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:636@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20160220 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20160306 DTSTAMP:20160218T193903Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/various-venues-vent-liverpool-ai r-quality-festival-featuring-local-artists/ SUMMARY:Liverpool: Various Venues: VENT! Liverpool Air Quality Festival fea turing local artists DESCRIPTION:Liverpool Air Quality Festival launches on Saturday 20 February \, with a fortnight programme of free artistic interventions and public fo rums to raise awareness of Liverpool’s air quality\, which organisers de scribe as ‘an invisible public health emergency’.\n\nVENT! Liverpool A ir Quality Festival\n20 February – 5 March 2016\nat various Liverpool ve nues including Bluecoat\nArts festival to shine light on Liverpool’s poo r air quality – an ‘invisible public health emergency’.\n\nFive Live rpool-based artists – Julieann O’Malley\, Tristan Brady-Jacobs\, Pamel a Sullivan\, Tomo and Charlotte Weatherstone\, have been commissioned to d eliver new cultural products or public art works that engage with the publ ic about air quality. Each new work responds to the issue\, its causes\, t he impact of long-term exposure to microscopic man-made pollution and the solutions that are in our hands.\n\nThe artists were each paired with one of a core team of scientists to develop their new art work\, including And y Morse\, Professor of Climate Impacts at the University of Liverpool.\nAn dy said ‘Liverpool is not as polluted as either London or Paris\, but it remains one of the poorest cities in Europe\, and deprivation brings with it a number of health challenges. Liverpool has very high rates of lung c ancer and coronary heart disease\, and air pollution is a known risk facto r in both of these illnesses.\nGovernment research showed that in 2010 som e 239 deaths in Liverpool were attributable to air pollution and 2440 life years lost. That equates to nearly 35 lives of 70 years that is more than half a double decker bus.”\n\nThe festival is the culmination of the Li verpool Air Project\, which has been initiated and managed by Engage Liver pool CIC\, a social enterprise that runs projects that make a positive con tribution to the liveability of the City Centre and Waterfront.\nGerry Pro ctor of Engage Liverpool said ‘Poor air quality in Liverpool is not rece iving the profile it deserves as it is a serious public health issue that other cities are facing up to. We want to reach as many people as possible so that we all achieve a level of awareness that leads to positive change in how we live and also how we organise our city. It is wonderful that ar tists and scientists have worked together to bring the VENT! Arts Festival to the city’.\n\nVarious venues – See individual listings for details .\nA fortnight programme of free public forums and artistic interventions to raise awareness of Liverpool’s air quality – an invisible public he alth emergency.\n\nJulieann O’Malley: Occlusion\nSat 20 Feb\, 3.30pm – 5.30pm\, Bluecoat\, School Lane L1 9BZ\nOcclusion is a durational perform ance installation\, incorporating video work\, soundscapes and photography that provokes questions and conversation about the real effects of the ‘invisible intruder’ – microscopic man-made pollution.\nAudiences wi ll see O’Malley test the limits of her body as she cycles through a clou d of air pollution made visible.\n\nVENT! Public Forum\nSat 20 Feb\, 6pm\, Bluecoat\, School Lane L1 9BZ\nA panel of participating artists\, scienti st and academics discuss the public health emergency that is air quality i n Liverpool. Speakers will present the research undertaken as part the Liv erpool Air Project and will discuss the art works that have been produced in response to that research. Followed by Q &\; A.\nPlease find the pan el participants below.\nDr Andy Morse\, University of Liverpool Professor of Climate Impacts\nPaul Farrell\, Environmental Protection Operations Man ager Liverpool City Council\nDr Tuheen Huda\, an Intensive Care medic\, th eatre producer\, writer and artist\nBryan Biggs\, Artistic Director at Blu ecoat\, Liverpool’s centre for the contemporary arts\nPlus a number of o ur VENT! Liverpool Air Quality Festival artists\nDiscussion Chaired by Ger ry Proctor\, Chair of Engage Liverpool CIC\n\nCharlotte Weatherstone: Iris \nFrom Thu 3 March\, Jamaica Street Skatepark\, Baltic Triangle\nIris is a living breathing installation\, a visual promotion of green inner city sp aces. Living in the Baltic Triangle Iris\, an air spirit\, watches over Li verpool. Breathing fresh air her swirling hair is living moss and lichens\ , she offers her opinion on alternative modes of transport to keep the air quality pure\, the buildings clean and people of her city healthy. She al so offers a home to wildlife and brightens up an old building with her wil dflowers.\nMosses and lichens are ideal for monitoring trends in the depos ition of pollutants over time and across difference places\, as they are s ensitive to increased levels of nitrogen and will notably deteriorate if a ir quality is poor.\n\nTomo: Clean Air Vehicle\nThu 3 March\, Baltic Trian gle\nA pop-up installation – the artist presents ‘what might have been ’\, reflecting on his scheme to customise a small number of Liverpool Ci ty Bikes.