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Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson

Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Leprechauns

 

Plastique Fantastique

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

 

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aspex, The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, PO1 3BF t:023 9277 8080 e:info@aspex.org.uk
Opening Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10.30am - 6pm, Sunday 11am - 5pm, Monday closed Admission FREE