the guide - Liverpool Biennial

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the guide - Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool
Biennial
2016
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1 ABC Cinema
Lime Street and Elliot Street
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2 Cains Brewery
Stanhope Street, L8 5XJ
3 The Oratory
Liverpool Cathedral
St James Mount, L1 7AZ
4 Saw Mill
Parr Street, L1 4JN
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6 FACT
88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ
7 Open Eye Gallery
19 Mann Island
Liverpool Waterfront
L3 1BP
8 Bluecoat
School Lane, L1 3BX
9 Exhibition Research Lab
John Lennon Art & Design
Building, Liverpool John
Moores University
Duckinfield Street, L3 5RD
Festival of Contemporary Art
9 July – 16 October
Free
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Ventilation Tower Plaza
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Walker Art Gallery
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Contemporaries 2016
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Contemporary Art
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Welsh Streets
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142 Granby Street, L8 2US
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Kings Dock, L3 4FP
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Renshaw Street, L1 2SJ
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Introduction
Welcome to the 9th edition of Liverpool Biennial. Liverpool
Biennial 2016 explores fictions, stories and histories, taking
viewers on a series of voyages through time and space,
drawing on Liverpool’s past, present and future. These
journeys take the form of six ‘episodes’: Ancient Greece,
Chinatown, Children’s Episode, Software, Monuments
from the Future and Flashback. They are sited in galleries,
public spaces, unused buildings, through live performance
and online. Many of the artists have made work for
more than one episode, some works are repeated across
different episodes, and some venues host more than
one episode.
For Liverpool Biennial 2016, a Curatorial Faculty
has been assembled to work together, sharing different
interests and expertise. I am grateful to all of them
for participating with me in such an open and
collaborative process.
For the first time, artists have worked together with
children to produce new work for the Biennial. An exciting
new partnership with Arriva North West has enabled us
to commission artists to paint three working buses that
will be in service in the region during the Biennial.
We are excited to be collaborating with CACTUS
and Independent Curators International to present work
by ten Associate Artists who are participating in a new
long-term programme of mentoring and research. We are
once more delighted to present the John Moores Painting
Prize and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which have
both been partners of the Biennial since the first edition
in 1999. Tate Liverpool, FACT, Open Eye Gallery, Bluecoat,
The Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art and Liverpool
John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Lab are
our exhibition partners and we are grateful to them for
their collaboration.
We are also grateful to our many supporters and in
particular Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council
for their continued support.
There are many organisations presenting exhibitions
and projects in the city concurrently with the Biennial.
They have been listed in a separate guide.
Sally Tallant, Director
Visitor Information
We hope you enjoy your
stay in Liverpool as you
explore the Biennial
exhibitions and events.
Visit our Visitor Hub
at Cains Brewery,
Stanhope Street, L8 5XJ.
It is open daily from
10am – 6pm.
For exhibition opening
times, please consult
individual venue
pages in the guide or
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Contact Us
+44 (0)330 123 0584
[email protected]
Booking Information
Entrance to exhibitions and
events is free unless stated
otherwise. Where booking
is required, visit
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Ancient Greece
Chinatown
Children’s Episode
Monuments from the Future
Flashback
Software
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Artists
Lawrence Abu Hamdan Andreas Angelidakis
Alisa Baremboym
Lucy Beech
Sarah Browne &
Jesse Jones
Mariana Castillo Deball
Yin-Ju Chen
Ian Cheng
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
Céline Condorelli
Audrey Cottin
Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Jason Dodge
Lara Favaretto
Danielle Freakley
Coco Fusco
Fabien Giraud &
Raphaël Siboni
Hato
Ana Jotta
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Episodes
Samson Kambalu
Oliver Laric
Mark Leckey
Adam Linder
Marcos Lutyens
Jumana Manna
Rita McBride
Dennis McNulty
Elena Narbutaite
Lu Pingyuan
Michael Portnoy
Sahej Rahal
Ramin Haerizadeh,
Rokni Haerizadeh &
Hesam Rahmanian
Koki Tanaka
Suzanne Treister
Villa Design Group
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Betty Woodman
Arseny Zhilyaev
Curatorial Faculty
Sally Tallant
Dominic Willsdon
Francesco Manacorda
Raimundas Malašauskas
Joasia Krysa
Rosie Cooper
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Polly Brannan
Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey
Ying Tan
Sandeep Parmar
Steven Cairns
The Black-E and Chinese Arch. Photo: Shirlaine Forrest / Getty Images
A NC I E N T GR E E C E
C H I N AT OW N
In the early 1800s, architects such as
John Foster and Harvey Lonsdale Elmes
built Liverpool’s neoclassical cityscape
as a second version of Ancient Greece.
This allowed the rising elite of merchants
who benefitted from colonial trade
and the industrial revolution to fashion
themselves, and their civic commitment,
as a reenactment of the legendary cradle
of democracy. In the Walker Art Gallery
there is a watercolour by Samuel Austin,
made in 1826, that continues this fiction.
Depicting Carthage in ancient times, Austin
uses Liverpool’s neoclassical buildings as a
backdrop. This collapsing of space, time and
stories mirrors the way in which the Ancient
Greeks imagined and depicted their own
myths on friezes and vessels. They didn’t
tell stories with a beginning, middle and
end, but depicted many stories in parallel,
showing how multiple things happen at
once, on a single plane.
Liverpool’s Chinatown has existed since
the late 1890s and is the oldest in Europe.
Its entrance is marked by a traditional arch
imported from Shanghai. In the same way
that the city’s merchant class linked itself
to Ancient Greece through neoclassical
architecture, this arch links Liverpool’s
Chinese community to an image of home.
Chinese immigration was, as with many
migratory fluxes today, motivated by
geographical labour demands and like the
Greek fiction beneficial to Liverpool’s ruling
class, Chinatown was beneficial to sailors
and workers from a different continent.
But as China itself changes, this architectural
arch also shifts meaning. Many now
see Chinatown as a nostalgic image of
something that has become more dispersed,
and that might even exist primarily in online
networks, or through economic investment.
Throughout Liverpool Biennial 2016, echoes
of these different Chinatowns resound in
spaces across the city.
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Tate Liverpool
10 George’s Dock Ventilation Tower Plaza
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F L A S H B AC K
S OF T WA R E
A flashback is a way of experiencing history
as it punctuates the present unexpectedly.
Flashbacks can rupture established
narratives and provide new understandings
of the past. For instance, a building designed
with the image of Ancient Greece in mind
can help tell a story about another city
thousands of years later, and the emergence
of childhood memories in adulthood can
help the understanding of new social
realities. In this episode, which was
prompted by a conversation with Krzysztof
Wodiczko, artists interpret flashbacks
through film and the exhibiting of artefacts
that travel through time from a different
reality to interrupt our own.
Software is usually considered as
something functional, such as programmes,
instructions or rules that direct the computer
to perform specific operations, but it can
also open a portal to other dimensions
and imagined worlds. This episode points
towards a broader understanding of
software beyond technical application to
ideas of scores and choreographies, through
which one thing affects another without
practical outcome. These scripts, running
through the Biennial, generate additional
and unexpected content and behaviour,
create parallel understandings of art and life,
and expand and produce new social forms
and possible worlds. The episode opens up
perspectives and aesthetic experiences for
‘users’, activating multiple portals that offer
the ability to leap from one world to another,
from everyday reality to the ‘nethersphere’
of computation and abstraction.
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FACT 7
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Bluecoat 12 Public Spaces 9
Exhibition Research Lab Online
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, filming for Dogsy Ma Bone, 2016.
Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Pete Carr
C H I L DR E N ’S E P I S ODE
MON U M E N T S F R OM T H E F U T U R E
Children imagine the space between
fiction and reality differently from adults,
sometimes making no distinction between
the two. They experiment with forms of
social organisation constructed by adults,
inventing new rules, and simultaneously
creating new futures. For the Children’s
Episode, artists have been invited to
consider children as the primary audience:
sometimes making work with them,
sometimes for them.
For this episode, artists have been asked to
assume the role of futurologists. They were
invited to imagine what Liverpool might look
like in 20, 30 or 40 years, and to design a
monument for these scenarios. As a result,
a series of public art commissions travel
across time, appearing to be from the future
but situated in the present.
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Ian Cheng, Emissary Forks at Perfection (detail), 2015. Courtesy the artist, Standard Oslo and Pilar Corrias
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F L A SH BACK
CHILDR EN’S EPISODE / CHIN ATOW N / F L ASHBACK
ABC Cinema
Cains Brewery
9 July – 16 October
9 July – 16 October
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Beneath Cains Brewery is a lake that is 40
feet deep. It is rumoured that employees of
the brewery used to row boats there, and in
1995 a diver found carved graffiti on the wall
dating to 1864, 13 years before work began
on the red brick building above.
As you walk through the brewery’s
canning hall, you will encounter a number
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, The Unmanned (1922 – The Uncomputable), 2016. Courtesy the artists
The ABC Cinema is a Grade II listed building
in the Art Deco style that first opened its
doors to the public in 1931. The last film
shown there, in 1998, was Casablanca.
As part of the Children’s Episode, Samson
Kambalu invited a group of children to
imagine this film’s content. The experiment
is part of Kambalu’s concept of ‘Nyau
Cinema’, which subverts the conventions
and limitations of everyday life.
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni’s
film series The Unmanned recounts
a history of technology in reverse.
The Unmanned includes an account
of the Earth’s dismantling in 7242, the
discovery of California by conquistadors
in 1542, and, in 2045, the moment at which
machine intelligence overtakes human
intelligence. The most recent episode,
1922 – The Uncomputable, which reflects
on Lewis Fry Richardson’s attempt to build
a huge weather-forecast factory, has been
commissioned for this year’s Biennial as part
of the Flashback episode. Every Tuesday,
The Unmanned series plays in its entirety.
When the films stop playing, the
ABC Cinema undergoes a transformation.
Marcos Lutyens’ voice permeates the
space, and sculptures by Lara Favaretto,
Rita McBride and Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni
Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian emerge
from the Chinatown episode.
Cains Brewery. Photo: Shirlaine Forrect / Getty Images
of episodes, including Chinatown, Flashback
and the Children’s Episode. At the centre
is the large structure Collider, designed by
Andreas Angelidakis, inspired by the Large
Hadron Collider – a giant instrument that
operates at the boundaries of scientific
knowledge. Angelidakis’s structure divides
the space into different episodes.
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Chinatown, the first episode you come
upon, is entered through a portal made by
Céline Condorelli. Chinatown contains work
made on site by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni
Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, who
have sent to Liverpool objects, props, films
and works from their art collection. These
items have been ‘smuggled’ by sea in a
shipping container from Dubai, where the
Iranian artists are currently living in exile.
Nearby, Audrey Cottin’s Flour Tables invite
you to tell a story using the medium
of dough, recorded by a graphic artist.
Ian Cheng’s Emissary Forks For You
is a mixed reality simulation in which
a small dog, Shiba Emissary, verbally
commands the viewer to follow her
throughout the exhibition. With promise
of reward, the viewer assumes a new role:
Shiba Emissary’s pet.
