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JHG Collective Youth Art Group, Ages 14 – 19 25 May, 2.30-4.30pm (Fortnightly sessions) Our Youth Art Group have been busy creating tactile jugs inspired by this year’s Community Takeover, where local communities will explore the theme of food and how it brings us together. Want to join in? Then come along to our next session led by artist Emma Moxey (@emma_moxey_artist). Email [email protected] for more info.
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Exciting news! We want to extend a huge THANK YOU to New Place Hotel (@new_place_hotel – A stunning hotel and conference venue in Southampton, Hampshire) for their generous sponsorship of Space to Create! at John Hansard Gallery. With their support, we can continue to deliver Space to Create! our free, weekly, family-friendly, drop-in activity for participants to draw, make and build together. These weekly sessions provide memorable, immersive learning experiences, provoke imagination, introduce unknown worlds and subject matter, and offer unique environments for quality time with family. We were delighted to welcome some of the team from New Place Hotel to John Hansard Gallery recently and it was a pleasure to show them around and share our passion for art and creativity. Thank you, New Place Hotel, for all your support. 🫶 #SpaceToCreate! #NewPlaceHotel #JHG #SotonArt #HampshireArts #UniversityofSouthampton #Southampton — @new_place_hotel @uni_southampton
SHOWING NOW Gerard Ortin Castellví: Bliss Point
14 May – 29 June 2024 
John Hansard Gallery is excited to present Gerard Ortin Castellví’s film Bliss Point, screening on our Digital Array. Bliss Point is the final film in Ortín Castellví’s trilogy that focuses on the food that we eat and the major transformations it continues to undertake, alongside the infrastructures of food distribution and marketing.
 We are made aware of the sheer vastness of algorithm powered robots that buzz tirelessly through sprawling grids of crates to meet the demands of our food consumption.
 In the same vein, late at night, a delivery driver cycles across the city to a makeshift kitchen trailer located underneath a bypass, where workers try to keep up with the demand for home delivered burgers and fries. A fox feeds from discarded food waste, as we encounter the city’s urban wildlife who forage from our food waste. We uncover food production techniques of 3D printers stacking layers of computer-generated data to produce food alternatives – Bliss Point reveals the entanglement of automation and human labour.
 The term ‘bliss point’ refers to a specific amount of an ingredient such as salt, sugar or fat in order to optimise the palatability of a product. In turn, the film expands on this concept to explore the ways in which the aesthetics and the politics of food intersect. This beautifully crafted film brings to the fore the acuity of food packaging and the intricate movement of food distribution, all set to an enveloping soundscape of machinery, laboratories and human labour.

About the artist: Gerard Ortín Castellví (b. 1988) is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher currently reading a Ph.D. at Goldsmiths University London, funded by an AHRC fellowship. His practice focuses on the relationship between moving images and the technologies and ecologies of food in the context of the current environmental transformations. He is a mentor at UCL Creative Documentary by Practice MFA, and a member of the Ecological Reparation project. 🍔 #ShowingNow #FoodIndustry #FoodWaste #ArtFilm #BlissPoint #Artist #Southampton #SotonArts — @gerardortin @artsunisouth @uni_southampton @aceagrams