Africa at the Pictures 2006

Film season 9-15 November 2006

Africa at the Pictures comes to Liverpool

Students at Liverpool Community College will receive tips and advice from some of Africa’s top film producers and directors as part of Africa at the Pictures.

Between 9-15 November, Greenland Street - Liverpool’s major new venue for contemporary art - will host Africa at the Pictures, an initiative which promotes African film in the UK and Europe.

Africa at the Pictures will screen thirty films, offering a vibrant insight into the culture and politics of Africa. Amongst them is Moolaadé directed by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal), widely recognised as the father of African cinema and Rage, directed by Newton Aduaka, which was the first independent film by a black film-maker to gain a national release in Britain.

Six of Africa’s leading film makers will visit Liverpool to screen their movies at Greenland Street and share their knowledge and skills with young people in the city. Screenings are free and open to all.

Over 100 Media Studies students, all studying cinema as part of their course at Liverpool Community College, will take part in a series of film workshops developed in partnership with arts venue Greenland Street. The students are studying at Liverpool Community College’s Arts Centre and Toxteth TV, the city’s film and media education facility.

During the sessions, film makers from South Africa, Nigeria and Senegal will discuss funding opportunities available to young movie makers, how to take an idea to the screen and the best way to pitch a film idea. Budding directors and producers will also develop their digital camera skills, scriptwriting talents and ability to tell non fiction stories through cinema.

Workshops will be run by Lovinsa Kavuma, a Ugandan-born female filmmaker; Newton Aduaka – one of Africa’s most talented independent film makers, originally from Nigeria; writer and filmmaker Ben Diogaye Beye - a pioneer of Senegalese cinema; female Director Taghred Elsanhouri who captures the conflicts of Sudan - her country of birth - in her films, and director Khalo Matabane who addresses a range of South African issues through his work. (for more info on workshops contact Helen Brierley at Greenland Street E: helenb@afoundation.org.uk T: 0151 706 0600)

For full details of films and screening times visit www.africaatthepictures.co.uk

Club Class - creatively explore your conduct @ Tate Liverpool with FrenchMottershead

Using bad behaviour, clothing, surveillance or body language, and the wholec of Tate Liverpool to play in, you enrol in a micro-class, devise a performance under expert guidance, and explore the possibilities of what might happen when behavioural attitudes are changed.

Saturday 11 November 2006, 13:00-17:00, £10 (£8 conc, £6 members). Refreshments and Biennial ticket included.

For more information go to:
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/eventseducation/musicperform/7484.htm

Supported by Arts Council England.

www.frenchmottershead.com

Making More Sense - Discussion

13-15.00 Friday 3 November 2006

Picton Reading Room
Central Library
William Brown Street
Liverpool

Liverpool Biennial is a major event in the international arts calendar. It happens for ten weeks every two years, and is on now. Several hundred of the world’s most exciting visual artists are showing their work in over 40 locations across the city, ranging from Tate Liverpool to unexpected temporary locations.

Making More Sense is a new and exciting three-year art project which began in January 2006. A major aim and rationale of the project is to have a lasting legacy in the development of a forum that would set out to assist other brain injured people. This would involve the development of a permanent base with exhibition and workshop facilities, run by and for those with a brain injury. Making More Sense is run as a partnership between Mersey Care Brain Injuries Rehabilitation Centre (BIRC) and artists Steve Rooney and Sue Williams, who are TAG (The Artists Group)

Through an invitation from Chilean artist Mario Navarro, nine of the Making More Sense group have collaborated on Two Rooms, a project for Liverpool Biennial’s International 06 exhibition. For the project each participant was asked to customise a chair to reflect their own biography. The resulting chairs are displayed in the Picton Reading Room as part of Navarro’s installation for International 06 which opened on 16 September and will close on 26 November 2006.

The discussion on Friday 3 November will reflect on the achievements of Making More Sense and to share the participants experiences of working with Liverpool Biennial.

Please ring Sharon Paulger on 0151 7097444 or email sharon@biennial.com to confirm your attendance.

Red Wire Open Submission - 23rd November 2006.

Deadline for entries; Wednesday 8th November 2006.

Red Wire Artist group hosts it's fourth Biennial exhibition, this is an open submission exhibition at Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool. We are currently accepting proposals of work to exhibit.

To enter you work, send images of your proposed piece, together with any supporting information to us.

If the work is as yet unfinished, send images of previous work together with a statement of your intent for this exhibition.

Any insurance and transportation you may require should be organised by yourselves.

To view more on Red Wire, please go to; http://www.redwireredwire.com

There is no financial cost, and entries shall be judged on merit and to create a cohesive exhibition.

If you require any further information please contact us at redwireredwire@hotmail.co.uk

Send proposal to redwireredwire@hotmail.co.uk

Red Wire Open Submission.
Second Floor
Carlisle Buildings
67-69 Victoria Street
Liverpool
L1 6DE.

http://www.redwireredwire.com

Another 1 night show at Redwire Studios, 67-69 Victoria Street. Friday November 3 2006 starting at 20.00.
View by appointment there-after until November 17.
'RedSkyAtNight' curated by Martyn Coppell and Vicki Maguire

The latest edition of the Eight Days A Week paper was launched a couple of weeks ago. Look out for it in all the usual arty and information places.