Lara Favaretto’s Lost and Found
suitcases are the result of yearly visits
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to places where lost luggage can be found:
flea-markets, railway stations or dumps.
Having obtained a suitcase, she combines
what is already inside with new items, locks
the case and throws away the key. Several
of these works can be found across many
exhibition sites.
Rita McBride’s Perfiles depict the
outline of houses in Pompeii, a city
in the South of Italy that was buried
in metres of ash and pumice after the
volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in
79AD. Sculptural memories of buildings
consumed by time, the Perfiles are
distributed across the exhibition.
Dispersed throughout the Biennial
venues, Jason Dodge’s What the Living
Do comprises small items that people
left behind, such as sweet wrappers,
cigarette butts, leaves, shells, receipts and
used tickets. The artist has been collecting
these items for many years.
Rita McBride, Perfiles, 2010
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, O’ The grand old lion, tied to the
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As you walk inside Andreas
Angelidakis’s Collider, you step into
the Flashback episode. Inside is a film
by Samson Kambalu that explores the
ambivalent psychogeography of Liverpool’s
imperial monuments, and a drawing by Koki
Tanaka that he made when he was a child.
Ana Jotta’s wallpaper is created from
the pages of her 2014 book Footnotes,
which portrays the numerous objects and
paraphernalia that she has been collecting
over many years. Not overly attached to
these objects, Jotta often throws them
away, but not before they have helped her
to generate the next work.
In a room nearby, and also part of
the Flashback episode, Yin-Ju Chen’s
Extrastellar Evaluations brings together
evidence of Lemurian presence on earth.
Lemuria is a continent that sunk beneath
the ocean thousands of years ago. Its
inhabitants have been living on earth in
another dimension, revealing themselves
as conceptual artists in the 1960s.
Extrastellar Evaluations unfolds between
Cains Brewery and FACT.
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At the centre of the Collider is the
Children’s Episode. For this episode,
Céline Condorelli has designed a portal
that is only for children to use.
Since April 2016, Marvin Gaye
Chetwynd has been working through
workshops and live performances with
34 children and 44 teenagers from across
Liverpool to make the film Dogsy Ma Bone,
using the city as a backdrop to the action.
The film is inspired by Betty Boop’s A Song
A Day, 1936, in which Betty sings to exotic
animals in a hospital she owns, and Bertolt
Brecht’s satirical musical Threepenny Opera,
1928. Parts of the film have been remade by
teenagers who have created home-made or
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‘sweded’ versions of certain scenes.
Over the Biennial’s opening weekend,
some parts of the film are being performed
live in the space.
In the same space, Betty Woodman’s
Kimono Ladies appear – ceramic vessels that
the artist has dressed in fancy costumes.
There is also an image from Koki Tanaka’s
re-imagining of the 1985 Youth Training
Scheme protest, in which 10,000 young
people from Liverpool took to the streets
in opposition to the then Conservative
government’s work experience initiative.
The project can be seen in full at Open
Eye Gallery.
Lu Pingyuan, Do Not Open It Series, 2015
Outdoors is a sculpture by Sahej
Rahal, part of the Monuments from the
Future episode and just one of a larger
body of work that can be seen throughout
the exhibition. These belong within a
burgeoning mythology, which draws
on characters from a range of sources,
from local legend to science fiction. He
encourages these indeterminate beings
to emerge into our everyday lives, as if
through cracks in our civilisation.
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Dogsy Ma Bone, 12 June 2016 at Cains Brewery, Liverpool.
Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Mark McNulty
Sahej Rahal, sketches, 2016
GR A F T ON S T R E E T
Around the corner from Cains Brewery is
a door, set into a brick wall. The door is a
portal between Liverpool and Manchester,
and it has been installed by Lu Pingyuan,
who has been collecting second-hand doors
over the years. The title, Do Not Open It, is a
warning. Lu hopes to install similar doors all
over the world, imagining that they will all
remain closed forever.
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F L A SH BACK
The Oratory
Saw Mill
9 July – 16 October
9 July – 16 October
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Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free
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Cathedral Gate, L1 9DY
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Rubber Coated Steel (film still), 2016. Courtesy the artist
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Rubber Coated
Steel is part of the Ancient Greece episode.
Hamdan is a forensic audio analyst as well
as an artist, and in 2014 he was asked to
analyse audio files that recorded the shots
that killed Nadeem Nawara and Mohamed
Abu Daher in the West Bank of Palestine.
His audio investigation, which proved that
the boys were shot by real bullets and not
rubber ones, is the starting point for Rubber
Coated Steel – a work about aesthetics,
politics and the potential violence inherent
in both noise and silence.
The Oratory includes one of Rita
McBride’s Perfile series, Lara Favaretto’s
Lost and Found, and Jason Dodge’s What
the Living Do. It is also the place where
visitors are invited to participate in another
project happening nearby.
The Oratory was built in 1829, and
its architect was John Foster, one of the
Greek Revivalists who shaped Liverpool’s
neoclassical cityscape. It contains a number
of neoclassical sculptures, three of which
are by John Gibson (1790–1866). Brought up
in Liverpool, Gibson sought to emulate the
style of the classical world in his own work.
The Oratory is part of National Museums Liverpool.
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Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free
Wolstenholme Square, L1 4JJ
In 1979, Eric’s nightclub in Liverpool hosted
a gig by Joy Division that Mark Leckey
attended in his youth. Recently, the artist
located amateur footage of the event
on YouTube. Realising that many of the
personal memories that we have can be
found online, Leckey began to assemble
a film, Dream English Kid, that uses
archival material from television shows,
advertisements and music, to recreate a
record of all the significant events in his life
from the 1970s until the 1990s. The film is
presented in an environment that contains
new sculptural works connected to material
in Dream English Kid.
Leckey has an ongoing fascination with
the affective power of images, music and
technology, and often uses reconfigured
archival footage in his work. His installation
forms part of the Flashback episode.
The venue for Dream English Kid is the
Saw Mill, which used to be the entrance hall
to Nation – a venue that, for 14 years, hosted
the legendary dance music night Cream.
Mark Leckey, Dream English Kid, 1964 – 1999 AD (film
stills), 2015. Courtesy the artist and Cabinet, London
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Alongside Blundell’s figures and fragments,
Koenraad Dedobbeleer has made a series
of display structures to support the classical
sculptures in their new context. Andreas
Angelidakis’s new film looks at Ancient
Greek vases, and how they were used to
spread news and myth, comparing this
dissemination to the internet. Jumana
Manna’s work draws parallels between
Athens and Jerusalem to relate how their
stories both contributed to the West's selfconstruction, which in turn mirrored and
partially shaped the economy and politics
of the Middle East. Betty Woodman’s mural
depicts a domestic scene, complete with
three-dimensional ceramic objects.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Double
Take: Office/Leader of the Chasseurs/Syrian
Revolution Commanding a Charge uses an
1812 painting by Théodore Géricault as an
example of the way people build complex
and contradictory relationships with their
colonial past. Also featured is new and
previously existing work by other artists
including Jason Dodge, Samson Kambalu
and Sahej Rahal.
Tate Liverpool
9 July – 30 October
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Open daily 10am – 5.50pm, Free
Albert Dock, L3 4BB
Collaborating Curators:
Lauren Barnes and Chrissy Partheni
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Betty Woodman, Country Dining Room, 2015.
Photo: Brunco Bruchi
Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Necessarily Involves Wandering,
2011. Courtesy Galerie Micheline Szwajcer
The Pantheon Interior at Ince Blundell Hall, 1959 © National Museums Liverpool
After walking through a portal in Tate
Liverpool’s first-floor galleries, visitors
encounter classical sculptures alongside
newly commissioned artworks. The artists
have imagined a world where artists from
Ancient Greece and contemporary times
have collaborated, merging the past,
present and future into a single fiction
just as the city's architects did when
they designed Liverpool's neoclassical
buildings in the 1800s.
The Ince Blundell objects, borrowed
from National Museums Liverpool’s
antiquities collections for this episode,
include a series of classical sculptures,
vases, busts and reliefs bought by art
collector Henry Blundell in the early 1800s.
Many of the sculptures were subject to
inaccurate restoration: female heads
appear fixed to male bodies, a toe is stuck
to the wrong foot, and classical fragments
are combined with additions made by
eighteenth-century restorers to make new
figures, an accepted practice at that time.
Jumana Manna, A magical substance flows into me, 2015.
Courtesy the artist and Chisenhale Gallery. Photo: Andy Keate
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F L A SH BACK
FACT
9 July – 16 October
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Open daily 11am – 6pm, Free
88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ
Lucy Beech’s new film Pharmakon is
an interpersonal drama that explores
how disease operates in an era of mass
communication. The film focuses on female
group dynamics, and how support networks
can care for the individual whilst conversely
intensifying symptoms. It examines how
connectivity in this context can be both
illness and remedy, and how diagnosis
is dependent on our ability to impose
particular narratives on the body. Shot
and produced in sites across Liverpool, the
screenplay has been developed through
the artist’s active engagement with therapy
groups, advocacy websites, patient forums,
and interviews with clinicians working
within the field of delusional infestation.
The film is also part of the Software episode.
Lucy Beech, Pharmakon (film still), 2016. Courtesy the artist
For Krzysztof Wodiczko, a flashback
means traumatic re-emergence of
memories from the past, characterised
by psychological conditions such as Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This
presentation brings together exhibits from
over 40 years spent working in collaboration
with marginalised communities such as
war veterans and the homeless. Wodiczko’s
large-scale installation Guests (2011),
originally commissioned for the 53rd
Venice Biennale, forms a central part of the
exhibition, reflecting in this context on the
current migratory crisis and debates around
immigration. Veteran Helmet was created
in 2015, and uses technology and prosthetics
to aid veterans suffering from PTSD to
share their experience of the condition.
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Homeless Vehicle, 1988. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York
Other works include the Homeless Vehicle
Project (1988–89), for which Wodiczko
worked with members of the homeless
community in New York to create tools to
aid their survival and communication.
The land of Lemuria sank into the ocean
thousands of years ago, but its natives have
been living invisibly amongst us ever since.
In the 1960s, some of them re-emerged,
using the identities of conceptual artists
such as Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and
Carl Andre. Yin-Ju Chen’s work, Extrastellar
Evaluations, part of the Flashback episode,
brings together evidence of Lemurian
presence on earth, and considers the impact
of the 1960s as a defining era for humans
and Lemurians alike. For humans, civilrights struggles, the Cuban Missile Crisis
and Vietnam shook the status quo, but for
Lemurians, the era was characterised by
severe weather events that disrupted their
communication with their motherland.
As a result, they were pushed to invent
extreme methods of transmission
that involved the creation of large-scale
geometric devices, understood by
humans as conceptual artworks.
Lucy Beech is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and
FACT. Yin-Ju Chen is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial
in collaboration with CFCCA and Kadist Foundation.
Collaborating Curators: Mike Stubbs, Ana Botella,
Lesley Taker and Amy Jones
F I L M P R O GR A M M E
Another Version of Events
Every Thursday throughout the festival, see p.46 for listings
A selection of films inspired by sci-fi,
mockumentary, pseudo-documentary,
mockbuster and ethnofiction.
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to share their memories of the event.
They were joined by young people in order
to reflect on the way in which the future
that the students fought for in 1985 relates
to the present political situation. This walk
has been documented, and the resulting
film is presented as part of the Children’s
Episode and the Flashback episode,
alongside photographs by Dave Sinclair.
Each time significant technological
progress is made in image resolution,
Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni buy
a new video camera and use it to film
a sunset, but without a lens. The series,
titled La Vallée Von Uexküll, and included
as part of Flashback, will end when the
camera is able to capture more than the
human eye can see.
Open Eye Gallery
9 July – 16 October
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Open daily 10am –6pm, Free
19 Mann Island, L3 1BP
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Three submersibles, Anti-Catty,
Princess Rambo and Space-Sheep, have
smuggled artwork from Dubai to Liverpool.
By circumnavigating the normal procedures
used to transport artworks from one place
to another, they deliberately degrade the
usual values assigned to art objects. In the
gallery, and across other venues, are videos
by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh
and Hesam Rahmanian that document
the daily lives of the submersibles, the
smuggling and objects that have emerged
from this process.
Collaborating Curator: Thomas Dukes
Dave Sinclair, Youth Training Scheme Protest, Liverpool, 25 April 1985 © Dave Sinclair
When Koki Tanaka visited Liverpool for the
first time, he came across a book, Liverpool
in the 1980s, by photographer Dave Sinclair.
The book contains images of a mass protest
against the Conservative Government’s
Youth Training Scheme, criticised as a
means of providing cheap labour with
no guarantee of a job at the end.
In Liverpool, where youth unemployment was as high as 80 percent in some
areas, 10,000 young people took to the
streets in opposition to the initiative. The
march, which took place on 25 April 1985,
began outside St George’s Hall and moved
quickly down Dale Street, past the Town
Hall, ending at the Pier Head. This wasn’t
the route the organisers had planned, but
the sheer enthusiasm of the students meant
that the crowd moved fast and was hard to
contain. For Tanaka, Sinclair’s photographs
show an unusual combination of energy,
optimism, joy and anger.
In June 2016, Tanaka revisited the scene
of the protest, inviting original participants
Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Untitled (La Vallée
Von Uexküll, 2048 × 1152) (film still), 2009–2014.
Courtesy the artists
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian,
Submarine I: Space Sheep (Space Sheep Was Paid To Land
On a New Zeeland!) (film still), 2016. Courtesy the artists
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Bluecoat
LJMU Exhibition Research Lab
9 July – 16 October
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Open daily, Monday–Saturday 10am–6pm, Sunday 11am–6pm, Free
School Lane, L1 3BX
John Lennon Art & Design Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Duckinfield Street, L3 5RD
P E R F OR M A NC E
Traumberg communes with the
traditional shamanic users of these plants,
whose practices include healing, divining
the future, entering the spirit world, and
exploring the hallucinatory nature of reality.
He develops a fantasy of himself as a technoshaman, transmuting the spiritual dimensions
of the universe and the hallucinogenic nature
of capital into new art forms. Ultimately,
he becomes an ‘outsider’ artist whose
work is collected by oligarchs, bankers and
museums. Unaffected by worldly success he
continues his parapsychopharmacological
research, working on a new algorithm to
discover the true nature and location of
consciousness and to determine whether
psychoactive drugs open a portal to the
holographic universe.
Homo Gestalt: The Time Domain
Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 July, 12.30 & 3.00pm,
New Hall Place, L3 9PP
This promenade performance is set in
and around New Hall Place, a 1970s office
complex locally known as ‘The Sandcastle’.
The brutalist architecture of New Hall
Place was built to reflect the management
systems and hierarchies of Royal Insurance,
the original occupying company. McNulty’s
performance moves the audience through
these different times zones, highlighting
where historical, social, acoustic and
infrastructural concerns collide.
Free, booking required
Collaborating Curators: Marie-Anne McQuay and
Also on show at Bluecoat during Liverpool Biennial 2016
Adam Smythe. Dennis McNulty is commissioned
is Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016 (see p. 36).
by Liverpool Biennial and Bluecoat.
Open daily 10am – 5pm, Free
Suzanne Treister’s HFT The Gardener,
part of the Software episode, is developed
as a fictional narrative focusing on the
underlying world of algorithms. It features
artworks created by the fictional character
Hillel Fischer Traumberg, a banker turned
'outsider’ artist.
Traumberg is an algorithmic highfrequency trader (HFT), who experiments
with psychoactive drugs and explores
the ethno-pharmacology of over 100
psychoactive plants. He uses gematria
(Hebrew numerology) to discover the
numerological codes in the plants'
botanical names, finding their equivalents
with companies in the FT Global 500
Financial Index.
Dennis McNulty, PRECAST, 2012. Photo: Ollie Harrop
In his book More than Human (1953)
science-fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon
describes a scenario in which multiple
humans blend their abilities to act as a
single organism. Dennis McNulty pairs
this idea with the ‘multinode’: a concept
developed by pioneering cyberneticist
Stafford Beer (1926–2002) to describe a
collective biological or machinic decisionmaking entity. The result is Homo Gestalt,
a collective technology that is performed
into existence with the participation of
audience members, presented as part of
the Software episode. The commissions
include a data-driven installation, a digital
app and an off-site performance work.
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Suzanne Treister, HFT The Gardener/Outsider artworks/Mimosa hostilis (Jurema), 2014–2015.
Courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W., New York
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MON U M EN TS F ROM T H E F U T U R E
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Public Spaces
9 July – 16 October
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Betty Woodman
George’s Dock Ventilation Tower Plaza,
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Mariana Castillo Deball
Liverpool ONE, Paradise Street, L1 8JF
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Derby Square, L1 7NU
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Sahej Rahal
Exchange Flags, L2 3YL
Mann Island, L3 1DD
Sahej Rahal’s sculptures imagine
artefacts from science fiction and
popular culture thousands of years
into the future, fossilised.
The backdrop is a square behind the
Town Hall that is often used by the film
industry: it has been cast as New York
several times, and once it was covered
in snow, to represent Moscow.
Mariana Castillo Deball, detail from To-day 9th of
July 2016 (time pattern), 2016. Courtesy the artist
Betty Woodman, A Visit to Rome (detail), 2009.
Photo: Mario Ciampi
Betty Woodman has created a large-scale
public artwork, a bronze fountain, which
is part of the Ancient Greece episode.
Her work refers to classical imagery and
architectural decoration, combining sources
that include Greek and Etruscan sculpture,
Minoan and Egyptian art, Italian Baroque
architecture and the paintings of Bonnard,
Picasso and Matisse.
Woodman’s fountain is next to George’s
Dock Ventilation Tower, an Art Deco
structure built in 1931 that ventilates the
road tunnel below. Like many in the Art
Deco movement, the building’s architect
Herbert J Rowse was influenced by recent
discoveries in Egypt, such as the tomb of
Tutankhamun, first entered by Western
archaeologists in 1922.
Mariana Castillo Deball’s To-day 9th of July
2016 is part of the Monuments from the
Future episode. It is a large-scale sculpture:
an infinite staircase built for a character
who can jump across the same date in
different years throughout history. The title
coincides with the date on which Liverpool
Biennial 2016 opens to the public, but it also
references other 9th July events across time.
An accompanying newspaper, which can be
found across all exhibition sites, contains
found news stories from many different
9th of Julys. Castillo Deball began this
work in 2005, and it will be completed after
365 editions.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, view from the Hummingbird
Clock, Derby Square, Liverpool, 2016. Courtesy the artist
Opposite Liverpool’s law courts, Lawrence
Abu Hamdan’s Hummingbird Clock, a tree
of binoculars resembling CCTV cameras,
keeps watch over the Town Hall’s clock. The
Hummingbird Clock is a new kind of public
time piece that exists physically and online.
It is designed as a tool for investigations into
civil and human rights violations and state
corruption: recording the second by second
variations in the buzz made by the electrical
grid, and making that publicly available
to anyone who might need it. For over 10
years, the UK government has been using
this humming sound as a surveillance tool.
Nearly all recordings made within earshot
of this almost-silent humming can be
forensically analysed to determine time and
date, and whether the recording has been
edited or altered. This technique has, so
far, only ever been used by the state, but it
can now be accessed by anyone who might
need it at www.hummingbirdclock.info. This
work is also part of the Software episode.
Sahej Rahal, sketch, 2016
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Rita McBride
Toxteth Reservoir, High Park Street, L8 8DX
Rita McBride’s large-scale installation
represents an opening between real and
fictional worlds. It is a wormhole created
with laser-beams, in the form of a hyperbola
– a smooth symmetrical curve with two
branches, produced by the section of a
conical surface.
Note: This work is only open on Saturdays
and Sundays between 10am–6pm.
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Arseny Zhilyaev
143 Granby Street, L8 2UR
The Planet Parade is a term used to describe
the appearance of an intense concentration
of stars and planets in the night sky, seen
only when Earth is in a very specific position
in the Universe. Arseny Zhilyaev imagines
a particular constellation of planets that
only appears during the very last days in
the life of Earth – The Last Planet Parade.
This planetary configuration is represented
on a stained glass window, and a
museological display nearby includes
information on Jeremiah Horrocks
(1618–1641), an important astronomer
from Liverpool best known as the first
man to have observed the transit of Venus.
The Last Planet Parade is part of the
Monuments from the Future episode.
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Alisa Baremboym
Kelvin Grove and High Park Street, L8 3UG
Alisa Baremboym’s sculpture is also part
of the Monuments from the Future episode.
It is made from the same type of perforated
sheet metal used to shutter the doors and
windows of empty terraced houses in the
area. The metal surrounds and weaves
through organic forms made of ceramic
and tinted concrete. A native grass is
planted around the sculpture, and slowly
grows through the holes in the steel. This
hybrid object, somewhere between organic
and synthetic, points towards the tension
between the body and its environment.
In 2004, the Welsh Streets
neighbourhood was subject to a
government scheme, the Housing Market
Renewal Initiative, that saw residents
forced out of homes they had lived in for
many years, leaving streets full of empty
houses. Residents determined to remain
in their homes appealed for alternatives
to demolition, and since then, the area has
been the focus of fierce local and national
debate around regeneration. The houses
are no longer subject to demolition but
are due to be repaired.
Arseny Zhilyaev, The Last Planet Parade
(detail), 2016. Courtesy the artist
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Lara Favaretto
Rhiwlas Street, L8 3UA
Momentary Monument – The Stone, 2016
is a huge granite boulder. It is hollow,
and passers-by can drop money into it
through a slot. This new work is part of
the artist’s Momentary Monuments series,
which testifies to the temporary nature of
all monuments, and the impossibility of
memorialisation. At the end of the Biennial,
the boulder will be destroyed. The funds
collected will be donated to a local charity,
Asylum Link Merseyside, an organisation
dedicated to assisting asylum seekers and
refugees, and raising public awareness
around refugee issues.
