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Self Portrait: Arnolfini

St Pauls, London

As part of Self Portrait; Arnolfini we produced a beautiful celebratory publication, designed by Stephen Coates and developed in close collaboration with archivist Julian Warren.  

Recalled from composite memory on the eve of our centenary in 2061, three relational threads are intertwined;

1. social and financial organisation

2. technological innovation

3. art and its institutions

At the foot of this page you can download a .pdf of the publication, read a data sprite snippet, see how we developed the raw-text on this wiki, or view the complete data-sprite timeline as @SP_Arnolfini

A print version is published by Arnolfini and available from Cornerhouse.

Self Portrait

Recalled from composite memory in 2061, Self Portrait: Arnolfini is a relational timeline of institutional self-consciousness. The complete timeline is being tweeted @SP_Arnolfini as part of the Samsung Art+Prize: 17th - 29th January 2012

Self Portrait: Arnolfini

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samsung Art+Prize

address data spriteAs part of the Samsung Art+Prize, I  tweeted the whole of the data sprite timeline of Self Portrait: Arnolfini.  

 #SP_Arnolfini

Recalled from composite memory on the eve of our centenary in 2061, three relational threads are intertwined;

1. social and financial organisation

2. technological innovation

3. art and its institutions

The complete timeline of institutional self consciousness, 2061-1831; starts with riots.

You can read a data sprite snippet, or see the beautiful book designed by Stephen Coates, published by Arnolfini and available from Cornerhouse.

 

Finale Symposium

BAS7

Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd December 2011

I will be in Plymouth to participate in the Finale Symposium for the British Art Show 7. With Tom Trevor, Director of the Arnolfini and using Self Portrait Arnolfini as our guide, we will permormatively inhabit 2061 and recall from composite memeory, how we got there. 

2056
 Singularity is overwritten by difference

With the evolution of assemblies for replication, singularity is overwritten by difference.


Everything is at once singular, everything can be narrated into singularity. Yet nothing is singular, everything can be bedded down into a flow of precedents and antecedents. The singular only exist at the level of the ideology, it disappears as we advance towards it. The singular is in essence a generic artefact, assembled from the minute and relative differences from within a defined series.  And this drive to replicate, image for image, object to object, sound to sound, word for word is how we make the know world; and, that world known to one another.

Read the symposium twitter stream

New Book!

St Pauls, London

As part of Self Portrait; Arnolfini we have produced a beautiful celebratory publication, designed by Stephen Coates and developed in close collaboration with archivist Julian Warren.  

Recalled from composite memory on the eve of our centenary in 2061, three relational threads are intertwined;

1. social and financial organisation

2. technological innovation

3. art and its institutions

You can download a .pdf, read a data sprite snippet, or see how we developed the raw-text on this wiki.

A print version is published by Arnolfini and available from Cornerhouse.

Walk through time

Walk through time on Sunday 25th September 2011, 12 - 1pm

Ms ChanJoin me on Sunday 25th September between 12 - 1pm, with archivist Julian Warren and curator Nav Haq and we will walk through time on a tour of Self-Portrait: Arnolfini. The talk and tour, from 1831 to 2061, will culminating in the launch of  Self-Portrait: Arnolfini the book of the project beautifully designed by Stephen Coates, especially for Arnolfini's 50th anniversary.

See the installation of Self Portrait, part 1, or part 2, or the Futures workshop

Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol, Avon BS1 4QA
0117 917 2300

Arnolfini: publication

As part of the Self Portrait; Arnolfini project we are making a publication of the relational timeline for the Birthday Celebrations. Recalled from composite memory in 2061, three threads are intertwined;

1. social and financial organisation

2. technological innovation

3. art and its institutions

You can see how the text develops, as we're writing it collaboratively on this wiki. The book should be ready for the party on September 23rd 2011.

A sample:

1851, The Great Exhibition

"A great people will invite all civilized nation to a festival, to bring into comparison the works of human skill. the organisatuon of this giant enterprise; the inclusion of every type of process of manufacture; the successful appeal to all clases of the population; the stimulation of trade, will commend this Exhibition to our ancestors, as it now does to ourselves."  Henry Cole

Self Portrait 2: installation

Over the course of 2011, which is the Arnolfini's 50th anniversary year I will be working to develop a series of self-portraits of the institution using information from their archive. Presented throughout the building, these four data portraits will accumulate throughout the year, tracing the Arnolfini's histories and speculating on possible futures.

Relational map

 

Art in the City

 

Wedneday 30th March, 6pm Arnolfini Narrow Quay Bristol

To coincide with the Self portrait; Arnolfini project, I will be giving a lecture about archives, research and exhibition as part of the

Art in the City Spring 2011 Lecture Series
Organised by Arnolfini, Bristol City Council and the University of the West of England, this programme of events explores public art commissioning in Bristol and further afield.

Self Portrait 1: installation

Over the course of 2011, which is the Arnolfini's 50th anniversary year I will be working to develop a series of self-portraits of the institution using information from their archive. Presented throughout the building, these data portraits will expand throughout the year, tracing their histories and speculating on possible futures.

Arnolfini

 

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Public AssemblyPractical HouseholderThames foreshoreTimeline installationLongest DayFuture Station