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The Art Fund is bringing Queen and Country to St George’s Hall, where it will be on display from 5 September until 31 October 2008.
Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum , Queen and Country was created by official war artist Steve McQueen in collaboration with 137 families whose loved ones have lost their lives in Iraq .
The work commemorates British servicemen and women who have lost their lives in the conflict and consists of a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a member of the armed forces killed in Iraq . Corporal Ben Nowak, a Royal Marine from Speke in Liverpool , is one of the soldiers featured in the work. He died aged 27 in a bomb attack near Basra , Southern Iraq .
Until the stamps are officially issued by Royal Mail the artist considers Queen and Country to be incomplete. The Art Fund is spearheading the campaign to gain public support for the project and visitors to St George’s Hall will be invited to sign The Art Fund’s online petition asking Royal Mail to publish the stamps. Mr Michael McEvett, Corporal Nowak’s uncle, is one of the 13,000 people who have so far signed the petition in support of the campaign.
Steve McQueen was born in London in 1969. He won the Turner Prize in 1999 and was awarded an OBE in 2002. His first feature film Hunger won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year and he has been selected to represent Britain at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Queen and Country by Steve McQueen
5 Sept - 31 Oct
St Georges Hall
Opening times tbc
Image: Corporal Ben Nowak, Royal Marines, died 12 November 2006 aged 27
www.biennial.com
Between Sunday June 8th and Thursday June 12th 2008, the Kitchen Monument will take root in various locations across Bootle and South Sefton. The week long series of discussion events in the Bootle and South Sefton areas of Merseyside is in collaboration with German architect practice raumlaborberlin.
raumlaborberlin created the Kitchen Monument structure as a high profile and unique venue for local people to come together and discuss issues around the changing environment and regeneration. The programme which will unfold in Bootle and South Sefton will look at the impact specific buildings and local resources, such as the Leeds – Liverpool canal, should have on the re-imagining of an area.
We would very much welcome your attendance at one of the events as part of the week long discussions. Click here to download a pdf programme.
The Art for Places project is a three year demonstration project developed from a unique partnership between NewHeartlands, Liverpool Biennial, three leading RSL’s in Merseyside (Vicinity, Plus and Riverside), Arts Council England North West, and Liverpool, Sefton & Wirral City Councils. The project will explore how best to integrate art into regeneration areas as part of the Housing Market Renewal (HMR) programme.
This will be done through the commissioning of artworks for the public realm as part of the HMR regeneration process in each of the three local authority areas across Merseyside. The aim is to complement good urban design through a focus on the social investment in public open space and to aid the design of neighbourhood schemes which go beyond the purely functional and create places that reflect the aspirations, identity and life of a particular place or community.
www.biennial.com
from biennial.com...
New website launching in May!
18/04/08
Mid May will see the launch of a fantastic new online home for Liverpool Biennial. With a host of interactive features and extensive content covering all our activity, the new site will be the place to discover, and share in, the run up to the 5th Liverpool Biennial festival, which opens on 20 September 2008.
There are also lots of other exciting ways to engage with Liverpool Biennial online – you can join our Facebook group, check out our profile on ArtReview and see regularly updated photos on our Flickr photostream – and look out for Biennial podcasts launching soon.
Taking the theme of MADE UP, the International 08 exhibition will once again see 30-40 international artists producing new commissions for the show. Click here to see the list of confirmed artists.
Taken from the 24hour museum website but I've added links for all the artists (hope I got the right ones, it took ages!)
The Liverpool Biennial 2008 will be an exploration of the power of the artistic imagination, promise the organisers, with the theme of ‘making things up’ at its heart.
The fifth international art biennial in the city is going under the title MADE UP, celebrating all manner of invention – utopias and dystopias, narrative fiction and fantasy, myth and lies, prophesies and spectacle. The festival will be about imagination as the dynamo behind art, and its capacity to transport us, suspend disbelief and produce alternative realities.
The emphasis will continue to be on commissioning new work, and a great roster of artists is already in conversation with the Biennial producers about ideas for this year’s festival, running from September 20 to November 30 2008.
