Liverpool Biennial 2014
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Liverpool Biennial 2014 5 July – 26 October
Welcome to Liverpool Biennial 2014: 16 weeks of free exhibitions, events, performances, talks, tours, screenings and family activities across Liverpool’s spaces, places, galleries and museums
Biennial Exhibition: A Needle Walks into a Haystack Partner Exhibitions Annual Commissions Other Exhibitions & Events Education & Family Programme Visitor Information Calendar of Events
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Introduction
Welcome to the 8th edition of Liverpool Biennial, the UK Biennial of Contemporary Art. This is an exciting time to be in Liverpool. Since the last Biennial in 2012 we have developed a programme that is deeply connected to the city and to an international context. For the first time, Liverpool Biennial takes place during the summer months, which coincides with Liverpool hosting the International Festival for Business. It also means audiences can enjoy the city and its historic waterfront in the sunshine! I am grateful to this year’s guest curators Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman for curating A Needle Walks into a Haystack, the 2014 Biennial Exhibition. They have worked closely with our partners at the Bluecoat, FACT and Tate Liverpool, as well as with the Liverpool Biennial team, and produced a challenging and rich exhibition. A regular series of related talks and events underpins and develops conversations that are central to Liverpool’s growing community of artists, designers, writers and curators. The City Is a School is a new free open learning network that has been established to support the development of a team of mediators and fellows who ensure that the Biennial is accessible to an ever-widening public. We are once more delighted to present the John Moores Painting Prize and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which have both been partners of the Biennial since the first edition in 1999. Open Eye Gallery and Liverpool John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Centre are presenting new exhibitions and we are grateful to them all for their support and collaboration. We are also grateful to our many supporters and in particular Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council for their continued support. There are many organisations presenting exhibitions and projects in the city concurrently with the Biennial, and we have listed some of them in this guide and online so that you can visit as many of them as you can whilst you are here. Sally Tallant, Director
Welcome Desk We hope you enjoy your stay in Liverpool as you explore the Biennial exhibitions and events. Please visit our welcome desk at The Old Blind School, 24 Hardman Street with any enquiries. It is open daily from 10am – 6pm. Contact Us +44 (0)330 123 0584 visit@biennial.com Booking Information Entrance to exhibitions and events is free unless stated otherwise. Where booking is required, visit www.biennial.com Connect @biennial @liverpoolbiennial liverpoolbiennial Share your photos with us using #biennial2014
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A Needle Walks into a Haystack is an exhibition that reveals itself in different places around the City. It includes a group show at The Old Blind School, and four solo shows at FACT, the Bluecoat, Tate Liverpool and St. Andrews Gardens. These solo exhibitions present Sharon Lockhart, James McNeill Whistler, Claude Parent and Jef Cornelis, all of whom have significantly influenced their own different fields. A Needle Walks into a Haystack also includes The Companion, a weekend of performances from 19–21 September; art in public space; an events programme; and a book. A Needle Walks into a Haystack is an exhibition about our habits, our habitats, and the objects, images, relationships and activities that constitute our immediate surroundings. It is about effecting larger questions facing contemporary life and art, from an intimate and tangible scale that’s within everyday reach. The artists in this exhibition disrupt many of the conventions and assumptions that usually prescribe the way we live our lives. They attack the metaphors, symbols, and representations that make up their own environment, replacing them with new meanings and protocols: bureaucracy becomes a form of comedy, silence becomes a type of knowledge, domesticity becomes a place of pathology, inefficiency becomes a necessary vocation, and delinquency becomes an everyday routine.
Ope n i ng W e e k e n d Ev e n t s Artist Talks: Hosted by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman Saturday 5 July, 1 – 4pm Liverpool Medical Institution 114 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5SR Free
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Group Show The Old Blind School 5 July – 26 October The Old Blind School, 24 Hardman Street, Liverpool L1 9AX Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free
At the heart of A Needle Walks into a Haystack is a group show that continues Liverpool Biennial’s commitment to producing new work. This year, the commissioned artists are also invited to show some of their previous projects, providing more extensive introductions to a selection of artistic languages and practices. The show features work by artists Uri Aran (IL), Marc Bauer (CH), Bonnie Camplin (UK), Chris Evans (UK), Rana Hamadeh (LB ), Louise Hervé (FR) and Chloé Maillet (FR), Judith Hopf (DE), Aaron Flint Jamison (US), Norma Jeane (US), Nicola L. (FR), William Leavitt (US), Christina Ramberg (US), Michael Stevenson (NZ), STRAUTCHEREPNIN (AT/US), Peter Wächtler (DE), and Amelie von Wulffen (DE). The Liverpool School for the Blind was founded by Edward Rushton in 1791, and was the first such school in the country. In 1932 a modern extension was added, complete with art-deco designs by the sculptor John Skeaping illustrating the life and work of the school, including students reading Braille. The building was then used by the Merseyside Police and in 1983 became The Trades Union Centre, which included the music venue and studio The Picket and launched the careers of many bands. Uri Aran Microcosms for plastic grapes, pizza boxes, passport photos, silkscreened websites, and other stranded ephemera. Uri plays with the way endless repetition can strip the banal of its meaning.
Marc Bauer Over the course of a few weeks in June, Marc decided to move his studio into a dingy hotel in Liverpool, where he thought he could potentially become part of the story of the place. Bonnie Camplin The DSV is a magnification technology for the enhanced observation of small objects. It incorporates an ultra-specific protocol. A serious commitment to this protocol is necessary for a successful application of the technology. Chris Evans The luxury brand, Boodles, makes a unique piece of jewellery for the Biennial, with a particular request of an artist. Rana Hamadeh A stage set based on a design used in the Bauhaus Dessau in the late 1920s contains objects that serve as the characters of a play. Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet A film that combines marine archaeology, Thalassotherapy, forgotten civilisations, immortality, and post-humanity. Judith Hopf Silence and stillness can also contain brute force. Judith’s concrete sheep, cast from standard moving boxes, derive their strength from their truculent immobility, and from how little they seem to tolerate movement.
The Old Blind School. Getty Images © Shirlaine Forrest, 2014
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Michael Stevenson The artist has borrowed doors from the offices of LJMU’s School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and inserted a moment of irrationality into the hallways of rational thought.
Judith Hopf, Flock of Sheep (detail), 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Kaufmann Repetto, Milan.
Aaron Flint Jamison A signature for a stream of data that is its contents. Norma Jeane An ice-making machine runs on solar energy, transforming heat into cold, and liquid into solid. The machine keeps working relentlessly, even though its product continually melts away into a wet floor.
Peter Wächtler To witness a battle between a crab and other sea animals is to experience a fantasy, a nightmare, and an everyday occurrence all at the same time. STRAUTCHEREPNIN Josef Strau and Stefan Tcherepnin look back at their own past work and past decisions and revisit them, rethink them, recategorise them, and try to redeem themselves. Amelie von Wulffen A banana has stage fright. A tooth walks with crutches. A lemon gets angry at an apple. An ice-cream cone goes sledding.
Nicola L. Atmosphere in White: “I have chosen this name because every single one of these objects is white, and this shared whiteness binds them together as a sort of dream-memory”. William Leavitt The private space of an ordinary domestic interior can seem quietly unnatural, as if it exists partly in the past and partly in the future. Christina Ramberg Handkerchiefs. Skirts. Hats. Hairdos. Lingerie. Torsos. Hips. Shirts. Pants. Shoes. Shoulders. Christina worked with images of bodies and body parts, making paintings that link traditional costuming and garments with anatomy and morphology, injecting them with a feminist punch.
Norma Jeane, #Jan25 (#Sidibouzid, #Feb12, #Feb14, #Feb17...) 2011; Photo: Tommaso Zamarchi
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Sally Tallant Director, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 19 July, 2pm Ellen Greig Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 9 August, 2pm Rosie Cooper Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 27 September, 2pm Anthony Huberman Co-Curator, Liverpool Biennial Sunday 19 October, 2pm
William Leavitt, Body Space, 2012. Photograph: Jason Mandella. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
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F i l m Sc r e e n i ng w i t h Q & A Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists (Dir. Leslie Buchbinder) Tuesday 16 September, 6.30pm Featuring work from Christina Ramberg, Hairy Who… is a lavishly-illustrated romp through Chicago Imagist art: the Second City scene that challenged Pop Art’s status quo in the 1960s, then faded from view. Free, booking required
RI BA A rc h i t e c t u r e Tou r s Monday 21 July, 18 August, 15 September, 20 October, 1pm Join the RIBA Liverpool City Tour guides for an hour-long tour covering the past, present and future of this important listed building. Discover the history of the site, the architecture and design of the building as a School for the Blind and its subsequent uses as Merseyside Police Headquarters and the Trades Union Centre. Free, booking required Please meet at the entrance of the building
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Sharon Lockhart FACT 5 July – 26 October
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FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm, Free
Sharon Lockhart (US) constantly reinvents the documentary form by questioning both its parameters and its message. Her exhibition at FACT brings together ideas about childhood, philosophical inquiry, and the politics of the voice, anchored by works that refer to a young Polish girl named Milena. Podwórka is a film the artist made in 2009 that follows young boys as they effortlessly invent their own spaces of play in the dusty streets and broken fences of a desolate Polish town. While on the set, Sharon met one of the boys’ sisters, Milena, who would become a key figure in her life and who would inspire a series of other recent works. In the months prior to Liverpool Biennial, the artist organised an educational residency in Poland for Milena and a group of twelve adolescent classmates (all girls aged 12–16). Together, they worked with a philosophical text for children by Bartosz Przybył-Ołowski. In the company of the author himself, along with the artist and her film crew, the girls performed exercises and activities designed to empower the authority of their own voices, emphasising the specific ways in which they choose to articulate their own perspectives about the world. The workshops are an extension of Sharon’s research into the influential Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak, whose writing influenced the United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959. The outcome includes photographs, a sculptural installation of text works, and a new film, co-commissioned by the Biennial and FACT, that premieres in October 2014 at FACT.
Ev e n t s Film Launch Friday 17 October, 6.30pm Be the first to see Lockhart’s newest film. The artist will introduce the work. £6/£5 (FACT Members)
Film Programme Monday 7 July and then fortnightly Wednesdays, 6.30pm A collection of films about childhood, chosen by Sharon Lockhart. In collaboration with Picturehouse. Free
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Ellen Greig, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 16 August, 2pm Ana Botella, Programme Producer, FACT Saturday 13 September, 2pm Mike Stubbs, Director, FACT Saturday 11 October, 2pm Fa m i ly S e s s ion s at FAC T Saturday 26 July, 23 August, 20 September, 12 – 4pm Artist-led family workshops designed to be enjoyed by children and ‘big kids’ alike. Free, drop-in Sharon Lockhart, Podwórka (video still), 2009 © Sharon Lockhart, 2009. Courtesy of the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
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James McNeill Whistler the Bluecoat 5 July – 26 October
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the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free
James McNeill Whistler, The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre (The Creditor), 1879 (detail). Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
Outspoken and argumentative, dressed in his black patent shoes and with a white plume of hair coiffured amongst black waves, the painter James McNeill Whistler (US, 1834 – 1903) cultivated a charismatic public persona who challenged the art community and elicited the mocking attention of the popular press. One of the most influential figures in the arts of the nineteenth-century, he played an important role in paving the way for abstract painting, but was also the first to consider the exhibition space as a total environment, creating colour schemes and arrangements that on one occasion
extended to the yellow clothing worn by the gallery attendants. Equally concerned with the way his art was received, Whistler was active in directing conversation around his work, and about art at large. More than 100 years after his death, Whistler takes part in A Needle Walks into a Haystack because his attitude, motivations and commitment are as resonant now as they ever were. Whistler spoke for himself, and to continue his legacy we’ve summoned his thoughts and writings to guide you through the show. Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Rosie Cooper
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Ev e n t s Margaret MacDonald Talk on James McNeill Whistler Saturday 5 July, 12pm Leading Whistler scholar Margaret MacDonald from the Department of Art History, University of Glasgow, talks about the artist and the world-famous collection of his prints, copper plates and other works at the Hunterian Art Gallery.
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Sara-Jayne Parsons Exhibition Curator, the Bluecoat and Rosie Cooper Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 12 July, 2pm
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Simone Mair Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 2 August, 2pm
Paul O’Keeffe: Whistler v Ruskin: the ‘Pot of Paint’ Libel Trial Wednesday 15 October, 7pm Whistler’s famous court case with John Ruskin is brought to life in this illustrated talk.
Mai Abu ElDahab Co-Curator, Liverpool Biennial Tuesday 16 September, 2pm
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On New Grounds Thursday 3 July – Sunday 3 August Daily, 10am – 6pm A selection of intaglio prints exhibited upstairs at the Bluecoat take inspiration from Whistler’s drypoints and etchings, and explore the potential of traditional print processes within contemporary fine art practice.
E x plor e at t h e Blu e coat Every Saturday throughout the festival, 1 – 4pm A host of creative activities related to the Whistler exhibition for families to do together. Drop in for a short time or spend all afternoon making your own masterpiece. Free, drop-in
Printmaking Workshop: Introduction to Intaglio with Emma Gregory Saturday 12 July, Sunday 13 July, 10am – 4pm Learn about the technique Whistler used to create his prints in this two-day workshop in the Bluecoat print studios.
S u m m e r Hol i day E x plor e at t h e Blu e coat Mondays to Saturdays 23 July – 30 August, 10am – 4pm Why did Whistler make his gallery attendants wear yellow? Find out the answer to this question and more with the Bluecoat’s Engagement Team who are in the galleries with activities for families and anyone with an enquiring mind.
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Claude Parent La colline de l’art, Tate Liverpool 5 July – 26 October
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Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront L3 4BB Daily 10am – 5.50pm, after 6 October 10am – 5pm, Free
French Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, 1970. Private coll. S. Ehrmann. Photo: Gilles Ehrmann.
A Needle Walks into a Haystack presents a new commission by prominent architect Claude Parent (FR), who for the last forty years has been taking his profession to its most avant-garde limits. Parent’s work, while considered part of the revolutionary utopian architecture discourse, is focused on meticulously shifting daily experience through subtle yet dramatic changes in the lived environment. He has built, lived, worked and taught in the constructions he devised according to his Fonction Oblique methodology. For A Needle Walks into a Haystack, he has re-designed the Wolfson Gallery, incorporating slanted floors and ramps to ensure that the audience experiences the museum anew. Works from the Tate collection by Anni Albers (DE/US),
Babette Mangolte (FR), Gustav Metzger (DE), Francis Picabia (FR), Gillian Wise (UK), Mark Leckey (UK) among others, are presented here to complement Parent’s on-going passion for challenging conformity. Ev e n t s Rolling around like gorillas on the incline: opening the imaginary in architecture and the arts Friday 26 September, 10 am– 5pm Tate Liverpool This one-day event takes architect Claude Parent’s Twelve Subversive Acts to Dodge the System as the starting point to discuss ideas and concerns common to architecture and the visual arts. £15 / £10 conc, booking required
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Works from the Tate collection Tate Liverpool 5 July – Spring 2015
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Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront L3 4BB Daily 10am – 5.50pm, after 6 October 10am – 5pm, Free
Linking the institutional space of the museum to the familiar space of the home, works from the Tate collection are brought together in the manner of a domestic environment. The broad range of works selected, together with their staging, alludes to the central role of the intimate and familiar space and the way in which it has been represented by artists throughout history – as well as being a tendency within the Tate Collection. Works presented from the Tate collection by: Ivor Abrahams (UK), Helena Almeida (PO), Richard Artschwager (US), Francis Bacon (UK), Rut Blees Luxemburg (DE / UK), Claude Cahun (FR), Patrick Caulfield (UK), Marc Camille Chaimowicz (FR / UK), Saloua Raouda Choucair (LB), Giorgio de Chirico (IT), Joseph Cornell (US), Keren Cytter (IL), André Derain (FR), Sam Durant (US), André Fougeron (FR), Naum Gabo (RU / US), Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (FR), Robert Gober (US), Nan Goldin (US), Spencer Gore (UK), Philip Guston (US), Richard Hamilton (UK), Vilhelm Hammershoi (DK), Susan Hiller (UK), David Hockney (UK), Sanja Ivekovic (HR), George Jones (UK), R.B. Kitaj (US), Sherrie Levine (US), Linder (UK), Andrew Lord (UK), Lucy McKenzie (UK), Sylvia Melland (UK), Rodrigo Moynihan (UK), Paul Nash (UK), Gabriel Orozco (MX), Blinky Palermo (DE), Blinky Palermo and Gerhard Richter (DE), Claude Parent (FR), Thomas Schütte (DE), Kurt Schwitters (DE), Thomas Struth (DE), Andy Warhol (US), Rachel Whiteread (UK). Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Stephanie Straine.
Vilhelm Hammershoi, Interior, Sunlight on the Floor, 1906. Courtesy of Tate.
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Stephanie Straine Assistant Curator, Tate Liverpool Saturday 26 July, 2pm Rosie Cooper Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 30 August, 2pm Francesco Manacorda Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool Saturday 6 September, 2pm
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Jef Cornelis St. Andrews Gardens 5 July – 26 October
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St. Andrews Gardens, 21 Moor Place, Liverpool L3 5XA Open daily 10am–6pm, Free
Over the course of three decades (1963 – 1998), many Belgians turned on VRT, the Dutch-language Belgian public-broadcast channel, and encountered programmes conceived by Jef Cornelis, introducing mass audiences to contemporary art and culture. Eschewing traditional TV formats, the programmes made use of the language of art itself – sudden juxtapositions, abstract compositions, or conceptual mise-en-abyme. For A Needle Walks into a Haystack, Koen Brams (BE) has selected films by Cornelis for viewers to watch on televisions, not only introducing a UK audience to this important and recalcitrant figure, but also serving as a place for conversations about what television can be and how this medium can be used to document and represent art.
Images: Jef Cornelis, Voyage à Paris, 1993 (filmstill) ; Jef Cornelis, De langste dag (featuring Panamarenko, Chris Dercon), 1986 (filmstill)
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Vanessa Boni Public Programmes Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 23 August, 2pm Polly Brannan Education Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 18 October, 2pm Ev e n t s TV AS MATERIAL 4: The Longest Day Sunday 28 September, 3 – 9.30pm Tate Modern, The Starr Auditorium, Bankside, London SE1 9TG A special screening of The Longest Day (1986) by pioneering filmmaker Jef Cornelis, co-curated with Koen Brams in association with Liverpool Biennial, forms part of a weekend looking at the relationship between Art and Television at Tate Modern.
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The Companion
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Music, Performance, Gestures, and more Friday 19 – Sunday 21 September
Thursday 17 & 31 July, 14 & 28 August, 11 September and 23 October
Various locations
The Lecture Theatre, Liverpool Medical Institution 114 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5SR; Free, booking required
Central to any daily experience are personal exchanges and intimate relationships. The Companion is a performance project conceived in collaboration with artist and writer Angie Keefer (US). It is inspired by the ancient symposium form, which consisted of a long dinner party punctuated by music and improvised commentary on a subject of shared interest, and is an experimental situation where performances, actions and ephemeral gestures take place. The three-day event includes performances by artists including Federica Buetti (IT) and Jan Verwoert (DE); Concert: Chris Evans (UK), Morten Norbye Halvorsen (NO) and Benjamin Seror (FR); Jeremiah Day (US); Géraldine Geffriaud (FR); Josephine Foster (US) and Victor Herrero (ES); Will Holder (UK); Hassan Khan (EG), James English Leary (US); Jaxson Payne (UK); Mounira al-Solh (LB/NL); Lucy Skaer (UK); C. Spencer Yeh (TW/US); Oskar Schlemmer Dances with Erik Eriksson (SE), Darko Radosavljev (DE), Alma Toaspern (DE) and Christoph Wavelet (FR); and more. The Companion takes place at several venues around the city, including the Philharmonic Dining Rooms, the Kazimier and the Black-E. For full listings of the performance weekend visit www.biennial.com Conceived by Mai Abu ElDahab with Angie Keefer
Drinks With… is a programme of lectures and screenings. These specially commissioned events by writers, artists, filmmakers, philosophers and cultural critics extend and continue the key curatorial concerns of A Needle Walks into a Haystack. Andrew Kötting Thursday 17 July, 6.30pm Andrew Kötting is a film director, writer and performer. Accompanied by his daughter and collaborator Eden Kötting, he will present a body of work that was begun on the day Eden was born in 1988. The presentation, including film and music, will consider the possibility of a creative output addressed to a single person. Lynne Tillman Thursday 31 July, 6.30pm Novelist and critic Michael Bracewell in discussion with novelist and critic Lynne Tillman, about her approaches to writing fiction, and art and cultural criticism. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Thursday 28 August, 6.30pm Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev gives a lecture on the idea of withdrawal. Ben Highmore Thursday 23 October, 6.30pm A lecture on habits and their relation to our habitats. Other events to take place on Thursday 14 August and 11 September. For the latest information please visit www.biennial.com
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The Book A Needle Walks into a Haystack 15 × 23cm, 144 pages, 30 b/w drawings Softcover with printed edges ISBN 978-3-86335-571-5
Co-edited by Mai Abu ElDahab, Anthony Huberman and Camille Pageard, the book, A Needle Walks into a Haystack, is conceived as another site of the Biennial Exhibition and consists of new texts by the curators and by Keren Cytter (IL), Angie Keefer (US), Hassan Khan (EG), Karl Larsson (SE), Eileen Myles (US), Lisa Robertson (CA) and Matthew Stadler (US), along with existing texts by David Antin (US), George Szirtes (HU) Edward Said (1935 – 2003, US), with drawings by Abraham Cruzvillegas (MX). The book extends the exhibition to the written word, locating a similar spirit in the work of cultural critics, novelists, philosophers, poets, and others. A Needle Walks into a Haystack is published by Koenig Books and Liverpool Biennial and designed by Sara De Bondt and Mark El-khatib. The book is available to buy from The Old Blind School, the Bluecoat, Tate Liverpool, News from Nowhere, Koenig Books and online at www.biennial.com.
