12 Encounters 4th, 5th, & 6th October - 7-8pm Anthony Shapland Bute Street, Cardiff Bay The art of Anthony Shapland documents moments of transition in daily city life that are usually overlooked or thought invisible. Through their capture and editing on fi lm, these mundane, everyday events – the lighting of a street lamp, the daytime sleep of night shift workers, drunken encounters after a nightclub has shut – assume an unexpected character and signifi cance. In his explorations of the city at sunset and sunrise, he reveals the private uses to which public spaces are put.

Shapland has been covertly recording Cardiff’s nightlife during the small hours over the summer, whilst fi lming the same urban spaces during daylight hours. For Urban Legacies, Shapland has edited this footage into mini-dramas, complete with subtitles of the drunken conversations, laughs and abuse. Put together, ‘12 encounters’ is a brutal, humourous and often crudely subtitled comparison into how city spaces are inhabited throughout a 24hr period. This project is part of Urban Legacies: Another New Babylon, a series of temporary public art projects commissioned by CBAT, the arts & regeneration agency, Cardiff.

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