Column - Liverpool Biennial

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
Saturday 27 October
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
Walker Art Gallery
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
Camp and Furnace
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