Drawing: Abraham Cruzvillegas from the series Autoportrait avec pouce opposable, 2013
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John Moores Painting Prize 5 July – 30 November
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Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL Daily 10am–5pm, Free
Ev e n t s Talk Tuesdays Every Tuesday from 5 August – 30 November, 1pm Join us every Tuesday for an exhibition tour, artist talk or gallery discussion as we explore the history of the Prize and its role in contemporary art. Free
The John Moores Painting Prize is the UK’s best-known and longest-running painting competition. Named after its founder, Sir John Moores (1896 – 1993), the competition was first held in 1957. The prize culminates in an exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery from 5 July to 30 November 2014. Judges this year include artists Zeng Fanzhi, Chantal Joffe, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Tom Benson, along with director of artistic programmes at the Royal Academy and broadcaster Tim Marlow. The first prize, sponsored by David M Robinson, is £25,000. Four further prize-winners each receive £2,500. The shortlist is announced on 4 July and winner on 18 September. The exhibition also celebrates the work produced by the winners of the John Moores Painting Prize China, which offers Chinese artists the opportunity to win a residency in Liverpool. A key strand of Liverpool Biennial, the John Moores Painting Prize is delivered in partnership with National Museums Liverpool and the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust.
Contemporary culture course Tuesday 29 – Thursday 31 July The Contemporary Culture Course is a threeday programme for young people aged 14 –18, focusing on the John Moores Painting Prize in a fun and informal way. Enjoy interactive tours, join practical workshops, research for inspiration, share skills and be guided through a Bronze Arts Award (level 1 national qualification). Free, booking essential on 0151 478 4173 Schools exhibition tour Between Mon 7 July – Fri 28 November Budding artists can benefit from this special John Moores Painting Prize tour for schools. Students can learn about artists and the artworks featured, painting techniques and the exhibition’s history. Free, booking essential on 0151 478 4173 Part funded by the European Union – the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Barbara Howey, Orange Sash (detail from a photograph by Jett Loe)
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 20 September – 26 October
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World Museum, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EN Daily 10am–5pm, Free
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013 Spike Island, Bristol
This year, fifty-five artists join the roster of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which includes previous exhibitors Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, David Hockney and Mike Nelson. Marking its 65th anniversary, selectors Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and Goshka Macuga have chosen works by the most promising artists emerging from UK art schools from nearly 1,400 submissions. An integral part of Liverpool Biennial since it began, this year’s show launches
at World Museum, from 20 September to 26 October 2014 before touring to ICA, London from 26 November 2014 to 25 January 2015. Showcasing final year students, graduates and artists one year out of study, the annual national touring exhibition has consistently acted as a barometer of contemporary art practice, shining a spotlight on the hottest talents of the year. Private view Friday 19 September, 6 – 8pm
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Not All Documents Are Records Photographing Exhibitions as an Art Form, Open Eye Gallery 5 July – 19 October
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19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 1BP Tuesday–Sunday 10.30am–5.30pm, Free
Ugo Mulas, Venezia, 1968. Proteste studentesche, XXXIV Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte (detail) Photo Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs. courtesy camera16 contemporary art
This exhibition looks at three key international visual-art platforms – Documenta, The Venice Biennale and Liverpool Biennial – through the lens of photography, moving between the past and future. The main theoretical question underpinning the project is: ‘Can photography retain its artistic licence and overcome pure documentation, whilst also narrating the history of an important art exhibition?’ The show starts with two seminal photographic series – Hans Haacke’s 1959 photographs of Documenta 2 and Ugo Mulas’ photographs of the 1968 Venice Biennale. It then progresses with a new commission from Cristina de Middel reinterpreting the history and imagining possible future developments for the Liverpool Biennial, and with Ira Lombardía’s infiltration of a fictional character into the catalogue of dOCUMENTA (13).
Ev e n t s Brunch and Artist Talk Sunday 6 July, 11.45am Join us for brunch at the gallery with an artist talk led by Ira Lombardía. £10 / £8 conc, booking required Fictional Storytelling Through Photography with Cristina de Middel Thursday 17 – Saturday 19 July Tell fictional stories using photography and create your own ‘dummy’ photobook with self-publishing expert Cristina de Middel. Organised with LOOK/15. £250/£220 conc Curator Tours Sunday 13 July, 10 August, 14 September, 12 October, 2.30pm Free
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Adrian Henri: Total Art Liverpool John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Centre 5 July – 26 October
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The John Lennon Art & Design Building, Duckinfield Street, Liverpool L3 5RD Monday–Friday 10am–6pm and selected weekends, Free
Total Art at the Exhibition Research Centre (ERC), showcases Adrian Henri’s multifaceted oeuvre from the 1960s and 1970s, a period of intense creativity and collaborative artistic endeavours. Henri (1932 – 2000) trained as a painter under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton, and taught at Liverpool Art College in the 1960s. He came to prominence as one of the ‘Liverpool poets’, alongside Roger McGough and Brian Patten, in the bestselling Penguin anthology The Mersey Sound – irreverently urban and popular. Although Henri is best known as a painter and poet, this exhibition reveals him to be a pioneer of performance and collective practices in Britain and internationally, taking part in happenings in Liverpool as early as 1962, and crossing over into the world of rock with the touring band The Liverpool Scene. Reflecting Henri’s eclecticism and insatiable curiosity, the exhibition features numerous artifacts from the Adrian Henri estate, including original paintings, collages, prints, annotated scripts and hand-made posters for happenings, objects, ephemera, rock posters, counterculture documents and correspondence, as well as rare audio and video material. Total Art at the ERC is curated by Paris-based art historian Catherine Marcangeli. A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue will appear in September 2014, published by Occasional Papers.
Adrian Henri, publicity shot for The Liverpool Scene, c.1968 © Adrian Henri estate
B ook L au nc h Adrian Henri: Total Art Saturday 20 September, 6pm the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX With Occasional Papers Free Tou r s Catherine Marcangeli, Curator Saturday 5 July, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 October, 2.30pm Free Catherine Marcangeli, Curator and Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director, the Bluecoat Sunday 6 July, 2.30pm Free
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Carlos Cruz-Diez Dazzle Ship: Induction Chromatique à Double Fréquence pour l’Edmund Gardner Ship / Liverpool. Paris, 2014
Couleur Additive Liverpool ONE, Liverpool. Paris, 2014
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Canning Graving Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, L3 1DG
Using the pilot ship Edmund Gardner as his canvas, Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (cruz-diez.com) has responded to the practice of Dazzle painting in a new work co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, 14-18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commissions and Tate Liverpool, in partnership with Merseyside Maritime Museum. Induction Chromatique à Double Fréquence pour l’Edmund Gardner Ship / Liverpool. Paris, 2014 takes as its starting point a style of optical distortion used extensively during the First World War, called Dazzle painting. Devised by British artist Norman Wilkinson and supervised by vorticist artist Edward Wadsworth, the camouflage technique incorporated bold shapes and strong contrasts, with an aim to confuse rather than conceal. This work brings Dazzle painting back to Liverpool, where much of the Dazzle painting on ships was undertaken in dry docks, such as the Canning Graving docks, during 1917 and 1918. Not in operation when Dazzle painting was originally developed, the pilot ship Edmund Gardner was built in 1953 as a base at sea for pilots who guide shipping safely in and out of Liverpool. It is owned and conserved by Merseyside Maritime Museum, which is part of National Museums Liverpool. The Edmund Gardner will remain Dazzled until the end of 2015 when it will return to its original livery. It has been realised by a team of painters from Cammell Laird in association with International Paint. Dazzle Ship, Photo: Mark McNulty, 2014
Liverpool ONE, Thomas Steers Way, L1 8LW
This newly commissioned work spans Thomas Steers Way and links Liverpool ONE to the Dazzle Ship commission. Ev e n t s Tours of the Edmund Gardner Thursday 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 July, 7, 14, 21, 28 August 11am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm Free, booking required on 0151 478 4499
Education Programme Liverpool Biennial artist-in-residence Kevin Hunt will be working in response to the Dazzle Ship commission with various groups of people, exploring the history surrounding WW1. There will also be a learning resource available on the website. Co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool and 14–18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commission in partnership with Merseyside Maritime Museum. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England, Bloomberg, Cammell Laird, International Paint and Weightmans LLP.
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Michael Nyman Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial Saturday 5 July, 7.30pm
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Liverpool Cathedral, St James Mount, Liverpool L1 7AZ; Tickets £10, booking required
Liverpool Biennial, in partnership with Liverpool Philharmonic and Liverpool Cathedral, present a new, specially composed work by Michael Nyman, performed at Liverpool Cathedral on the opening weekend of Liverpool Biennial. Nyman’s Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial is performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with Liverpool-born mezzo soprano Kathryn Rudge and Liverpool Philharmonic Youth and Training Choirs, conducted by Josep Vicent. Twenty-five years after the Hillsborough tragedy, Nyman hopes that his Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial will make a small but significant contribution to the healing process that is still necessary for the families of the lost Liverpool FC fans. Ev e n t s In addition to the live performance of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial, a recording of the symphony will be played in Liverpool Cathedral at 15:06 on Wednesday 6 August, Monday 25 August, Wednesday 3 September and Wednesday 17 September. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England; supported as part of the official International Festival for Business 2014 Cultural Programme; Liverpool Biennial gratefully acknowledges financial support from PRS for Music Foundation. Michael Nyman photographed at Liverpool Philharmonic at the Friary in West Everton, Liverpool © Mark McNulty, 2014
Aztecs in Liverpool 5 July – 26 October
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Walker Art Gallery William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL
For Liverpool Biennial 2014, Michael Nyman creates a new film installation entitled Aztecs in Liverpool. The two-screen video installation includes footage collected by Nyman over the past twenty years in his adopted home, Mexico. The title refers to, and the work derives from, the presence in the World Museum in Liverpool of one of the finest Aztec codices, the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer.
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Frieze Projects An Occasion hosted by Isabel Lewis Tuesday 14 October – Sunday 19 October London and Liverpool, Free
Isabel Lewis is an artist of Dominican and American origin currently working in Berlin. Previously she lived in New York City, where she danced for many choreographers and, from 2004, showed her own commissioned works at The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, New Museum and Movement Research at Judson Church amongst other places. In 2009 she moved to Berlin and began working on a collection of notes that would become her solo show STRANGE ACTION. Lewis draws from her training in literary criticism, dance and choreography as well as from party and popular culture.
Her current work takes the form of hosted ‘occasions’ that are concerned with composition in the space of social encounter. Hospitable conditions are generated for the mixing of modalities from the sensual to the discursive. For further details visit www.biennial.com or www.frieze.com Isabel Lewis, Frieze Project co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, ICA and Frieze Image: Isabel Lewis
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The Residents Monday 29 September – Friday 3 October
Saturday 3 September, 6.30pm FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ, Free
An evening of new moving image works by Sonia Boyce, Petra Bauer, Keren Cytter, Agnieszka Polska, and Marinella Senatore, that respond broadly to the regulations and social orders that govern our lives – and in turn, the way that we attempt to break or navigate these rules. These works have been commissioned in partnership with Contour Biennial of Moving Image, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts and Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, under the framework of the European Culture Programme 2007 – 2013. Agnieszka Polska’s film was co-produced by the following additional partners: Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden; and ACT Art Collection Telekom. Works by Peter Wächtler, as well as Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet, have also been jointly commissioned and are presented at The Old Blind School as part of A Needle Walks into a Haystack.
Liverpool Biennial’s first intensive research project takes place in Liverpool during the 2014 festival and builds a curatorial framework on which the 2016 Biennial can develop. It is convened by Liverpool Biennial’s curatorial correspondents for Education and Urbanism, Dominic Willsdon and Joseph Grima, along with other curators and artists. The weeklong programme is focused on asking questions about how we live together and how our cities are built from their domestic spaces. To apply and for more information visit www.biennial.com
International Biennial Association Summit What models are needed for the future? Saturday 11 October, 10am – 4pm Capstone Theatre, Liverpool Hope University, 17 Shaw Street, L6 1HP, Free
The International Biennial Association Summit in Liverpool brings international representatives of the IBA together with professionals in the UK that organise periodic and Biennial festivals. Together they explore a range of Biennial models in order to broaden knowledge of international practice in the UK. For further details visit www.biennial.com Supported by Arts Council England and British Council
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Other Exhibitions & Events Solo and group exhibitions and performances across the city and nearby, running concurrently with Liverpool Biennial events.
