David Jacques and Stewart Home talk on Art and Rebellion
May 19th
David Jacques and Stewart Home talk on Art and Rebellion | Liverpool Art and Culture Blog.
Writing on the Wall Event – Wednesday 19th May 2010
Art and rebellion – Stewart Home and David Jacques (Short-listed for the Liverpool Art Prize 2010)
Stewart Home is an artist, theorist and writer whose oeuvre covers non-fiction work on utopianism, situationism, psychogeography and punk rock, and a diverse range of experimental popular novels with titles including, 69 Things to do with a Dead Princess.
Stewart, will be reading from his 1991 book Defiant Pose and his recently released novel Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie.
Dave Jacques is a Liverpool-born artist whose work focuses on hidden histories and the struggles of ordinary and extraordinary people. With ‘Stereoviews to the World’ Dave presents his latest work, an enigmatic experiment with the centres and peripheries of human vision with a series of eye-bending ‘stereoviews’, images designed for the cross-eyed and curious.
Blackburne House, Hope Street, L8 7PE
Time: 7.30pm
Entry: £3/£2 concessions
Payable on the door
Alphonso Lingis ‘Touched’ Talk
May 17th
VIDEO: Touched Talks: Alphonso Lingis (part 1) from Liverpool Biennial on Vimeo.
Alphonso Lingis
23 March 2010 7-9:30pm
The Bluecoat (performance space)
The presentation stages seven events in which we are touched and wounded by things—untouchable things. Events and people encountered in Europe, America, Australia, Turkey, Indonesia. Events in which individuals found or put themselves in extreme situations, of violence, sacrifice, and darkness, in which horror, audacity, splendor, and transfiguration were revealed.
Alphonso Lingis is a world renowned philosopher who lives his first-person writing in extraordinary encounters with people and places, plants and cultures, art and objects. His thinking combines phenomenology, anthropology and ethics to think through topics such as lust, trust, love and death. His writing on courage and Iraq is amongst the most insightful commentaries on our relation to war and conflict. He is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus of Penn State University and translated the work of philosophers such as Merleau-Ponty. Emmanuel Levinas and Pierre Klossowski to an English readership. He has published Excesses: Eros and Culture (1984), Libido: The French Existential Theories (1985). Phenomenological Explanations (1986), Deathbound Subjectivity (1989), The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (1994), Abuses (1994), Foreign Bodies (1994), Sensation: Intelligibility in Sensibility (1995), The Imperative (1998), Dangerous Emotions (1999), Trust (2003) , Body Modifications: Evolutions and Atavisms in Culture (2005), The First Person Singular (2007) and the forthcoming Violence and Splendor.
Bruce Mau Lecture in Liverpool
May 17th
VIDEO: Bruce Mau Lecture from Liverpool Biennial on Vimeo.
Visionary and world-leading innovator Bruce Mau is participating in the visioning process to re-imagine the future of Liverpool.
Mau’s visit focused specifically on Everton Park as a potential catalyst for change during 2010 Year of Health and Wellbeing.
In a lecture at Liverpool Hope University, Mau shares some major recent initiatives at Bruce Mau Design studio that can be seen as case studies for this ambitious endeavor.
Critical Forum. Political Picasso: Peace and Freedom in the Cold War
Apr 30th
Critical Forum. Political Picasso: Peace and Freedom in the Cold War
Friday 21 May 2010, 11.00-18.00
Leggate Lecture Theatre, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool
£40, £30 (Concessions), booking required – Price includes lunch & refreshments
For tickets call +44 (0)151 702 7400 or book online
The conference sets out to re-assess radically the significance of Picasso’s involvement in the Cold War-dominated politics of the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s in the USA, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the USSR.
Bluecoat – Global Studio Tuesday Talks
Apr 25th
Bluecoat – Global Studio Talks
A series of talks, presentations and discussions by the artists involved in the Global Studio exhibition. For information on the exhibition please click here.
Tuesday Talks:
Tue 4 May, 6.00pm: Artists’ talk – Lin Holland & Sadia Salim
Voilá: The Royal Standard
Tue 11 May, 6.00pm: What makes a studio? discussion
Tue 18 May, 6.00pm: Voilá – a Royal Standard event
Tue 25 May, 6.00pm: Artist’s talk – Wuon-Gean Ho
Tue 1 June, 6.00pm: Voilá: The Royal Standard
Tue 8 June, 6.00pm: Artist’s talk – Pete Clark
Tue 15 June, 6.00pm: Voilá: The Royal Standard
Gina Czarnecki Presentation at LJMU for moves10
Apr 22nd
Gina Czarnecki who has been short-listed for the Liverpool Art Prize 2010 is giving a talk and presentation as part of the moves10 festival. If you attend, why not post your comments here.
moves is extremely proud to present an exclusive artist talk by Liverpool-based internationally acclaimed artist Gina Czarnecki.
Events/Screening:
23 April 2010, 16:00, LJMU, Arts and Design Academy, Liverpool
Gina will talk about her work & new projects presenting her latest piece “Spintex” & work in progress “Quarantine”. Screening includes excerpts from “Versifier”, “Nascent”, “Infected” and “Spine” Czarnecki’s projects confront issues surrounding the convergence of biology and technology, and the possible corruption of the human genetic mix.
Czarnecki has exhibited her films and installations widely across the UK and around the world. She has been shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize.
Paul Rooney to Talk at The Whitworth art Gallery
Apr 22nd
Liverpool-based artist Paul Rooney who has been short-listed for this year’s Liverpool Art Prize is to give a talk on Tuesday. It would be good to read any feedback here from any attendees.
Tuesday Talks at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
11.00am – 12.30pm
The Tuesday Talks series, programme by Professor Pavel Büchler, explores the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art.
Paul Rooney 27 April
Paul Rooney was a founder member of the artists’ collective Common Culture and the Liverpool band Rooney. He works in a range of media including music, film, video and web-based projects, as well as writing texts, which are an integral part of a practice that successfully spans the worlds of contemporary art and pop music. His works are heavily layered with
references drawn from history and popular culture. They are often collaborations with people from all walks of life, but equally often theytell stories of characters he invents or finds online.
Thinking Outside the Box
Apr 21st
27th April – 9th May at The Bluecoat, Liverpool
For the second part of The Royal Standard’s contribution to Global Studio, Hamish McLain has initiated a group exhibition looking outside of his own painting practice, to see how artists working in other mediums realise their ideas.
Featuring work by Andrew Bracey, Amelia Crouch, Michael Lent and Hamish McLain. The exhibition will engage with issues of place and how experience effects our response to different environments, through painting, sculpture, video, text and photography.
The four artists have been communicating through a blog to track the development of their ideas and explore shared concerns in their practices. To learn more go to www.thinkingoutsidethebox-globalstudio.blogspot.com
EVENT - Monday 26th April, 6 – 7pm at The Bluecoat
Join the artists in discussion for first hand insight into the decision making process involved when artists curate their own work. The exhibition will be a ‘work in progress’ as they decide on the placement of work and it’s significance, along with the themes of the exhibition. The final installation will be viewable from Tuesday 27th at 5pm, running until Sunday 9th May.
If you’re finishing work at 6, then come on down, we’ll aim to kick off around 6:15
Hope to see you there!
The Economy of the Gift/Eleanor Moreton/Global Studio
Apr 16th
Jacob Dahlgren's Colour Reading Context
It’s not just the weather that’s hotting up. With the launch this week of three new shows, Liverpool’s arts calendar suddenly has a spring in its step too.
Over in Greenland Street, the A Foundation is hosting an ambitious project aimed at placing the tortuous relationship between art and commerce squarely in the spotlight.
In a city which values a derelict, Banksy-daubed pub more than an entire waterfront apartment complex, we’re not immune to the commoditization of creativity. More >
Touched Talks: Alphonso Lingis at the Bluecoat
Feb 21st
Biennial: Touched Talks: Alphonso Lingis
Tuesday 23 March 2010 at 19.00
In the run up to the Liverpool Biennial in September prominent artists and thinkers explore this year’s theme, Touched.
Dominion of Shadows “Dominion of Shadows is a work of beauty, humility and humour. Lingis performatively weaves a thread of experience in warm aphorisms – gentle, gruesome and filled with splendour.” –University of Sydney, Australia Alphonso Lingis is a world-renowned philosopher, currently Professor Emeritus of Pennsylvania State University.
He specializes in phenomenology/existentialism, modern philosophy, and ethics. His first-person performance-lectures give an insight into his extraordinary encounters with peoples, places, cultures, and art, touching on the themes of war, conflict, love, and death just to name a few.
He has published 14 books with Violence and Splendor (2009) his most recent.
Click here to book your tickets for Touched Talks: Alphonso Lingis
