Artists and Projects
Projects:
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Touched
Liverpool Biennial presents Touched, the International 10 exhibition as part of Liverpool Biennial 2010
18 September - 28 November 2010
“In a world packed with countless biennials, triennials and the rest, this madcap event in Liverpool remains distinctive and entertaining. The shows are scattered all over the city, often in pretty strange places, but the overall ambition — to introduce British audiences to up-and-coming international artists and trends — is adhered to excellently." The Times
For a simple downloadable list of the artists in Touched, please click here.
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Liverpool Biennial 2010
Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest as well as one of the most exciting contemporary visual arts events, and with 960,000 visits in 2008, it is one of the best attended in the world.
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Art for Places
The Art for Places project aims to create public art commissions in three Merseyside areas: Sefton; Wirral and Liverpool.
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Touched Talks
Liverpool Biennial has invited prominent artists and thinkers to explore TOUCHED, the theme of Liverpool Biennial’s International exhibition 2010.
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On the Street
On the Street is a project, dealing head-on with issues prevalent in the Anfield and Breckfield regeneration zones of North Liverpool and will be delivered over 3 or more years.
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Urban Interventions
Urban Interventions aims at inviting artists from Europe to explore various urban landscapes in different cities. It creates, within the framework of artist residency programs and activities, a platform for interaction and exchange both on a local level, as well as within a broader, inter-regional spectrum.
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Bruce Mau Lecture
Visionary and world-leading innovator Bruce Mau is thrilled to participate in the visioning process to re-imagine the future of Liverpool. As part of his work in Liverpool he gave a lecture at 6pm on 11 May at Liverpool Hope University.
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Il mattino ha l’oro in bocca? | Filip Gilissen
A one night exhibition/tribute to Felix Gonzalez Torres performed by Filip Gilissen. Organised by Liverpool Biennial and curated by Lorenzo Fusi in collaboration with Frances Loeffler and Raj Sandhu to launch the 2010 International Exhibition on the occasion of Light Night, 14 May 2010. For a video of a similar piece by the artist, click here.
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Turning the Place Over
The most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool’s city centre literally inside out.
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Dream
Dream, the dramatic new sculpture for St.Helens and the Northwest by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, launched with a spectacular event on Sunday 31 May that involved hundreds of people from the local community and visitors from across the country.
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Another Place
Antony Gormley's installation comprises 100 cast-iron sculptures made from 17 different molds taken from the sculptor’s own body, installed on Crosby Beach on the Mersey Estuary, all facing the open sea.
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Simon Faithfull | Liverpool to Liverpool
In 2008, traveling by container ship, train and bus, the artist Simon Faithfull made an epic journey from Liverpool (UK) to Liverpool (Nova Scotia). The purpose of this absurd endeavor was to create 181 digital drawings that record the daily details of a journey from the old world to the new.
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Visible Virals
Taking place across the city’s public transport, parks and urban spaces, Visible Virals engaged thousands of people as they spread across the city during 2008. -
Pavilions
The Pavilions project took the form of three large-scale, temporary creative spaces in the Liverpool neighbourhoods of Kirkdale, Garston and Kensington.
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Winter Lights
Michael Pinsky’s 2008 Winter Lights commission Title Author Genre takes the form of three animated neon sculptures, each constructed from three signatures placed in three Liverpool neighbourhoods; Garston, Kensington and Kirkdale.
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Family Friendly
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Urbanism 2009
Liverpool Biennial presented Urbanism 09, from 16 - 20 September 2009: five days of exhibition, exploration, discussion and celebration along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, stretching through South Sefton and North Liverpool; a vital green/blue lung in what many mistakenly perceive as an urban wasteland. Click here for Urbanism locations. Click here to download the full programme.
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International 08: MADE UP
Celebrating 10 years of commissioning ambitious and challenging new work by leading international artists, the fifth edition of Liverpool Biennial’s International exhibition was an exploration of the power of the artistic imagination.
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Kitchen Monument
Between Sunday June 8th and Thursday June 12th 2008, the Kitchen Monument took root in various locations across the Bootle and South Sefton areas of Merseyside. A fantastic week of events was presented in collaboration with German architect practice raumlaborberlin, and saw a diverse range of people gather to eat together, and discuss and challenge issues and ideas raised in their communities.
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Big Table
Biennial Big Table is a partnership between Liverpool Biennial, Metal (Kensington), and Rotunda (Kirkdale). The partnership exists for the joint realisation of a visual arts programme that takes place in the three neighbourhoods and in the city centre
