15 September 25 November The UK Biennial of Contemporary Art

Liverpool Biennial 2012

Ten weeks of free exhibitions, talks, films, tours and events

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The Unexpected Guest

The Unexpected Guest explores notions of hospitality. Leading and emerging artists have been commissioned to make permanent and temporary public artworks, as well as long-term community-based projects. Works by over 60 international artists unfold across the city in its major galleries and a range of sites including The Cunard Building, the LJMU Copperas Hill Building, The Monro, Liverpool ONE, Everton Park and Anfield. Hospitality is the welcome we extend to strangers, an attitude and a code of conduct fundamental to civilisation, as well as a metaphor whose conditions and energy inspires artists. In a globalising world, increasing mobility and interdependence are changing the rules of hospitality. There are different cultures of hospitality, often co-existent in the same place. Our awareness of such complexity and migration between nations and cultures makes clear distinctions between host and guest increasingly difficult. All works are commissioned by Liverpool Biennial unless otherwise stated

1 The Cunard Building

Sylvie Blocher The Series: Speeches, 2012 Blochers project is to intervene with significant political speeches and utopian manifestos, each of which promised happiness or emancipation but failed to deliver. Each is re-told in a way that acknowledges changed contexts bringing new voices, new forms of energy and a sense of catharsis to the texts. Andrea Bowers City of Sanctuary, 2012 Artist and activist Andrea Bowers amplifies the launch of Liverpool as a City of Sanctuary for asylum seekers and refugees. Bowers and STAR (Student Action for Refugees) have collaborated with designer Sam Wiehl to create a visual identity for the campaign. Mona Hatoum A selection of recent works, some of which have never been seen in the UK, are presented in The Cunard Building. In these works, the viewer will be confronted by unusual mappings of the world and ideas of cultural arrogance and political ignorance. Jeanne van Heeswijk, Britt Jurgensen, Debbie Morgan, Graham Hicks and the residents of Anfield The Anfield Home Tour, 2012 Saturdays 11.30am Visitors are invited to join a heritage tour to Anfield. The tour presents the impact that regeneration has had, and continues to have, on the lives of people in the neighbourhood. An intervention and audio work can be found in The Peoples Republic Gallery at the Museum of Liverpool, amongst the exhibits on labour history. Bus departs from The Cunard Building. Places limited. Booking essential: 0151 702 5234

Opposite: Photo of The Cunard Building by Edward Park

Nadia Kaabi-Linke NO, 2012 Parkverbot, 2010 Kaabi-Linkes newly-commissioned project presents a dialogue in which a crowd opposes an individual voice of authority. The work focuses on the visa process that many endure in order to enter the UK. Kaabi-Linke draws a parallel between these contemporary regulations and the Holy Inquisition, in which brutal judiciary procedures presumed a guilty verdict without a fair hearing. Co-produced by Liverpool Biennial with the Kamel Lazaar Foundation Jir Kovanda Kissing Through Glass, 2007 I Love You, 2008 (at Liverpool Lime Street Station) Kovanda presents two works: a declaration of love that unfold through different media and across different sites, offering psychological comfort and emotional shelter to the viewer, unconditionally. Kissing Through Glass was originally conceived for Tate Modern.

that give young people, politicians and community leaders the chance to speak openly about the subject. Please visit www.threeweeksinjanuary.org Originally commissioned by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) for the Getty Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival Runo Lagomarsino An Offensive Object in the Least Offensive Way, 2012 The starting point for Lagomarsinos new work was an exchange between the artist and a neighbour in So Paulo who had a statue of a macaw decorating her front yard. This sculpture has been shipped across the Atlantic to re-encounter a similar macaw depicted in a poster from the early 20th century advertising a voyage to Brazil, which the artist found in the Merseyside Maritime Museum. Ahmet gt Let it be known to all persons here gathered, 2012 gts film documents a journey undertaken by a horse rider, dressed as a postman. The postman rode from Liverpool to Manchester, and in the style of a Royal Address, he delivered invitations to attend Liverpool Biennial. Trevor Paglen Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 1, Build 1: The Kite), 2012 Paglens new work is a functionless satellite. Constructed from materials that maximise brightness and minimise weight, his sculpture draws upon his research into the colonisation of outer space by governmental bodies whose own satellites have a hidden or untold meaning. Christodoulos Panayiotou To create this series of archive photographs, the artist has researched the archives of the press and government in Cyprus. Panayitou has selected images
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that document the way in which the political concerns of the island have shaped the narrative of Greek-Cypriot historiography and culture. Courtesy of the artist and Rodeo, Istanbul Pamela Rosenkranz Bow Human, 2012 Rosenkranz manipulates objects and images of contemporary culture, stretching and distorting them to create new, unstable realities. In Bow Human, figures are covered by emergency blankets. Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zurich and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse Ponte, 200811 The vast, cylindrical Ponte building, now a symbol for social and economic downturn, has dominated the Johannesburg skyline since the 1970s. Subotzky and Waterhouse became fascinated by the fictions and myths projected onto the structure, including tales of prostitution rings and frequent suicides that mark the failure of its utopian intentions. Courtesy of the artists and Goodman Gallery Superflex Liverpool to Let, 2012 The artists were struck by the abundance of empty office and commercial spaces in Liverpools financial district. They painstakingly re-staged To Let signage as banners within The Cunard Building. Althea Thauberger Marat / Sade, Bohnice, 2012 Filmed in the iconic Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital in Prague, which resembles the setting of the original 1963 Peter Weiss play Marat / Sade, Thaubergers staging blurs the fourth wall between actor and audience. Historical references are re-contextualised: challenging received ideas of control, democracy and normality. Commissioned in
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part by Liverpool Biennial with additional production assistance from The Power Plant, Toronto; The Canada Council for the Arts; Prdelna, Prague; and The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo

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John Akomfrah The Unfinished Conversation, 2012 John Akomfrahs, The Unfinished Conversation, examines the nature of the visual as triggered across the individuals memory landscape, with particular reference to identity and race. In it academic Stuart Halls memories and personal archives are extracted and relocated in an imagined and different time, reflecting the questionable nature of memory itself. This multi-layered threescreen installation investigates the theory that identity is not an essence or being but instead a becoming, where individual subjectivities are formed in both real and fictive spaces. An Autograph ABP Commission. Executive Producer Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph ABP. Produced by Lina Gopaul and David Lawson, Smoking Dogs Films Production, in collaboration with Professor Stuart Hall. Project funded by Grants for The Arts, Arts Council England, and supported by the Bluecoat, New Art Exchange, Nottingham and the W.E.B.Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Boston. With kind support from NAXOS Books, The Open University and BBC Dora Garcia Outside!, 2012 Outside! allows Liverpool residents to narrate their own story of the City and its undercurrents through a street TV project. It features a live talk show element creating a forum for public debate through the recovery of experimental theatrical and broadcast forms. In collaboration with Toxteth TV, Peter Aers and the Bluecoat / Commissioned in collaboration with the Bluecoat www.newsfromoutside.co.uk

Jir Kovanda, Kissing Through Glass, 2007 Tate Modern, Courtesy the artist and gb agency, Paris

Suzanne Lacy Storying Rape, 2012 Three Weeks in January, 2012 Storying Rape documents a conversation focusing on how the narrative of rape is presented in society and how re-framing this narrative might improve public understanding. During the Biennial, Lacy will also initiate a series of discussions

Dan Graham 2-Way Mirror Cylinder Bisected By Perforated Stainless Steel, 201112 Grahams pavilion plays with the viewers perception of inner and outer space. Exploring the voyeuristic act of simultaneously watching oneself and others, the structure also questions how we operate in the public sphere: a dimension that both alienates and seduces us. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery Jakob Kolding As yet untitled, 2012 Koldings photocollages and posters analyse the notion of identites by challenging collective imagery and rituals, and the way these interact with the city. Sun Xun Ancient Film, 2012 Sun Xun explores the cultural traditions of hospitality in his native China in a new, large-scale installation of drawing and animation created in response to the Bluecoats gallery spaces. Referencing Song Dynasty customs and style from the 11th century, he uses traditional and new media forms of expression to negotiate the complex position of host in contemporary China. Commissioned by ShangART and Animation Studio

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Sabelo Mlangeni My Storie, 2012 Men Only, 2008 09 Mlangeni is interested in the political construction and social definition of the category of the outsider. Exploring marginality and challenging the distance that conventionally separates the photographer and his subjects, his images focus on the grey area between opposing forces, such as acceptance and discrimination. Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Gallery