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Lu Pingyuan
Epic Hotel, 75 Duke Street, L1 5AA
Lu Pingyuan has written a series of stories
that can be encountered across episodes,
and in the Biennial’s book. One describes
a two-sided lake that a diver uses to swim
between continents, and another tells the
tale of little Kiki whose origami figure comes
to life as a disgruntled artist. A third, which
can be seen painted on the side of the Epic
Hotel as part of the Monuments from the
Future episode, reveals a dystopian future,
where a factory full of Van Gogh clones
endlessly produce paintings made from the
remains of their unsuccessful colleagues.
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and CFCCA.
Lara Favaretto, Momentary Monument – The Stone,
2009. Installation view, Piazzetta Piave, Twister,
GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy. Photo: Francesca Ferrandi
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CH I N AT OW N
CH I L DR EN’S EPISODE / MON U M EN TS F ROM T H E F U T U R E
Arriva City Buses
Until 2018
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Mr Chilli Restaurant
92 Seel Street, L1 4BL, 12pm–2am
Designed by Eduardo Costa, Elena
Narbutaite’s images of tiger and
leopard-print swimsuits for interspecies
transformation, photographed in the Adelphi
Hotel, hang on the walls of a Chinese
restaurant.
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Master Chef Restaurant
Renshaw Street, L1 2SJ,
Sunday–Thursday 12pm – 12am, Saturday 12pm–1am
Ana Jotta’s ‘background’ paintings, titled
No No Sir!, were painted with Master
Chef Restaurant in mind. The colours are
reminiscent of antique green pottery that
the artist saw in a magazine whilst on her
train to Liverpool.
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Hondo Chinese Supermarket
Check @arrivanorthwest on Twitter to find
5–11 Upper Duke Street, L1 9DU
out the buses’ routes on any given day.
Since the Enlightenment, the distinction
between humans and other creatures has
been founded on intelligence. Ian Cheng’s
Something Thinking of You examines this
boundary, arguing that technology now
has the capacity to think and make decisions
on its own. Cheng’s films use technology
that enables characters and scenes to
evolve outside his control, free to create
their own universe.
At the counter, Lu Pingyuan’s story
The Two-Sided Lake can be taken away
as a piece of paper. It describes a diver
emerging unexpectedly from a lake in a
small village in China, having travelled there
from a different lake in another country.
Three double-decker buses have been
transformed by artists and children in
a major new commission by Liverpool
Biennial and Arriva North West. The buses
can be seen driving on routes through
the City Centre, South Liverpool, North
Liverpool and the Wirral.
Designed by Year 7 pupils from
Childwall Sports & Science Academy, in
collaboration with artists and designers
Hato, a Space Bus called Hello Future Me
contains coded messages to the future
citizens of Liverpool, spelled out in an
alphabet of newly invented symbols that
draw inspiration from imagined futures.
It pays homage to the tradition of sending
messages into outer space, in the hope
that extra-terrestrial beings will be able to
understand more about human civilisation.
The bus is part of the Children’s Episode.
Ana Jotta’s bus is disguised as a huge,
solid brick wall. The pattern is reminiscent
of the brick buildings the artist saw when
she came to Liverpool for the first time.
Her bus is part of the Monuments from
the Future episode.
Frances Disley’s Blaze is inspired by
the success story of Liverpool-born Eunice
Huthart, the only contestant on 1990s TV
action game-show Gladiators to become a
‘Gladiator’ herself. Blaze depicts the artist as
a painted character with the power to blend
into her own artwork.
Throughout the City
Villa Design Group, Promotional Image (Egypt) – A Desert
for Love, 2014. Courtesy the artists and Mathew Gallery
Flyposted throughout the city, Villa
Design Group’s promotional images
are scenographic sketches from a yet
to be realised film adaptation of interior
designer Jean Royere’s 1976 memoir
Arab Living and Loving as seen by a
French Interior Decorator. Each image
represents a different chapter from
Royere’s travels across the Middle East
in the 1950s, and the many clients he
encountered. Koenraad Dedobbeleer’s
posters disseminate images of objects
from National Museums Liverpool. A
jingle made by Elena Narbutaite, Kevin
Rice and DES can be heard throughout
the city, transmitted as an ice-cream
van’s musical announcement.
Hato and Childwall Sports & Science Academy, Hello Future Me, 2016. Photo: Gareth Jones
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Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists
Online
9 July – 16 October
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Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free
India Buildings, 31 Water Street, L2 0RD
Available from www.biennial.com/online
The computer game Minecraft allows its
users to invent their own world from simple
block components, and to interact with the
various spheres Minecraft constitutes –
the hell-like Nether, for instance, which
can only be entered through a smoke-filled
portal. Minecraft Infinity Project works
with Minecrafters the world over to create
a ‘portrait’ of Liverpool Biennial, in which
users render their own version of the
exhibition. It incorporates a number
of artworks by participating artists.
Oliver Laric’s 3-D scans of sculptures
from Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery include
work by John Gibson (1790–1866), who
actively oversaw reproductions of his work
in the form of statuettes, cameos and prints.
3-D prints of these scans exist across the
Biennial, and data from the scans can be
accessed, free, at www.threedscans.com.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Hummingbird
Clock is located physically outside the
law courts in Derby Square, and online at
www.hummingbirdclock.info. It is designed
as a tool for investigations into civil and
human rights violations. The clock records
the second by second variations of the
buzz made by the electrical grid. The sound
files are made available online, so that the
public can analyse the date and time of
any recording made within earshot of the
grid, in case they need to know whether the
recording has been tampered with.
Dennis McNulty’s smartphone app,
BLESH, can be used to generate low
resolution animations. An audio work by Marcos Lutyens
incorporating myths, rumours and portals
can be downloaded and listened to whilst
walking around the city, or sitting near the
Chinatown arch.
Simeon Barclay, The Feast Wagon, 2015. Exhibition installation shot at The Tetley, Leeds. Photo: Jules Lister
The Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists
programme is a major new initiative by
Liverpool Biennial, in partnership with
Independent Curators International (ICI) and
CACTUS, which supports 10 artists based
in the North of England to develop their
careers internationally.
Part of India Buildings has been
transformed into a ‘green room’ for artists
to reflect, explore, collaborate and develop
their practice. The room is a domestic-type
space that contains seating for visitors.
Oliver Laric, 3-D scan of John Gibson’s Cupid Disguised
as a Shepherd Boy, c. 1830. Courtesy the artist
Collaborating Curator: Joe Fletcher Orr
Artists
Simeon Barclay
Jacqueline Bebb
Lindsey Bull
Robert Carter & Lauren Velvick
Nina Chua
Matthew Crawley
Frances Disley
Daniel Fogarty
Harry Meadley
Stephen Sheehan
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Places of Interest
These locations are not exhibition sites,
but might be interesting to visit if you are
staying longer in the city. Whilst developing
the ideas behind Liverpool Biennial 2016,
the curatorial faculty engaged with the past,
present and future of Liverpool: the stories
that emerge from the city’s architecture and
the archives held in its universities.
Adelphi Hotel
Ranelagh Place, L3 5UL
The Adelphi hotel, opposite the ABC
Cinema, is a container and generator of
fiction. When it opened in 1914, the Adelphi
Hotel was regarded as the most luxurious
outside London, and its main hall is said
to resemble the First-Class lounge of the
Titanic. On the left hand side of the entrance,
there is a small brass plaque that honours
the staff of the Adelphi for their ‘Services to
Science Fiction Fandom in the 20th Century’.
As well as science fiction conferences, it
plays host to musical tribute acts, ballroom
dance parties and magic conventions. You
can also go there for afternoon tea.
Science Fiction Foundation Collection
Open Monday–Friday, 9.30am–4.45pm by appointment only
Sydney Jones Library, L7 7BD
One of the largest and most important
science fiction collections in the world
is held by Liverpool University Library’s
Special Collections and Archives division.
Among its highlights are the Science Fiction
Foundation Collection – 35,000 books and
over 2,000 periodical titles – and the Olaf
Stapledon archive.
For details of the collection visit liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca.
To make an appointment contact [email protected]
The Operations Room, Project Cybersyn, Chile, 1971–1973.
Courtesy the Stafford Beer Collection, Liverpool John
Moores University
Stafford Beer Archive
Open Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm by appointment only
Aquinas Building, off Maryland Street, L1 9DE
Stafford Beer worked through the ‘50s and
‘60s to translate principles of cybernetics
into the practices of business management.
From 1971–73, he worked in Chile during the
revolutionary period of Salvador Allende’s
presidency to create the work of a lifetime:
Cybersyn, which was to enable workers
up and down the country to collaborate in
real time, using experimental technology.
At the end of his life, he was a professor at
Liverpool John Moores University, where
his archives are currently held.
Part er
E hibitions
To make an appointment contact [email protected] or
0151 231 3813
John Moores Painting Prize
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016
Biennial Fringe
CFCCA: Yin-Ju Chen and Lu Pingyuan
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016
9 July – 27 November
9 July – 16 October
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Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, L3 8EL
The internationally renowned John Moores
Painting Prize has been championing
contemporary British painting for almost
60 years. Representing the UK’s most
talented artists, it is the country’s longest
established painting prize for artists working
with the medium of paint. The exhibition
is organised in partnership with the John
Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust. Judges
Alex Rennie, Totem, 2015
this year are artists Gillian Carnegie, Ansel
Krut, Pheobe Unwin, Ding Yi and writer
and freelance curator Richard Henry Davey.
For 2016, 54 works have been selected from
more than 2,500 entries. From the selected
artists, four painters have been awarded
prizes of £2,500, while the overall winner
has received £25,000.
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Open daily, Monday–Saturday 10am–6pm, Sunday 11am–6pm, Free
Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX
New Contemporaries is recognised
nationally and internationally as a reliable
barometer of future trends in art. Since 1949,
New Contemporaries has profiled emerging
talent from the UK’s art schools through
an annual open submission exhibition.
Past exhibitors include Ed Atkins, Helen
Chadwick, David Hockney, Chris Ofili and
Simon Starling.
At Bluecoat, Bloomberg New
Contemporaries 2016 features 46 artists
chosen by guest selectors Anya Gallaccio,
Alan Kane and Haroon Mirza. From Richie
Moment’s high octane, satirical videos
to Michael Cox’s detailed paintings of
urban architecture, Bloomberg New
Contemporaries 2016 shows the diverse
approaches of emerging artists working
today. Social, cultural and environmental
changes to the world around us are
represented in the show, with artists
reflecting on geo-political turmoil, cultural
legacies and environmental concerns.
The exhibition will travel to the Institute
of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, in
November. 2016 marks 30 years since
Bluecoat last hosted New Contemporaries.
Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Arts Council
England, Art Fund, Royal Norwegian Embassy and the
Embassy of Ireland.
Richie Moment, Richie Moment Green Scream, internet presence 001 (film still), 2014
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Biennial Fringe
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA)
Manchester
Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–5pm, Free
Market Buildings, 13 Thomas Street, Manchester, M4 1EU
5 August – 16 October
21 October – 15 January 2017
Upon watching CCTV footage of a ghost
reportedly seen by staff in the pub Ye Olde
Man and Scythe in Bolton, Lu Pingyuan
decided to use his exhibition at CFCCA to
catch it, as an attempt to ‘take something
back’ from the UK in response to that which
was lost through the UK’s colonial past. The
pub, which dates from 1251, is the fourtholdest pub in Britain and is reputedly haunted
by the Seventh Earl of Derby, James Stanley.
