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'Beautiful World. Where are you?', Liverpool Biennial 2018
No full textA new work commissioned for Liverpool Biennial 2018. To be developed and produced for the exhibition 2018.
The 10th edition of the UK biennial of contemporary art will be titled Beautiful world, where are you? and will take place from 14 July – 28 October 2018.
Fight is a series of silkscreen posters by Janice Kerbel located outside Bluecoat. Kerbel first choreographed an unarmed fight for a group of 12 individuals. Every action of the fight was recorded on sheets of paper the size of a body, using text in the area corresponding to the part of body where the impact is received. These drawings act both as recipients of action – becoming illegible with the layering of type – and a score for future action. The drawings were then printed onto campaign poster paper, which are presented from the ground up, emphasising their relationship to humans. Kerbel is interested in how fights can both erupt and dissipate unannounced, regardless of context or setting
Liverpool Biennial
No full textReview of the 5th Liverpool Biennial exhibition 'Made Up' on show at various venues in Liverpool (20 Sept.-30th Nov. 2008), featuring works by artists including Swedish collective A-APE, Atelier Bow-Wow, Annette Messager, Yoko Ono, Tracey Emin, Guy Ben-Ner, Omer Fast, Rodney Graham and Adrian Ghenie
Beyond Limits
Get PDFBeyond Limits: Disability at the Heart of the Arts, is the focus of the 13th issue of Stages Journal. The symposium was co-produced by Liverpool Biennial, partnering with DaDa and the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies (CCDS) at Liverpool Hope University, and took place on 6th November, at FACT, Liverpool
Curating, Biennials, and Artificial Intelligence
Get PDFStages #9 explores AI and curating at the time of the 11th edition of Liverpool Biennial,The Stomach and The Port. What can the practice of curating learn from AI, what can AI learn from curating, and how can both learn from questioning knowledge forms derived from colonialist frameworks of humans and machines
The Contemporary Condition: Key Concepts
Get PDFThe designator ‘contemporary art’ refers to an art that somehow addresses and expresses the present. But what is this present? What constitutes the present present and the contemporary contemporary? ‘When are you from?’, as the legend on the Liverpool Biennial bags reads
Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful world, where are you?
No full textHaegue Yang, The Grand Balcony, 2016. Installation view at La Biennale de Montréal. Photo: Guy L'Heureux. Liverpool Biennial 2018 Beautiful world, where are you? 14 July – 28 October The 10th edition of Liverpool Biennial, Beautiful world, where are you? invites artists and audiences to reflect on a world in social, political and economic turmoil. The title for Beautiful world, where are you? derives from a 1788 poem by the German poet Friedrich Schiller, set to music by Austrian composer Fra..
Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists' Social Initiatives
No full textThe conference Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists' Social Initiatives took place in November 2015. It sought to position ongoing and historical projects made by artists with and alongside communities in the context of contemporary social engagement discourse. In developing the conference, Sally Tallant, myself and our co-workers at Liverpool Biennial and the Black-E, Liverpool, wished to address an endemic problem within the arts which is enabled by three things in particular: firstly, the post-relational aesthetics reinvention of subject-object connections within the arts under the terms of new forms of utopian communicability rendered both investable, collectable and fashionable; secondly, the desperate enforcement of participatory practices by funding bodies under pressure to justify in governmentalised terms their spend on the otherwise elite arts in the UK context; and, thirdly, the erasure of the term ‘community’ within artistic, art theoretical and more general discourse and practice over the past 20 years
Unicode Class Vernacular
No full textUnicode Class Vernacular was created by artist Nathan Jones with 20 school pupils as part of Curious Mind's Specialist Leaders in Cultural Education (SLiCE) fellowship programme between Liverpool Biennial and The Studio, Liverpool. For the project, children spent a number of days playing ‘games’ in an attempt to explore the way we use visual, spoken and written language to communicate our identity. A dedicated website serves as a record of this game, reflecting on the potential for a new connectivity between ‘vernacular’ and ‘class’, using ‘unicode’ as a device to return the complexity of the spoken language to the written word
Connecting Research with Communities through Performative Social Science
Get PDFA pioneer in Performative Social Science, Kip Jones makes a case for the potential of arts-based social science to reach audiences and engage communities. Jones contextualises both the use of the arts in Social Science, as well as the utility of Social Science in the Arts and Humanities. The discussion turns next to examples from his own work and what happens when Art talks to Social Science and Social Science responds to Art. The benefits of such interaction and interdisciplinarity are outlined in relation to a recently completed project using multi-methods, which resulted in the production of a professional short film. In conclusion, Performative Social Science is redefined in terms of synthesis that can break down old boundaries, open up channels of communication and empower communities through engagement
Co Curator / Selector for 'NOISEfestival', 2008
No full textBillingham was a co - curator for NOISEfestival 2008.
NOISEfestival.com was launched in Liverpool on 23rd February 2006 during the 2006 Liverpool Biennial. It was the UK’s first independent online arts showcase, presenting the best people under-25 in any artistic discipline that could be presented digitally. The platform was initiated following a highly successful blueprint from international events in Singapore and Australia.
It included fashion, music, film, photography, fine art, design, architecture, the written word, graphic design, new media and illustration. NOISEfestival served as a virtual exhibition and aimed to project the next creative generation to a mass audience. It also helped talented young people break into the Creative Industries, serving as a professional network for young artists. It connected for example, musicians with filmmakers, fashion designers with photographers and writers with illustrators.
The best work submitted was judged by a panel of Curators. For the 2008 festival, besides Billingham (Photography), the panel also included Zaha Hadid (Architecture), Badly Drawn Boy (Music), Tom Dixon (Product Design), Norman Rosenthal (Fine Art), James Sommerville of Attik (Graphics & New Media), Warp Films (Moving Image) and Big Active (Illustration).
Media partnerships included MTV, BBC and MSN. There were exclusive events online and profiles of NOISEfestival.com artists across television, radio and print, including a dedicated NOISEfestival.com TV channel
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