Among them are…
Ai Weiwei (China), Atelier Bow Wow (Japan), Guy Ben-Ner (Israel), Manfredi Beninati (Italy), David Blandy (UK), U-Ram Choe (Korea), Adam Cvijanovic (USA), Nancy Davenport (Canada), Diller Scofidio + Renfro (USA), Leandro Erlich (Argentina), Rodney Graham (Canada), Tue Greenfort (Denmark), Hubbard & Birchler (Ireland/Switzerland), Jesper Just (Denmark), Otto Karvonen (Finland), Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Ulf Langheinrich (Germany), Gabriel Lester (Netherlands), Annette Messager (France), Tracey Moffatt (Australia), Khalil Rabah (Palestine), Royal Art Lodge (Canada), Sarah Sze (USA), Tomas Saraceno (Argentina), Richard Woods (UK).
The festival will run over multiple sites as usual, including The Walker (National Museums Liverpool), Open Eye Gallery, Bluecoat Centre, FACT (the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and A Foundation at Greenland Street.
Art on show at FACT will focus on the power of the mind to make up meaning when faced with complete abstraction and sensory deprivation, while The Bluecoat Centre will look at imagined futures, both individual and collective. Tate Liverpool and Open Eye Gallery will consider the ambiguous territory between the real and the unreal.
More than half of the 30-40 commissions will be situated in the public realm, keeping it a defining feature of the Biennial. A series of major new public art projects commissioned by Liverpool Biennial in partnership with the Culture Company as part of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture Programme will be on show in the city and its neighbourhoods at the same time as MADE UP.
The curatorial team for MADE UP is Lewis Biggs and Sorcha Carey (Liverpool Biennial), Bryan Biggs and Sara-Jayne Parsons (Bluecoat), Mike Stubbs and Karen Allen (FACT), Patrick Henry (Open Eye) and Laurence Sillars (Tate Liverpool).
www.biennial.com
Music, Cains Beer and lots of other stuff at the Final View of the Packolocker exhibition in 52 Roscoe Street tonight, Friday November 24 2006 from 18.00 to 21.00.
Also, don't forget the Living Market tomorrow will include creative recycling workshops for all ages.
Noon - 18.00
For more info call Beccy Williams on: 0151 727 0487
Or email info@sackitoff.net
 Tonight there will be a rare screening of Hollis Frampton's film Nostalgia (1971) USA, 31 mins, 16mm at Arena Gallery, 82/84 Duke St, L1
as part of the programme of events for the Bracket This III exhibition.
Frampton's film marks a point of transition in his career as an artist as he moves from photography to film and expresses the difference between the two media. Photographic images are placed on to an electric hotplate, as they burn into nothingness a narrator reminisces about the subjects they record. Still images (memories) appear and then are destroyed in fire, as the 16mm projector whirs at 24 frames per second, impossibly fast to recognise any single frames.
Also - Lawrence Jordon's beautifully surreal animation inspired by Joseph Cornell's 'Boxes' - Our Lady of the Sphere, USA, 1969, 10 mins, 16mm, - 'The mystical Lady with the orbital head moves through the carnival of life in a Surreal Adventure'. (www.lux.org.uk)
The screening will start at 21.00
Before the programme there will be a screening of a new film by Dave Bamford.
 Goshka Macuga - Sleep of Ulro
Discussion
Thursday 23rd November - 18.30
Speakers
Chris Bernard - Spiritualism in Liverpool
Leander Wolstenholme - Manchester Museum Curator of Botany
Sally O'Reilly critic and curator
Goshka Macuga - artist
Admission is free.
Greenland Street is open Wednesday–Sunday, 12.00 - 18.00
late night Thursday until 20.00
Admission is free
67 Greenland Street
Liverpool L1 0BY
Tel: +44 (0)151 706 0600
Thursday 23 November will be the last Supersocial for the season, presenting a performance by turntablist Phil Jeck along with
dancers Andrea Buckley and Paula Hampson. Followed by Iaspis director Maria Lind in conversation with artist Olivia Plender.
