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guide exhibition film music performance talks Jan-Mar 2020 the1 arts institute CELLULOID PSYCHOLOGY SERIES encounters This ongoing series of screenings explores the mind and brain in cinema. Each event is curated and introduced by a specialist in human behaviour, who will discuss how their area of expertise can shed unexpected light on the psychological questions explored in the film. Celluloid Psychology has been devised by Dr Alastair Smith, Associate season Professor of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, as an antidote to the usual depictions of psychology on our screens. Screening at the Jill Craigie Cinema Duel (1971) 27 Jan Children of a Lesser God (1986) 24 Feb featuring The Invention of Lying (2009) 16 Mar SLOW PAINTING COMMEMORATING MAYFLOWER 400 The Levinsky Gallery 24 Jan – 28 Mar As the last stop for the Mayflower before its epic voyage across the Atlantic, Plymouth is placed firmly at the heart of the 400 year commemorations of the voyage. Presented by Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery Touring, Slow Painting is an This anniversary is marked by an ambitious cultural events programme, and this exhibition of paintings that take their time, and invite us to do the same. Curated season we also include a series of films, talks and a multi-media music premiere by writer and critic Martin Herbert, the exhibition spans a myriad of styles and performance to acknowledge this important event. Our two showcases explain applications, from figuration to abstraction. It offers a counterbalance to an a little more about what is planned and, in true Arts Institute style, we look back with accelerating world, comprising works that illustrate the role of painting as a rewarding a contemporary approach. repository of time. Screening at the Jill Craigie Cinema Featured artists include: Darren Almond, Athanasios Argianas, Michael Armitage, Gareth Cadwallader, Varda Caivano, Lubaina Himid, Paul Housley, Merlin James, Smoke Signals (1998) 17 Feb Allison Katz, Simon Ling, Lucy McKenzie, Mairead O'hEocha, Yelena Popova, Carol Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock (2018) 9 Mar Rhodes, Sherman Sam, Benjamin Senior, Michael Simpson, Tim Stoner, and Caragh Apollo 11 (2019) 23 Mar Thuring. Encounters and Ecologies series The exhibition's associated programme takes a deep dive into the idea Joy Porter, Professor of Indigenous History, University of Hull 19 Mar and application of ‘slow’ in music, education, psychology and sustainability. Performance at Theatre Royal Plymouth Associated programme: Some Call It Home 24 & 25 Mar Bite size talks from the University of Plymouth Dr Paul Warwick, Centre for Sustainable Futures Lead 29 Jan Dr Robert Taub, Director of Music, The Arts Institute 12 Feb HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION TALKS Mary Costello, Exhibitions Coordinator, The Arts Institute 19 Feb The Historical Association is a national charity supporting the study and enjoyment Dr Alastair Smith, Associate Professor in Psychology 26 Feb of history. The Plymouth branch has linked up with the History department of the Dr Karen Wickett, Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Dr Joanna Haynes, University to deliver a joint programme of talks. The new year promises to deliver Associate Professor in Education Studies 4 Mar some more outstanding, yet very different, talks. From the Holocaust, to the vote for women, we conclude with the annual Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture taking Guest speakers us to the English Revolution. Martin Herbert, writer, critic, and curator of Slow Painting 23 Jan Amy Sackville, fiction writer 4 Feb Guest speakers Professor Martin Willis, Head of English, Communication and Philosophy, Dr Noemie Lopian, Holocaust educator, Cardiff University 5 Mar and Derek Niemann, freelance writer and editor 30 Jan Front cover image: Dr Mari Takayanagi, Senior Archivist, Parliamentary Archives 25 Feb Screening at the Jill Craigie Cinema Allison Katz. AKGraph (All Is On), 2016 Michael Braddick, Professor of History, University of Sheffield 3 Mar The Quince Tree Sun (1993) 3 Feb © the artist, 2019 Varda by Agnès (2019) 10 Feb Featured in the Slow Painting exhibition 2 3 showcase Curator’s notes Shaping the transatlantic Indigenous perspectives From the very earliest settlement narratives Indigenous people of North America had a very ENCOUNTERS AND ECOLOGIES: THE WORDS, WORLDS of colonial New England, the language of the different relationship to their landscape and AND LEGACIES OF MAYFLOWER, 1620-2020 wilderness offered a potent and effective different ways of articulating that relationship. mechanism through which to understand the As a largely oral culture, access to an archive Dr Kathryn Gray, Associate Professor in Early American Literature, powerful performances of religious renewal of of indigenous perspectives on the land demands University of Plymouth Puritan New Englanders. Many years before the a different kind of research and a different Mayflower set sail, sixteenth-century English approach to the ways in which the past and audiences read first-hand accounts of the flora legacies are constituted and examined. and fauna of what quickly became known as the Perhaps because of these challenges, New World. Devoid of any religious purpose, indigenous perspectives and traditions have these earlier narratives were keen to describe often been side-lined in the larger narratives and exploit the natural abundance which of early American literatures and cultures. North American ecologies and environments appeared to offer. In each case, for the European Commemorating Mayflower 400 traveller, trader and settler, the North American landscape, and the language of that landscape, In curating the Encounters and Ecologies series was instrumental in shaping the transatlantic I wanted to take the landscape, in all its material networks and partnerships that emerged through and symbolic function, as a point of departure. the seventeenth Century and beyond. Over the course of the anniversary year, this series of talks and discussions will consider the peoples and traditions that shaped, or were shaped by, these changing patterns of human interaction, exchange, science, trade, diplomacy, disease, violence and loss. Encounters and Ecologies series A place of 'Wild and Savage Hue': The political ecological legacies of the Mayflower Sailing 19 Mar 4 5 calendar DAT E TIME EVENT VENUE 3 Mar 19:00 Talk THE CHRISTOPHER DURSTON MEMORIAL Theatre 2 29 Nov – Various Exhibition FUTURE HISTORY The Levinsky Gallery LECTURE: THE PEOPLE IN THE ENGLISH 11 Jan REVOLUTION 4 Mar 13:00 Bite size MOVING FROM THE DESK, CHATTING BY The Levinsky Gallery 23 Jan 19:00 Talk THE CURATOR’S INTRODUCTION The Levinsky Gallery THE PHOTOCOPIER: SLOWER THINKING IN EVERYDAY TO SLOW PAINTING ACADEMIC PRACTICE 24 Jan – Various Exhibition SLOW PAINTING The Levinsky Gallery 5 Mar 19:00 Talk THE DARKER SIDE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY: SLEEP Theatre 2 28 Mar AND ITS MEANINGS IN THE 19TH AND 21ST CENTURIES 27 Jan 19:00 Film DUEL (1971) Jill Craigie Cinema 9 Mar 19:00 Film AWAKE: A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK (2018) Jill Craigie Cinema 29 Jan 13:00 Bite size SLOW KNOWLEDGE: THE PURSUIT OF The Levinsky Gallery CONTEMPLATIVE WISDOM FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE 10 Mar 19:00 Talk ELITE ART, POPULISM AND THE FATE OF CRITICISM Theatre 2 WORLD 30 Jan 19:00 Talk SPEAKING ACROSS THE DIVIDE: GROWING Theatre 2 11 Mar 19:30 Performance JANE MASON: NIGHT FLYING The House UP IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST 3 Feb 19:00 Film THE QUINCE TREE SUN (1993) Jill Craigie Cinema 14 Mar 19:30 Music UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH CHORAL SOCIETY Minster Church of St. EDWARDIAN ENGLISH SONG Andrew 4 Feb 19:00 Fiction reading AMY SACKVILLE: PAINTER TO THE KING The Levinsky Gallery 16 Mar 19:00 Film THE INVENTION OF LYING (2009) Jill Craigie Cinema 17 Mar 19:00 Poetry reading TOM CHIVERS: POET AND PUBLISHER The Levinsky Gallery 10 Feb 19:00 Film VARDA BY AGNÈS (2019) Jill Craigie Cinema 19 Mar 19:00 Talk A PLACE OF 'WILD AND SAVAGE HUE': Theatre 2 12 Feb 13:00 Bite size MUSIC AND HOW IT GOES The Levinsky Gallery THE POLITICAL ECOLOGICAL LEGACIES OF THE MAYFLOWER SAILING 23 Mar 19:00 Film APOLLO 11 (2019) Jill Craigie Cinema 14 Feb 19:30 Performance EDEN’S CAVE THEATRE COMPANY: The House FORESTS 24 & 25 19:30 Music SOME CALL IT HOME Theatre Royal Plymouth 17 Feb 19:00 Film SMOKE SIGNALS (1998) Jill Craigie Cinema Mar 26 Mar 20:00 Music UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH ORCHESTRA Davy Main Hall 19 Feb 13:00 Bite size SLOW PAINTING AND SLOW LOOKING The Levinsky Gallery SPRING CONCERT 24 Feb 19:00 Film CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (1986) Jill Craigie Cinema 25 Feb 19:00 Talk PARLIAMENT, WOMEN AND THE VOTE Theatre 2 To book tickets visit: plymouth.ac.uk/arts-institute Or call the booking line on: 01752 585050 (open Mon-Fri 13:00-17:00, only). 26 Feb 13:00 Bite size PSYCHOLOGY AND ART The Levinsky Gallery Please note: All programme details are correct at the time of going to print. The Arts Institute reserves the rights to change the programme without prior notice, please refer to the website for up-to-date information. 6 7 season guests This season welcomes a fantastic selection of TOM CHIVERS artists and academics. Here, we introduce just Tom Chivers is a British writer, publisher and arts producer. His writing includes two a few... pamphlets of poetry, The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award) and Flood Drain (Annexe Press, 2012), and two full collections, Dark Islands (Test Centre, 2015), and How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009), the latter winning the Crashaw Prize and shortlisted for the London New Poets Award. MARTIN HERBERT His work has been anthologised in Dear World & Everything In It (Bloodaxe Books, Martin Herbert is a writer and critic living in Tunbridge Wells, UK, and Berlin. 2013), and London: A History in Verse (Harvard University Press, 2012).