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:5534@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20200116 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20200123 DTSTAMP:20200107T130653Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-visual-rights/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Visual Rights DESCRIPTION:VISUAL RIGHTS\n16 JANUARY - 22 MARCH 2020\n\n\n\n\nLAUNCH NIGHT : 16 JAN 6-8PM. REGISTER HERE.\n\nHow do we visualise power? What does it look like\, and for whom is it visible? Launching on 16th January 2020\, O pen Eye Gallery’s new exhibition Visual Rights looks at how images can expose uneven distributions of power\, and shape the way we understand a place’s geography.\n\nFrom early attempts at mapping the world\, to mode rn satellite imagery\, territories – and people’s right to inhabit the m – have continually been established and redrawn\, contested or removed . This process often becomes concentrated in areas of conflict and geograp hical contest: in recent history\, this has included Ireland\, Kashmir and Ukraine. Curated by Gary Bratchford\, a photographer and sociologist\, V isual Rights presents work from artists in Israel\, Palestine and the UK to examine this process.\n\nVisual Rights brings together different metho ds of revealing how power subtly operates and affects the fabric of everyd ay life. The perspectives include surveying underground water pipelines th at allow non-native plant life to flourish\, photographing areas that have their electricity supply cut off at night\, and the view from drones — a view that has become synonymous with modern conflict.\n\nTarek Al-Ghouss ein was born in Kuwait. Despite having Palestinian parents\, he is unable to visit the country. His works show fading barriers and lines drawn in th e desert\, many of which feature a green mesh material used to mark out th e land. For Tarek\, these barriers in the desert refer to the ‘Green Lin e’\, a border established in 1967 to mark out the border between Israel and Palestine. Throughout the years\, this border has been contested\, cro ssed and pushed back.\n\nIn Garden State\, UK artist Corinne Silva consi ders how gardening\, like mapping\, is a way of dividing and allocating te rritory. Over three years Silva travelled across Israel/Palestine\, making photographs of public and private gardens in twenty-two Israeli housing s ettlements. The clusters of images in the wall installation plot out the s uburban gardens spreading from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan t hat each contribute to the reshaping and renaming of these contested lands . The viewer is left to imagine what lies beneath and between.\n\nYazan K halili lives and works in and out of Palestine. His work uncovers the powe r dynamics and hidden politics at play within technology\, landscape and institutions. His background in architecture allows him to look at landsc ape in a critical manner\, deconstructing colonial visual discourse around Palestinian landscape. In 2002\, he became stuck in the town of Birzeit for several weeks due to restrictions on his movement from Israeli governm ent curfews. During this time\, the town experienced power cuts\, throwing the area into darkness and highlighting the towns across the border in th e distance that still have power: Khalili captures these dark landscapes u sing long-exposure photography\, naming each image after the camera settin gs used to achieve it.\n\nMiki Kratsman and Shabtai Pinchevsky are photogr aphers working in Israel. Anti – Mapping is an ongoing project with th e aim to continuously create maps as alternatives to the maps presented by the establishment\, and thus avoiding the restrictions of visibility give n by the Israeli government – 2.5 meter per pixel (as opposed to 0.5m wo rldwide). Our goal is to provide the opportunity to see. The maps shows pl aces that disappeared from the official maps like the “Unrecognized Bedo uins Villages”\, the “1948 Palestinian Villages” and other places th at has no presence in online and offline maps. Khan al-Ahmar is one case o ut of many that has been documented in the project.\n\nHagit Keysar’s R estricted Zone: Temple Mount\, co-created with Barak Brinker\, tests tec hnological and civilian restrictions over the aerial space in Jerusalem. A no-fly zone (NFZ) surrounds Temple Mount\, or al-Aqsa\, a site that has b ecome the heart of a religious and political conflict. A technological bar rier (geofence) coded into the flight interface of drones manufactured by the Chinese company DJI\, prevents them from taking off or passing through the area. The material existence of this restricted zone is revealed thro ugh making its invisible boundaries seen — by flying a drone equipped wi th a camera around its perimeter. In doing so\, Keysar and co-creator Bara k Brinker reveal invisible walls\, exposing how political\, theological an d technological power systems overlap and reinforce each other.\n\nAnother project by Hagit Keysar\, A Civic View From Above\, also takes to the s kies to examine power struggles on the ground. Keysar collaboratively uses a technique of ‘Do-It-Yourself aerial photography\,’ originally devel oped by the US-based open source community Public Lab for environmental he alth and justice investigations. Using a camera attached to a kite or ball oon\, she works with local activists and communities to gain a birds’-ey e view of contested spaces. In doing so\, she is able to deploy aerial pho tography as a human rights testimony against discriminatory spatial and po litical practices.\n\nVisual Rights is produced and curated by Gary Bratc hford and Open Eye Gallery. It opens with a free public launch night on Ja nuary 16th\, 6-8PM. The exhibition is open until March 22nd\, from Tuesday -Sunday\, 10-5. Entrance to Open Eye Gallery is free\, and all are welcome \, always. Open Eye Gallery is supported by Arts Council England\, Liverpo ol City Council\, and Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Further support for this exh ibition comes from UCLAN.\n\n \;\n\nImage: Hagit Keysar\, Barak Brinke r\, Animation by Moshe Zilbernagel\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/01/Hagit-Keysar-Barak-Brinker-Animation-by-Moshe-Zilbernagel-3_forw eb-3-1-e1578402393521.jpg LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\ , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40423;-2.994412 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Mann Island\, Liverpool Wat erfront\, Liverpool\, L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Open Eye Gallery:geo:53.40423,-2.994412 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR