Travel Stories is a collaborative project produced for Casco by Danish artist Pia Rönicke, Kurdish writer Zeynel Abidin Kizilyaprak, which thinks about the nature of how stories are shared, heard and retold. The exhibition is centered around the film Facing, which the artist and writer co-directed in Istanbul in January 2008. 

The first solo exhibition in the UK by Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz – a powerful body of work selected from the last ten years that evokes memory and loss to compelling and seductive effect.

This exhibition marks a moment in FACT’s 2008 Human Futures: my world programme where one of the world’s most
celebrated contemporary artists considers the human condition – from a conspicuously female position. Directing
and often playing the lead in her own works, Pipilotti Rist turned to the do-it-yourself medium of video because of its
closeness and intimacy with the subject. At a significant juncture in the artist’s career, as she prepares for a departure
from the gallery to the big screen of cinema, this exhibition draws together a set of the prevailing concerns within the
artist’s work to date.
With a trademark sensual slickness, her work explores ideas of fearlessness, the body, nature and spirituality. In this
UK debut of Gravity Be My Friend, the final part of a series launched to great acclaim with a site-specific
installation in a church at the 51st Venice Bienniale, she turns to the age-old religious concern of a paradise lost,
equating a global consciousness of climate change with the fall of man in the Garden of Eden.

Works by Jill Greenberg, Jessica Roberts, Edith Maybin and Jeongmee Yoon.

Public viewing times: Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm (or by appointment)

Play is a state of mind, a place of imaginings.  When we play we exist in a state of suspension between the real and the possible.  Artists seduce the oberver's eye and the mind into joining a play already in progress.  The Gallery at O Born Contemporary provides a showcase for this exchange: our first year of programing is built upon the word play and all of its possibilities.  We take great pleasure in presenting our premier exhibition to our clients and the broader community. 

10am - 6pm (Except Mondays)

Free

Far West is an experimental project that will transform Arnolfini from an arts venue into a distinctive ‘concept store’, that explores the shifting of the economic centre of the world to the East.

The Far West concept store will provide customers with the experience of interacting with, producing, and then purchasing, a selection of specially branded products, designed by artists or inspired by artists’ projects from ornaments to music, comics, food, toys, and artworks. In the process, customers will gain an insight into the nature of economy, cultural hegemony, the history of certain products, and the marketing potential of regional identities.

Sailing to Byzantium brings together work initiated during a study trip to Istanbul undertaken by staff, students and graduates of Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University in January 2008.

The exhibition features photography, video, sculpture and drawing and reflects a veritable range of responses to this fascinating and beautiful city.

An essay by David Howells accompanies the exhibition.

Exhibition: Sailing to Byzantium
Opening Times: Monday - Friday 12 - 5pm
Admission: Free

Geometry Wars presents a new body of work, comprising twenty one paintings and two sculptures. Painted mostly in 'greyscale' and muted tones, Bolivar's palette presents a flipside to the witticism often associated with his paintings, reminding us, in the words of Peter Ustinov, that comedy is simply a funny way of beingserious.

Open Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.

The exhibition ‘A Riot Of Our Own’ looks at the Rock Against Racism (RAR) Movement of 1976-1981, through the private archive of Graphicsi -Ruth Gregory and Syd Shelton. They were RAR (London) committee members and key graphic designers of its associated material such as, the paper Temporary Hoarding, posters and stickers, badges, and illustrations. Syd photographed performers and members of the audience at RAR carnivals, gigs and demonstrations, as well as contextual social and cultural images that informed the politics of the movement, across England and Ireland. The archive is a unique repository of this pivotal period in Britain when difference was championed as empowering, anti-establishment, challenging a post-modern act, that helped to define Britain’s character.

Steven Claydon: 'I think the reason I started making these things was because of the gulf I perceive between the public or institutional modes of artistic production and the private and commercial, and also how we understand pre-avant-garde or pre-Modernist art to be , to be or any movement that supplants another with all the incumbent rewriting of history and self - aggrandisement. The fin de siècle threshold. Impressionism and Modernism, and the Doric and Ionic. So in the case of the difference between the public face of art and the private nature of it, most people's understanding of Public art is sculpture for a start, except for the odd mural. Mostly they're representations of historical figures, unless it's a Henry Moore or something like that. Invariably it's figurative and most often than not the subject is patriarchal. On top of that these works are representations of people we've mostly never heard of, and it struck me that we encounter this stuff everyday, and take it for granted...'

Open Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm

Borders, Codes and Crossings is a new body of work produced during 2007-2008.  Operating across a broad range of artistic categories and using an expansive armory of process and techniques, Nicholl's work addresses a number of engaging but complex themes.  These includ questions of aesthetic form, surface and depth, chance and order, the found and the fabricated, systems or archaeological and geographical mapping, and the relationship between work and play. 

Philippe Favier, Hervé Graumann, Kevin Francis Gray, Markus Hansen, Rosie Leventon & Kate Street

For "How to Talk to Images", Richard Wright has compiled a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks. "The Internet Speaks" and "The Mimeticon" use this database to create a world where we can “read” pictures, browse “libraries” of endless images or learn to draw with alphabets.

In celebration of six decades at the core of the
city’s cultural life, and as one of the first arts centres in the country, Plymouth Arts Centre celebrates its relationship with the city and marks its achievements. This exhibition discloses fragments of Plymouth’s past and present through archive material, film footage, radio broadcasts and stories, which focus on our 60 year history and the culture created by the city’s residents.

Root Index unearths relics from the archive and re - presents some of its remarkable history. In the production of a new commission, Reciting the City, Mike Lawson - Smith has also worked with archival material. His two - screen video installation sets the stage for a latent dialogue between Plymouth’s citizens, prompted by film footage extracted from the South West Film and Television Archive.

Open Wed-Sat 11:30-5:30pm, Thursdays in July until 8pm, Sundays and Bank Holiday 2-5:30pm