This is the 3rd Edition which includes commissioned articles and features exploring artists' initiatives, cultural regeneration and the role of artists within Liverpool European Capital City of Culture 2008. It also features historical documentation on Eight Days A Week Projects and events. The newspaper and critical forum is part of Independents Biennial Liverpool and is funded by the Arts Council, Liverpool Culture Company and the PH Holt Trust.

It is edited by Dave Bixter and includes articles by Pete Clarke, Jurgen Kisters, Waltraud Boxall, Neil Morris and others.

ARENA HOUSE OPENS WITH A BANG FOR THE LAST TIME!

Over the past 20 years Arena House has been a prime location for artists studios and creative practice. Established by artist Terry Duffy in 1984, over the years Arena has housed hundreds of artists, designers and musicians. Artists Leo Fitzmaurice and Amanda Ralph had studios in the building, alongside Ocean Software (Sonic the Hedgehog) illustrator Bob Wakelin. Bands Jesus and Marychain, Echo and the Bunnymen and recently new comers Hot Club De Paris have all practiced and performed at Arena House.

As a final showcase, Arena opens its doors this week to the second leg of their 4 floor Biennial Show 2006.

On the ground floor, international artist Brigitte Jurak presents Ich sehe Schwarz Weiss, where viewers encounter a ghostly experience of recognising both familiar and more far removed sculptural buildings. Leon Jakeman and Adam Sloan present the fascinating video installation Beneath the Below filmed in Arena’s sub-basement, where many bands performed in the 80’s, and Sarah McCaulley's ‘orifices’ take hold of the room in A Passage of Time and Process.

On the first floor, the Mercy Design agency present )BracketTHIS( III. A menagerie of vision, sound and performance, from 15 established and emerging artists based in the North West of England whos’s work explores ideas of cultural identity, displacement and belonging.

Liverpool based collective RSP1 collaborate with a group from Brighton’s Maze Studios on the second floor in Near Distance. The show includes half a car, a misplaced ice cream and a ‘found’ £20 note.

On the third floor, Arena Members present co.he.sion. The exhibitors consider their current position as artists in Liverpool and their re-location to their new Jordan Street premises, featuring a room filled with letters and envelopes, and some eerie ‘floating’ chairs.

The show has so far been described by Japanese critic Kito Edo as ‘One of the best shows in town’ and by Stephen Toal of Your Fridge Door as: 'The four-floor venue is like a house party with art. From Brigitte Jurack's 'Ich sehe Schwarz Weiss' on the ground floor to 'co.he.sion' on the top floor, they are showcasing a heady brew of contemporary local, national and international artists.'

Viewing Thursday Nov 2 2006 18.00 - 20.00. Exhibtion runs until November 26 2006

11 Wolstenholme Square

"Making Connections"

An event of 2 weeks duration allowing artists based in Liverpool and Manchester to meet, share ideas, work together and put on an exhibition of their work for the final week of this year’s Liverpool Biennial.

We hope the event might be the starting point for future collaborations or at least provide a few sparks for ideas for future independent work for those who participate.

How the project develops will be largely dependent on the participants themselves.

At this point we envisage that the work shown in the second week will be existing work, the first week being a setup period when artists can find connections and decide which work shares common themes and how this can be visualised and articulated in the set up of the show. It would also be possible for work developed in this first week to be shown in the exhibition.

Time commitment will be very flexible. After the initial meeting, the building will be open from 4.30pm to 9.30pm each day for the entire week for artists to create and/or set up their work. Exhibition to open on Saturday 18th November. The opening hours will be 12pm to 6pm daily (closed Monday and Tuesday). Each participant will be expected to do one days invigilation. Instead of an opening event there will be a big closing party on Saturday 25th November starting at 6.30pm.

All those interested need to meet at 11 Wolstenholme Square (opposite Cream) at 7.30pm on 11th November (the building will be open from 7pm). Everybody who wishes to participate will without exception be given the opportunity to do so. Each participant will need to bring a piece of work with them or, if the work is too large, colour A4 printouts of the work. Participants are welcome to bring a variety of their work and select a piece according to their reaction to the space and the other work proposed.

Two tvs and dvds will be available on the 11th Nov to view video pieces, but participants will have to provide all necessary equipment for the exhibition itself.

Although the building is fairly large, extending to 3 floors, anybody with particularly large 3d work may need to display documentation of the work rather than the work itself.

NOTE: The Art Organisation will be providing third party public liability insurance for the event but participants are responsible for the insurance of their own work or equipment where appropriate. Strictly no projectors or laptops to be left in the building overnight.

It would be useful, though not essential, if anyone intending to come on the 11 Nov sent an email expressing an interest (or asking questions) to:

Gordon Culshaw
gordonculshaw@hotmail.com
07789644986

or

Jamie Torode
jamie.toad@virgin.net
07976882198

Feeling happier now that I've got all my files backed up onto a new external hard drive, took me all morning.

Bad news from Walk The Plank though, the Friday night cabaret had to be cancelled as the electric generators failed. (microbes in the diesel or something). Some people have had very little luck in this Biennial.

At 16.00 yesterday we stood opposite Waterstones at the bottom of Bold Street but it wasn't to join the huge queue at the Billie Piper book-signing session. It was good that there were so many extra people there though as it made this small intervention event all the more fun.

Soon after we arrived, Sean Hawkridge started a round of applause and we all joined in, about 30 people I think, had turned up to clap, whistle and cheer for 2 or 3 minutes. Then we stopped as suddenly as we had started and quickly dispersed as if nothing had happened.
The Saturday shoppers were bemused and amused by it all, plenty of smiles and some even joined in without knowing what they were applauding.

 
Today, we had hoped to see 'Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers' at 3345 Parr Street but it was sold out. We did manage to take a quick look at the 'Education Room' though and see some of the Borrowers objects (Bobjects) and later we talked to the performer Kazuko Hohki (anyone remember 'We are Ninja' by Frank Chickens?)

Later at Static we enjoyed the final performance of Live06, 'Urban Voodoo' by plan b an interesting and amusing piece of psychogeography and archipuncture using a miniature film set with images of Bold street and other familiar areas and short stories to find the heart, soul, spleen and arse of the city.

The Projection Gallery, 2 Roscoe street, Liverpool.

As artists and curators we find that we learn through making. This includes making our own mistakes and taking risks. We are looking for works that touch on this subject. We have the space for two weeks and we are looking for work to be placed within four exhibition spaces. Part of the show includes a sixty-seat cinema on which we will be showcasing art films and shorts.

WHEN: 16-26 November 2006

TO APPLY: send images of previous work and image/sketch/text of proposed piece for the exhibition to jay@sevenseven.org.uk
DEADLINE: 1 November 2006

www.theprojectiongallery.com

Sculpting With Air

SoundNetwork Free Concert Series

Burkhard Beins (The Sealed Knot, Trio Sowari) - percussion
Mark Wastell (IST, The Sealed Knot, +minus) - Tam Tam
- world renowned improvising musicians present solo and duo performances

Saturday 28th October
19.30 - 21.30
The Great Hall
Hope University
Everton Campus
Haigh Street
Liverpool
L3 8QB

SoundNetwork have invited artists Lee Patterson and Benjamin Gwilliam to curate a series of live events to take place in Liverpool over the duration of the Biennial. Bringing together north west based SoundNetwork members and renowned national and international improvising musicians on the same bill, these events offer unique opportunities to catch some of the most exciting experimental and improvised music in Britain today.

info@soundnetwork.org.uk
http://soundnetwork.omweb.org
http://www.soundnetwork.org.uk

"NEKO was a small Japanese porcelain cat, brought to England via space craft in the mid fifties.
Somewhere along that journey alien intervention transformed the animal into a living breathing mutant, half cat - half artist, and the legend of NEKO had begun!"

NEKO has a studio in Unit 14 of 36 Seel Street, he has turned half of the space into a small gallery where he has created this installation.

A strange mix of graphics, drawing, video installation. All red, black and white with red light bulbs.

NEKO writes poetry inspired by or inspiring the art and in a drawer in the gallery you will find one entitled 'Flitch Swicking Lifters' which starts...
flicks switching on
flicking off
chicks flicking on
switching off

flickers turn it on
then switch it off
switchers flicking on
flick them off...

At Unit 14, 36 Seel St until November 26 2006

On leaving the Bluecoat Display Centre Two last night these guys in the window of Out of The Bluecoat almost next door started waving at us and talking into a microphone so that we could hear them outside. Then the bloke called the phone box behind us and asked us to answer it so he could hear us better.
We had a nice chat about what we and they were up to and continued on our way.

They are The Fictional Dogshelf Theatre Company (Joanne 'Bob' Whalley and Lee Miller) and are performing there 24hours a day for 3 days. Say hello if you are passing.

Embargo - New Art from Serbia

Curated by Neil Morris and Mike Walton
at 68 Hope Street, JMU School of Art & Design

30 October - 17 November 2006
Open Monday to Thursday 10.00 -16.00
Friday 10.00 -14.00
Admission Free

Private View 16.00 Monday 30 October

Artists:
Milan Hrnjazovic, Boris Kandolf, Atila Kapitajn, Nenad Kostic, Aleksandra Zdravkovic.
Artists in Residence:
Aleksandar Andric, Boris Kandolf, Andy Magee.

Embargo is an exhibition of the work of five artists from regions throughout Serbia and is part of an ongoing exchange programme with artists based in North West England, organised by Crazy Goat Art Promotions and
Eight Days a Week, Liverpool Cologne Exchange.

The inclusion of this work in the Biennial is an opportunity for artists from culturally diverse backgrounds to exhibit in an international context in the aftermath of conflict in the region. It is still quite difficult for artists from
Serbia to travel and exhibit in Western Europe, due to sanctions and travel restrictions and therefore this is an ideal opportunity to transcend imposed barriers, which have often resulted in alienation and exclusion.

The exhibition displays a range of media, made by a broad variety of artists. It includes sound and video installation, mixed media work in painting / printmaking and graphics and explores diverse issues, made in a range of styles and genres, revealing that artists from Eastern Europe have been influenced by many areas of research and lines of enquiry, contrary to much preconceived opinion in western culture The exhibition is a catalyst for the exchange of ideas, concepts and approaches between artists from different parts of Europe and will hopefully lead to further developments in the context of cross cultural collaboration.

