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:10713@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20250607 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20250915 DTSTAMP:20250731T151931Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/jacques-verkade-callan-waldron-h all-new-age-memorial-service/ SUMMARY:The World of Glass: Jacques Verkade & Callan Waldron Hall: New Age Memorial Service™\; DESCRIPTION:An Independents Biennial Exhibition\n\nNew Age Memorial Service ™\;\nJacques Verkade and Callan Waldron-Hall\, 2025\n\nInfinity isn ’t what it used to be. It’s better.\n\nVerkade and Waldron-Hall’s in stallation playfully investigates ideas of digital personae\, legacy\, fea r and consumerism within an imagined product – a purchasable digital aft erlife – pushed by a sinister corporation.\n\nFollowing their 2023 colla borative project\, say when you can feel it\, which investigated ASMR\, d igital intimacy and hyper-proximity\, New Age Memorial Service™\;  combines writing – through obituary\, elegy\, marketing and contractual agreement – with 3D-animated surreal films to explore a speculative worl d in which we can purchase ‘digital echoes’ – avatars that preserve our physical traits\, personalities\, hopes and dreams. Fragmented animati ons reflect hybridised lives\, overlapping between real and digital worlds and peering into two customers’ aspirations and worries to present impr ecise yet authentic portraits of who they were\, both on and offline\, pro mpting us to think: would I pay for this?\n\nThe animations have an inter net-core\, nostalgic aesthetic\, seeming both friendly and familiar\, but also uncanny and uncomfortable\, suggesting that perhaps we might look bac k too fondly on old memories\, and questioning what form that might take w ere those old memories to stick around – forever.\n\nThe installation is framed by inevitable corporate speak\, from overly-targeted marketing\, t o incessantly long and verbose terms and conditions. Language flits betwee n friendly\, austere and sardonic\; it’s unclear if the corporation’s offer is truly something we should want\, or if our afterlives might becom e another marketable product.\n\nNew Age Memorial Service™\; invite s us to question if\, and how\, we want to be remembered. It challenges th e value of legacy\, and asks us to consider our approach to purchasing and consuming.\n\nWe can’t wait to spend eternity with you.\n\n \;\n\nA bout The World of Glass:\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are many galleries to view on your trip to The World of Glass. The Godfrey Pilkington Gallery in the centre of the building houses our temporary exhibition programme. See the What’s on  page for more information.  The Glass Gallery in th e museum houses our resident glass collection. Pieces from the Origins of Glass to Contemporary glass will amaze you. The Now Gallery showcases fact s about glass\, and also developments in St Helens happening now. The Past gallery will take you on a tour through Victorian St Helens witnessing th e lives of those who lived there.\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2025/07/jacques-verkade-callan-waldron-hall-new-age-memorial-service-1.w ebp CATEGORIES:Exhibitions LOCATION:The World of Glass\, Chalon Way East\, St Helens\, WA10 1BX\, St H elens\, United Kingdom GEO:53.450488;-2.73493 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Chalon Way East\, St Helens \, WA10 1BX\, St Helens\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Wo rld of Glass:geo:53.450488,-2.73493 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR