No Programme?
Chronicles from the Bureacratic Beyond: Part 1

22 September - 11 November

No Programme is a call to re-think culture in your own terms, beyond fixed outcomes, formats, spaces and times.

At a moment in which the city investigates the possibilities for a Creative Plymouth, No Programme sets up a series of operations in which people in Plymouth and across the region are invited to come to their own definitions of what much worn terms like culture, participation and democracy might mean.

Reading groups, talk shops, chance encounters, storytelling sessions, participatory actions, pamphlets and an awards game all ignite a series of investigations into how we might inhabit culture.
In the Galleries, found sounds become the basis for an acoustic journey into contemporary experiences of migration, racism and inclusion. As members of the artistic collective Ultra-red, racial justice organisers from The Monitoring Group and people across England’s Southwest discover new dialects in which to reflect on their experiences and imagine actions in the future.

Follow members of The Committee for Radical Diplomacy as they become dispatchers for a relay of awards inviting people in Plymouth to nominate those who contribute to the liveliness of the city. Catch a glimpse of them as they present and disseminate the C.A.P.E.R (Culture Accomplishments in Plymouth: an Extravagant Relay) Awards following the thread from nominator to nominee around town. Time is not on their side. Will they find them all? The collective, revealing the findings of the awards, will produce a series of pamphlets - The Chronicles. Their journey is plotted through the galleries and you can make your own award and nominate someone.

No Programme has been curated in collaboration with activist, collaborator, producer, educator and institutional mischief Janna Graham as part of the Artists and Curators Residency Programme.

www.ultrared.org

www.radicaldiplomacy.org