About Plan9
Plan 9 is a contemporary visual arts organisation run independently by a group of artists, curators and writers. Plan 9’s 2008 programme includes international and national residencies; one off events; screenings; critical debate through talks and writing; alongside an ambitious gallery programme.
Plan 9, Bridewell Island, Nelson Street, Broadmead, Bristol, BS1
(public entrance is on Bridewell Street)
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Not Here Not Now
Anna Barham
Tom Dale
Maria-Brigita Karantzi
Andy Parker
Curated by Natasha MacVoy
Preview: Thursday 27 November 2008, 6-9pm
Gallery Open: 28 November – 14 December
Thursday – Sunday, 12-6pm
Anna Barham, Tom Dale, Maria-Brigita Karantzi and Andy Parker, four London
based artists, investigate ideas around temporality and the event status
of exhibitions. The group show includes new works made specifically for
the Plan 9 space. ‘Not Here Not Now’, looks to both the recent
past and to the future through the examination of fleeting moments, passing
thoughts and the creation of myth.
The artists work with a range of media, strategies and tactics including
performance, appropriation and installation. Barham’s poetic fragmentation
and reconfiguration of language physically punctuates the space, whilst
Dale’s new video work explores the manifestation of thought elusively
following an uncertain trajectory. Parker’s meticulous production
re-presents flawed objects giving permanence to their ephemerality, whilst
Karantzi’s selection of quotidian materials that build her fantastical
and fragile installations are seemingly poised mid voyage.
The works have found temporary resolution in the gallery space confining
them to the here and now against the setting of the double negative Not
Here Not Now.
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SOMEWHERE HERE
Laura Bel
Simon Buckley
Nim Jo Chung
Karen Di Franco
Craig Fisher
Brian Griffiths
Sophie Mellor
Ellen Wilkinson
Curated by: Anton Goldenstein
4 November – 3 December 2008
Exhibition launch: Monday 3 November at 6.30pm
Come to Plan 9, Bridewell Street, Broadmead, Bristol, where the Plan
9 Soup Kitchen will provide sustenance and a map detailing the nine sites
around the city centre.
Exhibition Tour: Saturday 8 November at 2pm – meet
at Plan 9
Somewhere Here presents the work of eight artists on eight advertising
hoardings situated throughout Bristol city centre, a centre that has recently
been redeveloped with 120 new shops opening in a time of economic crisis.
Plan 9 has slipped in between this gap between fantasy and reality, hijacking
advertising space to provide the beleaguered shopper with a brief respite
during the fall of capitalism.
Brian Griffiths extends his recent interest in posters and typography
(Life is a Laugh for Art on the Underground 2007, Alive for A Foundation
Liverpool 2007) with another blunt statement: The End of it. He quietly
taps into the routines of daily life and hints at the grandness and absurdity
of the human predicament and history. The poster with its outdated design
and shabby appearance, appears like an artifact left from another time.
Playing with the aspirational nature of advertising, Sophie Mellor states
"All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna
look, I f**k like you wanna f**k, I am smart, capable, and most importantly,
I am free in all the ways that you are not.” Aimed at the target
of the majority of adverts, Mellor’s poster tantalisingly invites
52% of the population to meet her by her billboard on 29 November at 5pm,
and join her Girl Gang.
Taking inspiration from the architecture of the previous post war development
and the aspiration of modernist ideas, Karen Di Franco has created a collage
that reflects on the ideas of redevelopment and lost memories.
The exhibition includes sites on St Mary Redcliffe Way, Prince Street
(by the corner of Queen Square), the St Phillip Barton Roundabout and
Broadmead (opposite Debenhams)
Somewhere Here is supported by Bristol City Council
