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:3930@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180714T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181028T180000 DTSTAMP:20180814T095652Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-playhouse-theatre-liverpool- biennial-2018-beautiful-world-where-are-you/ SUMMARY:Playhouse Theatre: The Playhouse Theatre: Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful World Where Are You? DESCRIPTION:Liverpool’s Grade II listed Playhouse theatre hosts works by Ei Arakawa\, Ari Benjamin Meyers\, Reetu Sattar and Iacopo Seri.\n\nAri Be njamin Meyers has created a series of musical compositions that form the basis for film portraits of four musicians from Liverpool\, or with musica l ties to the city: Bette Bright (Deaf School)\, Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees)\, Ken Owen (Carcass) and Louisa Roach (She Drew The Gun) . The films reference the subjects’ personal histories and tell Liverpoo l’s musical history\, representing its major musical movements while at the same time relating back to the city’s industrial past. This is the a rtist’s first film-based work and is presented on the stage of the Playh ouse theatre. The four films are played back with varying amounts of over lap to create a meta-composition and a dialogue between the performers.\n\ nAcross the first floor bar\, Ei Arakawa presents a new version of his p roject Performance Peoplefor Liverpool. Using the astrological natal char ts of personified performance artworks\, Arakawa presents an analysis of s eminal works including Yoko Ono's Cut Piece\, Tony Conrad's 7360 Sukiyak i and Andrea Fraser's May I Help You? on an LED screen\, posters and au dio.\n\nReetu Sattar’s film Harano Sur (Lost Tune) takes over the thea tre’s rehearsal studio. It focuses on the harmonium\, a musical instrume nt that is tightly integrated into the traditional culture of Bangladesh b ut is in danger of disappearing. The film documents a performance that too k place earlier in the year at Dhaka Art Summit and brought together many performers\, each playing three of the seven notes of the harmonium. The a rtist uses the sustained droning sounds as a way to explore the violence a nd social upheaval that have recently affected Bangladesh and as a wider m etaphor for issues of cultural control\, diasporas and partition. By playi ng a sustained note\, the performers make the powerful statement that they and their traditions are here to stay.\n\nIn the first-floor bar\, Iacop o Seri is creating a new work exploring drunkenness and the effect of alt ered states in relation to forms of reality and artistic production. The p roject takes the form of a communal workshop over the opening weekend of t he Biennial\, with transcriptions from the collective discussion subsequen tly published in a zine.\n\nReetu Sattar is commissioned by Liverpool Bien nial and Dhaka Art Summit\, as part of the New North and South.\n\n\n\nThe Playhouse opened as the Star Theatre of Varieties in 1866\, replacing an earlier venue\, the Star Concert Hall. It was converted to a theatre in 19 11 with the establishment of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre – one of th e UK’s first – and was renamed Liverpool Playhouse in 1916. The Grade II listed building joined forces with the Everyman in 1999\, uniting the t wo theatres in a commitment to brilliant and humane theatre that responds to its time and place. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/08/art-benjamin-meyers.jpg LOCATION:Playhouse Theatre\, Williamson Square\, Liverpool\, L1 1EL\, Liver pool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406484;-2.982776 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Williamson Square\, Liverpo ol\, L1 1EL\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Playho use Theatre:geo:53.406484,-2.982776 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