Runs until November 17th 2006

Re the Board for Liverpool Biennial Independents
ACE have forwarded to John Brady the three nominations they were in receipt of at May 2006, namely Ben Parry (n. by Sally Medlyn), Arthur Roberts (n. by Barbara Jones) and Rob MacDonald (self-nominated). These nominations remain valid.

Deadline for receipt of additional nominations November 26th, 2006.

Also, See the forum item re the constitution
The deadline for receipt of comments on the proposed constitution is November 3rd, 2006

www.independentsbiennial.co.uk

Reminders for Tonight - Friday Oct 27 2006...

Performance - View Two. Another Transvoyeur performance 17.30 - 19.00

Peter Adams, Jeimy Marisol Martínez Galavíz, Seasons - When the City Speaks by (Alison Bazely, Laura Baxter, June Hobson, Peter Worthington, and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, conceived and directed by Jo Derbyshire), Antonio Sassu and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney

Viewing - Emma Rodgers 'Another Chapter' at Bluecoat Display Centre Two, 54 Hanover St. 17.30 - 19.30

Viewing - Bridewell, Prescot St. 'How Things Fly' 18.00

Viewing - Almiro, Crosby. Rachel McCarthy exhibition. Also gallery's 1st Birthday. 18-21.00

Performance (I think) - Museum MAN 19.30

Performance - Live06 Cabaret on Walk The Plank. 20.30 onwards £6
Includes artists from Transvoyeur: Tony Knox, George Lund, Seasons - When the City Speaks by (Alison Bazely, Laura Baxter, June Hobson, Peter Worthington, and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, conceived and directed by Jo Derbyshire) and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
and others

Party - Bar FRESA. FLASH!! Arena Biennial Party 21.00 - 02.30

 
We called into St. Nicholas church the other day to look at the outcomes of the recent artists residencies.

I think its probably a good idea to read the information and artist statements on the dying frog website beforehand.
Also, Julie Jones kept a diary of her progress on her blog.

Three artists: Julie Jones, Tabitha Moses and Kevin Hunt, have each spent two weeks working at St. Nick’s making artwork in response to the Church and the surrounding environment.

The church is situated near the Royal Liver Building at the Pier Head, at the bottom of Chapel Street. Further information about "St. Nick's" can be found on the church's website.

The artwork is fine but have to say I don't like this church much. Well I'm not a churchy person at all but usually I quite like the buildings but I'm always in a hurry to get out of this one.

At St Nicks until November 26th 2006

{from the sidelines} is a new commission by Sean Hawkridge for Liverpool Live, the live art strand of Liverpool Biennial 2006 coordinated by Bluecoat.

*** I'd like to invite you to participate ***

The work will take place in Liverpool City Centre this Saturday 28th October at 16.00, at the bottom of Bold Street in the area between the old Lyceum Post Office and Waterstones bookshop.

The performance will involve a number of people gathering in the space at 4pm and on cue bursting into spontaneous applause for a couple of minutes before dissipating back into the crowds.

The work is intended to be subtle and spontaneous - lifting peoples heads a little, cheering them on from the sidelines, like the Dads at all those football matches, like the end of the marathon, like the lap of honour...

You're invited to be one of the clapping crowd

The work should only take 15 minutes of your time and you won't be put on the spot in any way.

If you'd like to be involved please reply to this email registering your attendance.

I really appreciate your help

Please forward this to any individuals/mailing lists as appropriate. Apologies for any cross posting.

Thanks!

Sean Hawkridge
live@from-the-sidelines.com
www.from-the-sidelines.com

Jon Pountain - '80, 82 or 86' at View Two, Mathew Street
LIVERPOOL based artist Jon Pountain will be showing a collection of pastel landscapes that explore the city’s southern streets and parks.

Jon’s work depicts scenes linked by the bus routes, in the title of the exhibition, that join Aigburth to Garston, Toxteth to Allerton. Fastening his eye to the reality around him, Jon has captured the magic of the everyday with a compelling realism and sensitivity.
Viewing Wed Oct 25 18.00 - late
Exhibition runs until November 25 2006
www.viewtwogallery.co.uk

' Return of the Silent Traveller' by Weng Fen. Solo Show at 34A Slater Street.

Weng Fen (aka. Weng Peijun) is rapidly establishing an international reputation through the quality and variety of his work, which ranges from massive installations constructed from thousands of eggs to stunning photographs of viewers transfixed by the spectacle of metropolitan or the natural sublime. In these varied ways Weng’s work reflects the rapidly changing nature of Chinese society and the country’s changing perception of itself.

The massive recent international interest in contemporary art from China is vivid testimony to the fact that China’s economic and industrial burgeoning augurs something even greater in the century ahead. The present situation has many parallels with how America was perceived by the old countries of Western Europe in the years after WWII and, once again, many outsiders view the emerging picture with a mixture of fascination and anxiety.
Viewing Wed Oct 25 18.00 - 20.00
Exhibition runs until November 12 2006
www.theartorganisation.co.uk

It'll take a lot to convince me but I'll go with an open mind...

KAZUKO HOHKI
EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF BORROWERS
A collaboration between Kazuko Hohki, Andy Cox & Mervyn Millar
Developed with Tom Morris

Since 2002, Kazuko and her colleagues at the Borrowers International Network (BIN) have been working hard promoting cultural exchange between human beans and the small people who live under the floorboards. As part of their campaign, BIN are proud to travel to Liverpool and Scarborough to present their interactive
installation and promenade presentation, which explores the unique world and culture of the Borrowers.

Happiness for everyone.

26-29 October
Parr Street Studios, Liverpool (Liverpool Live 06)*
Parr Street Studios, 33-45 Parr Street, Liverpool, L1 4LN

Thurs 26 Oct at 3.00 & 5.30pm
Fri 27 Oct at 3, 5.30 & 8pm
Sat 28 Oct at 12.00, 3.00 & 5.30pm
Sun 20 Oct at 12 & 3pm

Tickets £5.00 (£3.00)
To book tickets call 0151 709 4988
http://www.bluecoatartscentre.com

Change of Times for Gene Culture Exhibition ...

Change of Times: The opening and closing times for the Transvoyeur Gene Culture exhibition at the Slaughterhouse 73 Gallery.
Closed Today, Wednesday 25 October 2006
then
Open Thursday 26th - Saturday 28 October 2006 13.00 - 17.00

Transvoyeur Associate Exhibition: Gene Culture 2006, The Slaughterhouse 73 Gallery, 73 St Mary's Road, Garston, Liverpool, England, 10 October 2006 - 28 October 2006.

Venue: The Slaughterhouse 73 Gallery, 73 St Mary's Road, Garston, Liverpool, England.

Curator: Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.

Artists: Jonathan Aldous, Sigal Avni, Jan Bennett, Ken Byers, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Kim Fielding, June Kingsbury, Carrie Reichardt, Andrew Taylor and Kai-Oi Jay Yung.

Picked up a batch of the new all-colour Independents Venue Guide and Map today.

I'll distribute them as I travel round.
I think they look rather good.

The map guide was published by Hillfoot Studios info@hillfootstudios.com
with artwork design by Catherine Butters www.zebracrossing.net

The project was organised by John Davies and funded by the sponsors:
artinliverpool.com, Jump Ship Rat, The Art Organisation and Werk

 
Well I had to go to Garston anyway to buy a nice big hard-drive to back up all my files so we went to Liverpool John Lennon Airport as well so with parking and coffee it was an expensive day out.
The Yellow submarine has been parked outside here for quite a while now and inside there is the statue of John Lennon which now has lots of information about the Biennial alongside it. There were no Biennial leaflets in the holder though so I put some of my new artinliverpool ones there instead.

So anyway, the artwork is in the form of text painted on the walls above the check-in desks in the large reception area.
The text is all lyrics by John Lennon and is the (untitled) work of Rigo 23 who is also responsible for caging the lions outside St Georges Hall.
There are also some of the words from Give Peace a Chance stuck onto the outside of the building.
I do wonder how many people notice, everyone seemed so intent on just getting to the front of the check-in queue and didn't look up even when they saw the two of us climbing onto steps and raising our cameras above our heads to try and get a better picture.
 

Well look who is featured in the latest issue of the popular Digit Magazine (106 - November 2006).
We are well pleased and its a good mag too.
This issue has a feature on New directions in Japanese illustration and lots of Photoshop techniques.

Digital Show was created by artinliverpool.com to showcase good international digital artwork.
Starting with the Liverpool Biennial it will feature regular exhibitions. The current show has 200 images by 133 artists from 25 countries
www.digitalshow.co.uk
www.digitmag.co.uk

Private View Tonight ...
Transvoyeur Liverpool and New York Exhibition 2006 tonight (Tuesday 24 October 2006) at the View Two Gallery, 23 Mathew Street, Liverpool, England, 18.00 - 20.00

Artists:

Liverpool:
Agata Alcaniz, Gianni Bianchini, Brendan Byrne, Jo Derbyshire, Dorrie Halliday, Elizabeth Heritage, Tony Knox, George Lund, Charles Nuttall, Catherine Shea, Gary Sollars, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.
New York:
Lara Allen, Michael Ricardo Andreev, Chris Borkowski, Rodney Dickson, Stephan Fowlkes, PJ Cobbs, Aaron Miller, Raphaele Shirley, Lee Wells.

Exhibition Dates: Monday 23 October 2006 - Saturday 04 November 2006.
Opening times: Monday - Saturday 12..00 - 17.00
(Note: Please contact in advance with the venue).

Private View
Tuesday 24 October 2006, 18.00 - 20.00.

www.transvoyeur.co.uk

www.viewtwogallery.co.uk

Part of Live06 From Plan b

www.planbperformance.net

plan b Urban Voodoo

Inspired by the idea of 'archipuncture', we want to explore Liverpool as body and look at personal stories that have taken place in the city and see if we can use Urban Voodoo to change the city in some way.

We will go to the places people tell us about and use the journey and the actions we perform as field research for a performance reconstruction on Sunday 29 October at 5pm at Static.

If you can help with answers to any of the prompts below, simply email us on info@planbperformance.net You could also meet us, phone us or text us. Our number is 07969 663 196
We want to ask, in a vastly changing city such as Liverpool: Where is the centre, the heart, the head, the elbow, the eyes, the foot, the soul, the brain, the blood supply, the kidneys, or the arse?

Are there any other body parts you think are important and where would they be?

What part of the 'Liverpool body' is the regeneration? Is it a sparkling new face-lift or a diseased liver?

If Liverpool were a person, would they be healthy? (if not, what would it be suffering from and what would improve it?)

If you could ‘heal’ Liverpool by changing the public space – what would you build and where?

If you could improve Liverpool by taking something away what would it be, and why?

Is there somewhere in Liverpool that makes you think of a certain story whenever you go past?

Is there certain song that you always think of at a particular place?

If you had to take someone who had never been to Liverpool before to one place that you thought summed Liverpool up, where would you take them?

If anger in the city is expressed by broken bus shelters and vandalised telephone boxes, where is grief expressed? Where is happiness expressed?

In a live performance using models and video, we will show the outcomes of our investigations on Sunday 29 October at 17.00 at Static.

www.planbperformance.net

Just got back from Wood Street having watched this event. It was just a few minutes worth of video on a loop from about 22.30 and finishing about midnight.
It was created by Liverpool John Moores Art students in collaboration with Shilpa Gupta who has a work in FACT at present.
It was projected from a window in the Biennial offices above the RENEW rooms onto the back of the building opposite.
Really good and cleverly done as it was carefully designed to fit in with the building's features with different people appearing in the windows. It looked like rats or cockroaches were coming out of the drainpipes and someone was hanging from one of the window-sills.

I think the only audience apart from ourselves were the students who made the film and some of their friends. A few passers-by had a quick glance up to see what we were looking at.

This is Fantastic! and I apologise for not bringing it to your attention sooner.

If you have not been following Kerry's accounts on her blog then you'll need to set aside a couple of hours to catch up. If you are interested in Liverpool and wildlife as well then you have to see all the pictures and read the stories.

As part of the Independents Biennial, Kerry Morrison is cycling the streets of liverpool to map Brownfield sites for their potential value for experiencing nature within a city. her journeys, finds, and encounters are posted weekly on
www.liverpoolwastelands.blogspot.com

Her cycling is a performative happening, the blog is the primary exhibition space, The Outhouse in Woolton houses an evolving installation of the traces of her journey the project continues until 18th November.

The first entry on the blog from Monday September 25th starts...

Welcome to “Natural Succession�

This is the first entry of a brand-new blog to track and record the work of artist Kerry Morrison during the Liverpool Independents Biennial.

Within the Independents programme, Kerry will undertake the challenging task of locating and mapping Brownfield sites within selected areas of Liverpool starting with Woolton, the City Centre, and along the Mersey from John Lennon Airport through to Canada Dock.

“A Brownfield site is any land or premises which has previously been used or developed and is not currently fully in use, although it may be partially occupied or utilized. It may also be vacant, derelict, or contaminated� (Journal of Environmental Planning Jan. 2000)

This is a process led art and ecology project initiated by Kerry Morrison and botanist Dr Alicia Prowse. The aim is to flag up the ecological and aesthetic value of urban wastelands and examine the intrinsic value of these neglected, maligned areas to those who visit, pass through, or use them.

www.liverpoolwastelands.blogspot.com

Bridewell Gallery: Exhibition Opening This Friday 18.00

The Bridewell Gallery has recently received funding from The Liverpool Culture Company to launch a series of four exhibitions that will be taking place in our gallery over the next sixth months. The first exhibition “How Things Fly� features the work of two artists: Nichola Pemberton and Sue Goldschmidt.

Nichola Pemberton is a Leeds based artist who works with drawing and performance as integrated processes. Her work represents a physical and emotional engagement with the drawing process and maps the trajectory of the body in motion. For How Things Fly Nichola will show a series of large drawings produced while bouncing on a Trampoline. She will also be running free drawing workshops that aim to give participants an insight into how drawing can be used as a highly experimental and physical process.

Sue Goldschmidt is a London based artist who works with the physicality of ceramic processes to explore the fragility of the human condition. In How Things Fly Sue will exhibit a hanging installation and two floor-based sculptures that trace the presence of human forms.

Private View:
Friday 27th of October at 18.00

Exhibition Open:
28th of October to 25th of November
Wednesday to Sunday 12.00 - 17.00

Drawing Workshops with Nichola Pemberton:
Wednesday 29th November 13.00 -15.00
Saturday 2nd December 14.00 -16.00
To book call 07810627763 or email vc.bartlett@hotmail.com

The Bridewell Gallery
Prescot Street
Liverpool
L7 8UL
0151 263 6730 0781 062 7763
vc.bartlett@hotmail.com

From Lime Street Station walk uphill along London Road. The Bridewell Studios are opposite the main entrance to The Royal Liverpool Hospital.

The Potting Shed goes Psychic (Cabaret): 27th October
Walk the Plank with Bluecoat - Liverpool Live for the Biennial present a cosmic cabaret featuring paranormal activity of a musical, magical, dancical, theatrical, and mystical nature...

