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:3931@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180714T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181028T170000 DTSTAMP:20180814T100012Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/st-georges-hall-liverpool-bienni al-2018-beautiful-world-where-are-you/ SUMMARY:St George's Hall: St George's Hall: Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beauti ful World Where Are You? DESCRIPTION:The Grade I listed St George’s Hall is regarded as one of the finest Neoclassical buildings in the world and dates back to 1854. Making their way through underground spaces\, visitors encounter several artists ’ work presented within the building’s original prison cells and court room.\n\nA reflective\, gold-plated work by Chou Yu-Cheng interrogates t he act of protest\, showing indentations made by the public when it was fi rst presented.\n\nJoyce Wieland’s Sailboat (1967) is a short film that depicts yachts moving across the water intercut with the exaggerated soun d of roaring waves and the word ‘sailboat’. The parade of endless simi lar looking boats\, as well as the horizontal division of the picture fram e by the water\, gives the film an innocent child-like quality\, like a si mple painting. The distant passing sailboats hint at themes of desire\, lo ss and yearning for an ideal of perfection that is always just out of reac h.\n\nReenactment of Heaven\, Inci Eviner’s newly commissioned film\, r eflects on ideas of heaven\, religion and authority. Eviner specifically a ddresses the place of women in heaven\, rejecting the role consigned to wo men in societies dominated by the male gaze. She also explores the rhetori c connected to religion and powerful authorities. For her film\, Eviner co llaborated with a female singer and performer\, presenting women as self-d etermined and active. Based on drawings and a multi-layered choreography\, the film blurs the borders between reality and fiction\, using masks\, st age design and symbolic props.\n\nTracing the struggles and turbulent hist ories of the Chechen people\, Aslan Gaisumov’s most recent work Keiche yuhea (2017) follows the artist’s grandmother as she returns to her los t homeland in the mountainous scenery of the North Caucasus for the first time since the displacement of her family 73 years earlier.\n\nLamia Jorei ge’s three-channel video installation After the River (2016) is part o f a project dedicated to the exploration of the river Nahr in Beirut. Unfo lding past and present stories associated with the river\, Joreige draws a social portrait of a landmark with varying roles in the rapidly changing city. Her video discusses gentrification\, waste and current problems in t he neighbourhood of the river\, whilst touching upon the impact of the mul ticultural population and redevelopment plans for the area. Through the ex ample of the river\, Joreige also reflects on the changing definition of l andscape and the notion of border.\n\nModest Livelihood by Brian Jungen  and Duane Linklater was filmed during two hunting trips in Dane-zaa Te rritory in Northern British Columbia in 2011. The film follows the artists and Jungen’s uncle as they move through the landscape. For Jungen\, of Dane-zaa and European ancestry\, and Linklater\, who is Omaskêko Cree\, t he ritual of the hunt is a customary practice of ancestral tradition centr al to their First Nations identity\, and is inextricable from the century- old treaty rights of First Nations\, which the title of the film reference s.\n\nScreened in the courtroom at St George’s Hall is Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017)\, a three-channel film by Naeem Mohaiemen. The work re visits the Cold War-era power struggles between the political coalitions o f the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperati on (OIC). The project navigates alliances of convenience made during Bangl adesh’s fight for UN recognition\, as well as parallel decolonisation st ruggles in Palestine-Israel\, the Portuguese colonies and South Africa.\n\ n\n\nSt George's Hall is regarded as one of the finest Neoclassical buildi ngs in the world. The Grade I listed building contains concert halls and l aw courts and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Havin g first opened in 1854\, today St George's Hall is a focal point for cultu ral\, community\, civic\, corporate and performing arts activities. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/08/chou.jpg LOCATION:St George's Hall\, St George's Place\, Liverpool\, L1 1JJ\, Liverp ool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40778;-2.980478 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=St George's Place\, Liverpo ol\, L1 1JJ\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=St Geo rge's Hall:geo:53.40778,-2.980478 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181028T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR