BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2945@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171124 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171127 DTSTAMP:20171107T164737Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/various-venues-liverpool-biennia l-ljmu-present-design-empire/ SUMMARY:: Various Venues: Liverpool Biennial & LJMU present Design & Empire DESCRIPTION:Design &\; Empire [working title] is a weekend of events ex ploring the power structures embedded within contemporary and historical d esign\, visual art\, and consumer culture.\n\nSee the full schedule here  and register now.\n\nPresented by Liverpool John Moores University and Li verpool Biennial and curated by Prem Krishnamurthy\, Emily King\, and J oasia Krysa\, Design &\; Empire brings together practitioners from th e fields of art\, design\, architecture\, and fashion. From guided city to urs exploring Liverpool’s architectural past to a cooking event serving up a colonial-style Christmas\, the weekend will be underpinned by a serie s of talks from leading creative voices. These conversations will touch up on topics ranging from national identity and the display of museum collect ions\, the role of copying within creative manufacturing\, distributed mod els of property ownership\, postcolonial models for contemporary fashion\, the reuse and revaluation of bio-industrial materials\, the politics of c omputer interfaces\, and beyond.\n\nClick here to register for the whole weekend or choose one or more of the free events. \n\nWith Liverpool as both the subject and stage\, Design &\; Empire will collaborate with its citizens in challenging aspects of Liverpool’s imperial legacy whils t reflecting on current practices within design and visual culture. Partic ipants include:\n\nShumi Bose (curator\, RIBA and teacher\,Central Saint Martins\, University of The Arts London)\; artist duo Cooking Sections (D aniel Fernández Pascual &\; Alon Schwabe)\; Frederico Duarte(curator) \; Paul Elliman (artist and designer)\; Mohamed Elshahed (Project Cura tor\, Modern Egypt Project)\; Christopher Kulendran Thomas (artist)\; M ae-ling Lokko (architect and Assistant Professor\, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)\; Meriç Öner (Director of Research &\; Programming\, SA LT)\; Duro Olowu (fashion designer)\; Christian Ulrik Andersen (Associ ate Professor\, Aarhus University\, Department of Digital Design and Infor mation Studies)\; and Grace Wales Bonner(fashion designer).\n\nFriday 24 November\n\nImperial by Design and Drinks Reception\nRIBA North / 6 – 8 pm\nCurators Prem Krishnamurthy and Emily King consider how design functio ns as a primary force in the production\, consumption\, and distribution o f political and cultural ideologies.\n\nSaturday 25 November\n\nEmpire Wal ks: Guided City Tour\n10.30 – 12pm / Starting point: RIBA North\nA set o f guided tours of Liverpool by RIBA North\, exploring the legacy and impac t of colonialism upon the city’s infrastructure and built environment.\n \nDesign &\; Empire Talks\n1.30 – 7.30pm / Liverpool School of Art & amp\; Design\, Design Studios and The Serving Library / Exhibition Researc h Lab\n\nEmpire Talks I: Shumi Bose &\; Christopher Kulendran Thomas\nC urator\, educator\, and editor Shumi Bose and artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas consider topics including national identity\, property ownership\, and economic redistribution.\n\nEmpire Talks II: Frederico Duarte &\; Mohamed Elshahed\nWriter and curator Frederico Duarte and curator Mohamed Elshahed discuss the intersection between design and national identity wit h reference to the collecting policies of museums that were once at the he art of imperial systems.\n\nOne and the Many by Meriç Öner\nReframing q uestions of authenticity\, manufacturing\, and creative genius\, Meriç Ö ner discusses the idea of ‘genuine copies’ within the history of Turki sh industrial production.\n\nEmpire Talks III: Christian Ulrik Andersen &a mp\; Mae-ling Lokko\nChristian Ulrik Andersen and Mae-ling Lokko consider hidden dimensions of material production and contemporary consumption\, fo cusing on computer interface design and agro-waste\, respectively.\n\nRuin s of Empire: Detroit as Refrain/The Liverpool Echo by Paul Elliman \nThe Serving Library at the Exhibition Research Lab\nArtist and designer Paul Elliman pursues the trajectory implied by the industrial and post-industri al locations of his youth\, revisiting them via images and music.\n\nSunda y 26 November\n\nStir-up Sunday by Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández P ascual &\; Alon Schwabe)\nVenue TBC / 10.30 – 12pm\nIn a hybrid perfo rmance lecture and food event\, artist duo Cooking Sections introduce the myriad web of colonial routes and locations that underlie contemporary cul inary fare\, taking the pudding as both a case study and object for consum ption.\n\nEmpire Talks IV: Grace Wales Bonner &\; Duro Olowu\nVenue TBC / 12 – 1pm\nFashion designers Grace Wales Bonner and Duro Olowu conside r the globalised context of contemporary fashion design\, addressing quest ions of cultural origination\, export\, and value construction.\n\nDeliver ed in partnership with RIBA North and The Serving Library at Liverpool Joh n Moores University’s Exhibition Research Lab. 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