Events

Nottingham

British Art Show 7 comes alive in Nottingham; showing at three galleries that form a triangle around the city centre - New Art Exchange, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery and Nottingham Contemporary. Some events require booking. Please contact the venue for details.


  • 20 Nov

    Olivia Plender:The Lost Works of Johan Riding

    Nottingham Contemporary
    2pm, free

    In Nottingham Contemporary, Plender will present a performance, ‘The Lost Works of Johan Riding', Dr Roger Quallen, Olivia Plender and Craig Burnett will introduce the little-known filmmaker Johan Riding. Dr Quallen will read from his upcoming study of Riding to provide some background about his life and work. Quallen, Plender and Burnett will then present some of the material - drawings, photos and possibly a film clip - that they have uncovered while researching his first three films: The Lost Clown, Mr Slidly Joins the Team and Out of Wack. Performance with Craig Burnett and Nick Santos-Pedro.

    The Otolith Group:Screening of Otolith 1 – 3

    Nottingham Contemporary
    5pm, free

    Shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize, The Otolith Group is named after the parts of the inner ear that give a sense of balance. The Otolith Trilogy roams between documentary and fiction, social engagement and the luxury of visual pleasure that cinema offers. Introduction to the film screening from Lisa LeFeuvre and Tom Morton, Curators of British Art Show 7.

     

  • 11 Dec

    Sue Tompkins:Hallo Welcome To Keith Street

    Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
    3pm, free

    Using rhythm and repetition, layering, juxtaposition, inversion, elaboration, stresses and pauses, Sue Tompkins's dynamic spoken-word performances re-energise language and give it new meaning. Her material - amounting to hundreds of pages of meticulously ordered and edited texts - is gathered omnivorously from literature and everyday life. Apart from the ring-binder containing her texts, her only other accompaniments are a stool (on which to prop her file) and a microphone.

    Gail Pickering:Sixty Six Signs Of Neon (Cancelled)

    Owing to technical difficulties the performance by Gail Pickering scheduled for Saturday 11 December has been cancelled.

  • 08 Jan

    Luke Fowler:Screening of A Grammar for Listening, Parts 1 – 3

    Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
    2pm, free 

    In film, sound is usually incidental; an accompaniment for visual images. Luke Fowler reverses that equation: in A Grammar for Listening (Parts 1- 3) the subject is sound. Collaborating with sound artist Lee Patterson, whose environmental recordings capture sounds that are usually unheard: recordings of underwater life, the pulsations of neon lights and the explosions of burning walnuts to produce a dialogue between looking and listening.

    Steven Claydon:Over the sun (forward-facing lemon-yellow eyes)

    Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
    4pm, free

    Steven Claydon's sculptures, films, performances, paintings and drawings examine the idea of cultural history as a construction. For his performance in Nottingham, Claydon takes his cue from a painting from the Castle Museum and Art Gallery's collection, William Benner's After the Blitz, near Trivett's Works from Cliff Road, Nottingham.

    Tris Vonna-Michell:Balustrade

    Nottingham Contemporary
    5pm, free

    Tris Vonna-Michell's performances are rapid-fire monologues delivered in dimly lit mixed-media installations. His narratives fuse elements from his personal life with history and fiction, and finally probe the limits that separate these categories. Under time pressure as the artist sets a clock running to perform to, the stream-of-consciousness digressions that blend almost seamlessly into his percussive stories often drive them to near incomprehensibility.