Column - Liverpool Biennial

15 September – 25 November 

The UK Biennial of Contemporary Art 

Liverpool 

Biennial 

2012 

Ten weeks of free exhibitions, 

talks, films, tours and events 

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17 Museum of Liverpool 

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18 World Museum, William 

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19 Walker Art Gallery 

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20 Victoria Gallery & 

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Liverpool Biennial 


Liverpool Biennial 2012 presents work 

by 242 artists in 27 locations. The festival 

takes place in galleries, museums and sites 

across the city and includes a dynamic 

programme of talks, events, screenings 

and family activities. 

The Unexpected Guest p.3 

Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – The Source p.14 

Bloomberg New Contemporaries p.15 

City States p.17 

Anthony McCall: Column p.19 

John Moores Painting Prize p.20 

Events Programme p.21 

www.biennial.com 

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17 Museum of Liverpool 

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25 Camp and Furnace 

26 The James Monro 


University, Art and 

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Liverpool Biennial 2012 presents work 

by 242 artists in 27 locations. The festival 

takes place in galleries, museums and sites 

across the city and includes a dynamic 

programme of talks, events, screenings 

and family activities. 

The Unexpected Guest p.3 

Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – The Source p.14 

Bloomberg New Contemporaries p.15 

City States p.17 

Anthony McCall: Column p.19 

John Moores Painting Prize p.20 

Events Programme p.21 


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St. Vincent St 

Brownlow Hill 


Roscoe St 

Knight St 

St James Place 

Seymour St 

Roscoe St 

Rodney St 

Rodney St 

Clarence St 

Hardman St 

Pilgrim St 

Mount St 

Hope Place 

Hope St 

Hope St 

Anson St 

Pembroke Rd 

Great Newton St 

Duckingfield St 

Hope St 

Upper Duke St Canning St 

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Windsor St 

London Rd 

Falkner St 

Blackburne Place 

Catharine St 

Brownlow St 

Daulby St 

Huskisson St 

Upper Parliament St 

Upper Stanhope St 

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The Unexpected 

Guest 

The Unexpected Guest explores notions 

of hospitality. Leading and emerging 

artists have been commissioned to make 

permanent and temporary public artworks, 

as well as long-term community-based 

projects. Works by over 60 international 

artists unfold across the city in its major 

galleries and a range of sites including 

The Cunard Building, the LJMU Copperas 

Hill Building, The Monro, Liverpool ONE, 

Everton Park and Anfield. 

Hospitality is the welcome we extend to 

strangers, an attitude and a code of conduct 

fundamental to civilisation, as well as a 

metaphor whose conditions and energy 

inspires artists. In a globalising world, 

increasing mobility and interdependence 

are changing the rules of hospitality. 

There are different ‘cultures of hospitality’, 

often co-existent in the same place. 

Our awareness of such complexity and 

migration between nations and cultures 

makes clear distinctions between host 

and guest increasingly difficult. 

All works are commissioned by Liverpool Biennial 

unless otherwise stated 

Opposite: Photo of The Cunard Building by Edward Park 

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Sylvie Blocher 

The Series: Speeches, 2012 

Blocher’s project is to intervene with 

significant political speeches and utopian 

manifestos, each of which promised 

happiness or emancipation but failed 

to deliver. Each is re-told in a way that 

acknowledges changed contexts – 

bringing new voices, new forms of energy 

and a sense of catharsis to the texts. 

Andrea Bowers 

City of Sanctuary, 2012 

Artist and activist Andrea Bowers 

amplifies the launch of Liverpool as a 

City of Sanctuary for asylum seekers and 

refugees. Bowers and STAR (Student 

Action for Refugees) have collaborated 

with designer Sam Wiehl to create a 

visual identity for the campaign. 

Mona Hatoum 

A selection of recent works, some of 

which have never been seen in the UK, 

are presented in The Cunard Building. 

In these works, the viewer will be 

confronted by unusual mappings of the 

world and ideas of cultural arrogance 

and political ignorance. 

Jeanne van Heeswijk, Britt Jurgensen, 

Debbie Morgan, Graham Hicks and 

the residents of Anfield 

The Anfield Home Tour, 2012 

Saturdays 11.30am 

Visitors are invited to join a heritage tour 

to Anfield. The tour presents the impact 

that regeneration has had, and continues 

to have, on the lives of people in the 

neighbourhood. An intervention and audio 

work can be found in The People’s Republic 

Gallery at the Museum of Liverpool, 

amongst the exhibits on labour history. 

Bus departs from The Cunard Building. Places limited. 

Booking essential: 0151 702 5234

Nadia Kaabi-Linke 

NO, 2012 

Parkverbot, 2010 

Kaabi-Linke’s newly-commissioned project 

presents a dialogue in which a crowd 

opposes an individual voice of authority. 

The work focuses on the visa process 

that many endure in order to enter the 

UK. Kaabi-Linke draws a parallel between 

these contemporary regulations and the 

Holy Inquisition, in which brutal judiciary 

procedures presumed a guilty verdict 

without a fair hearing. Co-produced by Liverpool 

Biennial with the Kamel Lazaar Foundation 

Jirí Kovanda 

Kissing Through Glass, 2007 

I Love You, 2008 (at Liverpool Lime Street Station) 

Kovanda presents two works: a declaration 

of love that unfold through different 

media and across different sites, offering 

psychological comfort and emotional 

shelter to the viewer, unconditionally. 

Kissing Through Glass was originally conceived 

for Tate Modern. 

Jirí Kovanda, Kissing Through Glass, 2007 

Tate Modern, Courtesy the artist and gb agency, Paris 

Suzanne Lacy 

Storying Rape, 2012 

Three Weeks in January, 2012 

Storying Rape documents a conversation 

focusing on how the narrative of rape is 

presented in society and how re-framing 

this narrative might improve public 

understanding. During the Biennial, Lacy 

will also initiate a series of discussions 

that give young people, politicians and 

community leaders the chance to speak 

openly about the subject. Please visit 

www.threeweeksinjanuary.org 

Originally commissioned by LACE (Los Angeles 

Contemporary Exhibitions) for the Getty Pacific 

Standard Time Performance Festival 

Runo Lagomarsino 

An Offensive Object in the Least 

Offensive Way, 2012 

The starting point for Lagomarsino’s new 

work was an exchange between the artist 

and a neighbour in São Paulo who had 

a statue of a macaw decorating her front 

yard. This sculpture has been shipped 

across the Atlantic to ‘re-encounter’ 

a similar macaw depicted in a poster 

from the early 20th century advertising 

a voyage to Brazil, which the artist found 

in the Merseyside Maritime Museum. 

Ahmet Ög˘ üt 

Let it be known to all persons here 

gathered, 2012 

Ög˘ üt’s film documents a journey 

undertaken by a horse rider, dressed as a 

postman. The postman rode from Liverpool 

to Manchester, and in the style of a Royal 

Address, he delivered invitations to attend 

Liverpool Biennial. 

Trevor Paglen 

Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite 

(Design 1, Build 1: ‘The Kite’), 2012 

Paglen’s new work is a functionless 

satellite. Constructed from materials that 

maximise brightness and minimise weight, 

his sculpture draws upon his research 

into the colonisation of outer space by 

governmental bodies whose own satellites 

have a hidden or untold meaning. 

Christodoulos Panayiotou 

To create this series of archive 

photographs, the artist has researched 

the archives of the press and government 

in Cyprus. Panayitou has selected images 

that document the way in which the 

political concerns of the island have 

shaped the narrative of Greek-Cypriot 

historiography and culture. 

Courtesy of the artist and Rodeo, Istanbul 

Pamela Rosenkranz 

Bow Human, 2012 

Rosenkranz manipulates objects and 

images of contemporary culture, stretching 

and distorting them to create new, 

unstable realities. In Bow Human, figures 

are covered by emergency blankets. 

Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich 

and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York 

Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse 

Ponte, 2008–11 

The vast, cylindrical Ponte building, 

now a symbol for social and economic 

downturn, has dominated the 

Johannesburg skyline since the 1970s. 

Subotzky and Waterhouse became 

fascinated by the fictions and myths 

projected onto the structure, including 

tales of prostitution rings and frequent 

suicides that mark the failure of its 

utopian intentions. 

Courtesy of the artists and Goodman Gallery 

Superflex 

Liverpool to Let, 2012 

The artists were struck by the abundance 

of empty office and commercial spaces 

in Liverpool’s financial district. They 

painstakingly re-staged ‘To Let’ signage 

as banners within The Cunard Building. 

Althea Thauberger 

Marat / Sade, Bohnice, 2012 

Filmed in the iconic Bohnice Psychiatric 

Hospital in Prague, which resembles the 

setting of the original 1963 Peter Weiss play 

Marat / Sade, Thauberger’s staging blurs the 

‘fourth wall’ between actor and audience. 

Historical references are re-contextualised: 

challenging received ideas of control, 

democracy and ‘normality’. Commissioned in 

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part by Liverpool Biennial with additional production 

assistance from The Power Plant, Toronto; 

The Canada Council for the Arts; Prádelna, Prague; 

and The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, 

University of Waterloo 


John Akomfrah 

The Unfinished Conversation, 2012 

John Akomfrah’s, The Unfinished 

Conversation, examines the nature 

of the visual as triggered across the 

individual’s memory landscape, with 

particular reference to identity and race. 

In it academic Stuart Hall’s memories 

and personal archives are extracted and 

relocated in an imagined and different 

time, reflecting the questionable nature 

of memory itself. This multi-layered threescreen 

installation investigates the theory 

that identity is not an essence or being 

but instead a becoming, where individual 

subjectivities are formed in both real and 

fictive spaces. An Autograph ABP Commission. 

Executive Producer Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph 

ABP. Produced by Lina Gopaul and David Lawson, 

Smoking Dogs Films Production, in collaboration with 

Professor Stuart Hall. Project funded by Grants for 

The Arts, Arts Council England, and supported by 

the Bluecoat, New Art Exchange, Nottingham and the 

W.E.B.Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Boston. 

With kind support from NAXOS Books, The Open 

University and BBC 

Dora Garcia 

Outside!, 2012 

Outside! allows Liverpool residents to 

narrate their own story of the City and 

its undercurrents through a street TV 

project. It features a live talk show element 

creating a forum for public debate through 

the recovery of experimental theatrical 

and broadcast forms. In collaboration 

with Toxteth TV, Peter Aers and the Bluecoat / 

Commissioned in collaboration with the Bluecoat 

www.newsfromoutside.co.uk

Dan Graham 

2-Way Mirror Cylinder Bisected By 

Perforated Stainless Steel, 2011–12 

Graham’s pavilion plays with the 

viewers’ perception of inner and outer 

space. Exploring the voyeuristic act 

of simultaneously watching oneself 

and others, the structure also questions 

how we operate in the public sphere: 

a dimension that both alienates and 

seduces us. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery 

Jakob Kolding 

As yet untitled, 2012 

Kolding’s photocollages and posters 

analyse the notion of identites by 

challenging collective imagery and rituals, 

and the way these interact with the city. 

