BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7472@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230610T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230917T000000 DTSTAMP:20230626T122723Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-liverpool-biennial-2023 -at-bluecoat/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Liverpool Biennial 2023 at Bluecoat DESCRIPTION:Liverpool Biennial 2023 at Bluecoat\n10 June – 17 September 2 023\n\n\nExhibition is open weekly on Tuesday\, Thursday\, Wednesday\, Fri day\, Saturday &\; Sunday. Check venue opening times for further inform ation.\n\nThe artists at Bluecoat explore the possibilities for joy amidst catastrophe\, using creativity to bring about emancipation from suffering and engaging with aliveness. This playful exhibition invites us to consid er how creative experimentation may provide us with different foundations from which to imagine a better future.\n\nNicholas Galanin’s work ‘k ’idéin yéi jeené (‘you’re doing such a good job’)’ (2021) is presented in Gallery 1. Sampling words from the Lingít language\, which i s spoken by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America\, the work centres the love\, safety and connection experienced a nd shared within these communities. The work criticises and rejects the fa lse historical narratives and generational trauma inflicted by settler-col onialism – the ongoing system of oppression based on genocide that conti nues to displace and eliminate indigenous people and cultures\, confining them to marginal existence. Instead\, it centres and celebrates indigenous families and communities\, reflecting the light of their children against the shadows of punishment for practising their cultures\, ceremonies\, an d languages.\n\nIn Gallery 2\, a survey of Raisa Kabir’s work\, titled ‘Utterances: Our vessels for the stories\, unspoken. Subaqueous violence . Sea. Ocean…’ (2016-present) encompasses woven text\, textiles\, soun d\, video\, and performance to convey and visualise concepts concerning th e cultural politics of cloth\, its associated labour and networks of extra ction. The works explore the material histories of cotton\, silk\, indigo\ , cochineal\, jute and flax. Kabir investigates the production and global trade of these materials\, referencing the maritime boats\, ships and sail s that arrived cargo-laden to Liverpool’s docks. The exhibition is inspi red by Kabir’s research into the journey made by Bengal Lascars – Indi an sailors employed and exploited by the British East India shipping compa ny – many of whom docked and settled in Liverpool.\n\nIn Gallery 3\, Ke nt Chan’s ‘Hot House’ (2020 – ongoing) is an installation and proj ect space which questions the relationship between climates and cultures\, and the influence of heat and humidity on our bodies and minds. For Liver pool Biennial 2023\, Chan engages with artworks and artefacts of tropical provenance from the Global Cultures collections of World Museum\, National Museums Liverpool to produce a new series of videos and installation. For ming part of Chan’s ongoing enquiry into heat and humidity\, climate\, h istory\, art and the tropics as a meteorological region\, the work opens a discussion around why these objects have historically arrived in institut ions far from their home countries\, where climatic conditions are vastly different\, and how they are subsequently perceived. ‘Hot House’ posit s the cool and dry\, climate-controlled museum conditions as a manifestati on of the assumed superiority of one climate and culture over another.\n\n Upstairs\, Benoît Piéron’s work deals with the uncertainty of life\, death and immunity. His practice reappropriates and transfigures the medic al environments and materials that surround him – hospital sheets and go wns\, IV drips and waiting room furniture – to create something new\, jo yful\, and full of life. Piéron’s stuffed animals\, entitled ‘Peluche Psychopompe’ (2022)\, are made using discarded hospital bed sheets. Des pite this visceral display of illness\, the work is a testament to play th rough creative practices and seeks to produce alternative expressions of d isease as a site of potential. At Bluecoat\, Piéron creates a space among st a selection of his existing artworks which invites visitors to explore\ , rest and play.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2023/06/Benoit-Pieron.-Liverpool-Biennial-2023-at-The-Bluecoat.-Courtesy -of-Liverpool-Biennial.-Photography-by-Mark-McNulty-2-1920x1440-1.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:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR