2–5 May 2014 Bristol Art Weekender Four days celebrating art across the city www.bristolartweekender.co.uk art that hurts Welcome art that stops sleep … something extraordinary has just begun! art that turns hearts inside out This is the first time in Bristol that art organisations and art that whispers artists have come together to stage a weekend celebration art that sings of art across this city. The Weekender is led by arts producer, Situations in collaboration with 16 other arts organisations art that bleeds and artist groups. Over these four days in May, you’ll have art that binds the chance to discover exhibitions by leading and emerging artists, go behind the scenes at over 70 artists studios, explore art that stops a wound new artworks in unexpected locations and attend one-off art that blocks a terror events. We hope that the Weekender might open up new and surprising encounters and lead you to explore our home art that holds city in unexpected ways. art that twists art that blinds falsehood Plan your weekend Tell us what you think Flip to the back pages to tailor your visit to It’s our first year, so we’re testing out with art that dreams the events running throughout the weekend you how this works and we want to hear from a Sunday lecture by Jeremy Deller about what will stay with you, what you’d art that summons shivers at John Wesley’s historic Chapel to a bake rather forget and how we could improve in the temporary pavilion in Lockleaze. next year’s programme. Look out for BAW postcards throughout the venues to give art that spells truth us your feedback. art that won’t forget Follow our lead We’ve come up with some suggested Watch the Weekender’s events unfold online art that cuts through self-guided trails across the programme which open up unexpected connections between www.bawblog.com art that aches works and exhibitions. Go to the centrefold to pick up a trail and use the Bristol Art Map Share your experience through social media to find the locations. art that shouts #baw2014 art that remembers Meet the ambassadors art that waits Spot the BAW distinctive T-shirt and you’ve spotted an ambassador. They haven’t been art that slows time hired to guard the artwork, but rather are there to help with information on the artists, directions to hidden gems and special events. art that changes Don’t be shy – do ask their advice. art that isn’t art Tim Etchells, Art that (fragment), 2014 3 Courtesy of the artist Hamburg and Produzentengalerie, Between Hello and BSDeathdrive Monday 5 May Go on an Art Hunt Goodbye: the Secret A new public work by at the Lord Mayor’s Chapel. See World of Sarah Records Sam Francis & Emma Lilwall p.21 Arnolfini presents Between Hello and A new public work by Sam Francis & Emma Goodbye: The Secret World of Sarah Records, Lilwall dispersed across 15 city locations. a weekender celebrating the legacy of cult The Deathdrives (USB sticks) are permanently 90s Bristol record label Sarah Records. The installed in public locations and at art weekend includes an exhibition of Sarah organisations across Bristol. Accessed via memorabilia including original artwork, a laptop (or mobile phone connector which sleeves, posters and fanzines, plus additional can be borrowed from selected venues) themed walks and activities. you can drop, share and collect files and artwork. Each Deathdrive has a read-me Friday 2 – Monday 5 May, 11am–6pm file, map of locations and collectable posters. An anonymous off-line file-sharing network, Arnolfini BSDeathdrive is an interactive project 16 Narrow Quay, BS1 4QA which maps the creativity of the city. www.arnolfini.org.uk Deathdrives are installed at key Art @ArnolfiniArts Weekender venues, look out for the Deathdrive map of locations. Limited edition DIY Deathdrive kits are available Annika Kahrs, Playing to the Birds, 2013, HD-film (still) from selected arts organisations for you In Conversation with Matt Haynes and to create your own Deathdrive. Clare Wadd, Saturday 3 May, 5.30pm, £3 From Spring 2014 (permanent) A Concert for the Birds Bad Brickwork To book: www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/ Dispersed across the city – start at The Cube sarah-records or call Box Office on Annika Kahrs Richard Woods Microplex, 4 Princess Row, BS2 8NQ 0117 917 2300 Annika Kahrs invites you to take a seat amidst For his third solo exhibition at Indie pop, www.bsdeathdrive.tumblr.com an audience of songbirds for an enchanting WORKS|PROJECTS, renowned British Northern Soul and @bsdeathdrive #bsdeathdrive recital of one of Franz Liszt’s best loved piano artist, Richard Woods will fill the gallery Motown classics – solos. Staged in one of Bristol’s oldest and with Bad Brickwork. Woods’ beautifully simple celebrate with us at the most intimate chapels, the birds will take up sculptures, made from wood and painted to official Weekender residence among the pews and listen to hourly