This event is kindly hosted by the Art Organisation at 52 Roscoe Street, starting at 18.00. Dinner served at 102 Seel Street around 20.00
Welcome!
Cecilia Andersson
www.ruc.com/werk/current/current.htm
From Nathan Jones at Mercy / BracketTHIS
Okay, our residency at Arena is rolling to an end, just one last historic and life changing experience to come.
)BracketTHIS( 3: THE LONG GOOD BIENNIAL
Friday 24th November, 20.00 till midnight.
Arena Gallery, Duke St, Liverpool
(Off the end of Slater St, by the Monroe pub)
FREE
Cheap drinks, charming, lovely.
featuring:
Kinetic Fallacy
www.myspace.com/kineticfallacy
Wave Machine
New project from the people who brought you Sizer Barker. ("Strange and wonderful," NME, "A wonderful, idiosyncratic thing," The Guardian.)
The Roseville Band
New project from the people who brought you Crosbi. (“Here's to the new breed� Record Collector, “Soaring, rich, dynamic, four-to-the-floor� Gigwise)
www.myspace.com/therosevilleband
Barbieshop
New project from diva-doyennes who brought you 1up, DNA orchestra, Strange Brood. A cappella classics.
Plus special guest. (“No, not telling you.� Financial Times.)
email info@showmercy.co.uk
 The 2006 Red Wire Open is this Friday, November 24 2006 at 19.00
This is the final show at Red Wire Gallery this year, and the first annual Open Submission.
Exhibitors are
Bob Milner
Adrian Pritchard
Jayne Lawless (featured on poster)
Oliver Braid
Pui Lee
Rhian Russell
Janie Nicoll
Eleana Louka
Michael Branthwaite
Promises to be a great show with submissions nationwide.
Address is
Red Wire Gallery
Carlisle Building
67-69 Victoria St
www.redwireredwire.com
 'Wireless' at 11 Wolstenholme Square
18 - 26 November 2006
Open Sat/Sun 18-19 Nov 12-18.00
Wed 22 - Sun 26 Nov 12-18.00
Closing Party Sat Nov 25 18.30 with Live music
The culmination of a project giving artists based in and around Liverpool and Manchester the opportunity to meet and work together for one week. All applicants were guaranteed entry into the project and the 23 participants have worked together in an effort to create an exhibition which makes the best use of a 19th Century building which, though very dilapidated, contains multiple layers of history.
The building at 11 Wolstenholme Square in Liverpool has been the venue for 2 other exhibitions over the course of the Biennial. This event has allowed participants the opportunity to spend a greater period of time working in the building thereby giving them the opportunity to respond more directly to it.
VIRTUALLY GRIZEDALE AT GREENLAND STREET
Saturday 25 November, 17.00
The Work of Art in the Age of Agricultural Post-Production
An evening soiree
An illustrated talk by Grizedale Arts' Deputy Director, Alistair Hudson, with food preparation by Grizedale Director, Adam Sutherland and
FREE BEER!
The talk will detail Grizedale Arts' programme, the diversification of the arts institution and its projects at Lawson Park farm in the English Lake District, the villages of Toge in Japan and Nanling, China.
PLUS – come and talk about your work! 6 x 5 minute slots available for artists and art students in Merseyside to talk and show slides or images.
As a side dish there will be a little something from Mr Bedwyr Williams and a conceptual digestif by Bryan Davies and Dan Robinson (Thinking Space for The North, Leeds).
ADMISSION FREE!!!
For further information please contact hilaryt@afoundation.org.uk
0151 7094180 / 0151 7060600
The Projection Gallery Hosts:
Give Them Enough Rope
A showcase of ambitious works at the Projection Gallery, 2 Roscoe St.
17th-26th November 2006
Private View Thursday 16th November 19.00 - 21.00
On Thursday 16 November, Supersocialites meet at the Monro pub, 92 Duke Street at 18.00.
Hosts are artists Marjolijn Dijkman and Inga Zemprich, with special appearance by Christian Sievers.
Welcome!
Cecilia Andersson
www.ruc.com/werk/current/current.htm
www.marjolijndijkman.com
www.faculty.cc
www.christiansievers.info
 'Static' by Steven Gent at 34A Slater Street
15th November - 26th November
Private view; Weds 15th November 2006 18.00 - 21.00
Open; 16th-26th November 2006 12.00 - 18.00
Steve Gent brings us a long awaited showing of his unique work with static electricity.
His paintings, using bitumen onto fine stretched plastic, are a paradox. The artist is still and the piece draws itself. The industrial medium is newly seen, beautiful on the clinical surfaces, which themselves are engineered to encourage a new and active viewpoint.
These works liquefy the boundary between artist and subject, a melding of science and art. This is nature.
The private view will include a projection of the process and will offer drinks and light refreshments.
Sounds like an interesting project...
150 artists have contributed to GIFT, a new project by Daniel Simpkins and Penny Whitehead. Each artist has contributed an object that they bought or found with the intention of using in an artwork, a source of inspiration or a starting point for a work that was never made. Recently exhibited in Objects in Waiting, this abundant and diverse collection of unused objects and unrealised ideas will be given as gifts to visitors at a two-day event at Museum MAN, Liverpool, 17-18 November 2006.
When gifts are given, as when goods or money exchanged, the giver places the recipient (albeit inadvertently) in his/her debt, with the initial act of giving setting in motion a series of exchanges not dissimilar to that of an exchange of goods or capital, yet the terms are less easily defined. The recipient is bound by an implicit duty to reciprocate, just as we are all aware of the social pressure to send greetings cards to those who send them to us. This process of exchange will be revealed by the encounters activated by GIFT.
Visitors will be invited to request an object that they would like to keep as a gift; if accepted, they will enter into a verbal contract that will make explicit their duty to reciprocate the act of giving, and their responsibility for the fate of the object/idea. In return for taking home the object, the visitor will be required to document their use of it, and this documentation will be given, as a gift, to the original contributing artist. The documentation will also be published in a bookwork, as a record of the collaboration and exchange between artist and visitor, mediated by the event and the object.
GIFT by Daniel Simpkins and Penny Whitehead, will take place
Fri 17 Nov 19.00 - 22.00 &
Sat 18 Nov 11.00 - 19.00 2006
at Museum MAN, 25 Parliament Street, Liverpool,
Adjacent to A Foundation Greenland Street Building.
Entry is free
As well as all the great art at Arena the following music,poetry, film events have been organised...
Saturday 11th Nov 2006 20.00
HIVE Microfestival afterparty
Friday 17th Nov 2006 19.00
Fiction presents:
Aisle 16 Service Station Tour
PLUS:
International folk music from:Rakesh Joshi, Nick Blandford, Andy Hickie and Dave Owen
PLUS: Brand New Quality Poetics from: Dave Bamford and Nickolas Holloway
Wednesday 22nd Nov 2006 20.00
Artists film and video featuring: NOSTALGIA, a screening of a new print of the Hollis Frampton film
Curated by James Harding
Featuring screening of film by Dave Bamford
Friday 24th Nov 2006
Live music, first closing party of Biennial closing weekend
Wave Machine
The Roseville Band
Barbieshop Quartet
Plus special guests tba
Stephen Snoddy, director at New Art Gallery Walsall together with Simon Groom, senior curator Tate Liverpool will host the next Supersocial evening
on Thursday 9 November.
The event takes place
at the Art Organisation,
102 Seel Street (former Ryan-Woods Antiques) and
starts at 18.00
Dinner served at 20.00
All welcome!
 'Journey with Restraints'
an antithesis of human ascent,
(a project born of moral philosophy, folklore and Greek mythology).
Birgit R Deubner will walk with a large set of lead wings.
The planned route will be from behind the Fact Centre (the back, where the Cafe is..) to St Luke's Church, where she will try and climb the steps.
The event will be filmed.
What day?: Saturday 11th Nov.
What time will it begin? : 13.30h
How long will it take? : maybe 20-35 minutes.
If it rains?: Same schedule.
Thank You to Peter Hagerty for filming the first walk,
and an advance Thank You to Sean Halligan for filming the second event, and Diana for being indispensable.
(And MFV for saving me four times over!!!)
Birgit R Deubner
Running since the start of the Biennial but receives an Official Opening from the local MP Maria Eagle on Friday morning.
Paradise in Parklands
Maria Eagle MP will officially open the exhibition this Friday morning at 10:30am 10 November 2006
Parklands Community Library, Conleach Road, Speke, Liverpool L24 OTY
Telephone 0151 233 2265
Large colour photographs of Chavasse Park in central Liverpool made during the archaeology 'dig' and the subsequent excavation and construction works of the same site for the Paradise development. Three 0.85m x 1.3m images inside the library and a further three 1.8m x 2.2m colour photographs viewed from the footpath outside.
John Davies will be present until 12:30pm. Exhibition finishes on 30 November 2006.
For more details about John Davies & his work see http://www.johndavies.uk.com
A number of the films that we will be screening as part of the Africa at the Pictures festival will be introduced by the filmmaker and followed by a Q&A session, an ideal opportunity to pick the brains of some of Africa's leading film makers!
These screenings are as follows:
Khalo Metabane will be introducing Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon at 21.00 on 10 November, followed by a Q&A session.
Ben Diogaye Beye will be introducing Un Amour d'Enfant at 14.00 on 11 November, followed by a Q&A session.
Tunde Kelani will be here to introduce The Narrow Path at 14.00 on 12 November, followed by a Q&A session.
Newton Aduaka will be here to introduce Rage at 21.00 on 13 November, followed by a Q&A session. (TBC)
Lovinsa Kavuma will be to introduce Rape for who I Am on 14 November as part of the Shorts Programme which starts at 18.30.
Taghred Elsanhouri will be here to introduce All about Dafur at 21.00 on 14 November.
Admission is free. For screenings on 11 November and 12 November will be issuing tickets. Tickets will be available from reception or upon request.
Screenings at Greenland Street on 10, 13, 14, 15 November will not require tickets and seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
The film schedule is available at www.africaatthepictures.co.uk
Near Distance Artists Talk 12.00 - 13.30 Saturday 4th November at Arena, Duke St.
You are cordially invited to a discussion about the exhibition Near Distance at Arena
Francesca George will lead the discussion which aims to give an insight into the development of the project between members of RSP1, a group of Liverpool based artists, and Maze Studios, a Brighton based collective.
The work will be discussed in the context of the group dynamic and the challenges of producing a cohesive show from the varied practice evident within both groups. Maze Studios have worked as a group on various projects since 1989. RSP1 are a newly formed group who's interest in dialogue and the support of each others' practice forms its backbone. The experience of both groups working in different geographical locations and with different perspectives and experiences has made Near Distance a successful and dynamic group show.
Please come along, view the exhibition and meet some of the artists involved in the project. Don't miss a great opportunity to ask the artists about their experience of participating in Independents Biennial Liverpool 2006.
 Its all happening at Arena tonight. Well, there's also happenings at Blackburne House and 3345 Parr St but anyway.
Mercy are proud to present the third instalment of the ]BracketTHIS[ project.
For this exhibition, we have specially commissioned ten artists and invited five more to include recent work. While all of the artists are currently based in the North West of England, they are from diverse cultural backgrounds and have employed a range of different practices
to reflect on their pluralised and mobile social context.
Following the format of previous ]BracketTHIS[ shows, during the course of the exhibition four special events will take place within the gallery, attempting to bring the whole idea to life. For ]BracketTHIS[ 3, we are pleased to welcome the return of HIVE and Fiction, who will be presenting live electronica and brand new poetics on November 11 and 17 respectively. We are also pleased to host a special screening of artist’s film and video, curated by James Harding, on November 22. The exhibition will draw to a close by staging the first party of the Biennial’s closing weekend – a ‘cultural extravaganza’ of music and performance
CURATORS:
Tomas Harold and Nathan Jones (Mercy)
VENUE:
Arena Gallery (1st Floor)
82/84 Duke Street, Liverpool L1 5AA
DATES:
02-26 November 2006
Opening times:
Wednesday-Sunday 10.00 - 17.00*
*Plus late night events opening
from 18.00:
Thursday 2: Private View, 18.00 - 22.00
Saturday 11: HIVE, 19.00 23.00
Friday 17: Fiction, 19.00 - 23.00
Wednesday 22: Special Film
Screening, 19.00 - 22.00
Friday 24: Live music party, 20.00 - Late
http://showmercy.co.uk/bracketthis/
TONIGHT, Arena, 18.00 - 20.00
Tonight is your only chance to see the painted vehicles form Art Car Project at the same place at the same time! Don't miss it!
"I placed advertisements underneath car windscreen wipers, offering an “original painting, with the design of your dreams�, and started exchanging ideas by e-mail with Liverpool residents. So many exciting designs were created, and three of them were brought to life, thanks to a series of discussions with Virginia, Lisa and Hilary. When they wear their vehicle to go from one place to the other, they now share their dreams, desires, or individual fantasies with random spectators..."
Laurence Payot
Arena Biennial, 82-84, Duke Street, L15AA
Thursday 2nd of November, 18.00 - 20.00
Art Car Project has been commissioned by ]BracketTHIS[III, 1st floor, Arena
www.laurencepayot.com
E-Space Lab: Liverpool/Shanghai Live Video Link - Sat 4th Nov
As part of e-space lab's contribution to the Liverpool Exhibition "Walk On" at the 6th Shanghai Biennale the A Foundation is hosting an event during the closing days of the show.
Jonathan Kearney and Xu Zhifeng based in Shanghai will use a streaming video link to guide us in real time around the exhibition and to show the immediate urban locale in Shanghai.
This event is also the beginning of a research exchange process between architecture students based at JMU in Liverpool, and architecture students studying in Shanghai.
The live link runs from 12.00 - 13.30 on Saturday November 4th 2006
First Floor (follow signs to Roof Installation)
A Foundation Building
Greenland Street
Liverpool
 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.
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
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
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
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
Reminders for Tonight - Friday Oct 27 2006...
Performance - View Two. Another Transvoyeur performance 17.30 - 19.00
Peter Adams, Jeimy Marisol MartÃnez GalavÃz, 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
 {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
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
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
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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
Time to get your diaries out again.
There's about 40 short art events all in the space of three and a bit days next week. The FrenchMottershead event sounds like fun and Mat Fraser/Max Zadow's Architectural coach tours 'Everything You Wanted To Know about Access in The City, But Were Afraid To Ask' promises to be ironic.
Liverpool Live 06
A Festival of Urban Apparition
The Live Art Programme for Liverpool Biennial 2006
Thursday 26 – Sunday 29 October 2006
Liverpool City Centre
http://www.bluecoatartscentre.com/liverpoollive/
With Bluecoat closed for a major development, its live art programme, Liverpool Live 06, is being presented in the city centre’s public spaces and at other venues. The main theme running through the programme is the changing urban environment, specifically the context of Liverpool’s current transition through regeneration projects. Liverpool Live will trace, re-examine, interrupt and ultimately re-energise the routes, buildings and landmarks of the changing city.
The city’s streets, public spaces, shops and other buildings become sites for performances, talks, walks, guided tours and actions, many of them created by international and UK artists specifically for Liverpool Live 06. Look again at local shops, double-take at passers-by, peer under the floorboards of a local landmark. All may not be as it seems. Then rest your weary feet in a recreation of a good old fashioned social club environment with a variety of entertainment.
Artists include Action Hero, the fictional dogshelf theatre company, Mat Fraser/Max Zadow, FrenchMottershead, Sean Hawkridge, Kazuko Hohki, LIGNA, Lone Twin, plan b, the vacuum cleaner, Joshua Sofaer and Marcus Young.
Liverpool Live 06 is a Bluecoat Arts Centre project, co-produced by hÃ…b.