Sun Xun 

Ancient Film, 2012 

Sun Xun explores the cultural traditions 

of hospitality in his native China in a 

new, large-scale installation of drawing 

and animation created in response to the 

Bluecoat’s gallery spaces. Referencing 

Song Dynasty customs and style from 

the 11th century, he uses traditional 

and new media forms of expression to 

negotiate the complex position of ‘host’ 

in contemporary China. Commissioned by 

ShangART and π Animation Studio 


Ming Wong 

Making Chinatown, 2012 Courtesy of 

the artist / Commissioned by Redcat, Los Angeles 

After Chinatown, 2012 

The Chinese Detective, 2012 

Drawing on Polanski’s iconic film 

Chinatown, 1974, Wong plays on the 

stereotypical cinematic role of the ‘Chinese 

detective’. His ‘investigation’ takes him on 

a journey through the world’s Chinatowns, 

uncovering the constructs of identity and 

place, and leading him to Liverpool. 


Sabelo Mlangeni 

My Storie, 2012 Men Only, 2008 – 09 

Mlangeni is interested in the political 

construction and social definition of 

the category of the ‘outsider’. Exploring 

marginality and challenging the distance that 

conventionally separates the photographer 

and his subjects, his images focus on the 

grey area between opposing forces, such 

as acceptance and discrimination. 

Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Gallery 

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Anja Kirschner and David Panos 

Ultimate Substance, 2012 

In this new work, the artists return to 

their interest in the problems of theory and 

practice, the tension between artistic form 

and empirical research and the relation 

between economics and culture. Drawing 

on references including archaeology, 

philosophy, mathematics and ritual, the 

work explores how the advent of coinage 

in ancient Greece led to the fundamental 

division between sensual and abstract 

forms of experience. Commissioned by Liverpool 

Biennial, FACT, Secession (AT) and Extra City Kunsthal 

Antwerpen (BE) with support from Neuer Berliner 

Kunstverein (DE), CentrePasquArt Biel (CH) and 

Arts Council England 

Ming Wong, After Chinatown, 2012 

Publicity still, photo by Carlos Vasquez 

Pedro Reyes 

Melodrama and Other Games, 2012 

This work incorporates a set of newly 

imagined games for visitors to play 

with. Trained as an architect, Reyes’s 

work explores how encounters between 

strangers in controlled environments can 

foster new tools for collective problem 

solving. Inspired by the classic game 

of Snakes and Ladders, Melodrama is a 

board game customised to reflect the ups 

and downs of human relationships. Other 

games include ‘Mine-field’, ‘Feather Fun’, 

and ‘Slow-motion Fight’. Commissioned by 

Liverpool Biennial and FACT 

Jemima Wyman 

Collective Coverings, Communal Skin, 2012 

Wyman’s new work explores camouflage 

fabric as a material with symbolic links 

to violence and conflict. Donated secondhand 

camouflage and hunting t-shirts will 

be used as weaving material on hula-hoop 

looms. The public is invited to weave with 

the artist, transforming objects of conflict 

into objects of comfort. Commissioned by 

Liverpool Biennial and FACT 

Akram Zaatari 

Through his work, Zaatari looks at the way 

in which the production and collection 

of images may be employed in the service 

of power, as an act of personal resistance, 

and to construct individual and collective 

identities. His ongoing investigation 

questions how the photographic and filmic 

medium informs aesthetic and social codes 

in the Arab world from the 1940s to the 

present day. 

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Runo Lagomarsino 

Public intervention 

Also see entry in The Cunard Building, page 4 

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Mark Morrisroe 

Morrisroe, an instrumental figure in the 

1970s’ Boston punk scene, was 30 years 

old when he died of an AIDS-related illness. 

The work displayed here, made during 

his final years, uses photographs and 

X-ray images alongside other ephemera. 

Many of these works were produced 

in a makeshift darkroom in his hospital 

bathroom. Courtesy of the Estate of Mark Morrisroe 

(Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur 

Kohei Yoshiyuki 

The Park, 1971–79 

Love Hotel, 1978 

Throughout the 1970s, photographer Kohei 

Yoshiyuki documented the busy nightlife 

in Tokyo parks. The resulting photographs 

show the hidden side of the city; couples 

and groups engaging, or watching others 

engage, in sexual activity. Courtesy of the artist 

and Yossi Milo Gallery, New York 

Kohei Yoshiyuki, Untitled, 1971, from the series The Park, Gelatin Silver Print 

© Kohei Yoshiyuki, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York 

Sinta Tantra 

Together Yet Forever Apart, 2012 

Tantra reflects upon how buildings welcome 

or repel us, and how bodies navigate 

environments shaped by light, colour and 

physical structures. Tantra’s installation 

transforms the external facade of the Open 

Eye Gallery and the adjoining public space, 

creating a spectacle of submergence and 

superabundance. Commissioned by Liverpool 

Biennial and Open Eye Gallery

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Jorge Macchi 

Refraction, 2012 

Macchi has created an environment 

that plays with the occurrence of being 

suddenly immersed in a pool of water. 

In so doing, he questions our ability to 

correctly locate ourselves in space. 

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Janine Antoni 

Umbilical, 2000 

Antoni’s work draws upon the complex, 

intimate relationship between mother and 

child, and between objects and bodies. 

Antoni cast the inside of her mouth, cupped 

around the bowl of a monographed silver 

spoon, a family heirloom. At the other end 

is an impression of the space within her 

mother’s hand. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring 

Augustine Gallery, New York 

Markus Kåhre 

No title, 2012 

The artist has conceived an inn: a 

welcoming and cosy environment where 

slight physical and sensorial shifts conjure 

against the peace of mind of the guests, 

suggesting that the site might be haunted. 

Dane Mitchell 

Spectral Readings (Liverpool), 2012 

Ghost Paper, 2012 

Mitchell has created a wall-based work 

incorporating Marcel Duchamp’s equation 

‘A Guest + A Host = A Ghost’ into its 

design; and a series of hollow glass 

objects: containers or traps for ghost 

stories. The sculptures took shape 

and hardened as local tales were 

spoken into molten glass. 


Thresholds, presented as part of 

The Unexpected Guest. All the art works 

below are from the Tate Collection. 

Hurvin Anderson 

Jersey, 2008 

The painting depicts an abstracted interior 

of a barbershop, which has featured in 

a number of Anderson’s compositions. 

His works recall the arrival of Caribbean 

immigrants in Britain during the 1950s and 

1960s, when barbershops were opened 

in private homes and served as social 

gathering spaces. 

Keith Arnatt 

A.O.N.B. (Area of Outstanding Natural 

Beauty), 1982 – 84 

The series explores what Arnatt called the 

‘conjunction of “beauty” and “banality”’. 

The photographs were taken in locations 

around the United Kingdom designated 

for their striking landscapes. The distinctly 

unbeautiful items in the foreground, such 

as piles of rubbish, question the notion 

of a quintessentially British landscape. 

Kader Attia 

Untitled (Ghardaïa), 2009 

Oil and Sugar #2, 2007 

Untitled (Ghardaïa) reveals the flow of 

influence between colonised and coloniser 

through the lens of architecture, Attia 

stating that ‘architecture has first to do with 

politics, with the political order.’ In Oil and 

Sugar #2 motor oil is poured onto a cube 

of sugar, the use of materials suggesting 

political metaphors. 

Yael Bartana 

Kings of the Hill, 2003 

This film depicts men driving four- 

wheel drive vehicles in the coastal hills 

outside Tel Aviv, resonating with the 

Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

Sophie Calle 

The Hotel, Room 47, 1981 




In this series Calle combines factual 

documentation with personal responses 

to the hotel guests whose lives she 

glimpsed through voyeuristic examination 

of their belongings. At times she is 

uninterested – of the family in Room 47 

Calle states ‘I am already bored’. However, 

she finds connections with many of her 

unknown guests. 

Layla Curtis 

United Kingdom, 1999 

Made during the Scottish devolution and 

the establishment of a Scottish parliament, 

Curtis has manipulated a road map of 

Great Britain to integrate Scottish and 

Welsh territory within the contours of 

England, and English and Welsh within 

Scotland. Imposing one geographical 

area upon another, Curtis raises questions 

about place and national identity. 

Eugenio Dittborn 

To Return (RTM) Airmail Painting 

No.103, 1993 

Dittborn’s ‘airmail paintings’ are posted 

folded to their destinations, confronting 

the idea of working in the periphery. 

He likened them to someone living on 

an island, throwing a message out to sea. 

Each panel is displayed unfolded alongside 

its envelope, which records the places 

it has been. 

Jimmie Durham 

Dans plusieurs de ces forêts et de ces bois, 

il n’y avait pas seulement des villages 

souterrains groupés autours du terrier du 

chef mais il y avait encore de véritables 

hameaux de huttes basses cachés sous les 

arbres, et si nombreaux que parfois la forêt 

en était remplie. Souvent les fumées les 

trahissaient. Deux de…, 1993 

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The sculpture is made from found objects 

and materials. The title is taken from a 

found text discovered by the artist and 

attached to the sculpture. The text evokes 

Native American culture in its description 

of a typical settlement. 

Peter Fischli and David Weiss 

Visible World, 1997 

These still photographs were taken 

by the artists during their international 

travels. The colour images of tourist 

destinations are reminiscent of the pictures 

in travel brochures and allude to the 

increase in global tourism at the end 

of the twentieth century. 

Gilbert and George 

England, 1980 

Cunt Scum, 1977 

Cunt Scum is based on images of graffiti 

found mostly in the artist’s local area of 

Spitalfields in east London. Traditionally 

home to London’s immigrant communities, 

the area was attacked in the mid-1970s 

by the National Front. As this represents 

a fractured country, Gilbert and George 

see England, as ‘being about nationhood’. 

Simryn Gill 

Dalam, 2001 

A series of 258 photographs of domestic 

interiors were taken over an eight week 

period as the artist travelled across 

the Malaysian peninsula. Dalam is Malay 

for inside, interior and also deep. 

Thomas Hirschhorn 

Drift Topography, 2003 

Hirschhorn seeks to represent the 

complexities of social and political 

situations by creating monumental works 

from the basest of materials. In this work 

a ring of US soldiers surround and guard 

a densely built-up, fenced-in territory.

William Kentridge 

Cambio, 1999 

Dogana, 1999 

Pensione, 1999 

These works address the oddity between 

words and images. The titles mean 

respectively ‘change’, ‘customs’ and 

‘hotel / boarding house’. These words 

appear at odds with the images depicted 

in the prints, which refer to the landscape, 

his process of drawing, and the wealthy, 

European-descended business man 

wrestling with his guilty conscience. 

Pak Sheung Chuen 

A Travel without Visual Experience, 2008 

The installation reflects and questions the 

processes of tourism. Images are installed 

in a dark room on wallpaper, visible 

only through the flash of a camera. 

Martin Parr 

Common Sense, 1995 – 99 

The images were taken all over the world 

at the height of the 1990s, dissecting 

modern consumerism. Parr analyses 

society by photographing people, places 

and objects which reflect global tastes, 

traditions and travel. 

George Shaw 

Scenes from the Passion, 2002 

These derelict garage units in a semi-rural 

setting come from snapshots the artist 

has taken of the urban landscape of 

his past. By editing out people and 

contemporary additions, the work 

explores memory and nostalgia. 

Mark Titchner 

We Want to Nurture and Protect, 2004 

We Want Strong Leadership, 2004 

These works explore the relationship 

between language, thought and action, 

with ornate graphic detail, typography and 

dynamic combinations of black and red that 

evoke associations with agitprop. Words 

invoke a utopian quest for another reality, 

affirming a dilemma between the desire for 

progress and a persistent sense of failure. 

Mark Wallinger 

Royal Ascot, 1994 

The work explores British identity through 

depictions of class, politics and history. 

Precise moments of the Royal Ascot race, 

such as the Queen’s smiles and waves, are 

depicted alongside BBC commentaries 

merged together to create an unsettling 

blather, highlighting the confusion of what 

it is to be British. 

Yukinori Yanagi 

Pacific, 1996 

The work is a series of interconnecting 

perspex boxes with coloured sand 

to represent the flags of 49 nations. 

Thousands of ants were released into the 

boxes whose movement distributes the 

sand from one flag to another. Echoing 

global migration, the ants gradually eroded 

the borders between different nations. 

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Elmgreen & Dragset 

But I’m on the Guest List Too!, 2012 

Examining the hierarchy of values and 

meritocracy established by celebrity 

culture, the artists’ oversized V.I.P. 

door, slightly ajar, invites the viewer 

in but cannot be opened fully. 

Peter’s Lane 

Oded Hirsch 

The Lift, 2012 

Hirsch’s first public realm commission 

bursts through the pristine and seductive 

shopping district of Liverpool ONE. 

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Café Valise is METAL’s travelling pop-up 

cafe. Having spent time in Peterborough 

and Southend-on-Sea it comes to Liverpool 

Biennial as a venue for art, food and 

conversation at Edge Hill Station with 

accompanying events and activities. 

Café Valise embodies some of the core 

ideas of METAL’s work – participation, 

hospitality, curiosity, conversation and 

debate all within a multi-disciplinary 

approach. Events include: 

Lunch 

A daily lunch and conversation hosted 

by different guest artists and curators 

throughout the Biennial. 

No charge but booking essential 

John Cooper Clarke 

The cult punk poet has created a spoken 

word soundtrack to entertain and welcome 

you on your short train journey to Café 

Valise from Liverpool Lime Street to Edge 

Hill Station. 

Suzanne Lacy Also see page 4. 

The artist hosts a series of events that give 

young people, politicians and community 

leaders the chance to speak openly about 

the subject of rape and domestic violence. 

Oreet Ashery 

Party for Freedom, a poignant and 

humorous examination of populist claims 

that portray immigration and Islam as a 

threat to Western values of freedom. 

Thomas Joshua Cooper 

The intrepid photographer talks about 

travelling to some of the world’s most 

extreme and inhospitable places to capture 

a single image on a single frame. 

See www.metalculture.com for further information, 

dates and times for all events 

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Service Provider 

with Tether, FormContent, 

GENERATORprojects, Laura Mansfield & 

Sovay Berriman, www.bubblebyte.org 

Service Provider explores notions of 

private and public hospitality within the 

context of a biennial structure and the 

role that an artist-run space performs as 

an autonomous organisation. The Royal 

Standard has commissioned five artist-led 

groups and collaborations to occupy the 

gallery space over a two week period. 

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Fritz Haeg 

Everton Park H.Q. and Foraging Spiral, 2012 

Haeg re-activates the present and reimagines 

the future of Liverpool’s Everton 

Park in partnership with local residents and 

collaborators. Plantings of wild and native 

edibles form the setting for the project 

headquarters, a geodesic dome tent which 

will host meetings and events from 16 to 

17 September 2012. Commissioned by Liverpool 

Biennial in partnership with Liverpool Vision, Liverpool City 

Council and Liverpool Primary Care Trust 

Fritz Haeg in Everton Park, photo by Pete Carr

Jose Angel Vincench, Exile, Courtesy of the artist 

Various Locations 

José Ángel Vincench 

Exile, 2012 

A series of five mobile trailer homes, each 

of which takes the form of a letter, and 

together form the word ‘EXILE’. Presented 

for the first time on the occasion of 

the 11th Havana Biennale, this mobile 

installation spells out the status of those 

who had to flee their home country for 

political reasons. Courtesy of the artist 

Hsieh Ying-Chun 

Re-Live, 2012 (See www.biennial.com for location) 

Hsieh Ying-Chun considers architecture 

and town-planning a collective endeavour 

and participatory effort. His projects 

(often originating from the need to 

provide a prompt response to sudden and 

unexpected environmental or climatic 

emergencies) focus on principles such as 

biocompatibility, sustainability and selfsufficiency. 

By engaging the future users 

in the decision-making and fabrication 

processes, Hsieh Ying-Chun ultimately 

facilitates the creation of democratic 

and ecological living spaces, holistically 

designed around the inhabitants’ needs. 


Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson 

ThE riGHt tO RighT, 2012 

The artists’ new project and campaign is 

intended to act as a catalyst, provoking 

discussion about the right to right: to 

open debate, to destabilise and question 

the status quo. Writer and academic Nina 

Power has written a text in collaboration 

with the artists, which will be distributed 

across the City and nationwide. 

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James Corner Field Operations 

Everton Park, a Park for the People, 2012 

An exhibition of propositions for the 

reinvigoration of Everton Park, a 100 

acre green space to the north of the 

city centre, with the long-term aim of 

providing Liverpool with a destination for 

residents and tourists alike. The exhibition 

includes Fritz Haeg’s video documenting 

the community’s aspirations for the park. 

Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial in partnership 

with Liverpool Vision, Liverpool City Council and 

Liverpool Primary Care Trust 


Enrico David 

Madreperlage, 2003 

David works in painting, sculpture and 

collage, often drawing on craft techniques. 

Madreperlage characteristically includes 

semi-grotesque theatrical figures as well 

as elements that veer towards the 

vocabulary of design. The exhibition is part of 

The Arts Council Collection Partnerships supported by 

Christie’s, a new collaboration between the Arts Council 

Collection and four regional museums to develop a 

dynamic programme of displays and exhibitions based 

on loans from the Collection. 

Enrico David, Phobic Sketch VI, 2012 

Graphite on paper, 29.5 × 42 cm 

Patrick Murphy 

Belonging, 2012 

Banished from city centres and branded 

a nuisance, pigeons will become a familiar 

sight at the Walker Art Gallery during 

the Biennial, when around 150 brightly 

coloured birds will adorn the exterior 

of the gallery. Belonging elevates the very 

familiar site of pigeons from their everyday 

urban context; here they are welcome, 

colourful visitors. 

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Paul Rooney 

Here Comes Franz 

He Was Afraid 

A solo exhibition of recent work including 

a work using the changing light sequence 

on the Active Learning Laboratory by the 

Liverpool artist to celebrate the Victoria 

Gallery & Museum’s acquisition of The 

Futurist, through the Contemporary Art 

Society. The works in the exhibition often 

focus on the absurd, imagined nature of 

social and individual remembrance. 

www.rhizome.org 

Judith Barry, Jennifer Chan, Adham 

Faramawy, LuckyPDF, Ming Wong, 

Anahita Razmi, Jemima Wyman, 

Queer Technologies, Kristin Lucas, 

and Angelo Plessas 

Liverpool Biennial and FACT are working in 

partnership with Rhizome, a New Museum 

affiliate in New York City. Rhizome is 

dedicated to the creation, presentation, 

preservation, and critique of emerging 

artistic practices that engage technology. 

Rhizome.org will host a weekly-curated 

online programme. Each week, an 

artist has been invited to respond to the 

theme of hospitality and to be ‘hosted’ 

in Rhizome’s virtual space – presenting 

a hyper-linked media programme that 

explores cross currents in contemporary 

media culture.

Sky Arts Ignition: 

Doug Aitken — The Source 


What is the source of a creative idea? Where does it start and how is it realised? 

Musician Jack White, British actress Tilda Swinton, late artist Mike Kelley and many 

other celebrated cultural figures discuss the roots of their creativity with leading 

contemporary artist Doug Aitken in Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – The Source. 

Aitken’s first public realm installation in the UK, The Source showcases the artist’s 

pioneering approach to public art. The work is a multi-sensory installation on Liverpool’s 

historic Albert Dock featuring a pavilion designed in collaboration with British architect 

David Adjaye OBE. During the day visitors are able to enter the pavilion, while at night 

it takes on a new life, when its internal projection screens become visible through the 

semi-transparent walls. 

Video still from Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – The Source 

Courtesy of Doug Aitken Workshop, 303 Gallery, New York, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 

and Regen Projects, Los Angeles 

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012 


Jennifer Bailey, Jack Brindley, Jamie 

Buckley, Anita Delaney, Bryan Dooley, 

Freya Douglas-Morris, George Eksts, 

Natalie Finnemore, Nicola Frimpong, 

Salome Ghazanfari, Lauren Godfrey, 

Sarah Jones, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Piotr 

Krzymowski, Tara Langford, Tony Law, 

George Little, Evariste Maiga, Jan May, 

Nicole Morris, Oliver Osborne, Jennifer 

Phelan, Polly Read, Emanuel Röhss, 

Max Ruf, Simon Senn, Jackson Sprague, 

Samuel Taylor, Tyra Tingleff 

Above: Bryan Dooley, Trak Star II, 2011, photo solvent print 

on self-adhesive PVC, 124 × 97 cm 

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Bloomberg New Contemporaries is the 

leading UK organisation supporting 

emergent art practice from British art 

schools. Since 1949, Bloomberg New 

Contemporaries has provided a critical 

platform for new and recent fine art 

graduates primarily by means of an 

annual, nationally touring exhibition. 

This year’s selectors Nairy Baghramian, 

Cullinan Richards, and Rosalind Nashashibi 

have chosen defining works by the most 

promising artists from a range of over 

1,200 submissions. The show will tour to 

the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), 

28 November 2012 – 13 January 2013.

City States 


Starting with the premise that the state 

of cities increasingly determines the future 

of states, City States presents thirteen 

exhibitions developed in response to the 

theme of hospitality. 

Birmingham 

Birmingham The Magic City 

BAZ, Helen Brown, Home of Metal, 

Napalm Death, plan b, David Rowan, 

Bedwyr Williams. 

We Are Eastside presents a snapshot of 

overlapping perceptions of Birmingham, 

combining an exploration of unknown 

underground sub-infrastructures of 

Eastside, a collage of 1980s’ Grindcore 

fanzines from heavy metal’s birthplace, 

a day in the life of tow path walkers, an 

orgy of 1940s to the present day civic 

boosterism, and a reconstruction of a 

‘creepy’ wooden lath wall! Welcome to 

the hidden past, present and future visions 

of this ‘magic’ city. Curated by We Are Eastside / 

Organised by Capsule, Eastside Projects, Fierce Festival, 

Flatpack Festival, Grand Union, Ikon Gallery 

Copenhagen 

Approaching Journey 

Yvette Brackman, Ismar Čirkinagić , 

Jens Haaning, Jane Jin Kaisen 

Debates on globalisation, national 

boundaries and immigration raise 

questions about hospitality: a term 

which refers to ‘having power’ and 

a meeting between the host and the 

guest. Approaching Journey suggests 

a shared encounter between travelers 

by transforming this passage into a 

mutual exchange. Curated by Helene Lundbye 

Petersen and Tijana Mišković 

Opposite: Photo of LJMU Copperas Hill Building by Edward Park 

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Gdańsk 

Unwanted Visitors 

Yael Bartana, Oskar Hansen, Alicja 

Karska & Aleksandra Went, Janek Simon, 

Kama Sokolnicka, Robert Kus´ mirowski 

Unwanted Visitors is based on stories 

evoked by three venues in Poland: the 

Main Town of Gdańsk; the Palace of 

Culture and Science in Warsaw and the 

10th Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw. 

The narration begins in the 1950s, and 

is derived from Stalin-era ideology. 

These artworks create fiction, open 

up possibilities for alternative urban 

narrations, sometimes hunt for ghosts 

and reflect the perspectives of different 

generations – analysing what it means 

to be simultaneously both host and guest 

in a country. Curated by Agnieszka Kulazińska / 

Produced by Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in 

Gdańsk, Poland and Adam Mickiewicz Institute 

Hong Kong 

All Are Guests 

Leung Mee-ping, Chow Chun-fai, 

CoLAB × SLOW 

The exhibition All Are Guests sheds light 

on how artists respond to the connections 

between the self and the city, and invites 

viewers to contemplate notions of the 

individual and city that are entrenched in 

the subject-object dichotomy. Jointly presented 

by Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong 

Kong SAR Government and Hong Kong Arts Development 

Council / Jointly organised by Hong Kong Museum of Art, 

Hong Kong Arts Development Council 

Incheon 

Terra Galaxia: Aerotropolis, Home and Away 

Wil Bolton, Sen Chung, Kyungah Ham, Suk 

Kuhn Oh, Suknam Yun, Seoung Won Won 

Terra Galaxia revisits a modern definition 

of hospitality and its paradoxical 

representations in one of its most 

contemporary settings: an international 

airport, where every element projects this 

concept through a politically-charged prism. 

Curated by Stephanie Seungmin Kim (Director, ISKAI

Contemporary Art) / Organised by ISKAI Contemporary 

Art UK Ltd, London in collaboration with Incheon Art 

Platform / Exhibition Design by JAIA Architects / 

Sponsored by Incheon Metropolitan City, Incheon 

Foundation For Arts & Culture, Art Council Korea, Kumho 

Asiana Cultural Foundation, Korea Tourism Organization / 

A special publication with Edward Allington and Beevor 

Mull architects will accompany the exhibition 

Lisbon 

Air Print for Contentores/Containers, 2012 

Miguel Palma 

Inside a transformed container, air is 

sucked in and dust particles are filtered 

onto a cloth. The result is an imprint 

recorded over a week and then displayed 

in the exhibition space. In this work the 

natural and artificial worlds co-exist: 

a filtering machine becomes a kind of 

mechanical lung. Curated by Luisa Santos / 

Organised by P28 CONTENTORES / P28 CONTAINERS 

Makhachkala 

Topography of Masculinity 

Taus Makhacheva 

The three video installations focus on 

acts of daily life that prevent permanent 

social settlement. The artist has chosen 

to develop this problem in the context 

of her native Russian Caucasus, a region 

marked by social instability. Three different 

communities are characterised by their 

impenetrability and revolve around specific 

social and cultural practices, such as dog 

fighting and illegal street car racing. 

Curated by Irina Stark, Assistant Curator / Co-curated by 

Kelly Klifa / Organised by Stark Projects 

Oslo 

Palestinian Embassy 

Goksøyr & Martens 

Palestinian Embassy takes place from 14 – 

17 September. A hot-air balloon in the 

colours of the Palestinian flag will fly over 

Liverpool. During an opening ceremony, 

invited politicians and academics will join the 

Palestinian Ambassador aboard the balloon 

for diplomatic discussions concerning 

Palestine. These will be led by a British 

moderator and broadcast to the audience 

below. From 18 September, documentation 

of Palestinian Embassy will be exhibited. 

More information on www.biennial.com 

Produced by KORO – Public Art Norway 

Reykjavík, Nuuk, Tórshavn 

North Atlantic Pavilion 

Hanni Bjartalíð, Sigurður Guðjónsson, 

Jessie Kleemann 

The North Atlantic Pavilion dissects the 

tensions at play when simultaneously 

embracing a strong national and regional 

identity – challenging surface appearances 

and hegemonic norms of hospitality. 

Curated by Ingi Thor and Andy Brydon / Organised by 

Curated Place / NICE (Nordic Intercultural Creative Events) 

St. Petersburg 

Interior 

Masha Godovannaya 

Sound: Dmitri Kakhovskiy 

Interior is a multi-channel, audio-visual 

installation. It explores the idea of multiple 

and infinite worlds within human existence, 

whilst investigating the notion of hidden 

hospitality in a public space. 

Curated by Dominik Czechowski / Organised by 

Calvert22 Foundation, Smolny College 

Taipei 

Metro-Wonderland: Taiwanese Artists 

and Urban Morphology 

Chen Chia-Jen, Chiu Chen-Hung, 

Hsu Chia-Wei 

Metro-Wonderland explores the influence 

of global urban migrations from east to 

west and vice versa on young Taiwanese 

artists. Curated by Lee Chia-Ling / Organised by 

Freeform Center 

Vilnius 

Black Pillow 

Audrius Bučas & Valdas Ozarinskas 

Black Pillow is a collaborative project by 

two Lithuanian architects and artists, 

Audrius Bučas & Valdas Ozarinskas. The 

project includes one main object – a 

huge inflatable black pillow. Impossible 

to be grasped in its entirety, the black 

pillow leaves spectators wondering about 

its real size, shape and other material 

qualities. Curated and organised by Ke¸stutis Kuizinas, 

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius 

Anthony McCall: 

Column 

28 East Float, Wirral Waters 

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Wellington 

Watermarking 

David Bennewith, William Hsu, 

Marnie Slater 

Departing from the geographical and 

sociopolitical histories of Wellington, David 

Bennewith, William Hsu and Marnie Slater 

bring together their shared conceptual 

sensibilities to extend connections to 

the port city of Liverpool through acts of 

outsourcing and assemblage. Notions of 

distance, journeys between ports and the 

oceans between inform and encapsulate 

the work that takes form as printed matter. 

Curated and organised by Melanie Oliver and Laura 

Preston / Generously supported by Creative New Zealand 

and The Chartwell Trust 

Column is a vertical, spinning, ascending 

column of cloud that rises into the sky from 

the surface of East Float, Wirral Waters, 

on the edge of the Mersey directly opposite 

the City of Liverpool. The sculpture 

ascends to and beyond the cloud base 

and disappears and reappears, in response 

to weather and light conditions. 

Column was commissioned by 

Arts Council England as part of Artists 

Taking the Lead, Arts Council England’s 

flagship project for the London 2012 

Cultural Olympiad. 

Left: Anthony McCall, Column

John Moores Painting Prize 


Eve Ackroyd; Henny Acloque; Kelly 

Best; Biggs & Collings; Katrina Blannin; 

James Bloomfield; Hannah Brown; Jane 

Bustin; Graham Chorlton; Wayne Clough; 

Julie Cockburn; Paul Collinson; Andrew 

Cranston; Theo Cuff; Cullinan Richards; 

Bernat Daviu; David Dipré; Nathan 

Eastwood; Liz Elton; Oscar Godfrey; 

Vincent Hawkins; Bé van der Heide; Rae 

Hicks; John Holland; Kevin Hutcheson; Jarik 

Jongman; Laura Keeble; Robin Kirsten; 

Laura Lancaster; Brendan Lancaster; Ian 

Law; Dominic Lewis; Peter Liversidge; 

Angela Lizoñ; Elizabeth Magill; Danny 

Markey; Enzo Marra; Rui Matsunaga; Onya 

McCausland; Dougal McKenzie; Damien 

Meade; Sonia Morange; Stephen Nicholas; 

Pat O’Connor; Jay Oliver; Dan Perfect; 

Oliver Perkins; Virginia Phongsathorn; 

Sarah Pickstone; Tom Pitt; Kevin J Pocock; 

Sarah Poots; Narbi Price; James Ryan; 

Andrew Seto; André Stitt; Trevor Sutton; 

Emma Talbot; Amikam Toren; Matt Welch; 

Ian Whittlesea; Thomas M Wright 

The John Moores Painting Prize at the 

Walker Art Gallery is the UK’s biggest 

painting competition. The exhibition brings 

together the most exciting and cutting 

edge contemporary painting. Entered 

anonymously, it is open to all UK-based 

artists working with paint. The judges are: 

Alan Yentob OBE, Creative Director of the 

BBC; Turner Prize nominees, George Shaw, 

Angela de la Cruz and Fiona Banner 

and Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, 

Iwona Blazwick. 

Previous winners include David 

Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Mary Martin 

and Peter Doig. 

Above: Laura Keeble, ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing!’, 2012 

Opposite: Photo of LJMU Copperas Hill Building by Edward Park 

Events Programme 

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Unless otherwise stated 

events are free and 

can be booked online 

at www.biennial.com

Weekends 

Curated in partnership with Liverpoolbased 

organisations. 

Opening Weekend 

Friday 14 September, 7.30pm 

Liverpool Cathedral 

Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail 

for 100 Guitars and 8 Basses 

Rhys Chatham conducts a performance 

of his epic composition for 100 electric 

guitarists and 8 electric bassists, exploring 

the ideas of resonance, tone and texture 

in sound at Liverpool’s historic Anglican 

Cathedral. Presented in association with Samizdat 

Friday 14 – Sunday 16 September, 

10am – 6pm 

Everton Park 

Fritz Haeg: Everton People’s Park 

The project headquarters, a geodesic dome 

tent, hosts meetings and events with local 

collaborators to re-imagine the future of 

the park (see page 11). 

Weekend One 

Saturday 22 September, 12 – 5pm 

Camp and Furnace 

The Medium is the Medium 

Online publication, The Double Negative, 

presents a day of expert talks, discussions 

and events around why critical writing is 

important in a mature and thriving arts 

landscape with Miranda Sawyer, Cherie 

Federico, Francesco Manacorda, Sam 

Thorne and Rachel Jones. 

