Ian Hamilton Finlay Weekend

A week before the closing of their Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition (20 July – 8 September 201),
Arnolfini is hosting an "Ian Hamilton Finlay Weekend".  Friday August 30th  and Saturday the 31st will feature talks, film screenings, performances and readings around the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay.

The three model boats on view in the exhibition (see above) will be auctioned off in support of the estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay and to help maintain Finlay’s garden Little Sparta in Stonypath, Scotland. George Ferguson, the Mayor of Bristol, will serve as auctioneer. The garden has been called Finlay's "greatest work of art". For more information, visit their site, here.

Full schedule below:


Friday 30 August

6pm Graham Rich: A Visual Correspondence, talk

6.45pm Beatrice Gibson: The Tiger's Mind (2013), film screening and in conversation

7.30pm Benefit Auction to support Little Sparta

8.30pm Amor de Dias, concert

10pm Christian Flamm, DJ set

Saturday 31 August

12 noon Stephen Bann, film screening and talk

1.30pm Sue Tompkins: My Dataday, audio work

2pm Harry Gilonis Exhibition tour to St George's

3.30pm Ian Hamilton Finlay: Carrier Strike! (1977), projection

4pm OEI Magazine, talk

5pm KRIWET: Apollovision (1969), Campaign (1972–73), TV-Take (1968), Teletext (1967), film screening

6pm Karl Holmqvist: A is for A=R=A=K=A=W=A (2012), film screening

7pm Kasia Fudakowski: Where is your alibi, Mr. Motorway?, performance

7.30pm Ends

Benefit Auction

Friday 30 August, 7.30pm, free


For more information, visit the gallery site, here.