\n\nPamela Sullivan: A Warning\nFrom Fri 26 Feb\nA Warning is an installation of 50 cocooned skeletons that will be installed around Liverp ool City Centre\, the Royal Liverpool Hospital and Jamaica Street. The ske letons are constructed from wire and plastic waste materials then cocooned in a soil and sand mixture. They will be installed/hung from tree branche s. The rain will slowly wash away the soil cocoon to reveal the enclosed s keleton.\nThe piece serves as a warning\, if we do not take drastic action now to save our planet all that will be left will be skeletons and waste. \n\nTristan Brady-Jacobs: Liverpool Glorms\nLiverpool Glorms Workshop – Sat 20 February\, 1pm to 4pm\nBluecoat\, School Lane L1 9BZ\nLiverpool Glo rms street art exhibition – from Fri 26 February\nThe Liverpool Glorms a re ordinary folk made monstrous by their desire to obtain immortality. The y retreat behind facades and filters in a world of invisible threats. Usin g a range of Gasmasks\, HOBO will create portraits of Liverpool people\, w hich will then be applied to the walls and surfaces of the city. The portr aits will appear in the areas of greatest pollution around the city centre .\nBecome your own Glorm on 20 February at Bluecoat. HOBO will be running workshops taking portraits with gas masks for his exhibition. Each success ful Glorm will receive an A0 version of their baleful self! Come along and haunt yourself.\n\nVENT! Public Forum – Sat 5 March\, 4.30pm\nCoffee &a mp\; Fandisha\, 5 Brick St\, L1 0BL\nA panel of participating artists\, sc ientist and academics discuss the public health emergency that is air qual ity in Liverpool. Speakers will present the research undertaken as part th e Liverpool Air Project and will discuss the art works that have been prod uced in response to that research. Followed by Q &\; A.\nFor more infor mation and a list of panelists\, go to: www.engageliverpool.com/projects/v ent\n\nArtists Bios\nJulieann O’Malley\nJulieann O’Malley is an interd isciplinary artist based in Liverpool. Her practice both for galleries and public space is fundamentally live durational performance installations\, video work\, sound and photography. O’Malley likes to test the limits o f her body during durational performances. She condenses ideas and uses se miotics as a communication method. O’Malley finds ways to explore\, enga ge and have open discourse and dialogues about the ever changing environme nts and practices of society.\n\nCharlotte Weatherstone\nCharlotte is a gr affiti artist\, designer and illustrator whose work encompasses many scale s and media. She works on canvas\, paper\, computer and brick walls and he r influences include nature\, calligraphy astronomy\, ballet\, and Art Nou veau. In addition to pursuing her own art\, she also runs community engage ment workshops\, using art to help people think about their environment.\n \nPamela Sullivan\nPamela is currently Artist in Residence at the Williams on Gallery &\; Museum\, Birkenhead\, although she tends to exhibit away from the white spaces found in galleries. She creates site specific work and has worked in ruined churches\, underground tunnels\, derelict buildin gs and hidden spaces in and around the urban landscape.\nPamela works in b oth 2D and 3D formats using materials such as wood\, cardboard and ceramic s to make playful work that the viewer is able to walk through and interac t with.\n\nTristan Brady-Jacobs\nTristan is a community artist\, photograp her\, video maker\, street artist\, performer\, designer and arts manager\ , with a background in the inclusionary sector (working with hard to reach groups such as gangs in Liverpool and devising intercultural workshops an d inclusion programmes for The Lowry\, Tate\, and Everyman &\; Playhous e\, Liverpool).\nHe has worked in theatre (for Welfare State\, IOU\, Magic Ox and Rathbone Theatre Workshop) and presented the first digital art exh ibition in Liverpool (Hyperarts 92). He has devised and managed many new a rt programmes and events including Markit\, WARPLiverpool and HOBOBazaar.\ n\nTomo\nThe City Council have declined permission for an art-work to be p laced on a small number of City Bikes raising the profile of poor air qual ity on the roads. This is a great shame and a real surprise to all the art ists and Engage. There will be a pop-up response in the Baltic Triangle on Thu 3 March.\nTomo works in fine art and graffiti using discarded materia ls and working with an ethic of recycling. Born and brought up on Merseysi de\, Tomo has participated in many groups shows\, including the Liverpool Biennial 2014 (as part of The Old Blind School exhibition) and Mark It Str eet art festival (2014) and Lost Properties At The Kolbhalle\, Kolbhalle A rtist Community\, Germany (2013).\nHis solo shows include Spectrum at the Wolstenholme Creative Space (Liverpool Art Month\, 2012) and the Liverpool Art Prize at Metal\, Liverpool (2012)\, for which he was awarded the Live rpool Art Prize Peoples Choice award. He is currently also a film projecti onist for Tea &\; Two Slice (Liverpool).\n\nEngage Liverpool Facebook\n Engage Liverpool Twitter\nEngage Liverpool Air Project\nEngage Liverpool V ENT! Event\nVENT! 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