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Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Leprechauns   Plastique Fantastique

EXHIBITIONS - current Stranger Things Are Happening An exhibition of video, installation and performance 27 June - 23 August 2009 Artists: Jonathan Baldock, David Blandy, Olaf Breuning, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, David Ferrando Giraut, Erkka Nissinen, Kim Noble & Plastique Fantastique. Opening Events: Saturday 27 June 2009 (please see below for further details) Associated talks & events EAST video, Wednesday 15 July, 6.30pm Plastique Fantastique Artist Talk, Saturday 1 August, 4pm Panel Discussion: Empty Opportunities - 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 aspects 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. David Blandy commissioned by Liverpool Biennial International 08. 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 and 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 193 Albert Road, Southsea (please note this is a change of venue) 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 and venues may be subject to change. Associated talks & events EAST video, Wednesday 15 July, 6.30pm Plastique Fantastique Artist Talk, Saturday 1 August, 4pm Panel Discussion: Empty Opportunities - Art in vacant shops, Thursday 6 August, 6.30pm