Cabot circus, Dawn of the dead - Thurs 9:30pm

bristol | corporations | event notice Thursday September 25, 2008 12:29 by reposter

Blackout Arts presents a Moving Graffiti™ outdoor movie screening

Location: Bond St, opposite House Of Fraser (under the new footbridge)
Time: *9.30pm*, Thursday, 25 September

You are cordially invited to an unofficial parallel launch for Bristol's
vast city-centre shopping development, Cabot Circus.

Blackout Arts opened the development's public art programme in 2006 with a
series of audio-visual installations and participatory projects raising
questions of resilience, ambition and possibility in the relations between
human and built agents in the urban environment .

Nearly three years on, the artist collective marks the opening of Cabot
Circus in association with the 30th anniversary of George A. Romero's 1978
zombie classic *Dawn of The Dead*, with a special moving graffiti™
presentation using the architectural fabric of Cabot Circus as a screen.

As the sequel to Romero's seminal movie rulebook re-write, Night of The
Living Dead (1968), Dawn of The Dead famously drew on the zombie motif in
the shopping mall environment to question the role of consumption at the
heart of American cultural liberalism and the brand of rampant materialism
it spawned.

30 years on, at the unveiling of Bristol's reconstructed heart, Blackout
Arts invites you to question the relevance of Romero's vision in today's
international context.

Bring a blanket or portable chair and refreshments if possible.