BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1637@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20170721 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171002 DTSTAMP:20181210T181914Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-abacus/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Abacus DESCRIPTION:Abacus\nFriday 21 July – Sunday 01 October\nLaunch 4pm Thursd ay 20 July\n\nFeaturing Simon &\; Tom Bloor\, Polly Brannan\, Rhys Core n\, Frances Disley\, Kevin Hunt\, Anssi Kasitonni\, Yui Kugimiya\, Yusuke Mashiba\, Trine Lise Nedreaas\, Out of the Blue\, Emily Speed\, Mark Simmo nds\, William Wegman\, Huw Wahl\, John Walmsley / Liverpool Free School.\n \nThis summer Bluecoat opens Abacus\, a new exhibition that invites childr en to take over the art centre’s gallery. Artists from the north and bey ond have designed or contributed artworks to inspire visitors of all ages to watch\, play\, draw and make.\n\nCommissions which break the traditiona l rules of a contemporary art space include Simon &\; Tom Bloor’s new installation\, New possibilities in familiar situations (2017). Here the audience is invited to draw on the gallery walls\, transformed into specia lly designed chalk boards. New possibilities…is inspired by the Bloors ’ enduring interest in pioneering teacher and designer Kurt Rowland (192 0-80) author of a series of experimental classroom textbooks on art\, desi gn and visual literacy. Other twentieth century arts education pioneers ci ted by Abacus artists include ‘60s radical community arts collective Act ion Space documented by filmmaker Huw Wahl and the ‘70s free school move ment captured by photographer John Walmsley.\n\nElsewhere in the gallery\, in Emily Speed’s Structures for Play (2017) children can dress up in co stumes and interact with small scale sets including a miniature courtroom\ , a church pulpit and an Eton Fives court. Designed by Speed the sets refl ect her ongoing interest in architecture and the way ceremonial buildings influence our behaviour. Here she has created an installation in which chi ldren reset the rules.\n\nKids Video Art\, a collaboration with Kunsthall Stavanger\, features short films and animations by UK and international ar tists selected to appeal to children. The programme includes Trine Lise Ne dreaas’s shimmering hula hoops\, Rhys Coren’s snapping fingers and Wil liam Wegman’s synchronised dogs.\n\nIn our 300th anniversary year\, Abac us takes Bluecoat’s two histories as charity school and the UK’s earli est arts centre as its starting point. The exhibition celebrates the impor tance of contemporary cultural spaces as alternative creative learning env ironments with the invited artists addressing children as their primary au dience. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2017/01/Bloor-3-web.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR