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Residencies and One Day Sculptures
A mixed bag of things today…. For one we are all off to Karl-Heinz Klopf’s show later on for a look around and some drinks and chatter. Static at 7pm. I’ve heard there is a punch bag involved...
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Organising travel for the TOUCHED TALK speakers at the moment. The first one is next week, Steven Connor at JMU on Wednesday 17th February. Places are free and can be booked on this site (main page,...
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Three Pronged Silver Forks
We got three new books into the office today– Steven Connors The Book of Skin, Jean-Luc Nancy’s Corpus and Jacques Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign. I haven’t read any of them before....
View ArticleArt News this Morning
Henry Moore documentaries to be digitised and made available. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/feb/15/tate-britain-henry-moore-retrospective-bbc-archive Controversial new public art in Brick...
View ArticlePeter Arlt and eating Italian food in Tranmere
Peter Arlt, our Linz residency artist, held a lunch today in Tranmere to talk to some of the people he has been meeting in his walks around the Wirral about the project he has been thinking about for...
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On the Streets PART 2 and other things
I won’t bang on about this too much again…i just wanted to finish off that On the Streets update by enthusing about the fact that we are inviting Jeanne van Heeswijk to work on a durational project (a...
View ArticleDown the Rabbit Hole
Today i am listening to the dramatisation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland while i answer my emails and book some artists travel. I’m looking forward to seeing the Tim Burton version, in an...
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Vermeers Sitting Room and Sunny Days
Its hard to be in a bad mood today, the weather is so beautiful. I walked to work this morning with just a cardigan on. There is a garage near my house in Waterloo that puts a parrot outside in his...
View ArticleAlphonso Lingis Lecture
Tuesday was the Alphonso Lingis talk at the Bluecoat. I have been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Alphonso over the last few days and his over-dinner conversation is much the same as his...
View ArticleBloggerings
We were talking over lunch today about blogs and the general opinion seems to be that blogs are mainly drivel and not really worth the non-paper they are written on. Lorenzo forwarded around an article...
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Slow Art Day – 17 April 2010
While at the “Best of Britain and Ireland” Trade Forum last month, I had the excellent opportunity to hear Carl Honore speak about his book In Praise of Slow. He discussed not only the popular Slow...
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Sacha Reflections on Slow Art Day
I forget now when slow art day was….April 17th. I don’t think i saw any art on that day, in fact i know i didn’t. I did the grocery shopping, cooked a breakfast and made a list of all the shows i...
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The Mouse and The Golden Explosion
The mice have been playing about my desk over the bank holiday weekend and I came in today to find lots of little presents….I think all the building work has driven them from their homes on Jamaica...
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Update from Dany
A month’s already gone by since my arrival at Liverpool Biennial and I want to talk a little about what I’ve been doing and my first impressions of the city. I’ve spent some days exploring and...
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Laura Belém’s The Temple of a Thousand Bells launch
Laura Belém and The Temple of a Thousand Bells The Biennial team busied themselves yesterday with the launch of Brazilian visual artist Laura Belém‘s new artwork, The Temple of a Thousand Bells....
View ArticleArt for Places lives on….
What rubbish weather for August. I mean, come on! if anyone is reading this from Brazil or Mexico, anywhere hot, i am sending out dark unhospitable thoughts to you. I just had to get that out of my...
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Inside Biennial – Press and Media: Part Two
In her second blog, Biennial publicist and PR Catharine Braithwaite talks us through the launch week of Liverpool Biennial 2010… “Letting the dust settle a little and then looking at who has come to...
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Airport Art
Hello Biennial Blog, This entry has been a long time coming since I took over Sacha Waldrons position as Programme Assistant in September, but better late than never. So first things first, I’m Hannah...
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Are labels useful for contemporary art?
Right now I’m sitting with a stack of Biennial catalogues in front of me, colourful but dauntingly thick. Why, I hear you cry – and who are you anyway? Tackling those questions in reverse order my name...
View ArticleUsing the space
Viewing artwork in real life, like listening to live music, is an experience which can’t yet be beaten by any virtual facsimile, but as screen resolutions get better and mobile devices ever more...
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