Full details on the Biennial website www.biennial.com/?q=news

Visitor Programme Co-ordinator
£12k pro rata, 37.5 hours per week. 8 month contract to start as soon as possible

Internship to support International 06 programme team
From May 2006 for up to 6 months

Voluntary position; expenses up to £90 per week

Internship to support Marketing and Development team
37.5 hours per week. 6 month contract from May/June to November 2006.

Information Assistants to invigilate the International 06 exhibition
From September to end November 06.

Voluntary position; expenses up to £90 per week.

Production / installation technical support
Voluntary project based work (May to November); expenses up to £90 per week.

See liverpool08 webpage for full story.

Liverpool Biennial 2006: International 06
Urban myths and the bittersweet success of regeneration are strong focal points in the International 06 exhibition for Liverpool Biennial 2006.

Inspired - in overview and in detail - by Liverpool's people, history and built environment, the exhibition promises 35 new commissions, half of which will be sited in the public realm, by some of the most exciting artists from across the world - a uniquely crafted 'total experience' of new art in a specific cultural context.

The personality of the exhibition will be as lively, diverse and quick-witted as Liverpool itself. It will be an extraordinary opportunity to see art engaging with global issues through the specifics of its cultural context.

Priscilla Monge's football pitch designed as an obstacle course carries a powerful emotional impact with lighthearted irony, whilst Rigo places cages around monumental imperial lions and Teresa Margolles engages with criminal violence by making pavements of shattered glass.

International 06 responds to the personal readings of Liverpool made by consultant curators Gerardo Mosquera and Manray Hsu. Both see art channelling energy into and within the city. Manray Hsu makes use of metaphors drawn from the Internet and from traditional Chinese medicine, while Gerardo Mosquera's 'reverse colonialism' returns the flow of energy along the city's historic geographic vectors to explore Liverpool here and now.

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In addition to those mentioned above, artists currently in conversation towards a commission include: Matthew Buckingham, Paul Chan, Chen Chieh-jen, Esra Ersan, Carlos Garaicoa, Shilpa Gupta, Kingpins, Hans Peter Kuhn, Lee Ming-Wei, Kelly Mark, Gianni Motti, Mario Navarro, Lisa Oppenheim, Philippe Parreno, Amalia Pica, Jean-Francois Prost, Shimabuku, Hans Schabus, Julianne Swartz, Sissel Tolaas, Tsui Kuang-yu, Adriana Varejao, Humberto Velez, Matej Andraz Vogrincic, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jun Yang.

You need to email Mike Noon if you wish to attend, the limit is 150 artists.
See full details below...

Liverpool Independents catch-up meeting
The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool on March 31st between 2pm and 4pm.
Those wishing to attend need to send an e-mail with the phrase "Liverpool Independents Information" in the title and their name included in the body of the message to mike.noon@artscouncil.org.uk . If they do this they will be automatically registered as an attendee (up to 150 artists can attend) and will be added to an electronic mailing list in order to receive future updates.

The two main agenda items will be

Arts Council Funding for Individual Artists to show work during the Biennial Independents
Support for Artists before, during and after the Biennial Independents.

Further information will be sent out via e-mail, or tabled on the day of the meeting. The agenda will be circulated in advance.

Please pass this information on to any interested colleagues.

Posted on biennial.com on March 6th - Closing Date March 10th. Don't make it easy do they?

6th March 2006
ADMINISTRATION MANAGER (MATERNITY COVER)

£16k - £22k pro rata, 37.5 hours per week. Salary dependent on experience. Contracted from 24 April 06 to end November 06.

Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s international festival of contemporary visual art and a major platform in Liverpool’s offer as European Capital of Culture 2008.

We are looking for a candidate with proven experience to provide and maintain an effective administrative infrastructure for the Chief Executive, Deputy Chief Executive and other Biennial staff.

Further information and application form email: jobs@biennial.com

Applications close: 10 March.