The royalist, whose family originally owned
the inn, is said to have spent the last hours of
his life there before he was beheaded in 1651.
Yin-Ju Chen is a multimedia practitioner
who in recent years has explored the
function of power in human society,
collective thinking and collective
unconsciousness, and most recently the
relationship between human behaviour
and the cosmos. Her three-part project
Extrastellar Evaluations continues her
research into dystopia, conspiracy and
art history through the mythological land
of Lemuria and its inhabitants.
Yin-Ju Chen and Lu Pingyuan are commissioned
by Liverpool Biennial and CFCCA.
Ryan Gander, Is this guilt in you too (The study of a car in a field) (film still), 2005 © Ryan Gander
A wide range of exhibitions, performances
and events are presented concurrently
with Liverpool Biennial 2016. Independent
screenings, gigs, performances,
symposiums, mini-festivals and happenings
are hosted by individuals, collectives and
artist-led spaces throughout the city. For
all the Fringe listings, pick up a free copy of
The Double Negative’s special Culture Diary
pocket guide or visit doublenegative.co.uk
Highlights include British artist Ryan
Gander’s solo show at CACTUS, featuring
artworks he made 12–13 years ago; The
Serving Library, a permanent display
of artefacts drawn from 16 years of the
institution’s house journal, accompanied by
a related programme of events; independent
music label Domino Records’ exhibition,
Portrait Of British Songwriting, in Bold Street
Coffee; while on Strand Street, a private
apartment hosts the work of Indonesian
artist collective Tromarama.
SWAP: UK/Ukraine Artist
Residency Programme
In the spring of 2016, four Ukrainian artists
spent eight weeks in Liverpool, and as
part of their residencies, they produced
an alternative guide to Liverpool. Alevtina
Kakhidze, one of the artists, has also
produced an audio guide which shares her
experience of the city and the residency.
Download the audio guide from
www.biennial.com and pick up a
printed guide from Cains Brewery.
Yin-Ju Chen, Extrastellar Evaluation (film still), 2016. Courtesy the artist and Chi-Wen Gallery
Annua
C mmi sions
Raphael Hefti, performance at Pullman Liverpool, 19 May 2016. Photo: Nick Mizen
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Assemble / Granby Workshop
Raphael Hefti
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142 Granby Street
25
L8 2US
Since 2012, Assemble have been working
with local residents and others in the Granby
Four Streets area of Toxteth, Liverpool.
The houses that constitute the Four
Streets were built around 1900. Granby
Street was once a lively high street at
the centre of Liverpool’s most racially
and ethnically diverse community. After
the Toxteth Riots in 1981, many of the
houses were purchased by the Council and
earmarked for redevelopment. As a result,
hundreds of people were forced to move
out of their homes. Over the past 10 years,
residents who resisted these plans have
tenaciously fought to save the area from
demolition, reversing dereliction through
domestic acts of care and creativity.
In 2015, Assemble won the Turner
Prize for their ongoing collaboration with
the Four Streets residents. They used this
opportunity to launch Granby Workshop,
a social enterprise that makes handmade
products for homes, all of which are made
in Granby by local people.
A sign built on the occasion of the
International Festival for Business 2016
introduces the ethos of the Workshop,
presenting the project back to its home
city in a public context, and exploring
the relationship between creative action,
production and regeneration. The sign
is located on the permanent premises
of the Workshop and forms part of the
building’s refurbishment.
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial as part of the
International Festival for Business 2016 (IFB2016).
Pullman Hotel
Kings Dock, L3 4FP
In May 2016, Raphael Hefti created a new
site-specific commission for the newly
opened Pullman Liverpool hotel. For a
week, the artist transformed part of Kings
Dock into a studio and film set, which also
functioned as a stage for a live performance.
A huge pile of sand worked as a makeshift
foundry, and with a technique usually
used to repair high-speed railway lines,
Hefti made a new performance, film and
sculpture. The welding process melts steel
very quickly: lava-like flows of molten metal
poured down the sand, finding final form as
the material cooled down. Hefti references
heavy labour and iron casting, the backbone
of contemporary infrastructure: processes
that have long histories but that usually
remain hidden. The film is shown at the
end of each film programme screening
(see p.46). For further screenings, check
www.biennial.com.
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Koo Jeong A
26
Roscommon Street L5 3NG
Artist Koo Jeong A, in collaboration with
Wheelscape Skateparks, worked with young
people and skaters in North Liverpool
to devise a fully functional wheels park
and a new permanent sculpture for the
city. Evertro, the UK’s first glow-in-thedark wheels park, opened in October
2015. Familiar skating forms have been
combined with new sculptural elements to
create a unique space for experimentation.
The design responds to its immediate
surroundings, as well as drawing on Jeong
A’s references to diamond shapes and forms
conceived through her interpretation of the
area. The wheels park is open to skaters and
BMX bikers to enjoy.
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool Mayor
Joe Anderson, in partnership with Friends of Everton
Park, the Land Trust and Liverpool Vision, with support
from St Modwen.
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and AccorHotels.
© Assemble / Granby Workshop
Everton Park, Prince Edwin Street /
Koo Jeong A x Wheelscape, Evertro, 2015. Photo: Gareth Jones
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Sir Peter Blake
Sir Peter Blake, Everybody Razzle Dazzle, 2015. Photo: Mark McNulty
27
Mersey Ferries Terminal
Pier Head, Georges Parade, L3 1DP​​​
As part of First World War commemorations,
Sir Peter Blake’s design Everybody Razzle
Dazzle covers the iconic Mersey Ferry
Snowdrop with a distinctive dazzle camouflage
pattern, transforming the vessel into a moving
artwork as it continues its service.
Unlike other forms of camouflage,
dazzle works not by concealing but by
baffling the eye, making it difficult to
estimate a target’s range, speed and
direction. Realised in monochrome and
colour, each ship’s dazzle pattern was
unique in order to avoid making classes
of ships instantly recognisable to enemy
U-boats and aircraft.
Visitors who board the Snowdrop can
learn more about the history of dazzle and
the role that the Mersey Ferries took in the
First World War in an on-board display
curated by Merseyside Maritime Museum
and Tate Liverpool.
Sir Peter Blake is a leading figure in the
development of British Pop art and his work
is synonymous with the use of imagery from
modern culture, including comic books,
consumer goods and advertisements. He
has a strong relationship with Liverpool that
extends beyond his famous design of The
Beatles’ album cover, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band in 1967.
See Everybody Razzle Dazzle for free from
the waterfront or hop on board to explore
the curated display.
For tickets and sailing times, visit
www.merseyferries.co.uk. Biennial visitors
get 20% off tickets for Summer Evening
Cruises on 24 July, 28 July, 18 August and
28 August. Advance booking required
quoting BIENNIAL.
#DazzleFerry
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, 14–18 NOW:
WW1 Centenary Art Commissions and Tate Liverpool, in
partnership with Merseytravel and National Museums
Liverpool. Supported by Arts Council England's
Exceptional Awards programme, National Lottery
through the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department
for Culture Media and Sport.
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Performance
Free, booking required at www.biennial.com
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SAT U R DAY 9 J U LY
Elena Narbutaite and Eduardo Costa
Sun Kiss Feline, 1982–2016
5pm–9pm, Adelphi Hotel swimming pool, L3 5UL
Swimsuits with tiger and leopard cut-out
patterns designed by Costa in the 1980s,
and produced with Narbutaite in 2016, are
the core component in an interspecies
transformation photo-shoot performance
inspired by the Adelphi Hotel. The final
images will be published in local and
international fashion magazines, and
displayed in Mr Chilli restaurant.
T H U R S DAY 21 J U LY
Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones
The Truncheon and the Speculum
7.30pm, www.biennial.com/live
systems and hierarchies of Royal Insurance,
the original occupying company. This
performance is part of the Software episode.
This live broadcast of a workshop at News
From Nowhere, part of the Flashback
episode, explores historic state violence
enacted through gynaecological means,
identifying the Contagious Diseases Act
of 1860 as a key moment. This legislation
addressed the threat of venereal disease to
British soldiers, and permitted compulsory
gynaecological inspection of women
suspected to be prostitutes in certain
military camps in England and Ireland.
S AT U R DAY 9 J U LY
Commissioned by Artangel (UK) and Create,
Michael Portnoy
Relational Stalinism: the Musical
with additional support from Heart of Glass.
Michael Portnoy, 100 Beautiful Jokes, 2010. Courtesy Stedelijk Museum. Photo: Ernst van Deursen
S AT U R DAY 9 J U LY
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
Dogsy Ma Bone
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F R I DAY 7, SAT U R DAY 8
& S U N DAY 9 O C T OB E R
Adam Linder
Some Strands of Support
Throughout the day, Tate Liverpool
Some Strands of Support is a choreography
for hair prostheses in which a designated
object, sculpture or statue is cared for and
coerced through the movement of hair.
This performance is part of the Ancient
Greece episode.
SAT U R DAY 8 O C T OB E R
Coco Fusco
Observations of Predation in Humans:
A Lecture by Dr Zira
6.30pm, Epstein Theatre, L1 3DZ
Drawing from primatology, neuroscience
and evolution, this lecture as part of
Monuments from the Future provides a
commentary on contemporary forms of
aggression and predatory behaviour relating
to the desire for resources in post-industrial
societies. The lecture is delivered by Dr Zira,
the chimpanzee psychologist and expert in
human behaviour made famous by Planet
of the Apes (1968).
4pm, Cains Brewery
Working in collaboration with 78 young
people across Liverpool, Chetwynd has
created a new work inspired by Betty Boop
and Bertolt Brecht as part of the Children’s
Episode. This performance, devised with the
project’s young participants, enacts some of
the key scenes from the film as a live event.
S AT U R DAY 9 & S U N DAY 10 J U LY
Dennis McNulty
Homo Gestalt: The Time Domain
12.30 & 3pm, New Hall Place, L3 9PP
This promenade performance is set in
and around New Hall Place, a 1970s office
complex locally known as ‘The Sandcastle’.
The brutalist architecture of New Hall
Place was built to reflect the management
6–7.30pm, The Black-E, L1 5EW, £5
Part of the Chinatown episode, Relational
Stalinism: the Musical is an assemblage
that uses many different registers of
performance simultaneously. It mixes
taiko micro-dance, exhausting feats of
reading, experimental physical comedy,
melodramatic operatic interlude, call-centre
language-torture games, and satire of the
Immaterial Turn.
Originally commissioned by Witte de With Center
for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, together with
A.P.E. (Art Projects Era).
Coco Fusco, TED Ethology
– Primate Visions of
the Human Mind, 2015.
