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Press Release: Advance Notice
Launch Date: Thursday 2 October at 8pm.
Location: Traders Tavern, Cardiff.
URL: www.arcadesproject.org¬
Artist : Jennie Savage.
Contact: Zoe King - Senior Project Manager - Safle.  
Tel: 02920 448074 email: [log in to unmask]


The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary
An exploration led by artist Jennie Savage

‘The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary’ is a series of projects initiated by
the artist Jennie Savage in collaboration with Safle which will take place
in Cardiff’s Victorian and Edwardian Arcades between October 2008 and
October 2009.

Background

Cardiff is known as the city of Arcades because it has the highest
concentration of Victorian and Edwardian shopping arcades in the UK. Over
the next year (2008-2009) the artist Jennie Savage will lead an exploration
into these spaces, inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades project and
constructed in the light of the ‘St David’s 2’ (SD2) shopping centre which
the developers are calling ‘Cardiff’s Grand Arcade’. 

Jennie Savage has a research based practice, which draws upon documentary
techniques. She has a particular interest in exploring the place between
public spaces, town planning, constructed landscapes and the human story -
the lived lives and personal narratives connected to those sites.  Working
through a process that uses archiving and intervention she seeks to map the
other life of a place or community in order to reveal a complex situation, a
micro- structure or simply an unheard voice.

For more information about Jennie's work visit: www.jenniesavage.co.uk 

2-5 October 2008 - Portable Cinema Project

A site specific response to the building of a major city centre retail
shopping centre. The Portable Cinema will be located in a portacabin
adjacent to the SD2 development in Cardiff and will show documentary,
experimental and artist films in order to map the complex narratives current
to the twenty-first century city.

In addition to the film programme artists Peter Cusack (Sounds of London)
and William Raban (London Film Cooperative) will present their work.

Films by: Peter Wyeth/ Semiconductor/ Nathaniel Kahn / Jem Cohen/ Bureau of
Inverse Technology/ Charlotte Ginsburg/ Vision Machine/ Jean Rouche & Edgar
Morin/ John Smith/ Margret Tait/ Stan Brakhage/ Guy Sherwin/ Chris Marker/
Rosalind Nashashibi/ Cordelia Swann/ Mayling To/ Jaques Tati/ Dziga Vertov.

Film Programme is curated by Victoria Tillotson in collaboration with Jennie
Savage.

For more information on the programme and port-a-cabin address please go to:
www.arcadeproject.org and click on film club.


March 2009 - The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary
A walk for Wireless headphones

A sound track to Cardiff’s Victorian Arcades which will make visible a
collage of possibilities discovered through historical research/ recorded
oral histories/ interviews/ constructed dialogue and found narratives. The
soundtrack will invite the viewer to re- think place in relation to time
through a series of interlocking sound pieces which will be transmitted
wirelessly through the arcades. 
Researcher: Dr. Andrew Cochrane, School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff
University.

March 2009 – Nutopia: Exploring the Metropolitan Imagination 
Think Tank
“Each epoch dreams the one to follow”
Michelet, Avenir! Avenir!

Drawing on speakers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds the
symposium will seek to explore the imagination of the ‘Global City’ as a
possible source of inspiration; a city of dreams. This ‘Think Tank’ will be
an opportunity to talk about the nature of community, human stories, the new
– utopia s which we may find present amongst contemporary town planning and
architecture.

October 2009 - The Museum of the Moment 

Over the course of The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary, Savage will
generate a new layer of research mapping Cardiff’s Victorian Arcades and The
Hayes area of the city. She will respond to this research by creating an
interactive DVD archive in collaboration with designer Garry Bartlett. This
Archive will act as a document not only of this place but also of moments in
time when the city is in transformation. The subject being the point in time
between the start and the end.


1of 4 Publication Series

During the year Savage will release four publications that make visible her
research beginning with, ‘1of 4: auto - portrait of a development’ that will
launch during the Portable Cinema Project from 2 October 2008. 


Notes

‘St David's 2' is a joint development between Land Securities and Capital
Shopping Centres. Together, as the St David's Partnership, they are to
spearhead this landmark £675 million, 89,891m² development in the heart of
Cardiff that will be completed by October 2009. 

The Arcades Project: A 3D Documentary is one of a number of projects
developed through the St David’s 2 Public Art Programme and is supported by
the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund. 

Safle’s mission is to promote, advocate, develop and implement art in the
urban and rural public realm, throughout Wales and internationally. Through
our many programmes and methods of working we strive to enliven and
regenerate public spaces, support and initiate sustainability and educate
and inspire local communities. Safle works in collaboration with artists,
architects, residents, communities, public authorities and the private
sector responding to the increasing demand for better public spaces.

Please see:

www.arcadesproject.org
www.safle.com
www.stdavids2.com
www.hlf.org.uk

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