resemble cartoon bricks, will contort across party. See performances, hearing the piano in imitation the gallery, their vibrant colours, bright p.20 of birdsong with trills and tremolos resulting white mortar and thick black edges a joyous in an artful piece of musical story telling. celebration of the most mundane of building materials. Friday 2 & Saturday 3 May, 12–6pm Sunday 4 May, 1–6pm Friday 2 – Sunday 4 May, 12–5pm Monday 5 May, 12–6pm Monday 5 May, 11am–5pm Continues until Saturday 10 May Performances take place every hour, on the hour. Please note this venue has restricted WORKS|PROJECTS access. See website for details. Sydney Row, BS1 6UU www.worksprojects.co.uk The Lord Mayor’s Chapel @WORKSPROJECTS Park Street, BS1 5TB www.situations.org.uk @situationsUK A Situations project. 4 5 Children’s Films English Magic Gareth Moore Jeremy Deller A vintage mobile cinema Jeremy Deller represented the UK with on the Harbourside English Magic at the 2013 Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious contemporary Screened in a 1960s cinema-bus, this film art event. Don’t miss this critically acclaimed programme created by Gareth Moore and exhibition in Bristol as it tours the UK for aimed exclusively at children offers a unique the first time in the Biennale’s history. English cinematic experience for 5–12 year olds. Magic reflects the Turner Prize winning artist’s Children are invited to immerse themselves interest in the diverse nature of British culture; in the world of film with these playful 16mm its people, icons, folklore, history and politics. shorts by seven international contemporary Encounter a magical assembly of large-scale artists: Ulla von Brandenburg, Keren Cytter, murals, drawings, photographs, film, and Geoffrey Farmer, Julia Fereyr, and Harrell historical materials. Expect references to Fletcher, Mike Marshall, and Sylvain Sailly. No workers’ strikes, the Iraq war, tax evasion, adults allowed unless accompanied by a child. Range Rovers and Ziggy Stardust. Film duration is 20 minutes. Friday 2 May, 10am–5pm Saturday 3 – Monday 5 May, 10am–6pm Saturday 3 May, 11am–5pm Continues until Sunday 21 September The cinema is located in Brunel Square Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Karin Krommes, Dance III, oil on canvas (next to ss Great Britain), BS1 Queens Road, BS8 1RL bristolmuseums.org.uk @bristol_museum Exploration Hamilton House present Karin Krommes, Geoff Diego Acapulco Space Shuttle Public Art (Now): English Magic was commissioned by the British Council. Litherland and Jemma Appleby Panther Panther! ‘Sunday Service’ with The UK tour is supported by the Art Fund. Jeremy Deller Join Antlers Gallery in their latest temporary Panther Panther! brings to UK audiences p.20 Courtesy Cristiano Corte Council, photo by British project space to explore the work of three Nueva Cumbia Latino culture through contemporary artists who deal with ideas of immersive environments, visual music and technological advancement and its relationship expanded cinema performances. Curated with the ‘romantic’ landscape. Other original by Sean Redmond and Hamilton House and editioned work by Antlers artists will also Gallery ‘Acapulco Space Shuttle’ is a multi- be available for viewing. projection audio-visual installation inspired by contemporary electronica from Latin America, Friday 2 – Monday 5 May, 10am–6pm psychedelic light shows and the experimental Continues until Saturday 7 June films of Oskar Fischinger. Throughout the night, the gallery’s façade will be converted Antlers Gallery into a continuous dream sequence of light, Purifier House, BS1 5AD colour and geometry, merging beautiful video www.antlersgallery.com postcards of natural and urban landscapes @AntlersGallery with dancing abstract animations. Friday 2 – Monday 5 May, 9pm – Dawn daily Hamilton House Gallery 80 Stokes Croft, BS1 3QY www.hamiltonhouse.org www.pantherpantherav.tumblr.com Jeremy Deller, A good day for cyclists, painted by Sarah Tynan 6 7 Maximum Irony! Spike Island: Maximum Sincerity Open Studios 1999–2003: Towards a Spike Island’s Open Studios weekend is an Unified Theory of MI!MS annual opportunity to explore the studios of over 70 artists, designers and other creative Andy Holden practitioners based here. Includes mini exhibitions, performances, film screenings, A major installation using film, music and pop-up cafés and opportunities for all ages large-scale sculpture to explore the output and abilities to make and buy their own art. and legacy of MI!MS – an artistic movement founded by Holden and 4 friends when Friday 2 May, 6–9pm they were teenagers – which questions the Saturday 3 – Monday 5 May, 11am–5pm boundaries between reality and fiction, and the nature of collaboration, communication and Spike Island Artspace friendship. Andy Holden’s band, the Grubby 133 Cumberland Road, BS1 6UX Mitts will play a live gig on Friday evening.