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Anja Kirschner and David Panos Ultimate Substance, 2012 In this new work, the artists return to their interest in the problems of theory and practice, the tension between artistic form and empirical research and the relation between economics and culture. Drawing on references including archaeology, philosophy, mathematics and ritual, the work explores how the advent of coinage in ancient Greece led to the fundamental division between sensual and abstract forms of experience. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, FACT, Secession (AT) and Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen (BE) with support from Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (DE), CentrePasquArt Biel (CH) and Arts Council England

Pedro Reyes Melodrama and Other Games, 2012 This work incorporates a set of newly imagined games for visitors to play with. Trained as an architect, Reyess work explores how encounters between strangers in controlled environments can foster new tools for collective problem solving. Inspired by the classic game of Snakes and Ladders, Melodrama is a board game customised to reflect the ups and downs of human relationships. Other games include Mine-field, Feather Fun, and Slow-motion Fight. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and FACT Jemima Wyman Collective Coverings, Communal Skin, 2012 Wymans new work explores camouflage fabric as a material with symbolic links to violence and conflict. Donated secondhand camouflage and hunting t-shirts will be used as weaving material on hula-hoop looms. The public is invited to weave with the artist, transforming objects of conflict into objects of comfort. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and FACT Akram Zaatari Through his work, Zaatari looks at the way in which the production and collection of images may be employed in the service of power, as an act of personal resistance, and to construct individual and collective identities. His ongoing investigation questions how the photographic and filmic medium informs aesthetic and social codes in the Arab world from the 1940s to the present day.

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Mark Morrisroe Morrisroe, an instrumental figure in the 1970s Boston punk scene, was 30 years old when he died of an AIDS-related illness. The work displayed here, made during his final years, uses photographs and X-ray images alongside other ephemera. Many of these works were produced in a makeshift darkroom in his hospital bathroom. Courtesy of the Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur Kohei Yoshiyuki The Park, 197179 Love Hotel, 1978 Throughout the 1970s, photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki documented the busy nightlife in Tokyo parks. The resulting photographs show the hidden side of the city; couples and groups engaging, or watching others engage, in sexual activity. Courtesy of the artist and Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

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Kohei Yoshiyuki, Untitled, 1971, from the series The Park, Gelatin Silver Print Kohei Yoshiyuki, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Ming Wong Making Chinatown, 2012 Courtesy of the artist / Commissioned by Redcat, Los Angeles After Chinatown, 2012 The Chinese Detective, 2012 Drawing on Polanskis iconic film Chinatown, 1974, Wong plays on the stereotypical cinematic role of the Chinese detective. His investigation takes him on a journey through the worlds Chinatowns, uncovering the constructs of identity and place, and leading him to Liverpool.
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Runo Lagomarsino Public intervention Also see entry in The Cunard Building, page 4
Ming Wong, After Chinatown, 2012 Publicity still, photo by Carlos Vasquez

Sinta Tantra Together Yet Forever Apart, 2012 Tantra reflects upon how buildings welcome or repel us, and how bodies navigate environments shaped by light, colour and physical structures. Tantras installation transforms the external facade of the Open Eye Gallery and the adjoining public space, creating a spectacle of submergence and superabundance. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and Open Eye Gallery
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Jorge Macchi Refraction, 2012 Macchi has created an environment that plays with the occurrence of being suddenly immersed in a pool of water. In so doing, he questions our ability to correctly locate ourselves in space.

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Thresholds, presented as part of The Unexpected Guest. All the art works below are from the Tate Collection. Hurvin Anderson Jersey, 2008 The painting depicts an abstracted interior of a barbershop, which has featured in a number of Andersons compositions. His works recall the arrival of Caribbean immigrants in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s, when barbershops were opened in private homes and served as social gathering spaces. Keith Arnatt A.O.N.B. (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), 1982 84 The series explores what Arnatt called the conjunction of beauty and banality. The photographs were taken in locations around the United Kingdom designated for their striking landscapes. The distinctly unbeautiful items in the foreground, such as piles of rubbish, question the notion of a quintessentially British landscape. Kader Attia Untitled (Ghardaa), 2009 Oil and Sugar #2, 2007 Untitled (Ghardaa) reveals the flow of influence between colonised and coloniser through the lens of architecture, Attia stating that architecture has first to do with politics, with the political order. In Oil and Sugar #2 motor oil is poured onto a cube of sugar, the use of materials suggesting political metaphors. Yael Bartana Kings of the Hill, 2003 This film depicts men driving fourwheel drive vehicles in the coastal hills outside Tel Aviv, resonating with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Janine Antoni Umbilical, 2000 Antonis work draws upon the complex, intimate relationship between mother and child, and between objects and bodies. Antoni cast the inside of her mouth, cupped around the bowl of a monographed silver spoon, a family heirloom. At the other end is an impression of the space within her mothers hand. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York Markus Khre No title, 2012 The artist has conceived an inn: a welcoming and cosy environment where slight physical and sensorial shifts conjure against the peace of mind of the guests, suggesting that the site might be haunted. Dane Mitchell Spectral Readings (Liverpool), 2012 Ghost Paper, 2012 Mitchell has created a wall-based work incorporating Marcel Duchamps equation A Guest + A Host = A Ghost into its design; and a series of hollow glass objects: containers or traps for ghost stories. The sculptures took shape and hardened as local tales were spoken into molten glass.

Sophie Calle The Hotel, Room 47, 1981 The Hotel, Room 44, 1981 The Hotel, Room 29, 1981 The Hotel, Room 28, 1981 In this series Calle combines factual documentation with personal responses to the hotel guests whose lives she glimpsed through voyeuristic examination of their belongings. At times she is uninterested of the family in Room 47 Calle states I am already bored. However, she finds connections with many of her unknown guests. Layla Curtis United Kingdom, 1999 Made during the Scottish devolution and the establishment of a Scottish parliament, Curtis has manipulated a road map of Great Britain to integrate Scottish and Welsh territory within the contours of England, and English and Welsh within Scotland. Imposing one geographical area upon another, Curtis raises questions about place and national identity. Eugenio Dittborn To Return (RTM) Airmail Painting No.103, 1993 Dittborns airmail paintings are posted folded to their destinations, confronting the idea of working in the periphery. He likened them to someone living on an island, throwing a message out to sea. Each panel is displayed unfolded alongside its envelope, which records the places it has been. Jimmie Durham Dans plusieurs de ces forts et de ces bois, il ny avait pas seulement des villages souterrains groups autours du terrier du chef mais il y avait encore de vritables hameaux de huttes basses cachs sous les arbres, et si nombreaux que parfois la fort en tait remplie. Souvent les fumes les trahissaient. Deux de, 1993
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The sculpture is made from found objects and materials. The title is taken from a found text discovered by the artist and attached to the sculpture. The text evokes Native American culture in its description of a typical settlement. Peter Fischli and David Weiss Visible World, 1997 These still photographs were taken by the artists during their international travels. The colour images of tourist destinations are reminiscent of the pictures in travel brochures and allude to the increase in global tourism at the end of the twentieth century. Gilbert and George England, 1980 Cunt Scum, 1977 Cunt Scum is based on images of graffiti found mostly in the artists local area of Spitalfields in east London. Traditionally home to Londons immigrant communities, the area was attacked in the mid-1970s by the National Front. As this represents a fractured country, Gilbert and George see England, as being about nationhood. Simryn Gill Dalam, 2001 A series of 258 photographs of domestic interiors were taken over an eight week period as the artist travelled across the Malaysian peninsula. Dalam is Malay for inside, interior and also deep. Thomas Hirschhorn Drift Topography, 2003 Hirschhorn seeks to represent the complexities of social and political situations by creating monumental works from the basest of materials. In this work a ring of US soldiers surround and guard a densely built-up, fenced-in territory.

William Kentridge Cambio, 1999 Dogana, 1999 Pensione, 1999 These works address the oddity between words and images. The titles mean respectively change, customs and hotel / boarding house. These words appear at odds with the images depicted in the prints, which refer to the landscape, his process of drawing, and the wealthy, European-descended business man wrestling with his guilty conscience. Pak Sheung Chuen A Travel without Visual Experience, 2008 The installation reflects and questions the processes of tourism. Images are installed in a dark room on wallpaper, visible only through the flash of a camera. Martin Parr Common Sense, 1995 99 The images were taken all over the world at the height of the 1990s, dissecting modern consumerism. Parr analyses society by photographing people, places and objects which reflect global tastes, traditions and travel. George Shaw Scenes from the Passion, 2002 These derelict garage units in a semi-rural setting come from snapshots the artist has taken of the urban landscape of his past. By editing out people and contemporary additions, the work explores memory and nostalgia. Mark Titchner We Want to Nurture and Protect, 2004 We Want Strong Leadership, 2004 These works explore the relationship between language, thought and action, with ornate graphic detail, typography and dynamic combinations of black and red that evoke associations with agitprop. Words invoke a utopian quest for another reality,
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affirming a dilemma between the desire for progress and a persistent sense of failure. Mark Wallinger Royal Ascot, 1994 The work explores British identity through depictions of class, politics and history. Precise moments of the Royal Ascot race, such as the Queens smiles and waves, are depicted alongside BBC commentaries merged together to create an unsettling blather, highlighting the confusion of what it is to be British. Yukinori Yanagi Pacific, 1996 The work is a series of interconnecting perspex boxes with coloured sand to represent the flags of 49 nations. Thousands of ants were released into the boxes whose movement distributes the sand from one flag to another. Echoing global migration, the ants gradually eroded the borders between different nations.

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Caf Valise is METALs travelling pop-up cafe. Having spent time in Peterborough and Southend-on-Sea it comes to Liverpool Biennial as a venue for art, food and conversation at Edge Hill Station with accompanying events and activities. Caf Valise embodies some of the core ideas of METALs work participation, hospitality, curiosity, conversation and debate all within a multi-disciplinary approach. Events include: Lunch A daily lunch and conversation hosted by different guest artists and curators throughout the Biennial. No charge but booking essential John Cooper Clarke The cult punk poet has created a spoken word soundtrack to entertain and welcome you on your short train journey to Caf Valise from Liverpool Lime Street to Edge Hill Station. Suzanne Lacy Also see page 4. The artist hosts a series of events that give young people, politicians and community leaders the chance to speak openly about the subject of rape and domestic violence. Oreet Ashery Party for Freedom, a poignant and humorous examination of populist claims that portray immigration and Islam as a threat to Western values of freedom. Thomas Joshua Cooper The intrepid photographer talks about travelling to some of the worlds most extreme and inhospitable places to capture a single image on a single frame. See www.metalculture.com for further information, dates and times for all events

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Service Provider with Tether, FormContent, GENERATORprojects, Laura Mansfield & Sovay Berriman, www.bubblebyte.org Service Provider explores notions of private and public hospitality within the context of a biennial structure and the role that an artist-run space performs as an autonomous organisation. The Royal Standard has commissioned five artist-led groups and collaborations to occupy the gallery space over a two week period.

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Fritz Haeg Everton Park H.Q. and Foraging Spiral, 2012 Haeg re-activates the present and reimagines the future of Liverpools Everton Park in partnership with local residents and collaborators. Plantings of wild and native edibles form the setting for the project headquarters, a geodesic dome tent which will host meetings and events from 16 to 17 September 2012. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial in partnership with Liverpool Vision, Liverpool City Council and Liverpool Primary Care Trust

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Thomas Steers Way Elmgreen & Dragset But Im on the Guest List Too!, 2012 Examining the hierarchy of values and meritocracy established by celebrity culture, the artists oversized V.I.P. door, slightly ajar, invites the viewer in but cannot be opened fully. Peters Lane Oded Hirsch The Lift, 2012 Hirschs first public realm commission bursts through the pristine and seductive shopping district of Liverpool ONE.

Fritz Haeg in Everton Park, photo by Pete Carr

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Enrico David Madreperlage, 2003 David works in painting, sculpture and collage, often drawing on craft techniques. Madreperlage characteristically includes semi-grotesque theatrical figures as well as elements that veer towards the vocabulary of design. The exhibition is part of The Arts Council Collection Partnerships supported by Christies, a new collaboration between the Arts Council Collection and four regional museums to develop a dynamic programme of displays and exhibitions based on loans from the Collection.

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Paul Rooney Here Comes Franz He Was Afraid A solo exhibition of recent work including a work using the changing light sequence on the Active Learning Laboratory by the Liverpool artist to celebrate the Victoria Gallery & Museums acquisition of The Futurist, through the Contemporary Art Society. The works in the exhibition often focus on the absurd, imagined nature of social and individual remembrance.

www.rhizome.org
Jose Angel Vincench, Exile, Courtesy of the artist

Various Locations
Jos ngel Vincench Exile, 2012 A series of five mobile trailer homes, each of which takes the form of a letter, and together form the word EXILE. Presented for the first time on the occasion of the 11th Havana Biennale, this mobile installation spells out the status of those who had to flee their home country for political reasons. Courtesy of the artist Hsieh Ying-Chun Re-Live, 2012 (See www.biennial.com for location) Hsieh Ying-Chun considers architecture and town-planning a collective endeavour and participatory effort. His projects (often originating from the need to provide a prompt response to sudden and unexpected environmental or climatic emergencies) focus on principles such as biocompatibility, sustainability and selfsufficiency. By engaging the future users in the decision-making and fabrication processes, Hsieh Ying-Chun ultimately facilitates the creation of democratic and ecological living spaces, holistically designed around the inhabitants needs.
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15 St. Georges Hall

Libia Castro and lafur lafsson ThE riGHt tO RighT, 2012 The artists new project and campaign is intended to act as a catalyst, provoking discussion about the right to right: to open debate, to destabilise and question the status quo. Writer and academic Nina Power has written a text in collaboration with the artists, which will be distributed across the City and nationwide.

Enrico David, Phobic Sketch VI, 2012 Graphite on paper, 29.5 42 cm

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James Corner Field Operations Everton Park, a Park for the People, 2012 An exhibition of propositions for the reinvigoration of Everton Park, a 100 acre green space to the north of the city centre, with the long-term aim of providing Liverpool with a destination for residents and tourists alike. The exhibition includes Fritz Haegs video documenting the communitys aspirations for the park. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial in partnership with Liverpool Vision, Liverpool City Council and Liverpool Primary Care Trust

Patrick Murphy Belonging, 2012 Banished from city centres and branded a nuisance, pigeons will become a familiar sight at the Walker Art Gallery during the Biennial, when around 150 brightly coloured birds will adorn the exterior of the gallery. Belonging elevates the very familiar site of pigeons from their everyday urban context; here they are welcome, colourful visitors.

Judith Barry, Jennifer Chan, Adham Faramawy, LuckyPDF, Ming Wong, Anahita Razmi, Jemima Wyman, Queer Technologies, Kristin Lucas, and Angelo Plessas Liverpool Biennial and FACT are working in partnership with Rhizome, a New Museum affiliate in New York City. Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Rhizome.org will host a weekly-curated online programme. Each week, an artist has been invited to respond to the theme of hospitality and to be hosted in Rhizomes virtual space presenting a hyper-linked media programme that explores cross currents in contemporary media culture.

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Sk y Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken The Source

10 Tate Liverpool
What is the source of a creative idea? Where does it start and how is it realised? Musician Jack White, British actress Tilda Swinton, late artist Mike Kelley and many other celebrated cultural figures discuss the roots of their creativity with leading contemporary artist Doug Aitken in Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken The Source. Aitkens first public realm installation in the UK, The Source showcases the artists pioneering approach to public art. The work is a multi-sensory installation on Liverpools historic Albert Dock featuring a pavilion designed in collaboration with British architect David Adjaye OBE. During the day visitors are able to enter the pavilion, while at night it takes on a new life, when its internal projection screens become visible through the semi-transparent walls.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012

8 LJMU Copperas Hill Building

Jennifer Bailey, Jack Brindley, Jamie Buckley, Anita Delaney, Bryan Dooley, Freya Douglas-Morris, George Eksts, Natalie Finnemore, Nicola Frimpong, Salome Ghazanfari, Lauren Godfrey, Sarah Jones, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Piotr Krzymowski, Tara Langford, Tony Law, George Little, Evariste Maiga, Jan May, Nicole Morris, Oliver Osborne, Jennifer Phelan, Polly Read, Emanuel Rhss, Max Ruf, Simon Senn, Jackson Sprague, Samuel Taylor, Tyra Tingleff
Video still from Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken The Source Courtesy of Doug Aitken Workshop, 303 Gallery, New York, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zrich, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles Above: Bryan Dooley, Trak Star II, 2011, photo solvent print on self-adhesive PVC, 124 97 cm

