Column - Liverpool Biennial

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
Camp and Furnace
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.
Saturday 13 October
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
Camp and Furnace
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