Emporium and Classics threatened with eviction – BUT STILL OPEN!

here’s an interview on BCFM click to listen/download: BCFM radio interview NOV2010 with reg and matt

We are in court on the 7th of Jan 2011.
Any help is extremely welcome, testimonials and messages of support can be sent to emporium37@gmail.com. Testimonials as to any work done on the building would be particularly helpful.

These ‘owners’ have let the buildings rot for years and years and now have the cheek to come back and lay claim to a building they have never invested time in looking after.

They also own 41 stokes croft  – the crofters nightclub destroyed by fire. If we had not come and fixed up 35/37 stokes croft they would look the same as crofters. The owners from hong kong don’t care about the buildings, nor stokes croft, so they don’t deserve to have a say in what goes on with the building.

Check the Bristol Indymedia article for more information: Bindymedia Article
Meeting at the Emporium Mondays at 8PM with BHAM for further discussion

SEE BELOW FOR THE EVENTS ON AT THE MOMENT!

WE WILL NOT BE CLOSING OR STOPPING
This space has been going for nigh on 2 years and it won’t be taken by a rich hong kong businessman who has no interest in the building nor has done any work on it since buying it in 1993!(he hasn’t even been to bristol, and admits knowing nothing about the situation or the local area).

Sennen and the Sporadic Squirrel: 7th – 12th Nov

against the wall 26th-30th october open 1-7pm daily

follow this link for info about the show and the artist: will_parry_press_pack

4th – 24th Oct: 101 Days 101 Paintings VERMIN Room 101

Room 101 is a place introduced in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. It is a torture chamber in the Ministry of Love in which the Party attempts to subject a prisoner to his or her own worst nightmare, fear or phobia.

“You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.”

By catching at the bliss that forms between you and me

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images of the thing that looks like a tree but is not a tree exhibition by Michael Powell Sept 2010

The things that looks like a tree but is not a tree ON NOW!

The show runs until the 1st of october, so get on down and discover what’s inside!!!!!

Squid Ink and Friends art doo the Emporium: Aug 17th.

Between then and Now: 16th July from 8-11pm. Photography Exhibition and Live muSic

‘Between then and now’ is a documentary project about people and
places from a vanishing world. This vanishing world is situated in the
Bavarian Forest, which is characterized by its rural structure and
which is undergoing massive shifts from a traditional to a modern
society. A result of this change is the loss of an old life style,
along with its values and traditions. Another result is a necessity of
leaving those behind and starting something new. Thereby those places
and people are left behind.

Process Meets Material 2nd-7th July Opens Friday night.

Hotel Mind 19th-28th June Opens Fri @ 6pm

Hotel Mind Statement

Hotel Mind is a six part narrative which explores the complex psychical and psychological process brought about through grief, absence and loss (including that of oneself in the midst of heightened emotions and numbness), in an attempt to give a truthful account of the inner life of those afflicted.

The absence of significant co-ordinates can alter the course resulting in a parallel life to that which was expected. This detour can have destructive consequences, due to naivety and inexperience leading to confusion, fear, inertia, and feelings of impending doom. A mourning of the difference between the life one was going to have and the reality of the life one does have.

These emotions can reflect themselves in behaviours such as denial, dependence, co-dependence, anxiety and depression. Freud himself wondered why mourning involved not just depressed states but also anxious one’s. Finding oneself again and accepting that process in all it’s messy glory is at the essence of Hotel Mind.

As temporary places of residence, hotels symbolise transition from one stage to another. They act as a metaphor for the lack of personal identity associated with one’s life history and question the physical and emotional attachments that we would associate with the security of a home.

Figurative imagery is consistent within the Hotel rooms echoing the feeling and emotion felt as well as memory and further use of metaphors to express a particular psychological stage and expose this hidden condition of the psyche.

Hotel Mind has been compared with Art Brut also known as Outsider Art, with it’s challenging and obsessive content. Although there are associations with this genre, it crosses over with a surrealist perspective – a freedom to liberate the unconscious and although intensely personal, it is yet universal in context.

Juliet King
February 09

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