Courtesy the artist
and Alexander Gray
Associates
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Film Programme
T H U R S DAY 1 S E P T E M B E R
Another Version of Events
Every Thursday, 6pm, £7 / £5, book at www.biennial.com
A selection of films influenced by feature
film genres including sci-fi, mockumentary,
pseudo-documentary, mockbuster and
ethnofiction is being screened every week
throughout the Biennial. The programme
looks at alternative realities, history and
‘sampling’, together with ethnography and
social anthropology. Several Biennial artists
have been invited to select and introduce
feature-length works. Elsewhere, thematic
screenings address distinct subjects
drawn from themes arising in the Biennial
artists’ practices, including choreography,
ethnography, design and technology.
T H U R S DAY 2 8 J U LY
Tampopo
Paris Is Burning
Dir. Juzo Itami, 1985, Japan, 114 min
Dir. Jennie Livingston, 1991, USA, 71 min
Selected by Oliver Laric. Comedy ensues
when a truck driver helps a young widow
named Tampopo improve her roadside
noodle restaurant.
A cult classic following a community of Black
and Latino gay and transgender New Yorkers,
who find sustenance, creativity and family
through dance and performance. Screening
accompanied by a special performance.
T H U R S DAY 4 AUGUS T
Stop Motion Group Screening:
Jump (Hysterique Bourreé)
T H U R S DAY 8 S E P T E M B E R
News From Home
Dir. Chantal Ackerman, 1976, Belgium/France/USA, 85 min
A portrait of 1970’s New York City,
punctuated by a monologue of letters to
the filmmaker’s mother, alluding to the
loneliness and isolation of the big city.
T H U R S DAY 21 J U LY
Dir. Charles Atlas in collaboration with Philippe Découflé,
1984, France, 14 min. 43 sec
Dir. Ben Rivers, 2007, UK, 5 min
T H U R S DAY 2 9 S E P T E M B E R
Parade
The Many Colors of the
Sky Radiate Forgetfulness
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
Two films that capture dance on screen and
unique interactions with the camera.
Dir. Basim Magdy, 2014, 11 min
T H U R S DAY 11 AUGUS T
Short films by artists and filmmakers on
the theme of histories and landscapes.
Taking found footage of British dance halls,
discos and raves of the 70s, 80s and 90s,
Leckey charts changes in style through the
decades. Followed by other short works.
Dir. Shahryar Nashat, 2014, Germany, 38 min
Subconscious Society
Dir. Rosa Barba, 2014, UK/Germany, 40 min
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Selected by Mark Leckey. Celine, a
magician, and Julie, a librarian, meet
in Montmartre and wind up sharing the
same flat, bed, fiancé, clothes, identity
and imagination.
T H U R S DAY 6 O C T OB E R
Nothing More (NADA +)
Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who
Saved the World) AKA Turkish Star Wars
Dir. Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, 2001,Cuba, 88 min
Dir. Çetin Inanç, 1982, Turkey, 91 min
T H U R S DAY 18 AUGUS T
Castle for Home Group Screening:
H is for House
T H U R S DAY 2 2 S E P T E M B E R
Freak Orlando
Dir. Ulrike Ottinger, 1981, Germany, 126 min
T H U R S DAY 13 O C T OB E R
At the House of Mr X
Circuit Breaker Group Screening:
Seduction of a Cyborg
Dir. Michelle Deignan, 7 min
Dir. Elizabeth Price, 2007, UK, 20 min
Dir. Lyn Hershman-Leeson, 1994, France/USA, 8 min
Jennifer Where Are You?
Letter of Complaint
Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen
Lesley Thornton, 10 min
Dir. Rachel Reupke, 2015, UK, 9 min. 54 sec
Dir. Cecile B. Evans, 2014, 22 min. 30 sec
Remote… Remote…
Bestiary
Remember Carthage
Dir. Valie Export, 10 min
Dir. Chris Marker 1985–90, France, 9 min. 4 sec
Dir. Jon Rafman, 2013, 14 min
My Name is Oona
Short films by artists and filmmakers
on the theme of domestic, interior and
artificial habitats.
Delusional Mandala
Dir. Valie Export, 8 min
Selected by Jesse Jones. Short films
exploring representations of the body and
identity in public and private spaces.
Selected by Coco Fusco. Depicting the social
and political struggles in present day Cuba,
the film follows a young postal worker who
dreams of joining her parents in Miami.
This cult science fiction film is affectionately
known as the Turkish Star Wars due to its
bootleg use of clips from the official movie.
Dir. Peter Greenaway, 1976, UK, 9 min
Man, Woman and Animal
Dir. Mark Leckey, 1999, UK, 15 min
T H U R S DAY 15 S E P T E M B E R
Remote... Remote… Group Screening:
To Camera
Dir. Gunvor Nelson, 10 min
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (film still), 1983
Dust Group Screening:
The Coming Race
Dir. Jacques Rivette, 1974, France, 193 mins
T H U R S DAY 14 J U LY
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Set in former West Berlin, this
uncompromising fantasy explores
society’s outsiders in a boundary breaking
cinematic epic of experimentation and
visual extravagance.
Dir. Lu Yang, 2016, 15 min
Short films by artists who use new
technologies in their work.
T H U R S DAY 2 5 AUGUS T
Sans Soleil
Dir. Chris Marker 1983, France, 104 min
This mind-bending free-form travelogue
charts late French filmmaker Chris Marker’s
journey from Africa to Japan.
Ulrike Ottinger, Freak Orlando (film still), 1981
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Tours & Talks
Conferences & Symposia
Conversations with Ancient Greece
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W E DN E S DAY 13 J U LY
Dr Mark Wright (FACT and LJMU) and
Francesco Manacorda (Tate Liverpool)
W E DN E S DAY 14 S E P T E M B E R
SAT U R DAY 8 O C T OB E R
6.30pm, Tate Liverpool
Episodic Data of Culture
T OU R S
T U E S DAY 2 AUGUS T
2–4pm, FACT
In Athens’ Shadow? Radical Cultural
Responses to Crisis in Urban Democracy
E V E R Y S AT U R DAY
Dr Chrissy Partheni (National Museums
Liverpool) and Lauren Barnes (Tate Liverpool)
Liverpool Biennial 2016: Curator Tours
6.30pm, Tate Liverpool
Can time and data work hand in hand? This
event considers what cultural institutions can
proactively do with the data they accumulate.
Presenters include Mark Cote, Jussi Parikka,
Richard Wright and Hannah Redler.
Events are free, unless otherwise stated. For further
listings and booking information, see www.biennial.com.
3pm, Various venues from 17 July
W E DN E S DAY 2 8 S E P T E M B E R
E V E R Y S U N DAY
Rosie Cooper (Liverpool Biennial) and
Sandeep Parmar (University of Liverpool)
Liverpool Biennial 2016: Mediator Tours
6.30pm, Tate Liverpool
3pm, Cains Brewery / ABC Cinema alternately from 17 July
W E DN E S DAY 3 AUGUS T
SAT U R DAY 8 O C T OB E R , 10 – 6 P M
Bringing together key thinkers, artists and
cultural workers, this symposium reflects
critically on pressing issues raised by
problems for, and relations between the
arts, democracy and the city in the 21st
century. Speakers include Jen Harvie and
Malcolm Miles.
The Biennial Condition: On
Contemporaneity and the Episodic
Jointly hosted by Tate Liverpool and
The Johnson Foundation Auditorium, John Lennon Art and
Liverpool Hope University.
F R I DAY 7 O C T OB E R , 5 – 6 P M &
John Moores Painting Prize: Talk Tuesdays
Ranjit Hoskote in Conversation
with Sally Tallant
1–2pm, Walker Art Gallery
6.30pm, Bluecoat
Design Building, Liverpool John Moores University
A series of talks and tours.
The Mumbai-based poet, critic and curator
will read his poetry and discuss his varied
career across the arts.
This conference gathers researchers,
curators, artists and writers to explore the
Biennial form as the site for the production
of contemporaneity in art and exhibition
making. Participants include Terry Smith,
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset,
Marina Fokidis, Juliana Engberg, Elvira
Dyangani Ose, Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund,
Verina Gfader, Anne Kølbæk Iversen,
Francesco Manacorda, and convened by
Joasia Krysa.
E V E R Y T U E S DAY
S AT U R DAY 13 AUGUS T
Gallery Tour with Deep Hedonia
2pm, Bluecoat
T U E S DAY 9 AUGUS T
TA L K S
Juliana Spahr, Sean Bonney
and Ruby Robinson
6.30pm, Tate Liverpool
S AT U R DAY 9 & S U N DAY 10 J U LY
Liverpool Biennial 2016: Artists in
Conversation with Dominic Willsdon
Join the radical poets for an evening of
politically-charged poetry readings.
1–5pm, Bluecoat
T U E S DAY 27 S E P T E M B E R
Dennis McNulty in Conversation with
Matthew de Abaitua
Organised in partnership with Aarhus University’s The
S U N DAY 10 J U LY
Contemporary Painting in China
6pm, Bluecoat, £3/£2
John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Lab.
2pm, Walker Art Gallery
A panel discussion exploring John Moores
Painting Prize China.
De Abaitua’s recent novel If Then draws on
the war diaries of Wirral-born science-fiction
writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon.
T U E S DAY 12 J U LY
F R I DAY 14 O C T OB E R
The Politics of Everyday Practice
Sleeping Giants: Theories of Sleep in Art
and Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the
Present Night
6pm, Bluecoat, £4/£3
Dr Lucy Jackson explores how routine actions
form communities, boundaries and identities.
S AT U R DAY 3 0 J U LY
A New Chineseness
10am–5pm, Tate Liverpool
T H U R S DAY 13 – F R I DAY 14 O C T OB E R /
F R I NGE : 12 , 13 & 15 O C T OB E R
Whose Art? Our Art!
Access and Activism in Gallery Education
Various times, Liverpool Hope University & other venues
The 2016 engage International Conference
will explore how issues of access and
activism impact on gallery and visual arts
approaches to education and outreach.
Speakers include Rabab Ghazoul, Bryan
Biggs, Mike Fairclough, Kenn Taylor,
Rebecca Ross-Williams, Steffan JonesHughes, Oriel Wrecsam and Nina Edge.
Contemporary Condition research project and Liverpool
6–8pm, Tate Liverpool
Alexi Penzin and Matthew Fuller consider
sleep as a point of resistance towards late
capitalism.
4–5.30pm, Bluecoat
Community Arts Conference, 2015.
Ying Tan in conversation with En Liang Khong.
Photo: Charlotte Horn
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Education & Family Programme
There is a packed programme of events
and practical workshops for families and
adults throughout the festival, with many
of the Biennial exhibitions supported by
weekly activities.
YOU NG P E OP L E & C H I L DR E N
S AT U R DAY 9 J U LY
Minecraft Infinity Project
11–12pm (presentation), 12–5.30pm (drop-in), FACT
See what happens when art and Minecraft
collide! Presentation followed by open play
session led by YouTube experts.
27–2 9 J U LY OR 3 –5 AUGUS T
(AGE S 8 –11) / 10 –12 AUGUS T OR
17–19 AUGUS T (AGE S 12–14)
Prototype FACT, £60 for three days
Designed to inspire confidence and
creativity, Prototype is a summer camp
where tinkering with tech allows young
people to build their own knowledge.
Learn a range of digital skills from coding
and circuitry to designing and building
in Minecraft.
MON DAY 2 2 – T H U R S DAY 2 5 AUGUS T
Bluecoat Summer School
S U N DAY 31 J U LY, 2 8 AUGUS T,
10–3.30pm, Bluecoat, £80
2 5 S E P T E M B E R & 16 O C T OB E R
Led by experienced workshop leaders,
children will spend time in the galleries
engaging with the artworks and getting
inspired to create their own masterpiece.
They will also achieve their Discover Arts
Award and showcase the work they have
created at a small sharing event. Suitable
for ages 6–11.
Sunday Comedy Club
1–5pm, Tate Liverpool
A monthly workshop for families to create
their own comedy shows inspired by
Liverpool Biennial 2016. Spend the day with
educators and comedians to develop your
acts, which can include poetry, song and
stand-up.
S C HO OL T OU R S A N D R E S OU R C E S
Do Something! Saturdays
12–4pm, FACT
Explore hands-on skills from designing with
technology and the role of art in gaming,
to sculpting, filmmaking and animation
techniques. Suitable for ages 7+.
E V E R Y S AT U R DAY
Explore
M E DI AT ION P R O GR A M M E
Jessica Foley: Engineering Fictions
6pm, Bluecoat, £3/£2
The City is a School
A hands-on writing session where collective
day-dreaming, conversation, experimental
and uncreative writing help to tilt habits of
occupational communication.
Liverpool Biennial 2016 welcomes all
school pupils to experience international
art across Liverpool’s public spaces,
galleries and unused spaces this summer
and autumn term. A free digital learning
resource with fun educational activities,
designed for use inside and outside the
classroom and tying in with Key Stages 2
and 3 of the national curriculum, is available
from www.biennial.com.
The City is a School is an experimental
co-learning programme that trains the
Biennial’s Mediation team as storytellers,
researchers and public guides. Every
Tuesday, a public event organised
by the Mediators takes place. For the
full programme and locations visit
www.biennial.com.
Bespoke school tours can be organised
upon request. For more information, contact
[email protected] or call 0151 203 3572.
W E DN E S DAY 2 0 J U LY
A DU LT S
1–4pm, Bluecoat
Artist-led activities for families to do together,
inspired by the Biennial exhibitions. Drop in
for a short time or spend all afternoon making
your own masterpiece. Suitable for all ages.
W E DN E S DAY 14 S E P T E M B E R
E V E R Y T U E S DAY
6.30pm, Various locations
E V E R Y O T H E R S AT U R DAY
16 J U LY – 8 O C T OB E R
Arriva bus workshop with Childwall Sports & Science Academy, 2016. Photo: Pete Carr
Introduction to Cybernetics
6pm, Bluecoat, £3/£2
Bernard Geoghegan, a cultural historian of
media and technology, leads a beginner’s
guide to cybernetics.
E V E R Y W E DN E S DAY
13 J U LY – 7 S E P T E M B E R
FACTLab Hack Nights
6–8pm, FACT
Understand more about the tools used to
make digital artworks, and try them for
yourself in this introductory course, focused
on interactive and creative technologies.
Basic concepts of programming, electronics
and interactivity will be introduced.
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Limited Editions
Liverpool Biennial 2016 artists, including
Mariana Castillo Deball, Yin-Ju Chen, Marvin
Gaye Chetwynd, Céline Condorelli, Frances
Disley, Daniel Fogarty, Fabien Giraud and
Raphaël Siboni, Mark Leckey, Sahej Rahal
and Betty Woodman have made new limited
edition works, on sale throughout the festival.
The sale of Limited Editions directly supports
the Biennial’s new commissions, exhibitions,
talks and educational programmes.
On display and available to buy from the
Biennial Visitor Hub at Cains Brewery,
Cass Art, 18 School Lane, Liverpool ONE,
L1 3BT and www.biennial.com
Betty Woodman, Fountain, 2016, 39cm × 74cm, Digital pigment print on
Canson Edition Etching Rag paper, £750 unframed, Edition of 25
Yin-Ju Chen,The Empress, 2016, 23cm × 30 cm, Hand-coloured lino print on rice paper, £150 unframed, Edition of 50
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Book
isitor
informati n
The Two-Sided Lake: Scenarios,
Storyboards and Sets from Liverpool
Biennial 2016
£9.99
320 pages, available to buy from exhibition
venues and www.biennial.com
Published as part of Liverpool Biennial
2016, The Two-Sided Lake brings together
a wide range of contributions by artists,
curators and writers to explore the idea
of the ‘episode’ in film, literature and
computation. The book reflects on how the
episodic can open us up to new and strange
discontinuities, and to new conversations
about the past, the present, biography,
collaboration, architecture, race, migration,
trauma and exhibition-making.
Including texts by Zian Chen, Mark
Z Danielewski, Denise Ferreira da Silva,
Matthew Garrett, Xiaolu Guo, Ranjit
Hoskote, Joasia Krysa, Lars Bang Larsen,
Francesco Manacorda, Andrew Pickering,
Denise Riley, Will Slocombe, Juliana Spahr/
C.O. Grossman and Jocelyn Penny Small
alongside contributions by all of Liverpool
Biennial 2016’s artists.
Published by Liverpool University Press.
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Travel Information: How to Get Around
Accommodation
We hope you enjoy your stay in the city as
you explore Liverpool Biennial 2016. Here
are some of the best ways to see the city.
Liverpool is well known for its culture,
giving you lots to explore in addition to
Liverpool Biennial 2016. It is home to more
national museums and galleries than
any UK city outside London, such as the
Merseyside Maritime Museum and Museum
of Liverpool, all of which are free to enter.
Liverpool was recently declared a UNESCO
City of Music. During your visit, check out
local music sites such as Bido Lito! and Get
Into This for listings.
It is also a city of storytelling, with
new talent and classics mixing on stage at
the likes of the Everyman, Playhouse and
Unity theatres. Liverpool is a city of great
architectural interest, with hundreds of
listed buildings from different eras.
To make the most of the city during you
visit, explore www.visitliverpool.com and
download the it’s liverpool app.
Walking
Liverpool is extremely walkable, with most
of the Biennial venues less than 10 minutes’
walk from the very centre of the city. To
plan your route, we recommend using the
walkit.com app.
Cycling
It is quick and easy to cycle between our
venues, so you are able to pack even more
into your day. If you don’t want to bring your
own, the CityBike hire scheme is simple
and affordable. Just register online and top
up your account, then you can use one of
the thousands of CityBikes, picking up and
dropping off from many stations dotted
around the city. For more information on cycle
parking and routes around town, download
or request a copy of Liverpool’s cycle map
from www.liverpool.gov.uk/cycling.
Bus
The main station for buses is in Liverpool
ONE, in the heart of the city’s retail area.
From here you can easily navigate the
city region and all Biennial sites. This year,
three double-decker buses have been
transformed into moving artworks as part
of a special partnership between Arriva and
Liverpool Biennial.
Train
While Liverpool city centre is easily traversed,
there are four train stations from which
you can travel across the whole city region.
Liverpool Lime Street is the main station
for trains going further afield, with regular
direct services to Manchester and London.
Virgin Trains offer a direct high-speed service
from the centre of London in a little over two
hours, running on average once an hour.
Make the most of your visit to Liverpool
with one of these great places to stay.
We would like to recommend the following,
with thanks to our partners.
Hope Street Hotel
Hope Street Hotel is urbane and calm
with a destination restaurant serving
delicious food. Within a five minute walk
its neighbours include the Victoria Gallery
and Museum, the Catholic Cathedral, the
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool Philharmonic
Hall, Unity Theatre, and the Anglican
Cathedral. Biennial visitors get 10% off the
best available room rate. To book, call 0151
709 3000 and quote BIENNIAL16.
40 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9DA
0151 709 3000
www.hopestreethotel.co.uk
Pullman
The 4-star Pullman Liverpool hotel is located
in the heart of Liverpool's iconic waterfront,
just moments from the award-winning
Albert Dock. Each of the 216 comfortable
bedrooms has been designed with style
in mind and feature complementary high
speed Wi-Fi as standard. Biennial visitors
get 20% off the best available room rate.
To book, call 0151 945 1000 and quote
BIENNIAL16.
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The Nadler
This 106-room affordable boutique hotel
was awarded the 2015 Certificate of
Excellence by TripAdvisor. It provides
free Wi-Fi, 24-hour reception & concierge
service, air-conditioning and a mini-kitchen
in every room. Biennial visitors get 15% off
the best available flex rate. To book, quote
the code BIENNIAL when booking online.
29 Seel Street, L1 4AU
0151 705 2626
www.thenadler.com
Hotel Indigo
Located on one of the original ‘seven streets’
in the heart of the city, and inspired by its
historical and cultural surroundings, this
boutique hotel offers 151 guestrooms,
complete with oversized beds, spa-inspired
bathrooms, complimentary snack bar items
and Wi-Fi access. Biennial visitors get a
preferential rate of £85 per room (bed and
breakfast). To book, call 0151 224 7765 and
quote LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL.
10 Chapel St, L3 9AG
0151 224 7765
www.hotelindigoliverpool.co.uk
Kings Dock, L3 4FP
0151 945 1000
www.pullmanhotels.com
Call Traveline on 0151 236 7676 or check jp.merseytravel.
The Royal Liver Building. Courtesy Marketing Liverpool
gov.uk for train and bus routes, times and tickets.
Hope Street Hotel
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Food & Drink
Whatever your taste, Liverpool is packed
with great places to eat and drink. We would
like to recommend the following, with
thanks to our partners.
Restaurant Bar & Grill
Located in Halifax House, in the heart of the
busy commercial district, The Restaurant
Bar & Grill creates an impression as soon
as guests walk through the doors of this
former banking hall. On offer is classic and
inspired seasonal cooking, amazing steaks
and brilliant cocktails. Biennial visitors get
an exclusive Club Individual Card, preloaded with £20 when bookings are made at
least 24 hours in advance. To book, please
call 0151 236 6703 and quote LIVERPOOL
BIENNIAL.
Halifax House, Brunswick Street, L2 0UU
0151 236 6703
www.individualrestaurants.com
Fazenda Bar & Grill
Since the early nineteenth century, gauchos
pierced large pieces of meat and slowly
grilled them over open-flamed pits. At
Fazenda Bar & Grill, they want to keep this
tradition alive. The chefs roast succulent
cuts of meat in the way it has been done for
centuries, accompanied by a gourmet sides
bar and the finest selection of wines.
Horton House, Exchange Flags, L2 3YL
0151 659 1183
www.fazenda.co.uk
Buyers Club
Buyers Club is a multifaceted venue offering
bar, restaurant, garden and event space
in the Hope Street area of Liverpool City
Centre. Just off the beaten track, it is an
ideal place to meet, eat, drink and celebrate
in contemporary surroundings with
exceptional service.