8.30pm "For It Was Written" in the Stars Combining stand-up, autobiography, Irn-Bru and shortbread, cosmic comedienne Jo Docherty introduces her latest incarnation, Mercurious Morag. Born from a desire to explore our irrational fixation with astrology and the theatricality of fortune telling, she cuts a colourful course through the essentials of palmistry, tarot cards and ceilidh dancing.

9.30pm: out come the stars of Liverpool's cabaret scene - including The Gang, Transvoyeur, the Dialogue Disco Supreme team featuring the Hive Collective residents, and some old favourites from the Potting Shed.

Tickets: £6
Box Office: The Unity Theatre, Tel: 0151 709 4988

I'm afraid Adam's notices are getting too difficult for me to translate, I'll just post them and let you work it out for yourselves.

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THERE WILL ALSO BE BUTTIES


sunday28october2006
Trolleys World Tea Party presents
an afternoon tea party hosted by the remnants and
crackzombie

manANOTHERVACANTSPACEmuseum
25 Parliament Street
Liverpool L8

entrance 0n Jamaica Street
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Richard Wilkey Riley 07706244043

www.museumman.org

fogless.net is a London-based Japanese website covering the Arts.
If you scroll down the front page you will see a nice picture of me and Mrs J which was taken in St George's Hall. This and other pictures are to accompany art journalist Toyoko Ito's overview of her visit to the Liverpool Biennial.

Its a very nice website, in fact I have yet to find an English-language London based site that offers the same quality of information (and not just because it has links to artinliverpool.com and scousehouse.net)

From The Art Organisation, the curator is Greg Scott-Gurner you see.

'THE GURNER PRIZE'

TAO are offering out for nominations (to win this coveted award), by the Liverpool Public and attendees at this year's Biennial, for the most enjoyed piece of artwork created for, or at, the Liverpool Biennial..

nominations to: curator@theartorganisation.co.uk

Well if the sleeping giant really wanted to be woken up at 12.30 today then she should have set her alarm clock.
Waited till 13.00 and apart from some flags on the wall and a few people waiting there was nothing happening. Rumour was some people were on their way from St Andrews in Rodney Street but we didn't see anyone as we walked past on our way home.
I have little patience for things not starting on time.

Transvoyeur Associate Exhibition: Gene Culture 2006, Review - Re-Launch of the Gene Culture at the Slaughterhouse 73 Gallery.
Co-written by Jean Paul Debuffet, Tony Knox and Lucia Andrea Sweeney.
Photographer: Tony Knox.
Thursday 14 October 2006.

The controversial ‘Gene Culture’ exhibition was re-launched at the Slaughterhouse 73 Gallery (Liverpool, England) on Thursday 12 October 2006. The artists in the exhibition are Jonathan Aldous, Sigal Avni, John Bennett, Ken Byers, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Kim Fielding, June Kingsbury, Carrie Riechardt, Andrew Taylor and Kai-Oi Jay Yung.

The exhibition was first unveiled on 09 August 2006 at the Egg Space Gallery (Liverpool, England). In less than 24 hours it was closed down. The show was curated by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, as Guest Curator, invited by Headspace. Sweeney selected ten international artists from 250 submissions as far as Thailand to London. The standard of submissions was exceptionally high and the final collection profound and compelling on the subject of genetic and scientific intervention.

The management group of the Egg Space contacted Sweeney and accused her of ‘sensationalism’ by the selection of work and stated they would be boycotted by alleged animal rights activists. It was added that the exhibition was too ‘controversial’ for the nature of the venue, although for more than twenty years the Egg Space has asserted to being a gallery. Yet with this exhibition it censored contemporary art. The management group of the building and vegetarian restaurant demanded that all the art work be removed forthwith on 10 August 2006. As a result, several members of the original curatorial group from Headspace resigned.

This re-launch at the Slaughterhouse 73 is in a venue in an upcoming cultural area of area. The gallery itself is part of a larger initiative by Alex Corina who plays an active role, both as artists and curator in arts and culture combined with the current regeneration of areas in the city of Liverpool.

The exhibition was received positively at the opening night with celebrities from the cities cultural community as the renowned actor, Dean Sullivan and many other artists, curators from abroad and the members from the local community.
The artists from the ‘Gene Culture’ were interviewed by a German film company and Carrie Reichardt presented a performance intervention on the front of the gallery space.

The audience explored the diverse exhibits:

- The strange graphite manifestations of Aldous’ creatures inspired by H. G. Wells.
- Byres` architectural expressioxns transcended in states of evolutions from geometry to the organic.
- The image of Chungwongpetti’s visual critique of eugenics in east and west constructs.
- The dehumanisation in the ‘Creature’ by Hydrart (Bennett and Fielding) and imbued from Virilio’s philosophies of the super rationalists and eugenics.
- The fragility of Kingsbury’s road kill, bones cleaned white and encased into glass sculptures to denote by human intervention the space the animal once occupied.
- Reichardts realistic ‘latex’ sculpture of the pig’s heads worn as breast augementation, as commentary of body politics and scientific intervention.
- Taylor’s wall installation of poetry influenced by the philosophies of Burroughs, the deconstruction and reconstruction of cultural explications that audience members are invited to contribute the evolution of the text.
- Yungs inscriptions of mark making and digital editions explored concepts of time and space.