Weekend Two 

Saturday 29 September, 8pm 

The Kazimier, £10 

Simon Munnery and Bedwyr Williams 

Liverpool Comedy Festival and 

Liverpool Biennial Double Bill 

Simon Munnery will be devising new 

material specifically for Liverpool Biennial 

and Liverpool Comedy Festival. Welsh 

artist Bedwyr Williams provides the second 

half of this unique double bill with his tale 

of Emlyn from North Wales who visits 

Liverpool to research a branch of his family 

tree and how things turn nasty for him at 

the microfiche machine. We will hear about 

the cousins who hold their breath whilst 

travelling through the Mersey tunnels, 

the melancholy Ellen and a thuggish man 

who insists on being called ‘Half Uncle’. 

Weekend Three 

Friday 5 – Saturday 6 October 


Electronic Voice Phenomena 

Mercy present playful exploration of the 

guest / host through voice and technology. 

Talks, workshops and new live commissions 

reveal the intersection of voice and 

technology as a para-site of chaotic 

potential where writing, soul-searching and 

google-searching, remix, speech, score, 

voice, echo and distortion are melded into a 

practice which transcends and complicates 

the human performer. 

Friday 5 October, 8 – 10pm 

Solo performances and live installation 

with Hannah Silva, Ross Sutherland 

and Anat Ben David with James Wilkes 

and Nathan Jones. 

Saturday 6 October 

1 – 3pm 

Family Day: Feedback Suite 

Assemble feedback chamber for vocal 

play with Sam Meech and Hannah Silva. 

4 – 6pm 

Performance talks (with Q&A) 

Joe Banks Rorschach Audio and David 

Thompkins How to Wreck a Nice Beach 

8pm – 1am 

Venue TBC, £7 

In partnership with Deep Hedonia feat. 

Steven Fowler and Ben Morris, Iris Garrelfs, 

Scanner and Fatima Al Qadiri. 

Weekend Four 

Saturday 13 – Sunday 14 October 

The Liverpool Improvisation Collective 

Dance artists Jo Blowers, Andrea Buckley, 

Paula Hampson and Mary Prestidge 

will inhabit a range of installations 

in response to the notion of unexpected 

guests; improvising, composing, engaging 

their visual sensibilities, activating spaces 

and creating a live performance element. 


12 – 1pm In the Courtyard at the Bluecoat 

3 – 5pm LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

Sunday 14 October 

12 – 1pm In the Courtyard at the Bluecoat 

3 – 5pm The Cunard Building 

Saturday 13 – Sunday 14 October, 

11am – 5pm 

LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

The Mobile Art School: 

Use, Value and Future of the Art School 

How can art schools work with students, 

artists and communities to re-think and 

produce new ways of making, working 

and living? 

Over a two day series with keynotes 

and workshops from invited speakers 

(including Prof. Juan Cruz, Liverpool School 

of Art and Design; Melissa Gronlund, 

Editor and Managing Editor, Afterall) and 

group presentations/workshops (including 

The Autonomy Project, Bloomberg New 

Contemporaries, the Dutch Art Institute, 

School of Art and Design and Shanghai 

University, Islington Mill Art Academy). 

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Weekend Five 

Friday 19 October 

Long Night 

Venues in Liverpool are offering a great 

evening of visual arts and culture with a 

late opening offer across Liverpool Biennial 

2012 and beyond. The event is designed to 

encourage people who find it difficult to 

visit galleries during the day to make the 

most of the late night openings. A range of 

free and ticketed events run throughout the 

evening. For more information visit www.biennial.com 

or www.culture.org.uk 

Friday 19 October, 5 – 9pm 

FACT 

Break Bread Open 

A special programme of food, screenings 

and discussions for Liverpool Biennial by 

Liverpool and Dublin-based organisations 

Graduate School of Create Arts and Media 

(GradCAM), The LAB Gallery, Create (Ireland), 

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and Art in the 

Contemporary World (NCAD). With Charlie 

Gere & MOUTH (Edia Connole and Scott 

Wilson); a special screening introducing 

new work by Jesse Jones, discussions led 

by writer Declan Long and writer/curator 

Dr. Paul O’Neill. 

Saturday 20 October 12 – 8pm 


Question Mark! 

A festival in a day curated and developed 

by local young people alongside artists 

in response to The Unexpected Guest. 

Join their deconstructed party and 

become part of a programme of surprise 

performances. All adults must be 

accompanied by under 21s. 

Saturday 20 October, 11am – 6pm 

Hope Street Ltd, £5, various locations 

Deadline 

An unexpected guest has thrown Liverpool 

Biennial into mortal peril. Your mission 

is to work together to solve the clues and

prevent the unimaginable from happening. 

As always, the answers lie in art. 

Join Hope Street Limited’s Emerging 

Artists and battle to beat the clock. 

18+ / Booking essential www.biennial.com 

Weekend Six 

Friday 26 October, 11am – 5pm 

Festival of New Cinema, 

Broadcast and Artist Interventions 

FACT, Screen 2 

£10/8 (Members & concessions) 

Random Acts: Artists 

Interventions into Broadcast 

Taking Channel 4’s new programming 

strand, Random Acts as its starting point, 

this forum brings together key figures to 

reflect on histories of artist intervention 

into television. Speakers include: Chip 

Lord; New York-based artist Marisa Olson; 

Tabitha Jackson (Commissioning Editor 

for Arts, Channel 4); performances by 

Ronald Fraser-Munroe and Jeremy Bailey, 

conversations with artists Zineb Sedira and 

Sarah Wright, producer Jacqui Davies, as 

well as FACT’s Director Mike Stubbs and 

Curator, Omar Kholeif. Produced by FACT 

Liverpool and the Cross Arts Venue (CAV) 

Network in partnership with Channel 4, Arts Council 

England and Liverpool Biennial. Programmed by Lux 

and Liverpool Biennial with FACT. More info at: 

www.biennial.com and www.fact.co.uk 


FACT, The Box 

Lux Film Programme 

A day of film programmed by LUX in 

collaboration with Liverpool Biennial. 

More information at www.biennial.com 

Weekend Seven 

Saturday 3 November 

Walker Art Gallery 

John Moores Painting Prize Summit 

Join artists, critics and curators for a 

weekend programme of events exploring 

the John Moores Painting Prize and the 

future of painting. See www.liverpoolmuseums. 

org.uk for the full programme and booking information 

Weekend Eight 

Saturday 10 November, 2 – 5pm 

the Bluecoat 

Symposium: Reconstruction Work 

This debate about a differentiated notion 

of solidarity is informed by the educator, 

thinker and writer Stuart Hall. Participants 

include the artist John Akomfrah whose 

film installation at the Bluecoat, The 

Unfinished Conversation, focuses on 

Hall. David Scott, Editor and Director 

of Small Axe, a Caribbean platform for 

criticism, Angela McRobbie, Professor of 

Communications at Goldsmiths, University 

of London and Mark Sealy, Director of 

Autograph ABP a photography charity that 

addresses issues of cultural identity and 

human rights (see page 5). 

Weekend Nine 

Thursday 15 – Saturday 17 November, 

10am – 5pm 


Aaron Williamson, The Eavesdropper 

Find the Walker Art Gallery’s artist – 

in residence – Aaron Williamson as he 

presents an entirely personal reading 

of the Gallery’s Victorian Art Collection 

through dubiously positing his ability as 

a deaf person to imaginatively overhear 

and mishear the unvoiced. Commissioned by 

DaDaFest 2012 as part of Niet Normaal: Difference on 

Display, in partnership with Liverpool Biennial. 

Saturday 17 November, 12pm – 12am 


Drawing Sessions #2 

The Royal Standard and Drawing Paper 

are hosting a 12-hour drawing event 

exploring the relationship between sound, 

performance and mark making. Come and 

create your drawn response to a series 

of musical performances, screenings, 

talks and interventions throughout the 

day. Featuring: Margarita Gluzberg, Gavin 

Delahunty, Volkov Commanders, Sorhab 

Uduman, Deep Hedonia, Damian Johnston, 

Chiz Turnross. 

Weekend Ten 

Friday 23 November, 7pm 

LJMU, Art and Design Academy 

Changing the World from Here 

Using the closing weekend as a beginning 

Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool Biennial, 

will present a vision for the future of the 

UK Biennial in Liverpool. 

Curators, artists, thinkers and writers 

have been invited to join the conversation 

and this will be the beginning of a series 

of focused gatherings that will explore 

possibilities for a post-industrial ecology, 

rethinking the relationship between art, 

urbanism and value for the 21st Century. 

Booking at www.biennial.com 

Cologne Overnight (2010) 

Courtesy Declan Clarke 

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Film 

Curated by FACT and Liverpool Biennial. 

All events take place at FACT 

at 6.30pm unless stated otherwise. 

Bookings: 0871 902 5737 or 

at www.fact.co.uk or in person 

at the box office. 

Wednesday 19 September 

The Forgotten Space, 2011 

Directed by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch + Q&A / 

Cert: 15 / 112 mins / £5/4 (Members & concs.) 

This new essay film by Allan Sekula and 

Noël Burch looks at everyday people 

whose role in the global economy goes 

largely undocumented. 

Tuesday 25 September 

The Wolf Knife, 2010 

Directed by Laurel Nakadate / 88 mins / Cert: 15 / £4/3 

(Members & concs.) 

Nominated for a 2010 Gotham Award 

and a 2011 Independent Spirit Award, 

American artist Laurel Nakadate’s second 

feature film explores loneliness and desire. 

Tuesday 25 September, 8.40pm 

Shame, 2011 

Directed by Steve McQueen / 99 mins / 

Cert: 18 / £5/4 (Members & concs.) 

Shame finds beauty and grace in 

improbable situations and people. 

Michael Fassbender portrays a man in 

the grip of a complex addiction and won 

the award for Best Actor at Venice 2011. 

Wednesday 3 October 

Post-Revolutionary Cities on Film: 

Cologne Overnight, 2010 

On Our Own, 2012 

Directed by Declan Clarke / 120 mins / Cert: 12A / + Q&A / 

Free: Booking essential 

Artist and filmmaker Declan Clarke takes us 

on a journey of post-revolutionary cinema 

from Cologne, Germany to Bucharest, 

Romania. He will show his film Cologne

Overnight (2010) and the UK premiere of 

On Our Own (2012). Joined by Sarah Perks, 

Programme Director, Cornerhouse. 

Tuesday 9 October, 7pm 

Time Topographies: Liverpool, 2012 

(UK Premiere) 

120 mins / Cert: PG / + Q&A / Booking essential 

Mexican artist Amanda Gutierrez portrays 

the story of three immigrants of different 

nationality, age and gender living and 

working in Liverpool juxtaposed against 

images compiled mainly from the 

landscapes of the city. Supported by the 

European Media Art Residency Exchange 


The Three Disappearances 

of Soad Hosni, 2011 

Directed by Rania Stephan / 75 mins / Cert: PG / 

£4/3 (Members & concs.) 