Independents Liverpool Biennial 5 July – 26 October Various venues, check independentsbiennial.org for full exhibition listings Sculptural Forms: A Century of Experiment 15 February – 7 September Manchester Art Gallery Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences 16 May – 10 August The Walker Art Gallery
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An Exhibition of Artists’ Books 2 June – 6 July Liverpool Central Library
15 Botech Compositions:
New Works by Macoto Muryama 5 July – 27 September METAL
14 Jesse Wine and Glen Pudvine:
Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs 5 July – 4 August Cactus
15 Susan Forsyth: Art Sheds
5 July – 25 October Victoria Gallery & Museum
14 Rob Chavasse: Ghostie
5 July – 10 August Private View 4 July from 6pm The Royal Standard
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An Opera by Tommy Ting 6 July 2014 Chilli Chilli Restaurant, Liverpool Chinatown
17 Aiko Miyanaga
Etyma: A Tiding of Good Words 10 – 12 July Tate Liverpool
17 Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair
Weekend House with CHRISTEENE 18 – 20 July Islington Mill B&B, Manchester
Mondrian and his Studios 6 June – 5 October Tate Liverpool
3 July – 21 September Liverpool Central Library
4 – 5 July 2014 Liverpool Central Library
The Art Car Boot Fair 5 July 2014 CCP Carpark, 45 – 61 Duke St Islington Mill at The Black-E: Temporary Custodians of... 5 – 6 July 2014 The Black-E
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Gesamtkunstwerk & Faktion present Kevin Drumm 24 July Islington Mill, Manchester Syndrome Sessions 2.0: featuring Apatt 25 July, 8–11pm 24 Kitchen Street
Other Exhibitions & Events
Classic Slum present Eccentronic Research Council ft. Maxine Peake 26 July Islington Mill, Manchester Small Changes Make a Big Difference 15 August The Piazza, Millennium Centre, Belle Vale Park
14 Sam Smith: Frames of Reference
22 August – 28 September The Royal Standard
14 Katharina Fengler: SWEETNESS 23 August – 21 September Cactus Liverpool International Music Festival in association with The Kazimier and Samizdat present: Minor Characters, ft. Luke Abbott (new live commission) Plus support from Outfit & Big Effigy DJ sets 29 August, 8pm The Kazimier Syndrome Sessions 2.2: HOLLY HERNDON 29 August, 8 – 11pm 24 Kitchen Street Syndrome 2.3: Ambisonic exploration feat. Kairo (Holly Herndon & Matt Dryhurst) 3 September, 8–11pm 24 Kitchen Street
14 Joey Holder: Hydrozoan
19 September – 26 October The Royal Standard Private View 26 Sept, from 6pm
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Bohemian Grove 20 September Islington Mill, Manchester Free for Arts Festival 29 September – 13 October Islington Mill, Manchester Irish City Council: Create8 1 October, All day Various venues
3 Context + Place:
A showcase series by Ireland based Contemporary Artists 1 October the Bluecoat and other venues
14 Harry Meadley: LEVEL 2
3 – 26 October Cactus
Kazimier Presents: The Void 22 – 25 October Secret location Whitworth Reopens: Cornelia Parker, Cai Guo-Qiang, Johnnie Shand Kydd, Thomas Schutte & Others 25 October Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
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Education Programme
© Mark McNulty
Artist-in-Residence Kevin Hunt has been commissioned as Artist in Residence for Liverpool Biennial 2014 to develop artworks and projects that engage people and places in making and thinking about art. He is working across a series of Biennial projects including Sunday Art School, Dazzle Ship and the development of learning resources, as well as the creation of new work. FLUX Liverpool & Young Fellows FLUX Liverpool is a pioneering arts festival engineered by young people and set within Liverpool’s world-class arts and culture offer. From 17 July – 2 August audiences
are invited to discover a range of multiarts performances and events online and across the city. From literary events, film and music to gaming and visual arts, there is something for everyone. As part of FLUX Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial is launching a ‘Young Fellows’ programme, working with students and tutors from The City of Liverpool College and Hope University. 20 Young Fellows are creating their own project in response to the training as well as facilitating the Liverpool Biennial 2014 exhibition for the duration of Flux Liverpool. They also support Sunday Art School and provide tours for the public.
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Family Programme
Throughout Liverpool Biennial 2014, there is a free family programme of events and workshops, with many of our exhibitions supported by family activities. Sunday Art School in collaboration with Kevin Hunt Sunday 20 July, 28 September, 26 October, 1–5pm The Old Blind School, 24 Hardman Street, L1 9AX Free, drop-in
Sunday Art School with ‘Flying Over Liverpool’ The Everton Park Kite Festival Saturday 16 August, 12 – 4pm WECC, Bute St, L5 3LA from 12pm Everton Park from 2pm Create Carlos Cruz-Diez inspired dazzle kites and then join the Kite Festival and fly them over the best view of the City and the Mersey – you won’t want to come down! Free, drop-in
Explore at the Bluecoat Every Saturday, 1 – 4pm A host of creative activities related to the Whistler exhibition for families to do together. Drop in for a short time or spend all afternoon making your own masterpiece. Free, drop-in
© Pete Carr
Summer Holiday Explore at the Bluecoat Mondays to Saturdays 23 July – 30 August, 10am – 4pm Why did Whistler make his gallery attendants wear yellow? Find out the answer to this question and more with the Bluecoat’s Engagement Team who are in the galleries with activities for families and anyone with an enquiring mind. Free, drop-in
Family Sessions at FACT Saturday 26 July, 23 August, 20 September, 12 – 4pm Artist-led family workshops designed to be enjoyed by children and ‘big kids’ alike. Free, drop-in
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Travel Information – How to Get Around
The Liverpool City Region has many passions – from sport to visual arts and music to architecture. It is this variety that makes it such a popular destination for visitors, and the ideal destination to explore. With the largest collection of museums and galleries anywhere outside of London, culture and heritage are at the very heart of the city. There’s a fantastic selection of performance spaces too, from grand theatres to intimate clubs. Liverpool was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status in 2004. This status encompasses the historic William Brown Street, the commercial district and of course the Liverpool Waterfront – perhaps the enduring image of the city, and home to institutions old and new: the Liver Birds, the Cunard Building, Museum of Liverpool, Tate Liverpool and Albert Dock. On the other side of the city centre is the Hope Street area, with its architectural smorgasbord dominated by the two magnificent cathedrals at either end of the street. This area has some of the best food and drink in the city, whether you’re looking for innovative dining or pubs full of character. For more information visit www.visitliverpool.com
Walking A great way to explore Liverpool is to start at the top of the city and walk down to the waterfront, visiting all of our venues en route. Find a walking route anywhere in Liverpool on WalkIt.com Getting around by bike It’s quick and easy to get between our venues by bike, so you’ll be able to pack even more into your day. For more information on cycle parking and routes around town, download or request a copy of Liverpool’s cycle map from liverpool.gov.uk/cycling. And why not give Liverpool’s cycle hire scheme a try? Sign up and you can collect and drop off a bike from any one of the on-street stations. No booking is needed and it is selfservice – just turn up and go. More information at www.citybikeliverpool.co.uk Liverpool One Bus Station, Paradise Street The main bus station is located in the heart of the city, with regular buses connecting the whole Merseyside area, and an information point where you can check travel times and plan your route. Trains Travel around the city using the Merseyrail network, with stations throughout the city centre. Each of our Exhibition venues is located within walking distance of a train station. Regular services to and from Liverpool make it one of the most accessible cities on the UK rail network. Virgin trains operate a LondonLiverpool service, with a journey time of just over two hours.
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Where to Stay
We want you to make the most of your visit by finding somewhere great to stay. Liverpool Biennial is delighted to work with the following hotel partners. Hope Street Hotel Renovated from the shell of a Venetianstyle warehouse in Liverpool’s fashionable Georgian district, the hotel is set between the city’s two cathedrals and surrounded by its universities, theatres and concert hall. The style is contemporary and chic, with a natural, organic feel. 40 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9DA 0151 709 3000 www.hopestreethotel.co.uk The Nadler Liverpool Now into its fourth year, this awardwinning hotel in the city’s Ropewalks district comprises 106 four-star rooms in seven different room types: from the cosy Super Singles, to spacious double-height Gallery Studios, and the beautiful Secret Garden Suite, offering split-level luxury accommodation with its own private garden. Visitors to Liverpool Biennial can enjoy 15% off best room rates at The Nadler Liverpool. Just quote the code, BIE2014, when making your booking. 29 Seel Street, Liverpool L1 4AU 0151 705 2626 www.thenadler.com/liverpool
Premier Apartments Premier Apartments Liverpool offers a mixture of one and two bedroom apartments designed to a high specification. Features include a fully furnished lounge, kitchen/ diner and separate bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms. Ideally located just a short stroll from the shops, bars and leisure attractions, they provide the perfect solution to your accommodation needs for both long and short-term stays. Visitors to Liverpool Biennial can enjoy 5% off the best available rate at Premier Apartments. Just quote the code, BIEN5, when making your booking. 7 Hatton Garden, Liverpool L3 2FE 0151 227 9467 www.premierapartmentsliverpool.com Titanic Hotel Liverpool The Titanic Hotel Liverpool project is a restoration of one of the city’s most historic and iconic buildings. It forms part of the Stanley Dock Village development overlooking the waters at Stanley Dock. The North warehouse is an impressive red-brick warehouse sitting opposite its even bigger sister, the colossus that is the Tobacco Warehouse, once the largest brick building in the world and built in 1901. Stanley Dock Liverpool 0151 559 3356 www.titanichotelliverpool.com
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Food & Drink
The city is packed with great places to eat and drink for every budget and palette. Liverpool Biennial is delighted to work with the following restaurant partners. The London Carriageworks Modern international dishes with an emphasis on local, fresh and seasonal produce, complemented by a carefully selected 200 bin wine list. The London Carriage Works is sister to Hope Street Hotel and is open to the public seven days a week, from breakfast to nightcaps, with lunch, afternoon tea, supper, dinner and cocktails in-between. 40 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9DA 0151 705 2222 www.thelondoncarriageworks.co.uk Piccolino Located on Cook Street in Liverpool, Piccolino serves the best and freshest seasonal produce, Italian cheeses, meat and seafood that reflect pure Italian flavours. The restaurant menus offer a wonderful combination of both modern and classic Italian dishes prepared in an open kitchen in full view of diners. Fresh pasta is made daily in the bespoke pasta kitchen using only the finest ingredients and traditional techniques. To complement these dishes perfectly, Piccolino also provides a full list of discovery and popular wine styles, researched and tasted by in-house wine experts. 14a Cook Street, Liverpool, L2 9QU 0151 236 2555 www.individualrestaurants.com/piccolino
Restaurant Bar and Grill Located in Halifax House, in the heart of the busy commercial district on Brunswick Street, The Restaurant Bar & Grill in Liverpool creates an impression as soon as guests walk through the former old banking hall doors. This modern, stylish and innovative restaurant is the perfect destination for any occasion, whether it’s a business lunch or simply relaxing with a fabulous cocktail at the bar. Halifax House, Brunswick Street, Liverpool L2 0UU 0151 236 6703 www.individualrestaurants.com/ bar-and-grill/liverpool/ What’s at Sixty Two What’s at Sixty Two is a bar, restaurant and function space in the opulent surroundings of 62 Castle Street. The interior takes inspiration from the grand old mansions of Louisiana, creating a warm and inviting space and offering diners a southern soul menu inspired by Memphis and flavours of the Deep South. 62 Castle Street, Liverpool, L2 7LQ 0151 236 2232 www.whatsatsixtytwo.com For more information and recommendations from our team go to www.biennial.com/visit
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Calendar of Events July Thur 3 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm
Exhibitions are open daily. Entrance to exhibitions and events is free, unless otherwise stated. Canning Graving Dock
TOUR
Sat 5 12pm Margaret MacDonald Talk on James McNeill Whistler
the Bluecoat booking required
TALK
1–4pm Explore
the Bluecoat
1–4pm Artist Talks hosted by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman
Liverpool Medical Institution
TALK
2.30pm Tour: Adrian Henri with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator
LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre
TOUR
7.30pm Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial by Michael Nyman
Liverpool Cathedral £10, booking required
Sun 6 11.45am Brunch and Artist Talk with Ira Lombardía
Open Eye Gallery £10 / £8 concessions booking required
TALK
2.30pm
LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre
TOUR
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
Tour: Adrian Henri with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator and Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director, the Bluecoat
FAMILY
PERFORMANCE
Mon 7 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members) Thurs 10 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
Canning Graving Dock
Sat 12 10am–4pm Printmaking Workshop: Introduction to Intaglio the Bluecoat with Emma Gregory £130/£120 booking required
1–4pm
Explore
2pm Tour: James McNeill Whistler with Sara Jayne-Parsons, Exhibition Curator at the Bluecoat and Rosie Cooper, Project Curator at Liverpool Biennial Sun 13
2.30pm
Tour: Not All Documents Are Records
TOUR
WORKSHOP
the Bluecoat
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
6.30pm Drinks With… Andrew Kötting
FAMILY
the Bluecoat booking required
TOUR
Open Eye Gallery
TOUR
Weds 16 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members) Thurs 17 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm
FILM
FILM
Canning Graving Dock
TOUR
Liverpool Medical Institution booking required
FILM
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Thurs 17
FLUX Festival starts (runs until 2 August)
Liverpool City Centre
FAMILY
Fictional Storytelling Through Photography with Cristina de Middel
Open Eye Gallery £250 / £220 conc
WORKSHOP
Fri 18
Fictional Storytelling Through Photography with Cristina de Middel
Open Eye Gallery £250 / £220 conc
WORKSHOP
Sat 19 1–4pm
Explore
the Bluecoat
FAMILY
2pm Tour: Group Show with Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool Biennial
The Old Blind School booking required
TOUR
Sun 20 1–5pm (drop-in)
The Old Blind School
FAMILY
Mon 21 1pm RIBA Architecture Tour
The Old Blind School booking required
TOUR
Weds 23 10am–4pm Summer Holiday Explore (continues every day until 30 August, except Sundays)
the Bluecoat
Thurs 24 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
Canning Graving Dock
12–4pm
Family Sessions at FACT
FACT FAMILY
1–4pm
Explore
the Bluecoat
Sat 26
Sunday Art School Summer Programme
2pm Tour: Claude Parent & Works from the Tate collection with Stephanie Straine, Assistant Curator, Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool booking required
Tues 29 Contemporary culture course
Walker Art Gallery booking required
FAMILY TOUR
FAMILY TOUR WORKSHOP
Weds 30 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members)
FILM
Contemporary culture course
Walker Art Gallery booking required
Thurs 31 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm
Canning Graving Dock
TOUR
6.30pm Drinks With… Lynne Tillman
Liverpool Medical Institution booking required
TALK
Contemporary culture course
Walker Art Gallery booking required
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
All listings are accurate at time of print.