Bloomberg New Contemporaries is the leading UK organisation supporting emergent art practice from British art schools. Since 1949, Bloomberg New Contemporaries has provided a critical platform for new and recent fine art graduates primarily by means of an annual, nationally touring exhibition. This years selectors Nairy Baghramian, Cullinan Richards, and Rosalind Nashashibi have chosen defining works by the most promising artists from a range of over 1,200 submissions. The show will tour to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), 28 November 2012 13 January 2013.
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City States
8 LJMU Copperas Hill Building
Starting with the premise that the state of cities increasingly determines the future of states, City States presents thirteen exhibitions developed in response to the theme of hospitality. Birmingham Birmingham The Magic City BAZ, Helen Brown, Home of Metal, Napalm Death, plan b, David Rowan, Bedwyr Williams. We Are Eastside presents a snapshot of overlapping perceptions of Birmingham, combining an exploration of unknown underground sub-infrastructures of Eastside, a collage of 1980s Grindcore fanzines from heavy metals birthplace, a day in the life of tow path walkers, an orgy of 1940s to the present day civic boosterism, and a reconstruction of a creepy wooden lath wall! Welcome to the hidden past, present and future visions of this magic city. Curated by We Are Eastside / Organised by Capsule, Eastside Projects, Fierce Festival, Flatpack Festival, Grand Union, Ikon Gallery Copenhagen Approaching Journey Yvette Brackman, Ismar Cirkinagic, Jens Haaning, Jane Jin Kaisen Debates on globalisation, national boundaries and immigration raise questions about hospitality: a term which refers to having power and a meeting between the host and the guest. Approaching Journey suggests a shared encounter between travelers by transforming this passage into a mutual exchange. Curated by Helene Lundbye Petersen and Tijana Mikovic

Gdansk Unwanted Visitors Yael Bartana, Oskar Hansen, Alicja Karska & Aleksandra Went, Janek Simon, Kama Sokolnicka, Robert Kus mirowski Unwanted Visitors is based on stories evoked by three venues in Poland: the Main Town of Gdan sk; the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw and the 10th Anniversary Stadium in Warsaw. The narration begins in the 1950s, and is derived from Stalin-era ideology. These artworks create fiction, open up possibilities for alternative urban narrations, sometimes hunt for ghosts and reflect the perspectives of different generations analysing what it means to be simultaneously both host and guest in a country. Curated by Agnieszka Kulazin ska / Produced by Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gda sk, Poland and Adam Mickiewicz Institute n Hong Kong All Are Guests Leung Mee-ping, Chow Chun-fai, CoLAB SLOW The exhibition All Are Guests sheds light on how artists respond to the connections between the self and the city, and invites viewers to contemplate notions of the individual and city that are entrenched in the subject-object dichotomy. Jointly presented by Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government and Hong Kong Arts Development Council / Jointly organised by Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Incheon Terra Galaxia: Aerotropolis, Home and Away Wil Bolton, Sen Chung, Kyungah Ham, Suk Kuhn Oh, Suknam Yun, Seoung Won Won Terra Galaxia revisits a modern definition of hospitality and its paradoxical representations in one of its most contemporary settings: an international airport, where every element projects this concept through a politically-charged prism. Curated by Stephanie Seungmin Kim (Director, ISKAI
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Opposite: Photo of LJMU Copperas Hill Building by Edward Park

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Contemporary Art) / Organised by ISKAI Contemporary Art UK Ltd, London in collaboration with Incheon Art Platform / Exhibition Design by JAIA Architects / Sponsored by Incheon Metropolitan City, Incheon Foundation For Arts & Culture, Art Council Korea, Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, Korea Tourism Organization / A special publication with Edward Allington and Beevor Mull architects will accompany the exhibition Lisbon Air Print for Contentores/Containers, 2012 Miguel Palma Inside a transformed container, air is sucked in and dust particles are filtered onto a cloth. The result is an imprint recorded over a week and then displayed in the exhibition space. In this work the natural and artificial worlds co-exist: a filtering machine becomes a kind of mechanical lung. Curated by Luisa Santos / Organised by P28 CONTENTORES / P28 CONTAINERS Makhachkala Topography of Masculinity Taus Makhacheva The three video installations focus on acts of daily life that prevent permanent social settlement. The artist has chosen to develop this problem in the context of her native Russian Caucasus, a region marked by social instability. Three different communities are characterised by their impenetrability and revolve around specific social and cultural practices, such as dog fighting and illegal street car racing. Curated by Irina Stark, Assistant Curator / Co-curated by Kelly Klifa / Organised by Stark Projects Oslo Palestinian Embassy Goksyr & Martens Palestinian Embassy takes place from 14 17 September. A hot-air balloon in the colours of the Palestinian flag will fly over Liverpool. During an opening ceremony, invited politicians and academics will join the Palestinian Ambassador aboard the balloon

for diplomatic discussions concerning Palestine. These will be led by a British moderator and broadcast to the audience below. From 18 September, documentation of Palestinian Embassy will be exhibited. More information on www.biennial.com Produced by KORO Public Art Norway Reykjavk, Nuuk, Trshavn North Atlantic Pavilion Hanni Bjartal, Sigurur Gujnsson, Jessie Kleemann The North Atlantic Pavilion dissects the tensions at play when simultaneously embracing a strong national and regional identity challenging surface appearances and hegemonic norms of hospitality. Curated by Ingi Thor and Andy Brydon / Organised by Curated Place / NICE (Nordic Intercultural Creative Events) St. Petersburg Interior Masha Godovannaya Sound: Dmitri Kakhovskiy Interior is a multi-channel, audio-visual installation. It explores the idea of multiple and infinite worlds within human existence, whilst investigating the notion of hidden hospitality in a public space. Curated by Dominik Czechowski / Organised by Calvert22 Foundation, Smolny College Taipei Metro-Wonderland: Taiwanese Artists and Urban Morphology Chen Chia-Jen, Chiu Chen-Hung, Hsu Chia-Wei Metro-Wonderland explores the influence of global urban migrations from east to west and vice versa on young Taiwanese artists. Curated by Lee Chia-Ling / Organised by Freeform Center

Vilnius Black Pillow Audrius Bucas & Valdas Ozarinskas Black Pillow is a collaborative project by two Lithuanian architects and artists, Audrius Bucas & Valdas Ozarinskas. The project includes one main object a huge inflatable black pillow. Impossible to be grasped in its entirety, the black pillow leaves spectators wondering about its real size, shape and other material qualities. Curated and organised by Ke stutis Kuizinas, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

Wellington Watermarking David Bennewith, William Hsu, Marnie Slater Departing from the geographical and sociopolitical histories of Wellington, David Bennewith, William Hsu and Marnie Slater bring together their shared conceptual sensibilities to extend connections to the port city of Liverpool through acts of outsourcing and assemblage. Notions of distance, journeys between ports and the oceans between inform and encapsulate the work that takes form as printed matter. Curated and organised by Melanie Oliver and Laura Preston / Generously supported by Creative New Zealand and The Chartwell Trust

Anthony McCall: Column

28 East Float, Wirral Waters

Column is a vertical, spinning, ascending column of cloud that rises into the sky from the surface of East Float, Wirral Waters, on the edge of the Mersey directly opposite the City of Liverpool. The sculpture ascends to and beyond the cloud base and disappears and reappears, in response to weather and light conditions. Column was commissioned by Arts Council England as part of Artists Taking the Lead, Arts Council Englands flagship project for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Left: Anthony McCall, Column

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John Moores Painting Prize

18 Walker Art Gallery

Events Programme

Eve Ackroyd; Henny Acloque; Kelly Best; Biggs & Collings; Katrina Blannin; James Bloomfield; Hannah Brown; Jane Bustin; Graham Chorlton; Wayne Clough; Julie Cockburn; Paul Collinson; Andrew Cranston; Theo Cuff; Cullinan Richards; Bernat Daviu; David Dipr; Nathan Eastwood; Liz Elton; Oscar Godfrey; Vincent Hawkins; B van der Heide; Rae Hicks; John Holland; Kevin Hutcheson; Jarik Jongman; Laura Keeble; Robin Kirsten; Laura Lancaster; Brendan Lancaster; Ian Law; Dominic Lewis; Peter Liversidge; Angela Lizo; Elizabeth Magill; Danny Markey; Enzo Marra; Rui Matsunaga; Onya McCausland; Dougal McKenzie; Damien Meade; Sonia Morange; Stephen Nicholas; Pat OConnor; Jay Oliver; Dan Perfect; Oliver Perkins; Virginia Phongsathorn; Sarah Pickstone; Tom Pitt; Kevin J Pocock; Sarah Poots; Narbi Price; James Ryan; Andrew Seto; Andr Stitt; Trevor Sutton; Emma Talbot; Amikam Toren; Matt Welch; Ian Whittlesea; Thomas M Wright
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The John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery is the UKs biggest painting competition. The exhibition brings together the most exciting and cutting edge contemporary painting. Entered anonymously, it is open to all UK-based artists working with paint. The judges are: Alan Yentob OBE, Creative Director of the BBC; Turner Prize nominees, George Shaw, Angela de la Cruz and Fiona Banner and Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, Iwona Blazwick. Previous winners include David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Mary Martin and Peter Doig.

Unless otherwise stated events are free and can be booked online at www.biennial.com

Above: Laura Keeble, Id like to teach the world to sing!, 2012 Opposite: Photo of LJMU Copperas Hill Building by Edward Park

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Weekends
Curated in partnership with Liverpoolbased organisations.

Opening Weekend
Friday 14 September, 7.30pm Liverpool Cathedral Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail for 100 Guitars and 8 Basses Rhys Chatham conducts a performance of his epic composition for 100 electric guitarists and 8 electric bassists, exploring the ideas of resonance, tone and texture in sound at Liverpools historic Anglican Cathedral. Presented in association with Samizdat Friday 14 Sunday 16 September, 10am 6pm Everton Park Fritz Haeg: Everton Peoples Park The project headquarters, a geodesic dome tent, hosts meetings and events with local collaborators to re-imagine the future of the park (see page 11).

Liverpool Comedy Festival and Liverpool Biennial Double Bill Simon Munnery will be devising new material specifically for Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool Comedy Festival. Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams provides the second half of this unique double bill with his tale of Emlyn from North Wales who visits Liverpool to research a branch of his family tree and how things turn nasty for him at the microfiche machine. We will hear about the cousins who hold their breath whilst travelling through the Mersey tunnels, the melancholy Ellen and a thuggish man who insists on being called Half Uncle.

8pm 1am Venue TBC, 7 In partnership with Deep Hedonia feat. Steven Fowler and Ben Morris, Iris Garrelfs, Scanner and Fatima Al Qadiri.

Weekend Five
Friday 19 October Long Night Venues in Liverpool are offering a great evening of visual arts and culture with a late opening offer across Liverpool Biennial 2012 and beyond. The event is designed to encourage people who find it difficult to visit galleries during the day to make the most of the late night openings. A range of free and ticketed events run throughout the evening. For more information visit www.biennial.com or www.culture.org.uk Friday 19 October, 5 9pm FACT Break Bread Open A special programme of food, screenings and discussions for Liverpool Biennial by Liverpool and Dublin-based organisations Graduate School of Create Arts and Media (GradCAM), The LAB Gallery, Create (Ireland), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios and Art in the Contemporary World (NCAD). With Charlie Gere & MOUTH (Edia Connole and Scott Wilson); a special screening introducing new work by Jesse Jones, discussions led by writer Declan Long and writer/curator Dr. Paul ONeill. Saturday 20 October 12 8pm Camp and Furnace Question Mark! A festival in a day curated and developed by local young people alongside artists in response to The Unexpected Guest. Join their deconstructed party and become part of a programme of surprise performances. All adults must be accompanied by under 21s. Saturday 20 October, 11am 6pm Hope Street Ltd, 5, various locations Deadline An unexpected guest has thrown Liverpool Biennial into mortal peril. Your mission is to work together to solve the clues and
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Weekend Four
Saturday 13 Sunday 14 October The Liverpool Improvisation Collective Dance artists Jo Blowers, Andrea Buckley, Paula Hampson and Mary Prestidge will inhabit a range of installations in response to the notion of unexpected guests; improvising, composing, engaging their visual sensibilities, activating spaces and creating a live performance element. Saturday 13 October 12 1pm In the Courtyard at the Bluecoat 3 5pm LJMU Copperas Hill Building Sunday 14 October 12 1pm In the Courtyard at the Bluecoat 3 5pm The Cunard Building Saturday 13 Sunday 14 October, 11am 5pm LJMU Copperas Hill Building The Mobile Art School: Use, Value and Future of the Art School How can art schools work with students, artists and communities to re-think and produce new ways of making, working and living? Over a two day series with keynotes and workshops from invited speakers (including Prof. Juan Cruz, Liverpool School of Art and Design; Melissa Gronlund, Editor and Managing Editor, Afterall) and group presentations/workshops (including The Autonomy Project, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, the Dutch Art Institute, School of Art and Design and Shanghai University, Islington Mill Art Academy).

Weekend Three
Friday 5 Saturday 6 October Camp and Furnace Electronic Voice Phenomena Mercy present playful exploration of the guest / host through voice and technology. Talks, workshops and new live commissions reveal the intersection of voice and technology as a para-site of chaotic potential where writing, soul-searching and google-searching, remix, speech, score, voice, echo and distortion are melded into a practice which transcends and complicates the human performer. Friday 5 October, 8 10pm Solo performances and live installation with Hannah Silva, Ross Sutherland and Anat Ben David with James Wilkes and Nathan Jones. Saturday 6 October 1 3pm Family Day: Feedback Suite Assemble feedback chamber for vocal play with Sam Meech and Hannah Silva. 4 6pm Performance talks (with Q&A) Joe Banks Rorschach Audio and David Thompkins How to Wreck a Nice Beach
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Weekend One
Saturday 22 September, 12 5pm Camp and Furnace The Medium is the Medium Online publication, The Double Negative, presents a day of expert talks, discussions and events around why critical writing is important in a mature and thriving arts landscape with Miranda Sawyer, Cherie Federico, Francesco Manacorda, Sam Thorne and Rachel Jones.

Weekend Two
Saturday 29 September, 8pm The Kazimier, 10 Simon Munnery and Bedwyr Williams

prevent the unimaginable from happening. As always, the answers lie in art. Join Hope Street Limiteds Emerging Artists and battle to beat the clock. 18+ / Booking essential www.biennial.com

Join artists, critics and curators for a weekend programme of events exploring the John Moores Painting Prize and the future of painting. See www.liverpoolmuseums. org.uk for the full programme and booking information

Weekend Six
Friday 26 October, 11am 5pm Festival of New Cinema, Broadcast and Artist Interventions FACT, Screen 2 10/8 (Members & concessions) Random Acts: Artists Interventions into Broadcast Taking Channel 4s new programming strand, Random Acts as its starting point, this forum brings together key figures to reflect on histories of artist intervention into television. Speakers include: Chip Lord; New York-based artist Marisa Olson; Tabitha Jackson (Commissioning Editor for Arts, Channel 4); performances by Ronald Fraser-Munroe and Jeremy Bailey, conversations with artists Zineb Sedira and Sarah Wright, producer Jacqui Davies, as well as FACTs Director Mike Stubbs and Curator, Omar Kholeif. Produced by FACT Liverpool and the Cross Arts Venue (CAV) Network in partnership with Channel 4, Arts Council England and Liverpool Biennial. Programmed by Lux and Liverpool Biennial with FACT. More info at: www.biennial.com and www.fact.co.uk Saturday 27 October FACT, The Box Lux Film Programme A day of film programmed by LUX in collaboration with Liverpool Biennial. More information at www.biennial.com

Weekend Eight
Saturday 10 November, 2 5pm the Bluecoat Symposium: Reconstruction Work This debate about a differentiated notion of solidarity is informed by the educator, thinker and writer Stuart Hall. Participants include the artist John Akomfrah whose film installation at the Bluecoat, The Unfinished Conversation, focuses on Hall. David Scott, Editor and Director of Small Axe, a Caribbean platform for criticism, Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph ABP a photography charity that addresses issues of cultural identity and human rights (see page 5).

are hosting a 12-hour drawing event exploring the relationship between sound, performance and mark making. Come and create your drawn response to a series of musical performances, screenings, talks and interventions throughout the day. Featuring: Margarita Gluzberg, Gavin Delahunty, Volkov Commanders, Sorhab Uduman, Deep Hedonia, Damian Johnston, Chiz Turnross.

Film
Curated by FACT and Liverpool Biennial. All events take place at FACT at 6.30pm unless stated otherwise. Bookings: 0871 902 5737 or at www.fact.co.uk or in person at the box office.

Weekend Ten
Friday 23 November, 7pm LJMU, Art and Design Academy Changing the World from Here Using the closing weekend as a beginning Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool Biennial, will present a vision for the future of the UK Biennial in Liverpool. Curators, artists, thinkers and writers have been invited to join the conversation and this will be the beginning of a series of focused gatherings that will explore possibilities for a post-industrial ecology, rethinking the relationship between art, urbanism and value for the 21st Century. Booking at www.biennial.com

Wednesday 19 September The Forgotten Space, 2011 Directed by Allan Sekula and Nol Burch + Q&A / Cert: 15 / 112 mins / 5/4 (Members & concs.) This new essay film by Allan Sekula and Nol Burch looks at everyday people whose role in the global economy goes largely undocumented. Tuesday 25 September The Wolf Knife, 2010 Directed by Laurel Nakadate / 88 mins / Cert: 15 / 4/3 (Members & concs.) Nominated for a 2010 Gotham Award and a 2011 Independent Spirit Award, American artist Laurel Nakadates second feature film explores loneliness and desire. Tuesday 25 September, 8.40pm Shame, 2011 Directed by Steve McQueen / 99 mins / Cert: 18 / 5/4 (Members & concs.) Shame finds beauty and grace in improbable situations and people. Michael Fassbender portrays a man in the grip of a complex addiction and won the award for Best Actor at Venice 2011. Wednesday 3 October Post-Revolutionary Cities on Film: Cologne Overnight, 2010 On Our Own, 2012 Directed by Declan Clarke / 120 mins / Cert: 12A / + Q&A / Free: Booking essential Artist and filmmaker Declan Clarke takes us on a journey of post-revolutionary cinema from Cologne, Germany to Bucharest, Romania. He will show his film Cologne
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Weekend Nine
Thursday 15 Saturday 17 November, 10am 5pm Walker Art Gallery Aaron Williamson, The Eavesdropper Find the Walker Art Gallerys artist in residence Aaron Williamson as he presents an entirely personal reading of the Gallerys Victorian Art Collection through dubiously positing his ability as a deaf person to imaginatively overhear and mishear the unvoiced. Commissioned by DaDaFest 2012 as part of Niet Normaal: Difference on Display, in partnership with Liverpool Biennial. Saturday 17 November, 12pm 12am Camp and Furnace Drawing Sessions #2 The Royal Standard and Drawing Paper
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Weekend Seven
Saturday 3 November Walker Art Gallery John Moores Painting Prize Summit

Cologne Overnight (2010) Courtesy Declan Clarke

Overnight (2010) and the UK premiere of On Our Own (2012). Joined by Sarah Perks, Programme Director, Cornerhouse. Tuesday 9 October, 7pm Time Topographies: Liverpool, 2012 (UK Premiere) 120 mins / Cert: PG / + Q&A / Booking essential Mexican artist Amanda Gutierrez portrays the story of three immigrants of different nationality, age and gender living and working in Liverpool juxtaposed against images compiled mainly from the landscapes of the city. Supported by the European Media Art Residency Exchange Wednesday 10 October The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni, 2011 Directed by Rania Stephan / 75 mins / Cert: PG / 4/3 (Members & concs.) This haunting and beautifully formed documentary is a meditation on the life of Egyptian screen legend Soad Hosni, who starred in eighty-two feature films between 1959 and 1991. Wednesday 10 October, 8.15pm The Nine Muses, 2010 Directed by John Akomfrah / 90 mins / Cert: PG / 4/3 (Members & concs.) Director John Akomfrah, perhaps best known for his work with the Black Audio Film Collective and groundbreaking Handsworth Songs, delivers a beguiling personal exploration of the UKs immigrant experience from 1949 70. Wednesday 17 October Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, 2012 Directed by Matthew Ackers / 5/4 (Members & concs.) But why is this art?, is a question that performance artist Marina Abramovic has been hearing over and over for the past 40 years as she uses her body to push boundaries of performance. Director Matthew Akers (LOCKDOWN, USA) profiles
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Abramovic as she prepares for her show The Artist is Present. Wednesday 24 October Preview: The Wildness, 2012 Directed by Wu Tsang / 75 mins / Cert: 15 / + Q&A with artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang and Omar Kholeif / 5/4 (Members & concs.) The Wildness is a portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic, LGBT-friendly bar on the eastside of Los Angeles that has catered to the Latin immigrant community since 1963. The UK Premiere of The Wildness will be launched with a major screening and event in the Tanks at Tate Modern, London on Saturday 2 February 2013. Wednesday 31 October, 7pm Deep State, 2012 Directed by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler / 45 mins / Cert: 12A / + Q&A with the filmmakers will be chaired by Omar Kholeif / 4/3 (Members & concs.) Directed by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler Deep State is a new science fiction film that has been scripted in collaboration with author China Miville. Deep State is commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella. Funded by Arts Council England and London Councils Wednesday 7 November The Creator, 2012 Directed by Al & Al / 45 mins / + Q&A with AI & AI and producer/curator Bren OCallaghan / Cert: 12A / The Box 4/3 (Members & concs.) The Creator explores the legendary myth of the father and maker of AI (Artificial Intelligence) machines, Alan Turing. Combining Lynchian nightmare with the prophetic themes of J.G. Ballard, The Creator takes you into the surreal dream world of the visionary scientist. Contains scenes of a sexual nature and optical effects. Commissioned and produced by Cornerhouse and Creative England (previously as Vision + Media). This screening forms part of Homotopia and Abandon Normal Devices.

Wednesday 14 November Preview: I Remember and Teenage, 2012 Directed By Matt Wolf / 140mins / + Q&A with artist and filmmaker Matt Wolf and Omar Kholeif / 4/3 (Members & concs.) The director of the Arthur Russell documentary Wild Combination, Matt Wolf returns to FACT to present previews of two new films never previously seen in the UK. I Remember (2012) is a 24-minute film inspired by Joe Brainards legendary memoir poem of the same name, followed by a preview of the much-anticipated film Teenage. This film also forms part of the programme for Homotopia Queer Arts Festival. Wednesday 21 November Two Years at Sea, 2011 Directed by Ben Rivers / 88 mins / 4/3 (Members & concs.) A man called Jake lives alone in a ramshackle house in the middle of the forest. He goes for walks and takes naps in the misty fields and woods. Winner of a FIPRESCI Prize at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, Ben Rivers debut feature-length work, shot on 16mm film, extends his relationship with Jake, first encountered in his short This is My Land. Thursday 22 November, 6.30pm Open Eye Gallery Mark Morrisroe Super-8 Film Screening 5 / 4 concs. This special screening presents Mark Morrisroes rarely seen Super-8 films. The Laziest Girl in Town (1981), Hello from Bertha (1983) and Nymph-O-Maniac (1984) are underground home movies filled with thrift-store costumes, cheapo gore, trashy dialogue and gratuitous nudity, starring Morrisroe and his friends as performers.

Talks
Friday 14 September, 10am 4pm Tate Liverpool Art, Criticism and the Forces of Globalisation: The Artist as Critic / The Critic as Artist Organised jointly by Winchester School of Art, Tate Liverpool and the Archives of Art Criticism at the University of Rennes, this conference investigates the historical and contemporary relations of art production and critical writing in the era of globalisation. Saturday 15 September, 12 1pm World Museum James Corner, Director of Field Operations walks through their exhibition on Everton Park with Laurie Peake, Programme Director, Liverpool Biennial. Saturday 15 September, 12pm Open Eye Gallery Sinta Tantra in Conversation Artist Sinta Tantra discusses her new commission Together Yet Forever Apart with Open Eye Curator Karen Newman. Saturday 15 September, 1 5pm the Bluecoat Artists in Conversation Participating artists in Liverpool Biennial take part in a series of conversations talking to curators, writers and critics about their projects. Moderated by Kate Fowle, Director, Independent Curators International. Monday 17 September, 11am 1.30pm FACT All Are Guests Hong Kong Pamela Kember and Ying Kwok in conversation with City States artists Leung Mee-ping, Chow Chun-fai and CoLAB SLOW.

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Monday 17 September, 1 2.30pm Walker Art Gallery Artist talks: John Moores Painting Prize China 2012 Join the prize winning artists from this years John Moores Painting Prize China. Nie Zhengjie, Hu Wenlong, Pu Yingwei, Zhang Aicun and Zheng Jiang will discuss their paintings on display at the Walker. This event will be interpreted for Chinese speakers. Monday 17 September, 6pm Mitchells Bakery 2Up 2Down / Homebaked Expert Meeting: Disappearing Home Author Debbie Morgan will read from her critically-acclaimed novel Disappearing Home, set in Anfield in the 1970s, together with some recent poetry responding to life in the neighbourhood. Tuesday 18 September, 6pm Mitchells Bakery 2Up 2Down / Homebaked Expert Meeting: Jan Jongert, 2012Architecten, Rotterdam 2012Architecten design buildings and develop strategies to facilitate the transition to a sustainable society. How can we empower local exchange and production through innovative design? Friday 28 September, 1 2pm Walker Art Gallery George Shaw in conversation Artist and juror for this years John Moores Painting Prize, Shaw will discuss his work, professional career and experience as a juror. Tuesday 16 October, 6.30pm (talk begins at 7pm) Open Eye Gallery, 3.50 (Free to Redeye members) Redeye Photographers Network Meeting: John Stoddart An event for artists and photographers: Ex-Liverpool photographer to the stars John Stoddart will present his brand new project ROOM 10. A Love Poem
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inspired by two special nights spent in LHotel Paris in 2012. Wednesday 7 Thursday 8 November The Black-E Judy Chicago: Voices from The Song of Songs An exhibition of twelve paired prints, created by Chicago from 1997 99. The artist will visit on the 7 8 November to speak about the exhibition and the lecture she did at The Black-E Sister to Shakespeare. Saturday 17 November, 2 3pm Tate Liverpool Auditorium, 5 Anthony McCall: Column Join artist Anthony McCall, for an insight into his artistic practice. This talk coincides with the drawing exhibition Tracing the Century which will be at Tate Liverpool from 16 November 2012 20 January 2013. The exhibition will include McCalls film Line Describing a Cone, 1973, which is in the Tates collection (see page 19). Monday 19 November, 6pm Mitchells Bakery 2Up 2Down / Homebaked Expert Meeting: Arnold Reijndorp Arnold Reijndorp joins Jeanne van Heeswijk to discuss house-building, town planning and cultural politics. Tuesdays, 1pm Walker Art Gallery Talk Tuesdays A series of artist talks, exhibition tours and discussion events with this years prizewinners, exhibition staff, exhibiting artists and jurors exploring the John Moores Painting Prize 2012. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Tours
Bookings: www.biennial.com

The Anf ield Home

Friday 14 September, 2.30pm and then Saturdays at 11.30am Meeting point: the reception at The Cunard Building (see page 3)

The Unexpected Guest

During the Biennial curators will lead tours of The Unexpected Guest across different venues: Saturdays, 2 3pm the Bluecoat 22 September, Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director and Sara-Jayne Parsons, Exhibitions Curator at the Bluecoat 29 September, Robyn Woolston, artist 6 October, Juan Cruz, artist and Director of Liverpool School of Art & Design at Liverpool John Moores University 3 November, Blue Room, the Bluecoats community of learning disabled artists who create artworks each week in response to our exhibitions 17 November, Rosalind Nashashibi, artist Sundays, 3pm The Cunard Building and Open Eye Gallery Meeting point: The Cunard Building 23 September, Lorenzo Fusi, Curator, Liverpool Biennial 14 October, Karen Newman, Curator, Open Eye Gallery 4 November, Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool Biennal FACT and Wood Street Meeting point: FACT 30 September, Omar Kholeif, Curator, FACT 11 November, Omar Kholeif, Curator, FACT The Monro and Liverpool ONE Meeting point: The Monro 7 October, Lucy Johnston, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial 28 October, Lorenzo Fusi, Curator, Liverpool Biennial 18 November, Rosie Cooper, Projects Curator, Liverpool Biennial

City States
Sunday 21 October, 3pm LJMU Copperas Hill Building Vanessa Boni, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial

RIBA Architecture Tours

Thursdays, 4pm Alternately at The Cunard Building and LJMU Copperas Hill Building starting with The Cunard Building on 20 September. Organised by RIBA Liverpool

Family Programme
Saturdays 15, 22, 29 September and 6, 13 October, 12pm 4pm FACT Weaving Workshops FACT invites visitors to help us to soften the fabric of our building! Collective Coverings, Communal Skin by artist Jemima Wyman fuses traditional weaving and meditative art therapy techniques to turn objects of conflict such as military uniforms into objects of comfort. This collaborative artwork will grow as a new skin throughout the festival. Saturdays, 1 3pm Liverpool-based artists invite families to make art. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Download the family guide programme at www.biennial.com.

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Saturday 22 September Camp and Furnace Message to the Future with Frances Disley Exploring the fundamental urge to leave messages and make marks, artist Frances Disley invites you to send your own message to the future. Saturday 29 September, 1 4pm World Museum Walk on the Wildside A chance to get up close and personal with the animals and plants that live in Everton Park. Children are invited to make a dragonfly to take home, pick up quiz sheets and tick lists to take to the park themselves. Phone 0151 478 4241 for more information Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September, 1 4pm Walker Art Gallery Splashes and Splatters Join our artists for colourful painting workshops for all the family. Saturday 29 September Open Eye Gallery Held with Kevin Hunt Become part of an ongoing photographic project and create your own sculpture that will form part of a growing archive exploring the sculptural object and the relationship with its maker, you. Saturday 6 October Camp and Furnace Feedback Suite with Sam Meech and Hannah Silva A fun interface for making noise chaos, vocal experiments and effects will be manipulated live. Saturday 13 October LJMU Copperas Hill Building Doppelganger with Kevin Hunt Create a series of replicas of works
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to generate numerous editions to consider what it means when an artwork is confronted by its double. Saturday 20 October, 1 4pm Walker Art Gallery Pigeon Street Belonging by Patrick Murphy Join us for workshops inspired by Patrick Murphys colourful installation on the exterior of the Walker Art Gallery. Saturday 20 October Camp and Furnace Crazy Golf Hack with Ross Dalziel A network of artists and technologists have developed a crazy golf course and will be inviting Liverpool families to become crazy golf testers and then make, design and play. Tuesday 23, Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 October, 1 4pm Walker Art Gallery The Big Drawing Party Celebrate Liverpool Biennial at the Walker with our big drawing party! Join us for half term big and bold drawing activities and help us take over the gallery. Wednesday 24 October, 12pm The Cunard Building Understanding Art (Ages 3 +) Thursday 25 October, 12pm LJMU Copperas Hill Building Understanding Art (Ages 6 +) Friday 26 October, 12pm Venue TBA Understanding Art (Ages 8 +) With Panayiota Vassilopoulou in collaboration with the Philosophy Department, University of Liverpool. Explore the meaning and value of art. Bookable in advance and children must be accompanied by an adult

Saturday 27 October The One-Man Show with Laurence Payot Become the One-Man protagonist by adding a frame to a stop-motion video. Saturday 3 November, 1 3pm New Masters with Frances Disley Bring along special objects that represent you and your family. Strike up a pose from an old master painting and create a new photographic masterpiece. Saturday 3 November, 11 12.30pm Walker Art Gallery: Family Art Club John Moores Painting Prize 2012 Family Art Club is for children aged between 7 and 12 who love art and being creative. Each month you and your child will be able to try new techniques, experiment with different materials and learn new skills. Book by calling 0151 478 4171 or emailing emma.devlin@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Saturday 10 November the Bluecoat Together Sculpture with Laurence Payot Join the artist to create a series of sculptures to wear and activate. Saturday 17 November Drawing Machine with Ross Dalziel Build and play with simple robots to generate amazing automatic drawings in the lead up to a weekend of drawing across the city with The Royal Standard. Saturday 24 November, 16pm Everton Park Astroturf with Ross Dalziel Merseyside calls for occupants of interstellar craft. Family-friendly DIY radio and naked-eye astronomy, building, gaming and exploring the skies at Everton Park. For more information contact Francesca Williams: franny@biennial.com, 0151 709 7444
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Learning
Plan your School Visit Learning is at the core of what we do and it is our ambition that every school in Merseyside visits the Biennial. To plan your visit contact Francesca Williams: franny@biennial.com 0151 709 7444 Learning resources, with appropriate themes and activities for Key Stages 25, are available to download at www.biennial.com Mercy Biennial Podcast Each week host Vanessa Bartlett welcomes a selection of guests to Mercys weekly podcast series with an alternative take on the Biennial. www.mercyonline.co.uk/podcast

Independents Biennial 2012

The Independents is one of the largest contemporary arts festivals in the UK, providing the vibrant fringe to the Liverpool Biennial. In 2010, the Independents showcased more than 500 national and international artists in 128 events at 60 venues. Various venues / www.independentsbiennial.org