24 Hardman St, L1 9AX
0151 709 2400
www.buyers-club.co.uk
Oh Me Oh My
Oh Me Oh My is housed in the former Bank
of West Africa, a spectacular Grade II listed
building, located opposite the Liver Building.
The calm, welcoming and open space makes
it the perfect place to meet, think, eat, drink
or hold a special event. The delicious and
wholesome food uses the best locallysourced ingredients and is all freshly made
in the Oh Me Oh My kitchens.
[email protected]
0151 659 1183
Exchange Flags, Liverpool, L2 3YL
West Africa House, 25 Water St, L2 0RG
0151 227 4810
www.ohmeohmyliverpool.co.uk
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Liverpool Biennial partners
Corporate partners
Commission and project partners
Support for Arseny Zhilyaev’s work provided by Dilyara Allakhverdova and Elchin Safarov.
Sponsors
Trusts and foundations
Travel partner
Hospitality partners
Corporate patrons
Gallery circle
Patrons
Casey Kaplan
Chatterjee & Lal
David Kordansky Gallery
Galleria Franco Noero
Galerie Lelong
Galerie Micheline Swajcer
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
Kurimanzutto
MadeIn Gallery
Mai 36 Galerie
Pilar Corrias
Sadie Coles HQ
Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam
Alex Wainwright (Chair)
Leila Alexander
Alice Anastasiou
Jo and Tom Bloxham
Simon Edwards
Jonathan Falkingham
Anna Fox and Peter Goodbody
Roland and Rosemary Hill
Daniel and Alison Rees
Paula Ridley
Peter Woods and Francis Ryan
Volunteer
with
Liverpool
Biennial
2016
Would you like to engage with art in
new ways, gain invaluable skills and
experiences, or meet like-minded people?
We’re looking for enthusiastic individuals
to join our valued team of volunteers.
By joining the volunteer programme,
you’ll help make Liverpool Biennial 2016
possible, can participate in The City is a
School, work with art professionals and
access free professional development.
Performance
Sat 233pm
Curator Tour (Public Spaces)
with Mels Evers
The Oratory (meeting point) Tour
FACT (£60 for three days)
Family MA Exhibition Studies
Study the history, theory, practice and understanding of
worldwide exhibition cultures across diverse fields of art, design,
architecture, fashion, crafts and technology.
Consider the shifting ideas about art intersecting with larger
curatorial trends and benefit from internationally distinguished
research expertise of staff, advisors, and visiting staff.
08/06/2016 13:44
Episodic Data of Culture
FACTSeminar
6pm Jessica Foley: Engineering Fictions
Bluecoat (£3 / £2)
Workshop
Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World) AKA Turkish Star Wars (1982, Turkey)
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Curator Tour
with Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey
ABC Cinema
Tour
Circuit Breaker Group Screening
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Sat 243pm
Curator Tour
with Polly Brannan
Cains Brewery
Tour
Tue 276pm
Dennis McNulty in Conversation with Matthew de Abaitua
Bluecoat (£3 / £2)
Talk
Wed 286.30pm
Conversations with Ancient Greece
with Sandeep Parmar and Rosie Cooper
Tate Liverpool
Talk
Thur 29 6.30pm Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999, UK)
by Mark Leckey
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Sat 303pm
Curator Tour
with Rosie Cooper
Tate Liverpool Tour
Sat 173pm
Tue 26.30pm
Conversations with Ancient Greece
with Dr Chrissy Partheni and Lauren Barnes
Tate Liverpool
Talk
Wed 36–8pm
Prototype Summer School
FACT (£60 for three days)
Family Cains Brewery (meeting point) Tour
2–4pm Tampopo (1985, Japan) Selected by Oliver Laric
BluecoatTalk
Curator Tour (Public Spaces)
with Ying Tan
Wed 14
Thur 286.30pm
Thur 22
6.30pm 6.30pm
Summer Sessions: Ranjit Hoskote
in conversation with Sally Tallant
BluecoatTalk
Thur 46.30pm
Stop Motion Group Screening
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Sat 63pm
Curator Tour
with Polly Brannan
Cains Brewery
Tour
Sat 13pm
Curator Tour
with Lauren Barnes
Tate Liverpool Tour
Tue 96.30pm
Summer Sessions: Juliana Spahr
in conversation with Sean Bonney and Ruby Robinson
Tate Liverpool
Talk
Thur 66.30pm
Nothing More (NADA +) (2001)
Selected by Coco Fusco
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Wed 106–8pm
Prototype Summer School
FACT (£60 for three days)
Family Adam Linder: Some Strands of Support
Tate Liverpool Performance
Thur 116.30pm
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, France)
Selected by Mark Leckey
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Tate Liverpool Performance
Sat 132pm
Gallery Tour
with Deep Hedonia
BluecoatTour
10–5pm
In Athens’ Shadow? Radical Cultural Responses to Crisis in Urban Democracy
Tate Liverpool Conference
3pm Curator Tour
with Thomas Dukes
Open Eye Gallery
Tour
10–6pm
The Biennial Condition: On Contemporaneity and the Episodic
LJMUConference
Wed 176–8pm
Prototype Summer School
FACT (£60 for three days)
Family 3pm Curator Tour
with Raimundas Malašauskas
Cains Brewery
Tour
Thur 186.30pm
Castle for Home Group Screening
6.30pm
Coco Fusco: Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr Zira
Epstein Theatre
Performance
Tate Liverpool Performance
O C T OBER
Fri 7
All day
5–6pmThe Biennial Condition: On Contemporaneity and the Episodic
Sat 8
All day
Adam Linder: Some Strands of Support
LJMUConference
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Sat 20
10–5pm FACT on Tour: MakeFest 2016
Museum of Science
and Industry, Manchester
Family
3pm Curator Tour
with Mike Stubbs
FACTTour
Thur 13 Various times Whose Art? Our Art! Access and Activism in Gallery Education Liverpool Hope University & other venues
Conference
Bluecoat Summer School
Bluecoat (£80 for three days) Family
6.30pm
Freak Orlando (1981, Germany)
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Thur 256.30pm
Sans Soleil (1983, France)
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Talk/Seminar
Curator Tour
with Sevie Tsampalla
ABC Cinema
Tour
6–8pmSleeping Giants: Theories of Sleep in Art and
Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Present Night
Tate Liverpool Sat 273pm
Thur 16.30pm
Paris Is Burning (1991, USA)
Screening accompanied by performance
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Sat 33pm
Curator Tour (Public Spaces)
with Mels Evers The Oratory (meeting point) Tour
Thur 86.30pm
Dust Group Screening
FACT (£7 / £5)
Mon 22
10–3.30pm SEP T EM BER
Design: Mark El-khatib
LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE FOR A SEPTEMBER START
Find out more ljmu.ac.uk/courses
or for an informal discussion contact Programme
Director, [email protected]
Sat 103pm
Thur 156.30pm
AUGUST
MPhil Contemporary Art
Designed for artists, writers, curators, and cultural
practitioners to contribute to the wider field of
contemporary art through research-based critical work.
Delivered in partnership with Liverpool Biennial.
Opportunities to undertake supervised advanced
research in areas relating to a wide range of artistic
practices, critical writing, exhibition studies and curating,
including periodic art exhibitions such as biennials.
Art & Design Ad.indd 1
Live broadcast at
www.biennial.com/live
4–5.30pm
A New Chineseness
Ying Tan in conversation with En Liang Khong
Opportunities on postgraduate and research courses based in the Exhibition
Research Lab (ERL), which works in partnership with key cultural
institutions, including Tate Liverpool, FACT and Liverpool Biennial.
Join Joasia Krysa and Mike Birchall in the ERL
Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones
The Truncheon and the Speculum Wed 2710.30–4pm Prototype Summer School
To find out more and get involved,
visit www.biennial.com
or email [email protected]
Liverpool School
of Art and Design
Thur 217.30pm
Film
Sun 9
All day
Adam Linder: Some Strands of Support
Fri 14 Various times
Whose Art? Our Art! Access and Activism in Gallery Education Liverpool Hope University engage International Conference 2016
& other venues
Sat 153pm
Curator Tour
with Rosie Cooper
Cains Brewery
Events are free unless otherwise stated. To book and for further information, visit www.biennial.com
All details are correct at time of going to print.
Conference
Tour
Events Calendar 2016
Events are free unless stated otherwise. To book and for further information, visit www.biennial.com
R E CU R R I NG W EEK LY E V EN T S
Every Tuesday 1–2pm
John Moores Painting Prize: Talk Tuesdays
Walker Art Gallery
Talk / Tour
Every Tuesday 6.30pm
The City is a School
Various locations
Talk
Every Thursday 6pm
Film Programme: Another Version of Events FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Every Wednesday 6–8pm
FACTLab: Hack Nights (13 July – 7 September)
FACTWorkshop
Every Saturday 3pm
Liverpool Biennial 2016: Curator Tours
Various locations
Tour
Every other Saturday
12pm – 4pm (from 16 July)
Do Something! Saturdays
FACT
Family
Every Saturday 1–4pmExplore
Bluecoat
Family
Every Sunday 3pm
Liverpool Biennial 2016: Mediator Tours
Cains Brewery / ABC Cinema Tour
Ancient Greece
Chinatown
Children’s Episode
Monuments from the Future
Flashback
Software
J U LY
Sat 9
11–5.30pm Minecraft Infinity Project
FACTWorkshop
12.30 & 3pm
Dennis McNulty: Homo Gestalt: The Time Domain New Hall Place Performance
Liverpool Biennial 2016: Artists in Conversation
Led by Dominic Willsdon
Bluecoat Talk
1–5pm 2pm Exhibition Tour: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016Bluecoat
with Kirsty Ogg and Adam Smythe
3pm Exhibition Tour
Tour
FACTTour
4pm Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: Dogsy Ma Bone
Cains Brewery
Performance
5–9pmElena Narbutaite and Eduardo Costa: Sun Kiss Feline, 1982–2016
Adelphi Hotel swimming pool
Performance
6–7.30pm
Michael Portnoy: Relational Stalinism: the Musical
The Black-E (£5)
Performance
Dennis McNulty: Homo Gestalt: The Time Domain New Hall Place Performance
Liverpool Biennial 2016: Artists in Conversation
Led by Dominic Willsdon
Bluecoat Talk
Walker Art Gallery
Talk
Sun 10
12.30 & 3pm
1–5pm 2pm Contemporary Painting in China
Exhibition Tour
FACTTour
Tues 12 6pm The Politics of Everyday Practice
with Dr Lucy Jackson
Bluecoat (£4 / £3)
Talk
Wed 136.30pm
Conversations with Ancient Greece
with Dr Mark Wright and Francesco Manacorda
Tate Liverpool
Talk
News from Home (1976, Belgium/France/USA) FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Sat 163pm
Curator Tour
with Francesco Manacorda
Cains Brewery Tour
Wed 206pm
Introduction to Cybernetics
with Bernard Geoghegan
Bluecoat (£3 / £2)
Talk
Thur 216.30pm
Remote... Remote... Group Screening
Selected by Jesse Jones
FACT (£7 / £5)
Film
Thur 14
3pm 6pm #Biennial2016 @biennial @liverpoolbiennial
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