This event at the Cornerstone on Thursday (Aug 17th) evening looks like it should be fun...

'Dying Frog Presents...'
As part of the Culture Company's themed year of “Liverpool Performs”, Dyingfrog Arts Network is curating an exhibition of work by artists who use performance in the creation of their work. The exhibition will be launched with a live performance event, between 6-8pm on 17th August at the Gallery.

The opening event will involve simultaneous performances from Claire Weetman, Lucia Cipriano, and Fanchon Frohlich. There will also be live, improvised music from Frakture. Artwork produced at this event will then be added to the exhibition.

Claire Weetman: Claire investigates ways of showing movement through a visual medium. For this show, she is presenting a series of graphite on tracing paper studies along with drawings produced directly onto glass in the exhibition space.

The paper in the graphite drawings was placed over a TV screen, and marks were made in response to the movement behind the paper resulting in an overlaying of images and lines. The drawings that are made in the exhibition space follow a similar premise, the lines are in response to the movement of people and figures beyond the glass; the subject matter will pass through the artist’s picture plane and the drawing aims to show the movement of those figures.

Lucia Cipriano: Lucia Cipriano plays with gender biases and notions of cultural territory in the interactive piece ‘Wallflower’. Will the wallflower ‘sit out’ or be asked to dance, or will it be found growing wildly on the walls, rocks, and cliffs?

Born in Montreal, Lucia Cipriano is a Portuguese-Canadian Artist living in London, England. Her practice is a socially engaged project that asserts the significance of the specificity of lived embodied experience of everyday realities and contexts. It is often event-based and participatory, including public interventions and live-art processes where questions, identities, and knowledge are disturbed and explored rather than confirmed. She has shown work in Canada, Brazil, Italy, Japan, the U.S, and England.

Fanchon Frohlich: Fanchon started “Collective Phenomena”; an international group of painters working in collaboration on the same surface accompanied by live or taped music. Performances have taken place in Paris, London and Liverpool, and involved artists from the UK, Ireland, America, France, Italy, Taiwan and Georgia.
Fanchon was born in Iowa, USA. She now lives and works in Liverpool.

Frakture: Frakture are a Liverpool-based, free improvised music group. They were established in 1997 to promote concerts and workshops in free improvisation. The make-up of the group varies with each performance. Frakture has brought together musicians from around the world in collaborative performances.

For directions of how to get to the gallery please visit
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For further information please contact the Gallery.
Tel: 0151 291 3997
Email: thecornerstonegallery@hope.ac.uk
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The Cornerstone Gallery
Liverpool Hope University
Hope at Everton
1, Haigh Street
Liverpool, L3 8QB

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