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:3932@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180714T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181028T170000 DTSTAMP:20180814T100419Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/victoria-gallery-museum-liverpoo l-biennial-2018-beautiful-world-where-are-you/ SUMMARY:Victoria Gallery & Museum: Victoria Gallery & Museum: Liverpool Bie nnial 2018: Beautiful World Where Are You? DESCRIPTION:The building that houses the Victoria Gallery &\; Museum was designed by architect Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1892. Works by cont emporary artists span several floors\, where permanent collections and tem porary displays can also be found.\n\nFrancis Alÿs presents a selection of postcard-size paintings from the 1980s to today under the title Age Pi ece. Executed in the tradition of classic plein air painting\, these works allude to the condition of global tourism in the contemporary art scene. Many of the paintings were done while scouting new locations for future fi lm projects\, often in conflict zones such as Israel and Palestine\, Afgha nistan and Iraq.\n\nJoseph Grigely’s series Songs without Words is bas ed on newspaper images of singers and musicians. The works explore the rep resentation and communication of sound. Taken from the New York Times\, t he series features images of celebrities from the music world such as the opera singer Andrea Bocelli or the American singer and actor Eartha Kitt. By removing the captions accompanying the images\, Grigely points to the s ignificance of contextual information. Without the captions\, the singers ’ poses concentrate our attention on their ambiguity\, as if we are watc hing the world with the sound turned off.\n\nSilke Otto-Knapp’s painting s can be found here\, as well as at Bluecoat. An artist’s book\, produce d in collaboration with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey\, accompanies the display .\n\nPeople of No Consequence (2016) by Aslan Gaisumov documents the ga thering of a group of elderly men and women\, all survivors of the 1944 So viet deportation of the Chechen and Ingush nations to Central Asia. In thi s powerful film\, the group faces the camera\, addressing viewers directly as they enter the building’s Tate Hall.\n\nIn Tate Hall\, Holly Hendry  presents a selection of floor-based sculptures. The works are formed fro m multi-layered materials including jesmonite\, cement and oak\, each embe dded with foreign objects which reference the artist’s visit to Philadel phia’s Mütter Museum – an institution of medical history and oddities .\n\nTaus Makhacheva interrogates notions relating to cultural authentici ty and assimilation following the Sovietisation of Dagestan. Her video pie ce Tightrope (2015) is a complex work that plays on the delicate relatio nships between art history\, politics\, past and contemporary culture.\n\n A selection of objects and collections are highlighted to visitors as part of Worlds within worlds\, alongside a display of anatomical models of pl ants from World Museum.\n\n\n\nVictoria Gallery &\; Museum is a Grade I I listed building designed by Alfred Waterhouse\, which has been a central part of university life for over a century. Opened in 2008 by HRH The Pri ncess Royal as a celebration of Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture\, the building was carefully renovated and transformed into a publ ic venue. The refurbishment included the Leggate Theatre\, which now hosts regular student and public lectures\, wedding ceremonies and concerts. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/08/holly-hendry-cenotaph-2018-web.jpg LOCATION:Victoria Gallery & Museum\, Ashton Street\, University of Liverpoo l\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406158;-2.966418 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Ashton Street\, University of Liverpool\, Liverpool\, L69 3DR\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RA DIUS=100;X-TITLE=Victoria Gallery & Museum:geo:53.406158,-2.966418 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