The What's On planner at the bottom of this page gives a schedule of upcoming public events.

This page briefly introduces the programme of projects. For further information click on the organisation's name.

Kurator (Plymouth, UK), has collaborated with LX 2.0 (Lisbon), to develop a programme of new work to infect the Olympics. Artists Carlos Katastrofsky (Vienna) and Heath Bunting (Bristol) were selected from an open call INFECTED: VIRAL CALL FOR VIRAL WORK which invited proposals for online commissions that respond to the idea of the 'virus'. Each artist was offered a short residency to develop the work with the Art & Social Technologies Research group at the University of Plymouth, UK. Heath Bunting's system map How to Become A Member of Team GB is available by clicking here and also in printed format. This flow chart positions the individual Olympic Athlete in the wider social and economic context. The work is a continuation of the Heath's "Status Project" through which the artist intends to make visible our collective regulatory systems. In a related project, the artist will be be working in Spring 2010 with a secondary school in Plymouth in partnership with Plymouth Arts Centre. Carlos Katastrofsky's vir.us.exe is a windows programme available by clicking here here and communicated and spread by e-mail annoucements, mailing lists and other networked (viral) press activities. Carlos' project strips down the mechanisms of a viral infection and transfers its core principles into the digital realm. Kurator has also developed Open Anti-Bodies, an online open submission and presentation platform for Anti-Bodies. In response to the Anti-Bodies theme, artists are invited to submit proposals via this online platform for new or existing work in any form. The platform allows for submitting work, storing all works, curatorial selections and displaying selections. Curators, artists, and others, will be invited to curate their own selections from the submitted projects.

Arnolfini (Bristol, UK), is working during April and May 2010 with a group of Deaf young people from Elmfield School in Bristol to explore access for the Deaf community. This will take the form of an intensive work experience programme, exploring Arnolfini as an arts organisation with explosure to inspirational Deaf arts professionals, David Ellington and James Banks, and hearing artist Nisha Duggal wose work investigates gesture and non verbal communication. The project will result in a new artist's commission that will be presented as part of the Inbetween Time Festival of Live Art at Arnolfini, December - January 2010. This project is part of the Arnolfini series of exhibitions, throughout 2010, related to the idea of lingua franca: looking at intermediary language, linguistic translation and the construction of new languages. Previously as part of Anti-Bodies, Arnolfini presented Small Metal Objects by Back to Back Theatre, Melbourne, a wireless broadcast performance in a Bristol city-centre location, from 21 to 24 May 2009. Back to Back is one of Australia's leading contemporary theatre companies with a working process that supports its ensemble of actors with intellectual disabilities as its creative core. Small Metal Objects was an Inbetween Time project for Arnolfini and Bristol Old Vic. During their time with Arnolfini, Back to Back also undertook workshops with Bristol-based Art + Power. Art + Power is an arts organisation led by disabled artists. 

Plymouth Arts Centre (UK), developed new commissions with Franco and Eva Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org (Madrid and New York) and Francesca Steele (UK), and a programme of engagement work, as part of a major curatorial collaboration with the Marina Abramovic Institute for Preservation of Performance Art, New York. The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow also included four other new durational performances, a seminar, and publication Marina Abramovic and the Future of Performance Art, published by Prestel. The programme was presented at the Royal William Yard in Plymouth and sites around the city, in January 2010. Pioneers of the net.art movement, Franco and Eva Mattes developed an online work in Second Life. Francesca Steele is attempting to become a professional body builder. Taking on this very physical and psychological process, the artist aims to challenge her body to compete in regional fitness and physique competitions. Engagement work included The Complaints Choir, involving local people through an open call, initiated by Tallervo and Oliver Kallienen; The Performance Market an open call event for emerging artists working with performance at Plymouth City Market; a Reading Room and Library; the Performance Paper distributed throughout the City; Walk the Walls, a 12 hour walk responding to Abramovic and Ulay's Great Wall of China walk; as well as workshops with young people.  

Spacex (Exeter, UK) and amino (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), are developing a national touring project with internationally recognised artist Theo Jansen (Netherlands). For 18 years, Jansen has been developing a series of mechanical creature-like skeletal devices he names strandbeest (Dutch - "beach animal"). He applies a mix of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution and engineering to invest the machines with animal-like abilities which enable them to walk and respond to their environment. They have no electronic elements; can capture and store energy from the wind to power their movement; and much of the materials used in their construction are recycled scrap. From 1 to 3 July, Jansen will demonstrate one of his most ambitious works to date, Umerus, in action in Exeter City Centre and on the beach at Exmouth in conjunction with an exhibition at Spacex and a programme of talks and engagement work 15 May - 3 July.

Projectbase (Cornwall, UK), are developing a 2-year research project with internationally renowned artists Lucy + Jorge Orta (Paris), which focuses on exchange and collaboration with UK and international partnerships in Cairo and Singapore. For Lucy + Jorge Orta, art is a catalyst for social change. Confronted with the growing crisis of poverty, exclusion and dislocation in our society, they have produce interventions and actions which address these themes. Their new work with ProjectBase explores the treacherous journey encountered during migration and the survival of sailors, migrants and refugees, and their physical and psychological needs. In 2010, ProjectBase has invited a group of young people from Cornwall to establish a "youth board" to devise, develop and deliver a programme for young people, led by and facilitated by young people. The youth board will be involved in planning and developing the ProjectBase commissions programme including the Lucy + Jorge Orta project. It will develop a programme for international co-operation and exchange with young people in Cairo and Singapore as part of the Orta commission. 

Relational (Bristol, UK), is developing a series of projects, the first of which is a new animation work by Melanie Jackson (UK), International Fauna. The commission can be seen from 19 April 2010 at Animate Projects, Vimeo; this site; and downloaded from i-Tunes. A screening of International Fauna will be presented at Picture This Moving Image in Bristol on 8 May 2010, 12 to 5.30pm, with a discussion and launch event at 2pm when the artist will be in conversation with writer, architect and artist Stephen Beasley, and Gary Thomas, co-director of Animate Projects, London. International Fauna is a blast, an anti-anthem, a parade of the animal symbols designated by nation states quick change through a background of digital colour fields. The representations are matched back with their animal call, for the duration of the image - a concrete composition of the absurd. The work delights in these extraordinary attempts to project national values onto an animal form, and in the forms they have taken. Melanie Jackson is a London-based artist with recent solo exhibitions including, The Drawing Room, London, Arnolfini Bristol and Matt's Gallery, London. Much of her practice has been concerned with the flow of international capital. She is currently investigating the relationships between nature and technology through a series of experiments with fauna and flora, and the technologies available to her. International Fauna is commissioned by Relational and produced with Animate Projects, London, and Picture This, Bristol (UK).