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:1355@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20161118 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20161128 DTSTAMP:20161019T141553Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/road-studios-homeless-human-cost -austerity/ SUMMARY:Road Studios: Road Studios: Homeless: the human cost of austerity DESCRIPTION:Homeless: the human cost of austerity\n\nOpening Friday 18th No v 6pm-late\nOpen Saturday 19th – Sunday 27th Nov\nWeekdays by appointmen t. To book call/text 07940994808\nFree admission. Donations welcomed\n\nTh is November\, ROAD Studios will host an art exhibition curated by resident artist and Senior Researcher (LJMU)\, Amanda Marie Atkinson. Entitled ‘ Homeless: the human cost of austerity’ it aims to draw attention to the issue of homelessness in Liverpool\, and beyond\, in the context of auster ity as an ideologically choice\, with human consequences.\n\nThe show is t imely in light of recent figures showing that all forms of homelessness in the UK have risen\, including rough sleeping\, the most visible form of h omelessness. It is vital that these figures are understood in the context of the Tory austerity programme. Reform/cuts to housing benefit and the sq ueezing of local authority budgets\, the shortage of housing and the expan sion of the private landlord sector with unaffordable rent prices\, fundin g cuts to homelessness\, mental health and substance use services\, and a reduction in the number of hostel/shelter places\, have all played major c ontributing roles to these rising figures. Such figures are just the tip o f the ice-burg\, and have been predicted to rise in light of further auste rity measures.\n\nHomelessness is the human cost of austerity yet research shows that a large proportion of the British public hold misconceptions o n the issue of homelessness\, with many believing that people who are home less and living on the streets are there by choice. This could not be furt her from the truth. Homelessness is the result of a range of structural ba rriers and life events which occur outside the control of the individuals. It is an outright form of social exclusion and inequality\, making those who are affected invisible\, ignored and often forgotten.\n\nCompared to t he national average\, Liverpool has high levels of homelessness. Whilst pr ivate developers and landlords move in\, buildings stand empty and the bud gets of local authority services continue to be squeezed\, many continue t o live in harsh conditions on the streets and in the cities hostels/shelte rs. The show recognises the great work done by various local voluntary org anisations that exist to help meet the most basic needs of those affected by homelessness in the city. Such support is much needed in the context of a recent Government report which highlighted a lack of adequate local aut hority support for the homeless nationwide.\n\n10 artists/contributors fro m a number of disciplines (photography\, research\, illustration\, install ation\, sculpture\, poetry and performance) will display art works address ing different dimensions of homelessness\, yet together highlight homeless ness as a political issue.\n\nThis is a Free Admissions event\, with all d onations going to the RealLove street team\, Care for the Paw and The Home less Period\, local voluntary organisations who provide support and provis ions to people who are homeless in Liverpool. The gallery will also be use d as a base for street team work during this period\, providing an opportu nity for people who are homeless to view the work\, get a hot meal and pro visions to help them during the harsh winter months.\n\nIf you would like to donate\, it would be very much appreciated. The smallest of donations r eally do make a difference. Please visit www.gofundme.com/homelessness-eve nt\n\nContributors\n\nBekki Perriman is a London based artist. She has be en working on The Doorways Project for the last few years. Inspired by her own experiences of homelessness\, the site specific sound installation of fers the chance to listen to homeless people tell their story about everyd ay life on the streets. The project is accompanied by photographs of doorw ays where the artist once slept and personal memories of things that happe ned in those spaces.\n\nMark McGowan is a London based artist. He will pre sent a video performance as The Artist Taxi Driver\, providing political c ommentary on the issue of homelessness in the context of the Conservative Government’s austerity programme.\n\nTony Mallon is a photographic artis t based in Liverpool. He has twenty years’ experience of working on awar d winning\, temporary/permanent public realm art commissions. Tony will pr esent an Arts Council England and The National Lottery funded project ‘H omeless’. The piece moves beyond the human presence to explore\, examine and document through photography and text\, the spaces and experience of living in homeless hostels in Merseyside during 2014-15. The piece was ori ginally exhibited as part of LOOK/15\, Liverpool's international photograp hy festival in 2015.\n\nAmanda Marie Atkinson in a Senior Researcher at Li verpool John Moores University and Liverpool based artist. She will presen t a number of pieces commenting on women as a particular vulnerable group for homelessness\, underpinned by UK research and her experiences of volun teering as part of the RealLove street team. She will also present a colla boration with artist Alan Williams\, which re-contextualizes Carl Andre's  1967 piece 'Equivalent VIII' (AKA 'Bricks')\, to comment on the potenti al (and responsibility?) of contemporary art to make social and political commentary.\n\nAlan Williams is a Liverpool based artist. He will exhibit illustrations of the dogs of people who are homeless in Liverpool under pinned by conversations with owners as part of his voluntary work with the RealLove street team. He will also present a collaboration with arti st and Senior Researcher\, Amanda Marie Atkinson\, which re-contextualize s Carl Andre's 1967 piece 'Equivalent VIII' (AKA 'Bricks')\, to comment  on the potential (and responsibility?) of contemporary art to make social and political commentary.\n\nKim Ross-Houle is a researcher at the Public Health Institute\, Liverpool John Moores University. Her piece presents p hotographs taken by homeless people in relation to their experiences and w hat they feel is significant to them. These photographs were taken as part of a wider research project that considered the relationships between alc ohol consumption\, significant life events and housing/homelessness. The w ider research team includes Dr Lorna Porcellato\, Dr Hannah Timpson\, Elli e McCoy\, Andrew Bradbury and Collette Venturas. The research has been fun ded by Alcohol Research UK.\n\nHelios Bernal Alcantarilla is a Spanish art ist based in Liverpool. He will present print and sculpture from "Los durm ientes" (The Sleepers)\, an art project exploring rough sleeping during hi s residence in Milan and Madrid.\n\nMarianne Skovdahl is a Norwegian docum entary filmmaker based in London. She will present footage exposing hostil e architectural designs\; providing critical commentary on its growing usa ge in London's urban spaces\, which leads to the further exclusion and mar ginalisation of people who are homeless.\n\nKaylen Forsyth is a Cumbrian b ased writer. She will display poetry on homelessness in the context of aus terity and the vilification of homeless people carried out by the media. T his work is underpinned by her experiences of visiting Liverpool and witne ssing urban rough sleeping for the first time.\n\nTomo is a Liverpool base d artist. As a child of the grim winter of Liverpool\, fussed Tomo with pa int pens\, where others still painted with watercolors. Over the years\, h is work always bumbled between fine art and graffiti\, without ever really get recognition from one of these two bearings. At first the artists were few alternatives to working with discarded materials\, but instead of con sidering it as a limitation of it was a kind of alchemy and a new approach of recycling and transformation. The drive for his work he draws from an irrepressible curiosity and adventurousness. Whether he headlong jump into the sea of mundane banality or carefully considered its surface\, Tomo em erged again and again the rusty\, bent spoon into the brew stirs vigorousl y and lets you try it. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/10/Flyer-front.jpg LOCATION:Road Studios\, Northern Lights\, Cains Brewery Village\, 5 Mann St reet\, Liverpool\, L8 5AF\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.408305;-2.984037 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Northern Lights\, Cains Bre wery Village\, 5 Mann Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5AF\, Liverpool\, United Kin gdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Road Studios:geo:53.408305,-2.984037 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR