- Venue
- Motorcade/FlashParade
- Starts
- Friday, June 1, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, June 3, 2012
- Address
- Motorcade/FlashParade BV Studios 37 Philip Street Bedminster Bristol BS3 4EA
- Location
- South West England
Art, as a shifter of perceptions, is a terrain which can change how we think about ourselves and the world. As such, it is a potential catalyst for producing social change. An encounter with artwork that is unusual, surprising or delivered in atypical ways can disrupt our customary behaviours, allowing us to see and think differently. Bread & Roses attempts to operate in this arena, opening up a space in which something new can take place.Comprising both on and off-site projects, the exhibition consists of selected existing works and new works produced by invited artists, chosen for this catalytic potentiality, however unquantifiable. In accepting this immeasurability, the project remains about possibility. Many of the works share a subtle political undercurrent, underlying the desire to see the world differently in order to change it. These pieces provide a grounding from which to view some of the more poetic works in the show. The show takes its name from a poem penned in 1911 by James Oppenheim, but commonly attributed to a Massachusetts textile strike in 1912 where it was used as a slogan by the women strikers – we want bread but we want roses too. Peer critique at 2pm on Saturday 2nd June. Part of the Bristol Biennial Community Arts Festival
