Platform Events - C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture

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C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture

How did you get here and where are we going?

A major exhibition, season of over 50 events and actions in the run-up to
the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen,
by PLATFORM and artist-activist collaborators at
Arnolfini, Bristol
3rd October - 29th November 2009

Launch weekend: 3-4 October 2009

Saturday, 3rd October

Who's Recuperating Who? Part 1
11.30 – 1pm, Gallery 3
What are the power relations between art, activism and the institutions of mainstream art? An opening exchange between PLATFORM and Arnolfini, with discussion.
C Words: How did we get here?
2.30pm - 5pm, Gallery 3
PLATFORM and artist-activist collaborators discuss their vision and work. Also launch of Art Not Oil's 2010 Diary.
C Words Opening Night!
5.00pm - 7pm, Gallery 3, Light Studio & Foyer
Come and celebrate!

Sunday, 4th October

Virtual Migrants
live performance
Passenger 5: Climate Racism
2pm, Gallery 4
Artists, guests and participants discuss racial and imperialist backgrounds to climate change. With Arun Kundnani (virtual) from Institute of Race Relations, and Guy Bailey OBE (live).
Critical Tea Party
4 Oct, 5 – 6pm, Reading Room
Come to the first Critical Tea Party to chat over tea and cake, hosted by the Co-Realisers.
The Walking Forest
All weekend
Bring a small tree or sapling to add to The Walking Forest, Ackroyd & Harvey's Bristol time-based artwork.

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Detail from Carbon Map. Credit: Ultimate Holding Company / Platform

7 major new commissions and live art from:

Ackroyd & Harvey African Writers Abroad Institute for the Art & Practice of Dissent at Home Hollington & Kyprianou with Tamasin Cave & Spinwatch Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination Trapese Collective Virtual Migrants

Plus events with:

Amelia's MagazineArt Not OilCarbon Trade Watch
The Corner HouseFERNGreenpeaceFeral TradeLive Art Development Agency new economics foundation & Clare PateySustrans - Art & the Travelling LandscapeUltimate Holding Company

More than 50 events throughout the Autumn

C Words is part of Arnolfini's 100 Days season, marking the countdown to the 15th UN Conference on Climate Change, Copenhagen, December 2009.

For more information on all events in the C Words season, please visit the 100 days website, www.platformlondon.org and www.arnolfini.org.uk.

Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
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