Events
Sat 11 April, 2pm, Free
The Good Life Event
Artists Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans present a discussion that will take the audience on a virtual guided tour through their home, further exploring their interest in representations of domestic architecture. For this event they have invited Eric Jooris, a solicitor, with whom they will also discuss their proposal for ‘The Good Life’.
Sat 30 May, 2pm, Free
Futurelab
Richard Sandford plus other members of Futurelab, a Bristol-based think tank, discuss different ideas and expectations people have about the future.
Tue 16 June, 8pm, Free
Science Café: Genetic Futures
The Science Café is relaxed and informal, giving everyone the chance to hear about and comment on current science related issues in the context of the Futurology season.
Ainsley Newson, senior lecturer in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Bristol leads the discussion. Ainsley spends her time unpicking the social and moral issues of developments in genetic technologies. With DNA sequencing and genetic testing technologies advancing all the time, the reality of a ‘personal genomic profile’ for any one of us is just around the corner.
Sat 20 June, 2pm, Free
Tommy Støckel, Saturday talk and tour
Tommy Støckel will lead a tour of his exhibition.
Sat 4 July, 2pm, Free
In Conversation
Architect George Ferguson discusses his ideas for the future of design and buildings.
Sat 11 July, 2pm, Free
BSL Tour of Tommy Støckel
Led by Matt Jenkins with spoken interpretation.
Sat 18 July, 2pm, Free
Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska
Museum Futures: Distributed
Screening/Discussion
Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska’s film Museum Futures: Distributed (2008) is a machinima record of the centenary interview with Moderna Museet’s executive Ayan Lindquist in June 2058. It explores a possible genealogy for contemporary art practice and its institutions, by reimagining the role of artists, museums, galleries, markets, ‘manufactories’ and academies. The screening will also incorporate a discussion led by Neil Cummings and the curators of the Sequelism exhibition, discussing the future of art institutions.
Sat 15 August, 2pm, Free
In Conversation
Richard Sandford from Futurelab and Andy King, Museum of Bristol discuss ways of thinking about the past and future.
Fri 21 August, 7.30pm, £3/£2 concs
The Futurological Congress
Sequelism Artists’ Screning Programe Screening
A programme of artists’ videos selected by the curators of Sequelism to accompany the exhibition, including works by Marjolijn Dijkman, Jordan Wolfson and Julia Meltzer & David Thorne. Introduced by Nav Haq, Exhibitions Curator, Arnolfini.
Jordan Wolfson, Untitled (the nothing), 2009
9mins 51sec
Marjolijn Dijkman, Wandering through the future, 2007
60mins
Haluk Akakce, Tomorrow is Another Day, 2005
9mins 55sec
Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, We Will Live to See These Things, 2007
47mins
Thurs 17 September, 6.30pm, Free
David Maljkovic
Scene for a New Heritage Trilogy Screening
The films in David Maljkovic’s renowned Scene for a New Heritage Trilogy (2004–6) are set between 2045 and 2071, visualising different encounters with a communist monument at the memorial park at Petrova Gora, Croatia, and speculating on how the meanings of history and monuments change over time.
Sat 19 September, 2pm, Free
Roy Ascott
Art and Technoetic Evolution: When the Mind outgrows the Body
Artist and theorist Roy Ascott gives a presentation on the recent ideas informing his Technoetics art practice, that has grown out of his long-term research into cybernetic and ‘telematic’ art.
September, date tbc, Free
Wil Holder
Neologisms Workshop
Booking required, call 0117 917 2300 / 01
A language workshop for young people led by the designer, writer and editor Will Holder for constructing brand new words or ‘neologisms’, inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller’s technique for synthesizing existing words to generate names for new concepts and designs.