For a Liverpool Live 06 brochure contact:
Catherine O’Reilly
Marketing Officer
Bluecoat Arts Centre
School Lane
Liverpool
L1 3BX
T: 0151 709 5297
E: catherineoreilly@bluecoatartscentre.com
 
You may have seen several of these 'receptor dishes' around Liverpool recently. Please don't disturb them, they have all been carefully aligned to maximise energy input to help wake up the Sleeping Giant.
Honest.
And I can exclusively reveal that the grand Waking event will take place this Sunday October 22 2006 at 12.30 on the grassy area between Russell Street and Ainsworth Street, this map gives a rough idea of where it is.
There are twelve ancient Giants sleeping throughout the world. One of them is in Liverpool and its dreaming as it sleeps. Its dreaming a dream of waking up and everyone at the Biennial is part of the Giant's dreaming.
The location is all to do with chakras or some such. Anyway, the Giant really needs your help, it needs food, love and sincere communication.
So come along on Sunday, meanwhile take a look at the We Are Waking The Sleeping Giant website, I'm sure they will be glad of any help you can offer. Phone 0151 709 9814 (The Art Organisation)
City Breaks Conference at Static Thursday Oct 19 to Sun Oct 22
£25 (£15 concessions) which includes lunch at Shere Khan on Fri and Mei Mei on Sat so that sounds good value to me.
City Breaks?
Art and Culture in Times of Expediency
Is it possible to square demands of city marketing and cultural tourism with an urgent engagement with issues of citizenship, communities, dissensus and denizens? How can we constitute a bifocal perspective allowing us to examine the visual regime of capitalist consumption and the immanent meaning of art and social practices at the same time? Does the desire of the visual relegate dialogical practices in and with (temporal) collectivities outside the conditions posed by the exhibition format? How do large popular exhibitions such as Biennials negotiate the difference between art as performance and art as competence?
Full Programme (word doc)
I:Object : Starting week commencing 23rd
Dates for I: Object
Have you ever thought about making music with the sounds around you?
Well now is your chance! A workshops series with , sounds, objects & you!
Web Link:
http://www.frakture.org/workshops/iObject.htm
Sunday 22nd October, 13.00 - 17.00
St. Bride's Church, Catherine St.
L8 7NG(by Myrtle Parade)
Tuesday 24th October, 20.00 - 22.00
St. Bride's Church
Wednesday 25th October, 20.00 - 22.00
Subject to venue availability (we will let you know before the first workshop if this date's going ahead)
Friday 27th October, 20.00 -
Performance at St. Bride's Church
It all kicks off this Sunday and culminates in a performance at SoundNetwork's event at St Bride's the following Friday. It promises to be an exciting week!
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SoundNetwork Concerts
Friday 20th October 19.30 - 21.30 FREE
St Brides Church, Catharine St, Liverpool, L8 7NG
The Tree Fellers
Matt Wand - electronics, Mick Beck - reeds, Paul Hession - percussion -
expect lively improvisation and plenty of noise
Vessels
Phil Morton (Frakture) - accidents & treatments, Ray Dickaty (formally of Spiritualised) - saxophones - a distinct performance from two of the north west's leading improvisers, exploring objects, instruments, bodies and space
Saturday 28th October 19.00 - 21.00 FREE
The Great Hall, Hope University, Everton Campus
The Sealed Knot
Burkhard Beins - percussion, NO Rhodri Davies - harp, Mark Wastell - cello/double bass, - world renowned acoustic trio
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Visit our listing page for details of Solar Fire/ Jeffery Morgan : Philip Jeck; and an excellent line-up @ Huddersfield. At
http://www.frakture.org/gigs.htm
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Sonic Gaze: Sat 21st October 2006: Booking is essential:
Phil Morton's Soundwalk for the Biennial,
A unique opportunity to visit the exhibition through a sound walk, focusing on being there rather than talking about it. A specialist tour led by Phil Morton.
Tour starts at 14.00 at fusebox, Parr Street
Spaces are limited. For more information or to book a place, please contact Roz on 0151 707 6719
Web Link
http://www.biennial.com/content//Programme/EventsDiary/article_39_188.aspx
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