Commotion Artist's Film Programmes
Series 3

Over the past two years Arnolfini and Picture This have worked in partnership to present a total of nine innovative exhibition programmes of work by one hundred artists to sizeable audiences within Arnolfini's auditorium. The Commotion series has established a reputation for bringing audiences together to view and discuss curatorially rigorous programmes of work by international contemporary artists. Each of the carefully researched projects explores a pertinent theoretical issue or creative genre through the presentation of a number of fine art films and talks by artists, curators or academics.

Flock on Film
Dalziel + Scullion, Marcus Coates, Stuart Gurden, David Hinton, Andrew Stones, Rona Lee

This programme curated by Louise K Wilson explores the often complex and paradoxical relationship between humans and birds. In these works liberating and restricted flight become emblematic for the state of being human. The bird is seen and used in multiple ways as symbol, portent, or natural history subject.

Hindsight
Tacita Dean, Fiona Tan, Susan MacWilliam, John Smith, Vibeke Tandberg, Elke Groen

This programme presents artists who explore history, archive material and (super)natural phenomena. Facts blend with fictions and myths are investigated and re-staged in scenarios that question our perception and experience of truth, time and vision.

Volume
Jordan Baseman, David Blandy, Dryden Goodwin, Saskia Holmkist, Paul Rooney, Andrew Stones

An exploration of the role of sound and voiceover in film. This programme includes works such as Jordan Baseman's July the Twelfth 1984 based on the actual audio recording of the State of Georgia 's execution of Ivon Ray Stanley and Saskia Holmkist's System in which a narrator tells of the effect of political decisions made in China , Libya and Australia . The artist and writer Shirley MacWilliam will be invited to discuss the place of sound and audio work within the contemporary visual arts.

Congregation
Annika Eriksson, Bethan Huws, Joachim Koester, Joao Onofre, Artur Zmijewski

Moving image projects in which contemporary artists collaborate with groups of musicians of singers. Joachim Koester's Pit Music explores the relationship between audience and artists performing Shostakovich's String Quartet No.8 and Artur Zmijewski's Singing Lesson shows a choir of deaf people rehearsing a Polish Mass.

Exhibition
Flock on Film

9 April 2003, Arnolfini, Bristol

Hindsight

24 April 2003, Royal College of Art, London

14 May 2003, Arnolfini, Bristol

Volume

25 February 2004, St George's, Bristol

14 April 2004, Island Art Film and Video Festival, London

29 July 2004, Margate Rocks, Kent

Congregation

23 March 2004, St George's, Bristol