Arnolfini


Bill Owens
Suburbia Revisited
Sat 2 Feb – Sun 30 Mar
10.00am to 6.00pm
FREE

Photographer Bill Owens is highly influential for an entire generation of American photographers in the lineage of social documentary. He gained acclaim for his series of black & white photographs entitled Suburbia, documenting the birth of newly-built suburban neighbourhoods in California during the early 70s.
As a newcomer himself to one of these suburban districts, Owens captured images of families, furniture, lawns, street parties and formica, offering an insight into the aspirations for the domestic American dream at the time. Owens’ photo essay is candid and charming in its portrayal of this significant era.

The original Suburbia photographs will be presented alongside the world premiere of Owens' new series, entitled New Suburbia, offering a present-day insight into some of the same locations that he originally documented a generation ago. This will be Owens’ first solo exhibition in the UK.

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Semiconductor
Brilliant Noise
Fri 4 Apr – Sun 20 Apr
10.00am to 6.00pm
FREE
CLOSED MONDAYS

Semiconductor's stunning new sound and video installation investigates our perception of the natural world. During a five-month fellowship at NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt explored the techniques, materials and philosophies used by scientists to discover near-space. This new work reveals worlds beyond our sensory awareness which probe the limits of human understanding and experience including images of the sun and visual representations of magnetic fields.

This live installation is accompanied by a performance on Fri 4 April. Link here for details.

Arts Council England International Artists Fellowship Programme: Art and Space Science at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab., University of California, U.S.A. In partnership with the Leonardo network and NASA.

Centre Space

King – Size

Saturday 8th March - 13th March

Open everyday from 11am till 4pm except Thursday - 11am till 1pm.

Showcasing work that was accepted into the Bristol Art Show 07 but that was unfortunately too large to exhibit at the time.

Including the work of Sarah Cockings, winner of the BAS '07 and Helena Sands with her fantastic breeze block scuptures this is going to be one of the best shows of the year, not to be missed.

"Journeys" Art Exhibition and Festival of Events
Friday 14th - Sunday 16th March
FREE

The Ghost Road by Luci Gorell Barnes
The restless energy of Spring is captured in Journeys - an Art Exhibition and weekend Festival of free events at the Pierian Centre. From 6.30pm on Friday 14th to 10pm on Sunday 16th March there is a non-stop programme of art, talks, music, books, and film filling this beautiful Grade 1 listed building.

The journeys that inspire this weekend range from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the cavernous bowels of the cave-systems under Borneo; from travels with a trumpet to a salt-lashed, redemptive retracing of the Atlantic Slaving Triangle. Stanfords are launching a popular new book of “Unforgettable Walks”, and children are invited to immerse themselves in a shadow puppet workshop and to watch the animated film, “Pilgrimage”. Nine different events are crammed into this busy weekend, which is part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

The Art Exhibition opens at 6.30pm on Friday 14th March, and then runs 11am – 5pm on the Saturday and Sunday.

The Festival takes place at the Pierian Centre, 27 Portland Square, St Pauls, Bristol – a Grade 1 listed Georgian beauty. It runs from Friday 14th March, 6.30pm, to Sunday 16th March, 10pm. All events are free – but booking is advisable, especially for Jonathan’s Shadow Puppet workshop on the Saturday morning. For bookings and information contact 0117 924 4512 or info@pieriancentre.com – or go to www.pieriancentre.com

Watershed

The Boss of It All

screenings from:
Fri 29 Feb - Thu 13 March

The iconoclastic von Trier (Dancer in the Dark) takes a surprise turn with this sharp comedy about office life gone haywire. An IT company boss has spent years hiding behind a fictitious president who takes the blame for unpopular decisions. When a tricky takeover means the creation must become a reality, he hires a haughty unemployed actor to play the part, resulting in an hilarious array of tangled situations with the firm’s other employees. Returning to the black comedy of his early film The Idiots, von Trier delivers a witty mix of absurdist humour and moral dilemmas that marks his most approachable film in ages.