Read Ben Romberg’s review of the FACT exhibition for the BBC Liverpool website.
Monthly Archive for January, 2006
Look out for this brochure in the 08 Place and other such venues. As I’m sure you all know by now 2006 is the Liverpool Performs themed year. A lot of the events listed have been happening anyway such as Mathew St. festival, Dadafest, Africa Oye, Brouhaha etc .etc. In fact, seeing them all listed in one booklet helps appreciate just how much is going on annually in the city.
But there’s more, of course, and there’ll be some things which aren’t listed here I suppose. The City in Transition project sounds interesting and I’m looking forward to the Super Vision multi-media theatre show in April co-commissioned by the Culture Company. More details on the new-look liverpool08.com site
The Awards Evening is announced:
The event will take place on the: 2nd March 2006.
The venue is: Microzine, in Liverpool City Centre.
The start time is: 7pm
The after party is at: The Tea Factory (till late) – great Liverpool Bar
The aim of the evening: to greet, meet and celebrate
If you want to attend we are now compiling a guest list. You will need to be on the list to get in as we expect a really high turn out.
Email Bob at the100shirts@aol.com to register for the guest list and if you have any questions. Every artist who entered can bring 2 guests. We will compile a little map and send it out to all those who are travelling from afar, also we will post details of types of accomdation etc on the blog by the 6th February 06 .
Its going to be a night to remember.
See you there
As usual, the final-year Art Students at Liverpool John Moores University have to organise the funds and promotion of their degree-show in May/June. To help them on their way the Headspace curators have kindly offered the use of the Eggspace for 2 weeks to the group who will exhibit and hopefully sell some of their works under the title of ‘Spotlight’.
The show opens tomorrow evening, thats Wednesday Feb 1st from 19.30 onwards and runs until Sunday Feb 19th 2006. See you at the Egg cafe tomorrow.
BOOKSHOP EVENT…BOOKSHOP EVENT…BOOKSHOP EVENT…BOOKSHOP EVENT…BOOKSHOP EVENT…
On Thursday 16th February the RENEW Rooms will be hosting a talk in connection with the publication of ‘Transculturation : Cities, Spaces & Architectures in Latin America’, edited by Felipe Hernandez, Mark Millington and Iain Borden.
The guest speaker that evening will be Prof Luis Carranza from Roger Williams University in the USA, who will be discussing ‘Uncontaminated Truth : Ancient America in the Modern Imaginary’.
The book will be launched a few days later at the Tate Gallery in the Albert Dock, and there will also be another talk held there on Friday 17th February.
Felipe lectures in Architecture at the University of Liverpool and will also be attending that evening.
To reserve your place, please contact: anna.johnson@member.riba.org
or call 0151 707 4380
Found at flickr. A collection of pictures from Christian Jankowski’s ‘Everything Fell Together’ viewing and after-party at FACT and 3345 Parr St..
So, knowing that I would be in Manchester for 3 days for the the British Art Show, I booked into a hotel with wi-fi access and took my laptop. It turned out that the internet was only available from the lounge which was dark, smokey and noisy. Then the very first time I logged on my glasses broke (why does that always happen when you’re away from home?) so I couldn’t see the screen. Hence no blogging or email for 3 whole days, aghhhh!
Still, it was a great weekend. The British Art Show only happens once every 5 years and this is the 6th one so its been around a while and is highly regarded as a guide to the most significant art being made in Britain. 25 of the 50 artists or groups on show are not actually British-born, this is about art made in Britain or by British artists abroad. It is a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition having just arrived here after a few months in the Baltic gallery in Gateshead.
It is spread across 8 venues which is why a weekend visit was required, the launch was on Friday evening but circumstances dictated that I was up at 6am to visit Blackburn first (more about that in a later post) so I was already a bit worn out. Starting at the Cornerhouse, visitors are invited to swap footwear with some that had been donated by local people. You can wear these alien shoes as you go round the venues and return to reclaim your own shoes later (Adam Chodzko, M-Path). Also here is the wonderfully clever carpet sculptures by Tonico Lemos Auad.
Up to the Northern Qtr at the Chinese Arts Centre is a 9ft tall hand-stitched rag doll slumped on the floor in an art-deco setting. This is one of the series of Alter Ego dolls by Enrico David.
Next was Urbis but it was already nearly closing time so just a brief look around the more architectural pieces here by the likes of Matthew Houlding, Nathan Coley and Toby Paterson.
There was a bit of a cock-up on the organisational front later at Urbis, the after-show party was full to capacity with a big queue of would-be party-people waiting outside. So someone came up with idea of only allowing in people who had RSVP’d. It does mention rsvp in the small-print on the tickets but hardly anybody actually did of course. I get the impression that Urbis is not the most loved place in the local art-scene so this was just more fuel for the fire. Lots of joking about all future visits there will be preceded by several emails informing of the visit and RSVPing ad nauseam. I did manage to get in later on but wasn’t much happening anyway, so back to the hotel and ready for the remaining venues on Saturday.
I have mentioned the ‘Guild of Ghostwriters’ Blog before, it was a bit quiet at the time bit has got really busy with lots of good illustrations from guest artists lately. The blog is run by a guy called Dem in Toxteth.
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