BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:635@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160311T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20160311T200000 DTSTAMP:20160221T112628Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-royal-standard-playing-by-th e-rules/ SUMMARY:The Royal Standard: The Royal Standard: Playing by the Rules DESCRIPTION:Public preview: Friday 11 March 2016\, 18.00 - 20.00\nExhibitio n runs Saturday 12 - Sunday 27 March 2016\nOpening times: Saturday &\; Sunday 12.00 - 18.00\, all other times open by appointment Admission: Fre e\n\n\nPlaying by the Rules  \nArtists: Carly Bainbridge\, Simeon Barclay \, Ane Hjort Guttu\, Andy Holden\, Peter Sweetman\n\nPlaying by the Rules looks at the role that rules play in society\, from those\, both written a nd unwritten\, that govern our everyday behaviour.\n\nThe exhibition also examines the conceptual nature of rules themselves\, and how we use them t o try to understand and control the world around us. Authority figures and institutions use them to codify and control individuals’ behaviour\, of ten with arbitrary and ineffectual results\, however\, having rules in pla ce also provides a framework within which to operate\, as opposed to a bla nk slate\, and sets up boundaries to be tested and broken.\n\nRules are al so a defining feature of games\, with sports such as football existing in their contemporary format due to the implementation of rules\, showing tha t the provision of a defined structure can be useful or even fun\, as well as limiting and restrictive.\n\nCarly Bainbridge\, Simeon Barclay and Pet er Sweetman all exhibit newly commissioned works\, while Ane Hjort Guttu s hows her film Freedom Requires Free People\, and Andy Holden exhibits Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape.\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Tom Eme ry.\n\nCarly Bainbridge will reactivate discarded fragments from another a rtist’s work\, originally exhibited as part of An Arbitrary Exhibition a t TOAST\, in January 2015. Bainbridge will research new possibilities of d ialogue with these objects\, entering into a discourse exploring the value and ownership of ideas vs the value and ownership of material.\n\nSimeon Barclay produces a synthesis of sculpture\, painting and installation\, us ing the resulting objects as a means to reinterpret the perplexity of his own personal memory. He is drawn to the diverse ways in which we inhabit s ubjectivity as a mechanism for coming to terms with and masking the psycho logical implications that form our perception of self within society.\n\nA ne Hjort Guttu’s Freedom Requires Free People presents an 8-year-old boy at a primary school in Oslo. The film follows him through interviews and during school hours\, and looks at the conflict between his strong desire for freedom and participation and the framework put forward by the school. \n\nAndy Holden’s Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape makes an attempt to define the laws of physics as they appear in the cartoon universes of Wile E Coyote\, Bugs Bunny\, and more. For example\, Law I informs the vie wer that “Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aw are of its situation.”\n\nPeter Sweetman will produce new architectural\ , sculptural and sonic forms that arise from the hyper-reduced language of the CAPTCHA (a form that protects websites from bots by generating tests that only human beings can solve). In doing so\, he will operate only unde r the automated and randomly generated sequences that CAPTCHAs produce.\n\ nThe Royal Standard\, Vauxhall Business Centre\, 131 Vauxhall Road\, Liver pool\, L3 6BN\nWeb: www.the-royal-standard.com\nSocial Media: Twitter @Roy al_Standard\, Facebook /TRSgallery\nEmail: tomemerycurating@gmail.com\, in fo@the-royal-standard.com\nOpening times: Saturday &\; Sunday 12.00 - 1 8.00\, all other times open by appointment Admission: Free\n\nEvents\, hos ted by the Bluecoat\nSaturday 23 April 2016\, 19.30\ntickets FREE\nAndy Ho lden\, Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landskype Live-streamed from Glasgow In ternational\, Andy Holden will deliver the live\, expanded version of his work Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape.\n\nMore about the Artists\nCar ly Bainbridge graduated from BA Interactive Arts at Manchester School of A rt in 2015\, winning the Alumni Prize\, awarded by Ryan Gander\, for her d egree show work. She is also a member of the artist collective TOAST.\n\nS imeon Barclay has recently been selected for the inaugural Liverpool Bienn ial Associate Artists Programme\, which will include exhibiting at the Liv erpool Biennial 2016. He has previously exhibited at the Tetley\, Leeds\; Meyohas\, New York City\; and the Grundy\, Blackpool.\n\nAne Hjort Guttu ’s first UK solo exhibition took place at South London Gallery in 2015\, she has previously exhibited widely throughout Europe\, including Bergen International Festival\; Witte de With\, Rotterdam\; and the Vienna Bienni al.\n\nAndy Holden has exhibited and performed widely throughout the UK an d internationally\, including Spike Island\, Bristol\; Performa 13\, New Y ork City\; and Wysing Arts Centre\, Cambridge.\n\nPeter Sweetman studied a t the National College of Art and Design\, Dublin. He has previously exhib ited at TOAST\, Manchester\, and is based at Rogue Studios\, Manchester.\n \nThe Royal Standard is an artist-led gallery\, studios and social workspa ce in Liverpool\, housing over 40 artists. In addition to their regular pr ogramme of exhibitions\, The Royal Standard hosts Cactus Gallery and is a regular venue for the Liverpool Biennial.\n\n[caption id="attachment_67792 " align="alignnone" width="600"] Andy Holden - Laws of Motion in a Cartoon -Landscape[/caption] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/02/trs-play-rules.jpg LOCATION:The Royal Standard\, Northern Lights\, Cains Brewery Village\, Gra fton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.392268;-2.978806 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Northern Lights\, Cains Bre wery Village\, Grafton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\, Liverpool\, United Ki ngdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Royal Standard:geo:53.392268,-2.97880 6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR