Brighton

Your guide to art in Brighton

Artists on Show in Brighton

The Sound of Silence: Alfredo Jaar
Fabrica
6 October - 5 November

Chilean artist and photojournalist Alfredo Jaar's installation looks at the life and work of South African photographer Kevin Carter. Focusing on a single image, the piece is - in the artist's words - "a poem that asks about the ethics of what we (photojournalists) do when we shoot pain".

www.fabrica.org.uk

Brighton Photo Biennial: Nothing Personal
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
6 October 2006 - 7 January 2007

Organised by Gilane Tawadros, 2006 Brighton Photography Biennial curator, Nothing Personal takes its title and theme from photographer Richard Avedon and writer James Baldwin's jointly authored 1964 portrait of the "troubled" condition of the United States. Juxtaposing Andy Warhol's Electric Chair silkscreens with the work of major photographers such as William Eggleston and Walker Evans Tawadros's show aims to raise questions about the present-day state of the States as much as their past.

www.bpb.org.uk

David Claerbout: White House
Adel Abdessemed: God is Design
University of Brighton Gallery
6 October - 4 November

Projected from the gallery onto Grand Parade, Brighton's main thoroughfare, Abdessemed's animated film God is Design (2005) rhymes geometrical abstractions with biological patterning. Claerbout's thirteen-hour-long film, shot in a single day, uses repetition to disorient viewers' perceptions of time and movement.

www.brighton.ac.uk/gallery

Walker Evans: England, 1973
Gardner Arts Centre
5 October - 26 November

A survey of late work by photographer Walker Evans all recording his 1973 visit to Sussex. Documenting both his English hosts and places visited this show represents a little-known body of Evans's works, unlikely to be assembled in a single exhibition again.

www.gardnerarts.co.uk

Stephen Bull: Meeting Hazel Stokes
Permanent Gallery
6 October - 5 November

Collaboration between professional photographer Stephen Bull and "celebrity-obsessed usherette" Hazel Stokes, Meeting Hazel Stokes manipulates its protagonist's backstage snapshots to reflect on the notion of stardom.

www.permanentgallery.com

Bio-Tracking: Group show
Phoenix Gallery
October - November

Anna Dimitriu and fellow artists make use of a variety of new technologies to transform visitors' awareness of their surroundings. Via 'sticky shadow' software downloads, Brighton flaneurs with smart mobile phones will be able to receive a variety of messages, images and sonic artworks as they traverse the town.

www.phoenixarts.org

Galleries / Art Spaces / Organisations

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

Recently transformed by a £10 million redevelopment, Brighton's Museum and Art Gallery displays a fascinating variety of both historical and contemporary cultural artefacts. From October 2006 to January 2007, Brighton Museum and the sites listed below all play host to Brighton's second Photography Biennial.

www.brighton.virtualmuseum.info

FABRICA

Contemporary visual art and craft gallery Fabrica opened a decade ago. Based in Brighton's disused Holy Trinity Church, Fabrica's exhibitions are complemented by education and publication programmes and professional development resources for artists.

www.fabrica.org.uk

University of Brighton Gallery

Showcase of the University of Brighton's Art and Architecture Faculty

www.brighton.ac.uk/gallery

Gardner Arts Centre

A venue for drama, dance, film, music and educational activities, alongside a continuous programme of art exhibitions

www.gardnerarts.co.uk

PERMANENT GALLERY

Permanent's mission statement emphasises its provision of support for new ideas, new ways of artworking, and the establishment of dialogues between gallery artists and audiences. On site alongside the gallery is a specialist arts bookshop.