Associated talks & events:
EAST video, Wednesday 15 July, 6.30pm
Plastique Fantastique Artist Talk, Saturday 1 August, 4pm
Panel Discussion: Empty Opportunties – Art in vacant shops, Thursday 6 August, 6.30pm
Stranger Things Are Happening brings together artists that use diverse media to create works which convey bizarre scenarios, poking at the human psyche. The artists involve themselves either as character or as narrator, using theatrical backdrops and humour to delve into the more challenging and questionable asp ects of society. They invent fantasy personalities and situations that examine matters such as the hysteria around mass media and popular culture, and the place the characters (or us as individuals) have within them. Under a seemingly flippant, amusing and sometimes sinister surface, the artists are gesturing at moral issues including religion, race, gender, identity and even the role of art itself.
Stranger Things Are Happening presents new and existing work of several international artists/groups that are working in the fields of contemporary sculpture, video installation and live art. The exhibition will open with a festival weekend of live events and installations within the gallery (a converted naval storehouse) and at various off-site venues throughout Portsmouth.
Opening Events: Saturday 27 June 2009
11am - FREE coach from London (details below)
11am - Off-site venues open (until 5pm)
2-4pm - Drinks Reception, aspex & Plastique Fantastique performance at aspex & Gunwharf Quays
5pm - Open Platform Performance Evening
7pm - Return coach to London departs from Portsmouth
Coach info
FREE coach departing from London Eye at 11am & returning by 9pm (booking essential).
To book please contact info@aspex.org.uk or call 023 9277 8080.
Off-site Opening Times
Sunday 28 June, 12-4pm: All off-site venues open
Everyday: Jonathan Baldock at 19 Marmion Road
Saturdays, 12-4pm: All off-site venues open
Groups can access the off-site venues at other times by appointment.
Off-site Exhibition Locations
Olaf Breuning & Erkka Nissinen at French Bakery, 190 Albert Road, Southsea
David Ferrando Giraut at 28 Palmerston Road, Portsmouth
Jonathan Baldock at 193 Albert Road, Southsea
Due to the nature of the off-site locations, all times & venues may be subject to change.
