Liverpool Biennial 12 October e-newsletter
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Innovasion – Were you fooled?If you were in Liverpool City Centre on Saturday you would have seen some very strange things. Groups of people seeming to be speaking in codes, talking about clues and furiously flipping through Festival Guides. Official looking people dressed in red and black suits, hosting public conferences about how they can control your creativity. Dancing, singing, mock-kidnapping. But if you were part of Innovasion you would have had a bit more of a notion what was going on. Our Alternate Realtiy Game was played in streets by people who had booked a place. Hope Street Ltd. acted out a narrative, created by live gaming duo Karsten and Larson. The game started online, where fake websites, facebook pages, and twitter accounts were created. It seems we fooled quite a few people who thought these were real companies and groups. But, it was all in good fun and gave the game a different, modern dimention. Click to view a video interview with Hope Street Ltd’s Adam McGuigan with clips from the game and photos of the event. Were you fooled? Fake Accounts: Creative Control (the baddies) : Twitter, Website, Facebook Wolf Crew (the goodies) : Blog, Stop Little Red Riding Hood Facebook, YouTube, Facebook For a player’s perspective, read Mycroft Milverton’s blog entry on his experiences playing the game. |
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CityStates – an Exhibition on the Edge<CityStates> is a new collaboration for the 2010 Biennial Festival located in the Contemporary Urban Centre. This Grade II listed warehouse has been converted to be a vibrant cultural and community centre at the heart of the Baltic Triangle, including a restaurant, café, bar, cinema, conference facilities and performance and gallery space – providing an ideal context in which to show contemporary art. <CityStates> is an exhibition focused on life in cities around the world. The greatest challenges faced by humanity are in the cities, where the majority of the population now lives. City-to-city learning is the quickest and most effective way of addressing these challenges. <CityStates> consists of a cluster of seven international exhibitions, initiated and wholly supported by embassies, foreign governments, international agencies or galleries, that explore the cultural dynamics between cities and states. Participating programmes: Future Movements | Jerusalem, City Without Walls | Vilnius , Three Moments | The Caribbean, The Nordic Pavilion, Tactful Rituals | Québec City, Media Landscape – Zone East, They – Karl-Heinz Klopf Visit at: 41-51 Greenland Street, Liverpool L1 0BS Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 11am-4pm. |
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VolunteeringThere is still time to become a Biennial Volunteer Information Assistant. Please download and fill in a form, or if you have more questions you’d like to ask about, say, hours, responsibilities, etc., come to on of our volunteer drop in sessions. Friday 15 & 22 October, 2pm, the Visitor Centre. Or for a more immediate response, please email volunteer@biennial.com |
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Your FeedbackWe have many ways to collect feedback from your impressions of the Festival. You can tweet us on Twitter or use the hashtag #Biennial. Upload your photos and comment on onto our Facebook Page. Take a look at our photos on Flickr and our videos on Vimeo and on YouTube . If you have a strong impression on a certain peice of artwork, why not let us and others know your opinions by commenting on our website. Any personal enquiries can always be made to info@biennial.com or by ringing the Visitor Centre on 0845 220 2800. Finally, in the Visitor Centre you can write on our comment board as you see in the image to the left. Liverpool Biennial Festival runs until 28 November – still lots of time to come for another visit. All venues are free, so bring your friends and family and have some great discussions about contemporary art! |