This haunting and beautifully formed 

documentary is a meditation on the life 

of Egyptian screen legend Soad Hosni, 

who starred in eighty-two feature films 

between 1959 and 1991. 

Wednesday 10 October, 8.15pm 

The Nine Muses, 2010 

Directed by John Akomfrah / 90 mins / Cert: PG / 


Director John Akomfrah, perhaps best 

known for his work with the Black Audio 

Film Collective and groundbreaking 

Handsworth Songs, delivers a beguiling 

personal exploration of the UK’s 

immigrant experience from 1949 – 70. 


Marina Abramovic: 

The Artist is Present, 2012 

Directed by Matthew Ackers / £5/4 (Members & concs.) 

‘But why is this art?’, is a question that 

performance artist Marina Abramovic has 

been hearing over and over for the past 

40 years as she uses her body to push 

boundaries of performance. Director 

Matthew Akers (LOCKDOWN, USA) profiles 

Abramovic as she prepares for her show 

The Artist is Present. 


Preview: The Wildness, 2012 

Directed by Wu Tsang / 75 mins / Cert: 15 / + Q&A 

with artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang and Omar Kholeif / 


The Wildness is a portrait of the Silver 

Platter, a historic, LGBT-friendly bar on the 

eastside of Los Angeles that has catered to 

the Latin immigrant community since 1963. 

The UK Premiere of The Wildness will be 

launched with a major screening and event 

in the Tanks at Tate Modern, London on 

Saturday 2 February 2013. 

Wednesday 31 October, 7pm 

Deep State, 2012 

Directed by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler / 

45 mins / Cert: 12A / + Q&A with the filmmakers 

will be chaired by Omar Kholeif / £4/3 (Members & concs.) 

Directed by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler 

Deep State is a new science fiction film 

that has been scripted in collaboration with 

author China Miéville. Deep State is commissioned 

by Film and Video Umbrella. Funded by Arts Council 

England and London Councils 

Wednesday 7 November 

The Creator, 2012 

Directed by Al & Al / 45 mins / + Q&A with AI & AI and 

producer/curator Bren O’Callaghan / Cert: 12A / The Box 


The Creator explores the legendary myth 

of the father and maker of AI (Artificial 

Intelligence) machines, Alan Turing. 

Combining Lynchian nightmare with 

the prophetic themes of J.G. Ballard, 

The Creator takes you into the surreal 

dream world of the visionary scientist. 

Contains scenes of a sexual nature 

and optical effects. Commissioned and produced 

by Cornerhouse and Creative England (previously 

as Vision + Media). This screening forms part of 

Homotopia and Abandon Normal Devices. 


Preview: I Remember and Teenage, 2012 

Directed By Matt Wolf / 140mins / + Q&A with 

artist and filmmaker Matt Wolf and Omar Kholeif / 


The director of the Arthur Russell 

documentary Wild Combination, Matt 

Wolf returns to FACT to present previews 

of two new films never previously seen 

in the UK. I Remember (2012) is a 24-minute 

film inspired by Joe Brainard’s legendary 

memoir poem of the same name, followed 

by a preview of the much-anticipated 

film Teenage. This film also forms part of the 

programme for Homotopia Queer Arts Festival. 


Two Years at Sea, 2011 

Directed by Ben Rivers / 88 mins / 


A man called Jake lives alone in a 

ramshackle house in the middle of the 

forest. He goes for walks and takes naps 

in the misty fields and woods. Winner of 

a FIPRESCI Prize at the 2011 Venice Film 

Festival, Ben Rivers’ debut feature-length 

work, shot on 16mm film, extends his 

relationship with Jake, first encountered 

in his short This is My Land. 

Thursday 22 November, 6.30pm 

Open Eye Gallery 

Mark Morrisroe Super-8 Film Screening 

£5 / £4 concs. 

This special screening presents Mark 

Morrisroe’s rarely seen Super-8 films. 

The Laziest Girl in Town (1981), Hello from 

Bertha (1983) and Nymph-O-Maniac (1984) 

are underground home movies filled with 

thrift-store costumes, cheapo gore, trashy 

dialogue and gratuitous nudity, starring 

Morrisroe and his friends as performers. 

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Talks 

Friday 14 September, 10am – 4pm 

Tate Liverpool 

Art, Criticism and the Forces of 

Globalisation: The Artist as Critic / 

The Critic as Artist 

Organised jointly by Winchester School 

of Art, Tate Liverpool and the Archives 

of Art Criticism at the University of 

Rennes, this conference investigates the 

historical and contemporary relations of 

art production and critical writing in the 

era of globalisation. 


World Museum 

James Corner, Director of Field Operations 

walks through their exhibition on 

Everton Park with Laurie Peake, 

Programme Director, Liverpool Biennial. 

Saturday 15 September, 12pm 


Sinta Tantra in Conversation 

Artist Sinta Tantra discusses her new 

commission Together Yet Forever Apart 

with Open Eye Curator Karen Newman. 


the Bluecoat 

Artists in Conversation 

Participating artists in Liverpool Biennial 

take part in a series of conversations 

talking to curators, writers and critics 

about their projects. Moderated by 

Kate Fowle, Director, Independent 

Curators International. 

Monday 17 September, 11am – 1.30pm 

FACT 

All Are Guests – Hong Kong 

Pamela Kember and Ying Kwok in 

conversation with City States artists 

Leung Mee-ping, Chow Chun-fai and 

CoLAB × SLOW.

Monday 17 September, 1 – 2.30pm 


Artist talks: John Moores 

Painting Prize China 2012 

Join the prize winning artists from this 

year’s John Moores Painting Prize China. 

Nie Zhengjie, Hu Wenlong, Pu Yingwei, 

Zhang Aicun and Zheng Jiang will discuss 

their paintings on display at the Walker. 

This event will be interpreted for Chinese speakers. 

Monday 17 September, 6pm 

Mitchell’s Bakery 

2Up 2Down / Homebaked Expert Meeting: 

Disappearing Home 

Author Debbie Morgan will read from her 

critically-acclaimed novel Disappearing 

Home, set in Anfield in the 1970s, together 

with some recent poetry responding 

to life in the neighbourhood. 

Tuesday 18 September, 6pm 



Jan Jongert, 2012Architecten, Rotterdam 

2012Architecten design buildings and 

develop strategies to facilitate the 

transition to a sustainable society. How 

can we empower local exchange and 

production through innovative design? 

Friday 28 September, 1 – 2pm 


George Shaw in conversation 

Artist and juror for this year’s John 

Moores Painting Prize, Shaw will 

discuss his work, professional career 

and experience as a juror. 

Tuesday 16 October, 6.30pm 

(talk begins at 7pm) 

Open Eye Gallery, £3.50 (Free to Redeye members) 

Redeye Photographers’ Network Meeting: 

John Stoddart 

An event for artists and photographers: 

Ex-Liverpool ‘photographer to the stars’ 

John Stoddart will present his brand 

new project ROOM 10. A Love Poem 

inspired by two special nights spent in 

L’Hotel Paris in 2012. 

Wednesday 7 – Thursday 8 November 

The Black-E 

Judy Chicago: Voices from The Song of Songs 

An exhibition of twelve paired prints, 

created by Chicago from 1997 – 99. 

The artist will visit on the 7 – 8 November 

to speak about the exhibition and the 

lecture she did at The Black-E ‘Sister to 

Shakespeare’. 


Tate Liverpool Auditorium, £5 

Anthony McCall: Column 

Join artist Anthony McCall, for an insight 

into his artistic practice. This talk coincides 

with the drawing exhibition Tracing the 

Century which will be at Tate Liverpool 

from 16 November 2012 – 20 January 2013. 

The exhibition will include McCall’s film 

Line Describing a Cone, 1973, which is in 

the Tate’s collection (see page 19). 

Monday 19 November, 6pm 



Arnold Reijndorp 

Arnold Reijndorp joins Jeanne van 

Heeswijk to discuss house-building, 

town planning and cultural politics. 

Tuesdays, 1pm 


Talk Tuesdays 

A series of artist talks, exhibition tours 

and discussion events with this 

year’s prizewinners, exhibition staff, 

exhibiting artists and jurors exploring 

the John Moores Painting Prize 2012. 

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 

Tours 

Bookings: www.biennial.com 

The Unexpected Guest 

During the Biennial curators will lead 

tours of The Unexpected Guest across 

different venues: 

Saturdays, 2 – 3pm 

the Bluecoat 

22 September, Bryan Biggs, Artistic 

Director and Sara-Jayne Parsons, 

Exhibitions Curator at the Bluecoat 

29 September, Robyn Woolston, artist 

6 October, Juan Cruz, artist and Director 

of Liverpool School of Art & Design 

at Liverpool John Moores University 

3 November, Blue Room, the Bluecoat’s 

community of learning disabled artists 

who create artworks each week in 

response to our exhibitions 

17 November, Rosalind Nashashibi, artist 

Sundays, 3pm 

The Cunard Building and Open Eye Gallery 

Meeting point: The Cunard Building 

23 September, Lorenzo Fusi, 

Curator, Liverpool Biennial 

14 October, Karen Newman, 

Curator, Open Eye Gallery 

4 November, Sally Tallant, 

Director, Liverpool Biennal 

FACT and Wood Street 

Meeting point: FACT 

30 September, Omar Kholeif, 

Curator, FACT 

11 November, Omar Kholeif, Curator, FACT 

The Monro and Liverpool ONE 

Meeting point: The Monro 

7 October, Lucy Johnston, 

Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial 

28 October, Lorenzo Fusi, 

Curator, Liverpool Biennial 

18 November, Rosie Cooper, 

Projects Curator, Liverpool Biennial 

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The Anfield Home 

Friday 14 September, 2.30pm 

and then Saturdays at 11.30am 

Meeting point: the reception 

at The Cunard Building (see page 3) 

City States 

Sunday 21 October, 3pm 


Vanessa Boni, Assistant Curator, 


RIBA Architecture Tours 

Thursdays, 4pm 

Alternately at The Cunard Building 

and LJMU Copperas Hill Building starting 

with The Cunard Building on 20 September. 

Organised by RIBA Liverpool 

Family 

Programme 

Saturdays 15, 22, 29 September 

and 6, 13 October, 12pm – 4pm 

FACT 

Weaving Workshops 

FACT invites visitors to help us to soften 

the fabric of our building! Collective 

Coverings, Communal Skin by artist 

Jemima Wyman fuses traditional weaving 

and meditative art therapy techniques to 

turn objects of conflict such as military 

uniforms into objects of comfort. This 

collaborative artwork will grow as a new 

‘skin’ throughout the festival. 

Saturdays, 1 – 3pm 

Liverpool-based artists invite families to 

make art. Children must be accompanied 

by an adult. Download the family guide 

programme at www.biennial.com.

Saturday 22 September 


Message to the Future 

with Frances Disley 

Exploring the fundamental urge to 

leave messages and make marks, artist 

Frances Disley invites you to send your 

own message to the future. 


World Museum 

Walk on the Wildside 

A chance to get up close and personal 

with the animals and plants that live 

in Everton Park. Children are invited 

to make a dragonfly to take home, 

pick up quiz sheets and tick lists to 

take to the park themselves. 

Phone 0151 478 4241 for more information 

Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September, 

1 – 4pm 


Splashes and Splatters 

Join our artists for colourful painting 

workshops for all the family. 

Saturday 29 September 


Held with Kevin Hunt 

Become part of an ongoing photographic 

project and create your own sculpture 

that will form part of a growing archive 

exploring the sculptural object and the 

relationship with its maker, you. 



Feedback Suite with Sam Meech 

and Hannah Silva 

A fun interface for making noise chaos, 

vocal experiments and effects will be 

manipulated live. 



Doppelganger with Kevin Hunt 

Create a series of replicas of works 

to generate numerous ‘editions’ to 

consider what it means when an artwork 

is confronted by its double. 

Saturday 20 October, 1 – 4pm 


Pigeon Street – Belonging by Patrick Murphy 

Join us for workshops inspired by 

Patrick Murphy’s colourful installation on 

the exterior of the Walker Art Gallery. 



Crazy Golf Hack with Ross Dalziel 

A network of artists and technologists 

have developed a crazy golf course and 

will be inviting Liverpool families to 

become crazy golf testers and then make, 

design and play. 

Tuesday 23, Wednesday 24, 

Thursday 25 October, 1 – 4pm 


The Big Drawing Party 

Celebrate Liverpool Biennial at the Walker 

with our big drawing party! Join us for half 

term big and bold drawing activities and 

help us take over the gallery. 

Wednesday 24 October, 1–2pm 

The Cunard Building 

Understanding Art (Ages 3 +) 

Thursday 25 October, 1–2pm 



Friday 26 October, 1–2pm 

Venue TBA 


With Panayiota Vassilopoulou in 

collaboration with the Philosophy 

Department, University of Liverpool. 

Explore the meaning and value of art. 

Bookable in advance and children must be 

accompanied by an adult 


The One-Man Show with Laurence Payot 

Become the ‘One-Man’ protagonist 

by adding a frame to a stop-motion video. 


New Masters with Frances Disley 

Bring along special objects that represent 

you and your family. Strike up a pose 

from an old master painting and create 

a new photographic masterpiece. 

Saturday 3 November, 11 – 12.30pm 

Walker Art Gallery: Family Art Club 

John Moores Painting Prize 2012 

Family Art Club is for children aged 

between 7 and 12 who love art and 

being creative. Each month you and your 

child will be able to try new techniques, 

experiment with different materials and 

learn new skills. Book by calling 0151 478 4171 

or emailing emma.devlin@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk 


the Bluecoat 

Together Sculpture with Laurence Payot 

Join the artist to create a series of 

sculptures to wear and activate. 


Drawing Machine with Ross Dalziel 

Build and play with simple robots to 

generate amazing automatic drawings 

in the lead up to a weekend of drawing 

across the city with The Royal Standard. 

Saturday 24 November, 1–6pm 

Everton Park 

Astroturf with Ross Dalziel 

Merseyside calls for occupants of 

interstellar craft. Family-friendly DIY 

radio and naked-eye astronomy, 

building, gaming and exploring the 

skies at Everton Park. 

For more information contact 

Francesca Williams: franny@biennial.com, 

0151 709 7444 

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Learning 

Plan your School Visit 

Learning is at the core of what we do 

and it is our ambition that every school 

in Merseyside visits the Biennial. 

To plan your visit contact 

Francesca Williams: franny@biennial.com 

0151 709 7444 

Learning resources, with appropriate 

themes and activities for Key Stages 

2–5, are available to download at 


Mercy Biennial Podcast 

Each week host Vanessa Bartlett 

welcomes a selection of guests to 

Mercy’s weekly podcast series with 

an alternative take on the Biennial. 

www.mercyonline.co.uk/podcast 

Independents 

Biennial 2012 

The Independents is one of the largest 

contemporary arts festivals in the 

UK, providing the vibrant ‘fringe’ to 

the Liverpool Biennial. In 2010, the 

Independents showcased more than 

500 national and international artists in 

128 events at 60 venues. Various venues / 

www.independentsbiennial.org

Artists 

A 

Doug Aitken, Tate Liverpool 

Eve Ackroyd, Walker Art Gallery 

Henny Acloque, Walker Art Gallery 

John Akomfrah, the Bluecoat 

Hurvin Anderson, Tate Liverpool 

Janine Antoni, The Monro 

Keith Arnatt, Tate Liverpool 

Kader Attia, Tate Liverpool 

B 

Jennifer Bailey, 


Yael Bartana, Tate Liverpool 

BAZ, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

David Bennewith, 


Kelly Best, Walker Art Gallery 

Biggs & Collings, Walker Art Gallery 

Hanni Bjartalíð, 


Katrina Blannin, Walker Art Gallery 

Sylvie Blocher, The Cunard Building 

James Bloomfield, Walker Art Gallery 

Wil Bolton, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

Yvette Brackman, 


Jack Brindley, 


Helen Brown, 


Hannah Brown, Walker Art Gallery 

Bubblebyte.org, The Royal Standard 

Audrius Bucas & Valdas 

Ozarinskas, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

Jamie Buckley, 


Jane Bustin, Walker Art Gallery 

C 

Sophie Calle, Tate Liverpool 

Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, 

St. George’s Hall and Lime Street Station 

Rhys Chatham, 

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral 

Chen Chia-Jen, 


Chiu Chen-Hung, 


Chow Chun-fai, 


Graham Chorlton, Walker Art Gallery 

Sen Chung, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

Ismar Cirkinagic, 


Wayne Clough, Walker Art Gallery 

Julie Cockburn, Walker Art Gallery 

CoLAB × SLOW, 


Paul Collinson, Walker Art Gallery 

Andrew Cranston, Walker Art Gallery 

Theo Cuff, Walker Art Gallery 

Layla Curtis, Tate Liverpool 

D 

Enrico David, Walker Art Gallery 

Bernat Daviu, Walker Art Gallery 

Anita Delaney, 


David Dipré, Walker Art Gallery 

Eugenio Dittborn, Tate Liverpool 

Bryan Dooley, 


Freya Douglas-Morris, 


Jimmie Durham, Tate Liverpool 

E 

Nathan Eastwood, Walker Art Gallery 

George Eksts, 


Liz Elton, Walker Art Gallery 

Elmgreen and Dragset, 

Liverpool ONE 

F 

Field Operations, World Museum 

Natalie Finnemore, 


Peter Fischli and David Weiss, 

Tate Liverpool 

Nicola Frimpong, 


FormContent, The Royal Standard 

G 

Dora Garcia, the Bluecoat 

GENERATORProjects, 

The Royal Standard 

Oscar Godfrey, Walker Art Gallery 

Salome Ghazanfari, 


Gilbert and George, Tate Liverpool 

Simryn Gill, Tate Liverpool 

Sigurður Guðjónsson, 


Lauren Godfrey, 


Masha Godovannaya, 


Goksøyr & Martens, 


Dan Graham, the Bluecoat 

H 

Jens Haaning, LJMU Copperas Hill 

Fritz Haeg, 

World Museum and Everton Park 

Oskar Hansen, 


Mona Hatoum, The Cunard Building 

Jeanne van Heeswijk and 

Graham Hicks, Britt Jurgensen, 

Debbie Morgan, The Cunard Building 

Oded Hirsch, Liverpool ONE 

Thomas Hirschhorn, Tate Liverpool 

Home of Metal, 


Hsieh Ying-Chun, Exchange Flags 

William Hsu, 


Hsu Chia-Wei, 


Vincent Hawkins, Walker Art Gallery 

Bé van der Heide, Walker Art Gallery 

Rae Hicks, Walker Art Gallery 

John Holland, Walker Art Gallery 

Kevin Hutcheson, Walker Art Gallery 

J 

Jarik Jongman, Walker Art Gallery 

Sarah Jones, 


K 

Nadia Kaabi Linke, 


Markus Kåhre, The Monro 

Jane Jin Kaisen, 


Suki S. Kang, 


Alicja Karska & Aleksandra Went, 


Laura Keeble, Walker Art Gallery 

William Kentridge, Tate Liverpool 

Anja Kirschner and David Panos, 

FACT 

Robin Kirsten, Walker Art Gallery 

Jessie Kleemann, 


Jakob Kolding, the Bluecoat 

Jiri Kovanda, The Cunard Building 

and Lime Street Station 

Piotr Krzymowski, 


Robert Kus´mirowski, 


Ham Kyungah, 


L 

Suzanne Lacy, The Cunard Building 

Runo Lagomarsino, The Cunard 

Building and Hotel Indigo 

Tony Law, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

Brendan Lancaster, Walker Art Gallery 

Laura Lancaster, Walker Art Gallery 

Tara Langford, 


Leung Mee-ping, 


George Little, 


Ian Law, Walker Art Gallery 

Dominic Lewis, Walker Art Gallery 

Peter Liversidge, Walker Art Gallery 

A n g e l a L i z o ń , Walker Art Gallery 

M 

Jorge Macchi, 


Elizabeth Magill, Walker Art Gallery 

Evariste Maiga, 


Taus Makhacheva, 


Laura Mansfield & Sovay 

Berriman, The Royal Standard 

Danny Markey, Walker Art Gallery 

Enzo Marra, Walker Art Gallery 

Rui Matsunaga, Walker Art Gallery 

Jan May, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

Anthony McCall, 

East Float Wirral Waters 

Onya McCausland, Walker Art Gallery 

Dougal McKenzie, Walker Art Gallery 

Damien Meade, Walker Art Gallery 

Dane Mitchell, The Monro 

Sabelo Mlangeni, The Tea Factory 

Sonia Morange, Walker Art Gallery 

Nicole Morris, 


Mark Morrisroe, Open Eye Gallery 

Patrick Murphy, Walker Art Gallery 

N 

Napalm Death, 


Stephen Nicholas, Walker Art Gallery 

O 

Pat O’Connor, Walker Art Gallery 

Ahmet Ög˘ üt, The Cunard Building 

Suk Kuhn Oh, 


Jay Oliver, Walker Art Gallery 

Oliver Osborne, 


P 

Trevor Paglen, The Cunard Building 

Pak Sheung Chuen, Tate Liverpool 

Miguel Palma, 


Christodoulos Panayiotou, 


Martin Parr, Tate Liverpool 

Dan Perfect, Walker Art Gallery 

Oliver Perkins, Walker Art Gallery 

Jennifer Phelan, 


Virginia Phongsathorn, 


Sarah Pickstone, Walker Art Gallery 

Tom Pitt, Walker Art Gallery 

plan b, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

Kevin J Pocock, Walker Art Gallery 

Sarah Poots, Walker Art Gallery 

Narbi Price, Walker Art Gallery 

R 

Polly Read, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

Pedro Reyes, FACT 

Cullinan Richards, Walker Art Gallery 

Emanuel Röhss, 


Paul Rooney, Victoria Gallery & Museum 

Pamela Rosenkranz, 


David Rowan, 


Max Ruf, LJMU Copperas Hill Building 

James Ryan, Walker Art Gallery 

S 

Simon Senn, 


Andrew Seto, Walker Art Gallery 

George Shaw, Tate Liverpool 

Janek Simon, 


André Stitt, Walker Art Gallery 

Marnie Slater, 


Kama Sokolnicka, 


Jackson Sprague, 


Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick 

Waterhouse, FACT 

Sun Xun, the Bluecoat 

Superflex, The Cunard Building 

Trevor Sutton, Walker Art Gallery 

Samuel Taylor, 


T 

Emma Talbot, Walker Art Gallery 

Sinta Tantra, Open Eye Gallery 

Tether, The Royal Standard 

Althea Thauberger, 


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Tyra Tingleff, 


Mark Titchner, Tate Liverpool 

Amikam Toren, Walker Art Gallery 

W 

Mark Wallinger, Tate Liverpool 

Matt Welch, Walker Art Gallery 

Ian Whittlesea, Walker Art Gallery 

Bedwyr Williams, 


Ming Wong, 28–32 Wood Street 

Seoung Won Won, 


Thomas M Wright, Walker Art Gallery 

Jemima Wyman, FACT 

Y 

Yukinori Yanagi, Tate Liverpool 

Kohei Yoshiyuki, Open Eye Gallery 

Yun Suknam, 


Z 

Akram Zaatari, FACT 

Curators 

Liverpool Biennial 2012 

Sally Tallant, Artistic Director 


Lorenzo Fusi, Liverpool Biennial 

Rosie Cooper, Liverpool Biennial 

Lucy Johnston, Liverpool Biennial 

Sara-Jayne Parsons, 

Bryan Biggs, the Bluecoat 

Laurie Peake, Liverpool Biennial 

Omar Kholeif, Mike Stubbs, FACT 

Karen Newman, Open Eye Gallery 

Jenny Porter, METAL Liverpool 

Ann Bukantas, Walker Art Gallery 

Moira Lindsay, Victoria Gallery 

& Museum 

The Royal Standard 

Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – 

The Source and Thresholds 

Sook-Kyung Lee, Eleanor Clayton, 

Jose Diaz, Tate Liverpool 

City States and Public Programme 

Paul Domela, Liverpool Biennial 

Vanessa Boni, Liverpool Biennial 

Family Programme 

Francesca Williams, Liverpool Biennial

Visitor Information 

Liverpool Biennial is delighted to be 

working with John Lewis Liverpool 

as the 2012 Visitor Services Partner. 

Open daily from 13 September, 10am – 6pm 

Visitor Hub at the Bluecoat 

Weekly night time hub – at FACT, 

open Wednesdays 6 – 8pm 

Call Visitor Services +44 (0)845 220 2800, 

line open from 12 September 10am – 6pm 

Tourist Information – www.visitliverpool.com 

or call 0151 233 2008. 

Access for Disabled Visitors – Visit 

www.disabledgo.com. Manual and 

motorised wheelchairs/scooters are available 

for hire from shopmobility 0151 707 0877. 

Local Public Transport – For information 

for Merseyrail, bus and ferry services call 

Merseytravel Line: 0871 200 22 33 (8am–8pm 

daily) or visit www.merseytravel.gov.uk 

Taxi – Make use of Liverpool’s extensive 

Black Cab service or pre-book with 

Mersey Cabs 0151 238 1234, INTX Cars 

0151 727 7000, DELTA 0151 922 3333 

Getting to Liverpool 

Air — Liverpool John Lennon Airport is nine 

miles southeast of the city centre connected 

by the Airlink 500 bus service which runs 

every 20 mins. Manchester Airport is under 

an hour away. 

Car – At the end of the M62, Liverpool 

city centre is easily accessible by an 

extensive road network. The centre offers 

numerous secure 24 hours car parks 

including the Liverpool ONE complex that is 

served by 3 Q-Parks with over 3,000 spaces. 

Train – Liverpool Biennial is delighted to 

recommend Virgin Trains, our National 

Travel Partner for Liverpool Biennial 2012. 

Travelling to Liverpool Lime Street from 

London Euston takes just over two hours with 

Virgin Trains. All routes are operated by their 

super swanky 125mph tilting Pendolino and 

Voyager trains, each with its own onboard 

Shop for those mid-journey munchies, 

powerpoints for keeping laptops and mobiles 

charged and Wi-Fi so you can tweet, like and 

poke to your heart’s content. Just don’t get 

too comfortable, you’ll be there before you 

know it. Book in advance at virgintrains.com 

for the cheapest fares. 

Sleeping – Liverpool Biennial is delighted 

to recommend Hotel Indigo Liverpool, our 

Official Hotel Partner for Liverpool Biennial 

2012. This 4-star boutique hotel on Chapel 

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Liverpool Biennial was 

founded by James Moores 

with the support of: 

Official Partners 

National Travel Partner Visitor Services Partner Official Restaurant Partner 

Official Hotel Partner Official Bar Partner Long Night Partner 

Official AV Partner 

Project Sponsors

Project Supporters 

International Agencies 

Patrons 

Andrew and Liz Collinge 

Michael William Halsall 

Paul and Elizabeth Reeve 

The Steel 

Charitable 

Trust 

This project has been assisted by the Australian 

Government through the Australia Council, its 

arts funding and advisory body. 

Anna Fox and Peter Goodbody 

Lesley Horner-Robinson 

Nicholas and Alex Wainwright 

Supported by the European Media 

Art Residency Exchange Programme. 

The project has been funded with 

support from the European Commission 

Kamel Lazaar 

Foundation 

Galleries 

Supporters 

Building & Maintenance 

Solutions 

Liverpool Biennial would very much like to thank Catrina Hewitson of Vibrant for support 

provided through the mentoring programme run by Business in the Arts:North West 

Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – The Source with additional support from Tate Liverpool Members 

The City States exhibitions are supported by 

Birmingham 

Copenhagen 

G d a ń s k 

Hong Kong 

City Culture 

in Gdansk 

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Laznia Centre for 

Contemporary Art

Incheon 

Lisbon 

Makhachkala 

Oslo 

Reykjavík, Nuuk, Tórshavn 

St. Petersburg 

Taipei 

Vilnius 

Wellington 

Nordic Culture 

Fund 

City of Incheon 

Vilnius City 

Municipality 

Billedkunstnernes 

Vederlagsfond 

Calendar 

(P) 

Performance 

(TK) 

Talk 

(F) 

Film 

(W) 

Weekend 

(T) 

Tour 

(FM) 

Family 

(S) 

Special Event 

14 September 


(P) 

Rhys Chatham: 

A Crimson Grail (P) 

Art Criticism, 

Globalisation (TK) 

Everton People’s 

Park: Fritz Haeg (S) 

15 September 

Anfield Home 

Tour (TK) 

Artists in 

Conversation (TK) 




(P) 

James Corner & 

Laurie Peake (TK) 

16 September 


(P) 



Curatorial Tour (T) 

17 September 

All Are Guests 

Talk (TK) 

Expert Meeting (TK) 

18 September 

Talk Tuesday (TK) 


Unexpected 

Guest Tour (T/S) 

Family 

Programme (F) 

23 September 


25 September 

The Wolf Knife (F) 

Shame (F) 


27 September 

RIBA Tour (T) 

28 September 

George Shaw in 

Conversation (TK) 

29 September 

Anfield Home 

Tour (TK) 

Family 

programme (FM) 

Unexpected 

Guest (T) 

Simon Munnery / 

Bedwr Williams (P) 

Held: Kevin Hunt (P) 

Walk on the 

Wildside (FM) 

30 September 


02 October 


Electronic Voice 

Phenomena (W) 

Unexpected 

Guest Tour (T) 

Family 

Programme (FM) 

The Horse’s 

Teeth (T) 

07 October 


Phenomena (W) 


09 October 

Time 

Topographies (F) 


10 October 

The Three 

Disappearances (F) 

11 October 

RIBA Tour (T) 

13 October 

Anfield Home 

Tour (T) 

LJMU Mobile 

Academy (W) 


Improvisation 

Collective (W) 

Family 


17 October 

Marina 

Abramovic (F) 

18 October 

RIBA Tour (T) 

19 October 

Long Night (S) 

Break Bread Open (S) 

Sense of Sound (P) 

20 October 

Deadline! (P) 

Anfield Home 

Tour (T) 

Young People’s 

Biennial Question 

Mark! (W) 

Family 


23 October 


Family 


24 October 

Understanding 

Art (T) 

The Wildness (T) 

25 October 

Understanding 

Art (T) 

RIBA Tour (T) 

Family 


31 October 

Deep State (F) 

01 November 

RIBA Tour (T) 

02 November 

John Moores 

Painting Prize 

Summit (TK) 

03 November 

Anfield Home 

Tour (T) 

John Moores 

Painting Prize 

Summit (TK) 

Unexpected 

Guest Tour (T/S) 

Family 


07 November 

The Creator (F) 

08 November 

RIBA Tour (T) 

10 November 

Anfield Home 

Tour (T) 

Family 


Symposium: 

Reconstruction 

Work (T) 

Culture Support 

19 September 

Foundation 

The Forgotten 

Space 

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(F) 

20 September 

RIBA Tour (T) 

22 September 

Anfield Home 

Tour (TK) 

The Medium is 

the Medium (W) 

03 October 

Post-revolutionary 

Cities (F) 

05 October 


Phenomena (W) 

06 October 

Anfield Home 

Tour (T) 

14 October 


Improvisation 

Collective (W) 


16 October 

Redeye 

photographers’ 

Network (T) 


26 October 

Understanding 

Art (T) 

Festival of New 

Cinema (F) 

27 October 

Anfield Home 

Tour (T) 

Family 


12 November 

Photographer 

Surgery (S) 

13 November 


14 November 

I Remember and 

Teenage (F) 

15 November 

Aaron 

Williamson (TK) 

16 November 

Aaron 

Williamson (TK) 

17 November 

Anfield Home 

Tour (T) 

Anthony McCall: 

Column (T) 

Aaron 

Wiliamson (T) 

Drawing 

Sessions 2 (W) 

Family 


Unexpected 

Guest 

Tour (T/S) 

18 November 


19 November 


21 November 

Two Years at Sea (F) 

The Nine Muses (F) 

RIBA Tour (T) 

22 November 

Mark Morrisroe 

Screening (F) 

23 November 

Changing the World 

From Here (W) 

24 November 

Anfield Home 

Tour (T) 

Family 

Programme (FM)

Liverpool Biennial 2012 


City States 

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 

John Moores Painting Prize 

Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken – The Source 

Anthony McCall: Column 


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