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We had a barnstorming weekend. Really very good, and although a bit by the seat of our pants, we more than got away with it. Very good spirit among everyone. 'C Words: where are we going?' worked pretty well. Difficult to really reflect and evaluate when it's all still so recent, but the discussions were meaningful and gave us lots of useful points to use when we do our critique in earnest... The Auction of late-Capitalist artefacts was absolutely hilarious and somehow completely dodgy while being brilliant (ie, a fantastically complex event).  Read more

On 1st December PLATFORM's Agitpod mobile cinema will set off on it's return journey from Bristol to London, why not join us?  Read more

C Words seeks to avert a future where climate refugees clamour in vain at sealed borders.  Read more

Together with other PLATFORM collaborators I have been spending time in the gallery, talking with visitors about their responses to the C Words exhibition. Today, one such conversation elicited a comment which has stayed with me all day: "It's interesting - but its not art is it." "Why do you say that?" James responded. "Because it's trying to make me believe something." I took this thought to today's C Words critical tea party where a lively discussion ensued.  Read more

Today PLATFORM opened a discussion on what happens after 29th November, when the C Words season at Arnolfini comes to an end.  Read more

Today I sat, I took time watch Ursula Biemann's film Black Sea Files. The film is showing as a video installation in gallery five at Arnolfini until Sunday 8th November.  Read more

For many people the C Words season raises questions about the responsibility of artists and creative practitioners in the context of the social and environmental challenges which our society faces. Last week's Embedded conference sought - in part - to explore this issue.  Read more

Next week C Words will train a spotlight on Tar Sands, described as 'The most destructive industrial project on earth'. Join us at Arnolfini this Sunday, 25th October 2009 from 19:00 for a special preview screening on the brand new film H2Oil.  Read more

As one of five C Words Co-Realizers one of my jobs is to reflect on the events which take place in the gallery. Yet, within the walls of Arnolfini I find it hard to find intellectual space or critical distance from the work.  Read more

On Sunday afternoon, Virtual Migrants presented a performance and talk: The Centre Cannot Hold, Part 1. The performance examined the social inequalities around the issue of climate change. The following discussion looked at why those most effected are largely not the industrialised economies causing it; the connections between environmental crises and migration; and local Bristol history that connects to these wider issues.  Read more