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP
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August Sat 2
1–4pm
2pm
Exhibitions are open daily. Entrance to exhibitions and events is free, unless otherwise stated. Explore
the Bluecoat
FAMILY
Tour: James McNeill Whistler with Simone Mair, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial
the Bluecoat booking required
TOUR
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Walker Art Gallery
TALK
Weds 6 3.06pm
Broadcast of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial by Michael Nyman
Liverpool Cathedral
Thurs 7 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
Canning Graving Dock
Tues 5
1pm
Sat 9 1–4pm Explore
2pm Tour: Group Show with Ellen Greig, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial
OTHER
the Bluecoat
TOUR
FAMILY
The Old Blind School booking required
TOUR
Sun 10
2.30pm
Tour: Not All Documents Are Records
Open Eye Gallery
TOUR
Tues 12
1pm
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Walker Art Gallery
TALK
Weds 13 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members) Thurs 14 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
6.30pm Drinks With… Sat 16
12–4pm (drop-in)
Sunday Art School with ‘Flying Over Liverpool’ The Everton Park Kite Festival
1–4pm Explore
FILM
Canning Graving Dock
TOUR
Liverpool Medical Institution booking required
TALK
WECC / Everton Park
FAMILY
the Bluecoat
FAMILY
2pm Tour: Sharon Lockhart with Ellen Greig, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial
FACT TOUR booking required
Mon 18 1pm RIBA Architecture Tour
The Old Blind School booking required
TOUR
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Walker Art Gallery
TALK
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
Canning Graving Dock
TOUR
Family Sessions at FACT
FACT
FAMILY
the Bluecoat
FAMILY
Tues 19
1pm
Thurs 21 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm Sat 23
12–4pm
1–4pm Explore
2pm
Tour: Jef Cornelis with Vanessa Boni, Public Programmes Curator, Liverpool Biennial
St. Andrews Gardens booking required
Mon 25 3.06pm
Broadcast of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial by Michael Nyman
Liverpool Cathedral booking required
TOUR
OTHER
Calendar
Tues 26
1pm
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Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Walker Art Gallery
Weds 27 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members) Thurs 28 11am 12.30pm 2.30pm
Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner
6.30pm Drinks With… Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Sat 30
1–4pm
Explore
September 1pm
TOUR
Liverpool Medical Institution booking required
TALK
Tate Liverpool booking required
Walker Art Gallery
Weds 3 3.06pm
Broadcast of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial by Michael Nyman
Liverpool Cathedral
6.30pm
Leisure, Discipline and Punishment FACT
Sat 6
1–4pm
Explore
2pm Tues 9
1pm
FAMILY TOUR
Exhibitions are open daily. Entrance to exhibitions and events is free, unless otherwise stated.
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Tues 2
FILM
Canning Graving Dock
the Bluecoat
2pm Tour: Claude Parent & Works from the Tate collection with Rosie Cooper, Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial
TALK
the Bluecoat
TALK OTHER FILM FAMILY
Tour: Claude Parent & Works from the Tate collection Tate Liverpool with Francesco Manacorda, Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool booking required
TOUR
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
TALK
Walker Art Gallery
Weds 10 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members)
FILM
Thurs 11 6.30pm Drinks With…
TALK
Sat 13
1–4pm
2pm Sun 14
2.30pm
Explore
the Bluecoat
Tour: Sharon Lockhart with Ana Botella, Programme Producer, FACT
FACT booking required
TOUR
Tour: Not All Documents Are Records
Open Eye Gallery
TOUR
The Old Blind School booking required
TOUR
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Walker Art Gallery
TALK
Tour: James McNeill Whistler with Mai Abu ElDahab, Co-Curator, Liverpool Biennial
the Bluecoat booking required
TOUR
The Old Blind School booking required
FILM
Mon 15 1pm RIBA Architecture Tour Tues 16
1pm
2pm
Liverpool Medical Institution booking required
6.30pm Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists
FAMILY
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Weds 17 3.06pm
Broadcast of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial by Michael Nyman
Liverpool Cathedral
OTHER
Fri 19 6–8pm
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 Private View
World Museum
OTHER
9.30pm The Companion Opening Event Josephine Foster and Victor Herrero
Philharmonic Dining Rooms PERFORMANCE
Sat 20
All day
The Companion: Performance Weekend
Various venues
12–4pm
Family Sessions at FACT
FACT
1–4pm Explore 2.30pm Tour: Adrian Henri with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator 6pm Adrian Henri: Total Art Book Launch with Occasional Papers Sun 21
All day
The Companion: Performance Weekend
PERFORMANCE FAMILY
the Bluecoat LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre the Bluecoat
FAMILY TOUR OTHER
Various venues
2.30pm
Tour: Adrian Henri with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator
PERFORMANCE LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre TOUR
2.30pm, 7.20pm
Phillip Jeck: Vinyl Requiem Revisited
the Bluecoat
Tues 23 1pm
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Walker Art Gallery
OTHER TALK
Weds 24 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members)
FILM
Fri 26 10–5pm
Rolling around like gorillas on the incline: Tate Liverpool opening the imaginary in architecture and the arts £15/£10 booking required
TALK
Sat 27 1–4pm
Explore
the Bluecoat
FAMILY
2pm Tour: Group Show with Rosie Cooper, Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial
The Old Blind School booking required
TOUR
Sun 28 1–5pm (drop-in)
The Old Blind School
FAMILY
Sunday Art School Summer Programme
3–9.30pm TV AS MATERIAL 4: The Longest Day
Tate Modern
FILM
Tues 30 1pm
Walker Art Gallery
TALK
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
All listings are accurate at time of print.
Calendar
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October
Exhibitions are open daily. Entrance to exhibitions and events is free, unless otherwise stated.
Sat 4 1–4pm Explore
the Bluecoat
Weds 8 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members)
FILM
International Biennial Association Summit
Capstone Theatre
OTHER
Sat 11 1–4pm
Explore
the Bluecoat
FAMILY
2pm
Tour: Sharon Lockhart with Mike Stubbs, Director, FACT
FACT TOUR booking required
Fri 10
10am–4pm
FAMILY
Sun 12
2.30pm
Tour: Not All Documents Are Records
Open Eye Gallery
TOUR
Tues 14
1pm
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Walker Art Gallery
TALK
Paul O’Keeffe: Whistler v Ruskin: the ‘Pot of Paint’ Libel Trial
the Bluecoat booking recommended
TALK
Weds 15 7pm
Fri 17 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Launch, Q&A FACT Sat 18 1–4pm
Explore
the Bluecoat
FILM FAMILY
2pm Tour: Jef Cornelis with Polly Brannan, Education Curator, Liverpool Biennial
St. Andrews Gardens booking required
TOUR
Sun 19 2pm
The Old Blind School booking required
TOUR
The Old Blind School booking required
TOUR
Walker Art Gallery
TALK
Tour: Group Show with Anthony Huberman, Co-Curator, Liverpool Biennial
Mon 20 1pm RIBA Architecture Tour Tues 21
1pm
Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize
Weds 22 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT £6 / £5 (FACT Members)
FILM
Thurs 23 6.30pm Drinks With… Ben Highmore
Liverpool Medical Institution booking required
TALK
Sat 25 1–4pm
Explore
the Bluecoat
Tour: Adrian Henri with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator
LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre
Sun 26 1–5pm (drop-in)
Sunday Art School Summer Programme
The Old Blind School
2.30pm
Tour: Adrian Henri with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator
LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre
2.30pm
FAMILY TOUR FAMILY TOUR
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