadow puppet interpretation Family Halloween Storytelling Boat Trip of the Brothers Grimm’s tale – The Moon Arnolfini accompanied with live electroacoustic audio. Sat 2:30pm–4pm £5; £3 conc. & under 12s; Free under 5s Performed by Lloyd Starr, Scott Clarence, Tickets: www.arnolfini.org.uk 0117 917 2300 Nicola Hares, Kate Holmes, post-graduates from Bath Spa Creative Music Technology Dress up as your favourite ghost or ghoul and and the Behaviour ensemble. join storyteller Michael Loader for a spooky storytelling river tour to the Floating Ballast 17 Seed Garden. Watch out for terrifying tendrils, Bristol vicious vines and carnivorous creepers.

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In: Visible Place AMALGAMS Merilyn Fairskye ONOMATO Victoria Art Gallery The New Room, John Wesley’s Chapel Sat 5pm–6:15pm (doors 4.45pm) Sat 9pm–11pm (doors 8:30pm) £6; conc. £5 £12; £10 conc. plus fees Tickets: 01225 477233 Tickets: www.bristolticketshop.co.uk 0117 929 9008 Australian artist Merilyn Fairskye in conversation.

This talk coincides with Radiate, her exhibition AMALGAMS is an ONOMATO production Mandala Drawing Workshop at Bath Spa University, see page 6. uniting live music and moving image through newly commissioned collaborative 29 performances for the Art Weekender. Bath age 14+ This ambitious collaboration unites the contemporary and the traditional by bringing Theaster Gates together soundscapes, through electronic, St George’s Bristol choral and classical means alongside Sat 7pm; £10; £7.50 conc. plus fees experimental moving image. Tickets: www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk 0845 40 24 001 See website for details of participating artists.

Join Theaster Gates for a performance lecture. www.onomato.co.uk One of the most celebrated American artists Art Weekender Breakfast Talk Bristol Drawing Club of his generation and winner of the 2015 Artes 20 Artist-led collectives: Sustainable futures Bristol 2015 Lab Space Mundi prize, this event coincides with Bristol age 14+ The American Museum in Britain Sun 11am–4pm; Free, drop in Sanctum, Theaster’s first UK public project. Sun 11am–12:30pm; Free (book in advance) Tickets: www.artweekender.com Join Bristol Drawing Club and Jamaica Street Produced by Situations. A Garland of Ingenious Occupation Artists to embrace the obsolete. Dig out that HO-ST How can artists survive in the current dot matrix printer paper, retrieve those old 25 Venue announced 30 Sep political and economic climate and what role letter heads from the loft and breathe some Bristol age 14+ Sat 11pm–3am do artist-led collectives play in this shifting life into all those papers we no longer use day

courtesy of White Cube. Theaster Gates. Photo: Sara Pooley, Tickets: www.ho-st.club landscape? to day. (price & tickets released 30 Sep) Speakers: BEEF, CHAMP, Bath Artists Studios, 10 HO-ST is a party project; an exercise in art 44AD and Fringe Arts Bath. Chaired by Jude Bristol and hospitality; a platform for display. Join us, Bennett, G39. and our guests, for a special Art Weekender Mandala Drawing Workshop celebration. Curated by Martha King. Dan Bowler Paper Arts www.ho-st.club 2 Sat 12pm–2pm; £5 @hostklub Bath age 14+ Tickets: www.paperarts.org.uk 0117 925 8601

Explore the history of the symbol and its Bristol age 18+ relationship to unity and harmony and create your own personal mandala. Mandala creation is often used as a focus for stilling the mind to gain deeper insights about the self and can be relaxing and therapeutic.

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26 27 SPECIAL EVENTS SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER In Conversation By Our Selves Marjetica Potrč & Ooze Architects Andrew Kötting Walk & Talk: We are all architect-walkers LOVE Tea Dance with A Difference Holburne Museum Arnolfini Arnolfini Watershed Sun 3pm–4:30pm; £5 Sun 3:30pm–6:30pm; £6; £4 conc. Sun 2pm; £5; £4 conc. Sun 3pm; Free Tickets: www.holburne.org 01225 388569 Tickets: www.arnolfini.org.uk 0117 917 2300 Tickets: www.arnolfini.org.uk 0117 917 2300 Tickets: www.watershed.co.uk 0117 927 5100 Potrč is a Ljubljana and Berlin-based artist Screening of Andrew Kötting’s new film See the city through the eyes of an artist. and architect working in drawing, architecture, By Our Selves documenting a four-day walk Join artist-researchers Wrights & Sites on After a family film at 1pm, drop-in for an and public art projects. Ooze is an international, made by the English poet John Clare. Toby a special walk around Bristol as they discuss afternoon of activities for all the family. Rotterdam-based practice specializing in Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in the role of walking in their creative practice. Get your dancing shoes at the ready and join architecture, art and urban strategies. his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. us for this tea dance with a difference. Since 2008 Potrč and Ooze have worked 4 as a collective on public art projects and The film screening is followed by a session Bristol age 8+ 30 are currently working in Bristol. This talk will with director Andrew Kötting as he leads a Bristol include a focus on their water-based works discussion on his film-making journeys through

Vickie Fear, such as ‘Of Soil and Water: King’s Cross Pond landscape. With music, sound and visuals by The Keepers Club’ a chemical-free fresh water bathing pool ONOMATO in the Cafe Bar afterwards. Vickie Fear in London. The Bearpit 4

Sun 2pm–4pm; Free The Keepers www.potrc.org Bristol age 8+ www.ooze.eu.com Watching and being watched, an eerie group of live sculptures will lurk and momentarily 18 Cunae: A Lecture on Nesting Bath occupy the changing backdrop of Bristol’s , 2015. Photo: Roser Diaz Andy Holden & Peter Holden iconic sunken roundabout. A peculiar costumed Bristol Museum & Art Gallery performance that quietly disrupts the public Sun 7pm; Free (book in advance) space, baffles passers-by and puts the Tickets: www.spikeisland.org.uk performers to the test. 0117 929 2266

Commissioned by Hand in Glove as part Artist Andy Holden and his father, ornithologist of Art in Bearpit. Peter Holden, present a performative lecture on the ingenuity and diversity of nest building. 7 Including field recordings, film archives and Bristol museum collections, this special one-night , courtesy of RSPB archive event is a collaboration between art and science, father and son. Learn to Screen Print from Home Dan Bowler 9 Paper Arts Bristol Sun 2:30pm–4:30pm; £5 Tickets: www.paperarts.org.uk 0117 925 8601

An introductory workshop providing an overview of hands-on screen printing A nesting Spotted Flycatcher techniques, and the skills and equipment needed to make a hand-made screen that you can use again. Learn how to generate a wide variety of results. Andy Holden, 21 Bristol

28 29 VISITOR & TRAVEL INFORMATION A pleasant way to experience each city is from the water. Bristol Ferries www.bristolferry.com operate a regular service from Temple Meads Your first stops for information on visiting both cities are: station to the city centre and around the harbour. Details of boat trips www.visitbristol.co.uk in Bath can be found at www.visitbath.co.uk www.visitbath.co.uk Taxis are based outside of each train station. In Bristol a central taxi Travelling to rank is located on St Augustine’s Parade, in Bath it is next to the Abbey. Bristol and Bath are well connected nationally and internationally, sitting at the crossroads of transport routes running east to west and north to south. The best way to explore and experience both cities is on foot with distinctive and beautiful architecture, hidden byways, parks and green spaces. You can enjoy a sightseeing stroll, guided and themed tours Bristol Temple Meads station is a 15 minute walk to the Harbourside, or a longer walk on the outskirts – for more information call in at the and Bath Spa station is situated right in the heart of the city. Visitor Information Centres.

Both Bristol and Bath bus stations are in the centre of the cities, well served by National Express and . Accommodation

Bristol International Airport is just 8 miles south of Bristol. We are pleased to be able to offer visitors to Art Weekender — Bristol & Bath Regular bus services provide links to the city centres of both Bristol a special Weekender accommodation rate with Hilton Garden Inn, Bristol. (flyerbristolairport.co.uk) and Bath (airdecker.com). £89 single occupancy, £99 double, including breakfast (subject to availability).

Use the code: GSWSP | 0117 925 1001 | www.bit.ly/1UyX9JG Travelling between Bristol and Bath are 13 miles apart and regularly serviced by both bus A range of accommodation can be found on www.visitbristol.co.uk and train. and www.visitbath.co.uk.

Trains run approximately every 20 minutes, with some journey times Access as little as 13 minutes, making this the quickest way to get between the two cities. Join in our Life Drawing on Trains workshop whilst you travel Many of the Art Weekender venues and sites have direct access. (see p23). These venues are indicated throughout the programme with this icon.

Six buses every hour on the X39, 39 and 38, running from Bristol and If you need any assistance at a venue or site please ask a Weekender Bath bus stations. The fastest journey time is just over 50 minutes. Ambassador or a front of house steward. The Weekender aims to be a fully accessible experience. We want to learn more about your experience of access The Bristol– Bath cycle route is a fantastic way to travel between the during the Art Weekender and would welcome your feedback, please contact two cities. The 13 mile flat route is traffic-free along a disused railway us at [email protected] to let us know your thoughts. line – more information at www.sustrans.org.uk. Bike hire schemes in both Bristol and Bath. Further information about access in Bristol and Bath can be found at: www.channels.visitbristol.co.uk/discover-bristol/accessible-bristol www.visitbath.co.uk/plan-your-visit/access-for-all Travelling around Art Weekender events are mainly sited within central Bristol and Bath and the majority of venues are within walking distance of each other. Refer to the map in the centre of this programme for route information. Use the itinerary planner at www.artweekender.com for ideas about how to explore the Art Weekender programme.

Details of all and Bath can be found at www..com/bristol-bath-and-west

30 31 www.situations.org.uk Art Weekender – Bristol & Bath is produced by Situations in partnership with the two cities’ primary visual arts venues, artist-run initiatives and arts producers, including:

44AD Artspace, The Architecture Centre, Arnolfini, Art and the Public Realm Bristol, Art in Bearpit, Aural-l, Bath Artists’ Studios, Bath Museums Partnership (including the American Museum, Fashion Museum, Holburne Museum and Victoria Art Gallery), Bath Spa University, BEEF, Bristol Drawing Club, Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, Bristol 2015 European Green Capital, The Canteen, CHAMP, City Ideas Studio, Cleveland Pools, Coexist, English Heritage, The Factory, Fringe Arts Bath, G39, Hamilton House, Hand in Glove, HO-ST, ICIA at University of Bath, Jamaica Street Artists, Knowle West Media Centre, Labspace, lockjaws*, muf architecture/art, National Trust, ONOMATO, PAPER Arts, Playable City, Royal West of England Academy, Spike Island and Associates, St George’s Bristol, The Kiosk Project, Trinity Centre, Visual Arts South West, Watershed and Wriggle.

The Art Weekender is made possible with support from Bristol and Bath Cultural Destinations, which is part of a national initiative created by Arts Council England and Visit England. It brings together the two cities of Bristol and Bath and two key sectors of their economies – culture and tourism – in partnership, not only to encourage existing visitors to stay longer and explore more, but also to attract new visitors to the West.

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