Those in attendance commented ‘provocative exhibition on a topical subject’ and ‘one of the best cultural platforms on genetics’.

The exhibition is open until Saturday 28 October 2006 at the Slaughterhouse 73 Gallery, 73 St Mary’s Road, Garston Village, Liverpool, England. For further information please contact the Curator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, at transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk

Just spotted this on the biennial website...

independent art - projection
City Centre projection created by Liverpool School of Art & Design Art students in collaboration with Shilpa Gupta
10.00pm, 23 October
The artwork will be projected onto the buildings opposite the Renew Rooms, on Wood Street

For more information, please call fusebox on 0151 707 6719

Transvoyeur International Exhibition: Liverpool and New York 2006, Independents Liverpool Biennial 2006,
at View Two Gallery, 23 Matthew Street, Liverpool, England,
Monday 23 October 2006 - Saturday 04 November 2006,
Private View Tuesday 24 October 2006, 18.00 - 20.00

Artists: Liverpool:
Agata Alcaniz, Gianni Bianchini, Brendan Byrne, Jo Derbyshire, Sumer Erek, Dorrie Halliday, Elzabeth Heritage, Tony Knox, George Lund, Charles Nuttall, Catherine Shea, Gary Sollars, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.

New York:
Lara Allen, Michael Ricardo Andreev, Chris Borkowski, Rodney Dickson, Stephan Fowlkes, PJ Cobbs, Aaron Miller, Raphaele Shirley, Lee Wells.

Opening times: Monday - Saturday 12.00 - 17.00
(Note: Please contact in advance with the venue).

Transvoyeur UK
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (UK Projects Co-ordinator)
E-mail: transvoyeuruk@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.transvoyeur.co.uk

View Two Gallery
Ken Martin (Director/Curator)
Email: info@viewtwogallery.co.uk
Website: www.viewtwogallery.co.uk

Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform 2006, “… shared experiences …�, Independents Liverpool Biennial 2006.
Co-written by Jean-Paul Debuffet and Lucia Andrea Sweeney.
Sunday 08 October 2006

Friday 06 October 2006, the second week of the Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform 2006 brought an international and collaborative array of artists to the View Two Gallery and the city of Liverpool.

The artists who performed included Jeimy Marisol Martínez Galavíz (Mexico), Tony Knox (England), Adam Webster (England), Nagachoo (Japan) and Ernesto Sarezale (Spain) and Antonio Sassu (Italy).

These events were curated and managed by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney with the venue support from Ken Martin (Director) and Sam Skinner (Exhibitions Co-ordinator) at the View Two Gallery, 23 Mathew Street, Liverpool, England. Chris Boyd, an upcoming digital media artist, provided technical support to the artists from the Transvoyeur programme on the evening. Boyd is currently exhibiting in the Chaosmos exhibition, part of the Noise Festival, at the View Two Gallery.

The first performance was by the Japanese artist Nagachoo. Sweeney and other Transvoyeur artists met this performance and visual artist through Ian and Mina Jackson (Art in Liverpool Weblog and Goldfish Gallery respectively). It was discovered Nagachoo is one the artists in the Fire and Eurhythmy exhibition at Ikonography Gallery on Mathew Street and curated Nicole Bartos.

Sweeney enthused by the art of Nagachoo invited him to contribute to the upcoming Transvoyeur Performance.
Nagachoo entered the space covered in a black material from head to toe. He moved slowly, his form abstract, with lights from underneath the shrouded material pulsating to the resonance of an accompanying sound piece. He became fused with the projection of Boyd’s work, which augmented the conceptualised representations. Balloons appeared from the black form and evolved to progressively reveal a human arm with a long white glove in an explorative manner. The artist then removed the black cover to reveal himself and the tempo of the performance changed to tap dancing and a rendition of a reed wind instrument.

The next performance was another collaboration. This was an interpretation by Sweeney of the digital short film by Sassu, as he was absent from the live art event. An embodiment of the digital short film by Sassu was presented at the platform in conjunction with a precursor live art event co-ordinated by Sweeney with an audience volunteer. The performance created in response to Sassu’s digital media involved the emulation of the actions captured from a previous performance. Sweeney took a male volunteer from the audience and stood him in front of the blank screen. She manoeuvred him round, pulled his hands behind his back and bound them together. She turned him back to face the audience, placed a black bag over his head, and departed.

The digital short film by Sassu was then projected over this bound and blind male figure. The live performance became merged to the projection of similar actions in Sassu’s film. The corporeality of the man was absorbed to the other similar digitalised figures in time and space. A mutual and shared experience again derived by those contributing to this rendition of Sassu’s digital film.

Knox and Webster presented a collaborative piece of digital media with live art by Knox and an impromptu freeform cello performance by Webster (from Frakture). The digital short film projected over Knox in his performance is set on the demise of Moth Man. Moth Man an alter ego of the Super Hero in the guise of a wrestler. The Moth Man character moves through some woodland, digs a hole and then disrobes to reveal the person underneath. The items of the costume are then buried in this film.

The performance involved Knox in normal attire, but the reverse to the film t