Artists A Doug Aitken, Tate Liverpool Eve Ackroyd, Walker Art Gallery Henny Acloque, Walker Art Gallery John Akomfrah, the Bluecoat Hurvin Anderson, Tate Liverpool Janine Antoni, The Monro Keith Arnatt, Tate Liverpool Kader Attia, Tate Liverpool B Jennifer Bailey, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Yael Bartana, Tate Liverpool BAZ, LJMU Copperas Hill Building David Bennewith, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Kelly Best, Walker Art Gallery Biggs & Collings, Walker Art Gallery Hanni Bjartal, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Katrina Blannin, Walker Art Gallery Sylvie Blocher, The Cunard Building James Bloomfield, Walker Art Gallery Wil Bolton, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Yvette Brackman, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Jack Brindley, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Helen Brown, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Hannah Brown, Walker Art Gallery Bubblebyte.org, The Royal Standard Audrius Bucas & Valdas Ozarinskas, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Jamie Buckley, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Jane Bustin, Walker Art Gallery C Sophie Calle, Tate Liverpool Libia Castro and lafur lafsson, St. Georges Hall and Lime Street Station Rhys Chatham, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral Chen Chia-Jen, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Chiu Chen-Hung, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Chow Chun-fai, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Graham Chorlton, Walker Art Gallery Sen Chung, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Ismar Cirkinagic, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Wayne Clough, Walker Art Gallery Julie Cockburn, Walker Art Gallery

CoLAB SLOW, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Paul Collinson, Walker Art Gallery Andrew Cranston, Walker Art Gallery Theo Cuff, Walker Art Gallery Layla Curtis, Tate Liverpool D Enrico David, Walker Art Gallery Bernat Daviu, Walker Art Gallery Anita Delaney, LJMU Copperas Hill Building David Dipr, Walker Art Gallery Eugenio Dittborn, Tate Liverpool Bryan Dooley, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Freya Douglas-Morris, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Jimmie Durham, Tate Liverpool E Nathan Eastwood, Walker Art Gallery George Eksts, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Liz Elton, Walker Art Gallery Elmgreen and Dragset, Liverpool ONE F Field Operations, World Museum Natalie Finnemore, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Tate Liverpool Nicola Frimpong, LJMU Copperas Hill Building FormContent, The Royal Standard G Dora Garcia, the Bluecoat GENERATORProjects, The Royal Standard Oscar Godfrey, Walker Art Gallery Salome Ghazanfari, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Gilbert and George, Tate Liverpool Simryn Gill, Tate Liverpool Sigurur Gujnsson, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Lauren Godfrey, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Masha Godovannaya, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Goksyr & Martens, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Dan Graham, the Bluecoat H Jens Haaning, LJMU Copperas Hill

Fritz Haeg, World Museum and Everton Park Oskar Hansen, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Mona Hatoum, The Cunard Building Jeanne van Heeswijk and Graham Hicks, Britt Jurgensen, Debbie Morgan, The Cunard Building Oded Hirsch, Liverpool ONE Thomas Hirschhorn, Tate Liverpool Home of Metal, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Hsieh Ying-Chun, Exchange Flags William Hsu, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Hsu Chia-Wei, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Vincent Hawkins, Walker Art Gallery B van der Heide, Walker Art Gallery Rae Hicks, Walker Art Gallery John Holland, Walker Art Gallery Kevin Hutcheson, Walker Art Gallery J Jarik Jongman, Walker Art Gallery Sarah Jones, LJMU Copperas Hill Building K Nadia Kaabi Linke, The Cunard Building Markus Khre, The Monro Jane Jin Kaisen, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Suki S. Kang, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Alicja Karska & Aleksandra Went, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Laura Keeble, Walker Art Gallery William Kentridge, Tate Liverpool Anja Kirschner and David Panos, FACT Robin Kirsten, Walker Art Gallery Jessie Kleemann, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Jakob Kolding, the Bluecoat Jiri Kovanda, The Cunard Building and Lime Street Station Piotr Krzymowski, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Robert Kus mirowski, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Ham Kyungah, LJMU Copperas Hill Building L Suzanne Lacy, The Cunard Building Runo Lagomarsino, The Cunard Building and Hotel Indigo

Tony Law, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Brendan Lancaster, Walker Art Gallery Laura Lancaster, Walker Art Gallery Tara Langford, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Leung Mee-ping, LJMU Copperas Hill Building George Little, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Ian Law, Walker Art Gallery Dominic Lewis, Walker Art Gallery Peter Liversidge, Walker Art Gallery Angela Lizo , Walker Art Gallery n M Jorge Macchi, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Elizabeth Magill, Walker Art Gallery Evariste Maiga, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Taus Makhacheva, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Laura Mansfield & Sovay Berriman, The Royal Standard Danny Markey, Walker Art Gallery Enzo Marra, Walker Art Gallery Rui Matsunaga, Walker Art Gallery Jan May, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Anthony McCall, East Float Wirral Waters Onya McCausland, Walker Art Gallery Dougal McKenzie, Walker Art Gallery Damien Meade, Walker Art Gallery Dane Mitchell, The Monro Sabelo Mlangeni, The Tea Factory Sonia Morange, Walker Art Gallery Nicole Morris, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Mark Morrisroe, Open Eye Gallery Patrick Murphy, Walker Art Gallery N Napalm Death, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Stephen Nicholas, Walker Art Gallery O Pat OConnor, Walker Art Gallery Ahmet g t, The Cunard Building Suk Kuhn Oh, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Jay Oliver, Walker Art Gallery Oliver Osborne, LJMU Copperas Hill Building P Trevor Paglen, The Cunard Building Pak Sheung Chuen, Tate Liverpool Miguel Palma,

LJMU Copperas Hill Building Christodoulos Panayiotou, The Cunard Building Martin Parr, Tate Liverpool Dan Perfect, Walker Art Gallery Oliver Perkins, Walker Art Gallery Jennifer Phelan, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Virginia Phongsathorn, Walker Art Gallery Sarah Pickstone, Walker Art Gallery Tom Pitt, Walker Art Gallery plan b, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Kevin J Pocock, Walker Art Gallery Sarah Poots, Walker Art Gallery Narbi Price, Walker Art Gallery R Polly Read, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Pedro Reyes, FACT Cullinan Richards, Walker Art Gallery Emanuel Rhss, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Paul Rooney, Victoria Gallery & Museum Pamela Rosenkranz, The Cunard Building David Rowan, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Max Ruf, LJMU Copperas Hill Building James Ryan, Walker Art Gallery S Simon Senn, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Andrew Seto, Walker Art Gallery George Shaw, Tate Liverpool Janek Simon, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Andr Stitt, Walker Art Gallery Marnie Slater, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Kama Sokolnicka, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Jackson Sprague, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, FACT Sun Xun, the Bluecoat Superflex, The Cunard Building Trevor Sutton, Walker Art Gallery Samuel Taylor, LJMU Copperas Hill Building T Emma Talbot, Walker Art Gallery Sinta Tantra, Open Eye Gallery Tether, The Royal Standard Althea Thauberger, The Cunard Building

Tyra Tingleff, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Mark Titchner, Tate Liverpool Amikam Toren, Walker Art Gallery W Mark Wallinger, Tate Liverpool Matt Welch, Walker Art Gallery Ian Whittlesea, Walker Art Gallery Bedwyr Williams, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Ming Wong, 2832 Wood Street Seoung Won Won, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Thomas M Wright, Walker Art Gallery Jemima Wyman, FACT Y Yukinori Yanagi, Tate Liverpool Kohei Yoshiyuki, Open Eye Gallery Yun Suknam, LJMU Copperas Hill Building Z Akram Zaatari, FACT

Curators Liverpool Biennial 2012 Sally Tallant, Artistic Director The Unexpected Guest Lorenzo Fusi, Liverpool Biennial Rosie Cooper, Liverpool Biennial Lucy Johnston, Liverpool Biennial Sara-Jayne Parsons, Bryan Biggs, the Bluecoat Laurie Peake, Liverpool Biennial Omar Kholeif, Mike Stubbs, FACT Karen Newman, Open Eye Gallery Jenny Porter, METAL Liverpool Ann Bukantas, Walker Art Gallery Moira Lindsay, Victoria Gallery & Museum The Royal Standard Sky Arts Ignition: Doug Aitken The Source and Thresholds Sook-Kyung Lee, Eleanor Clayton, Jose Diaz, Tate Liverpool City States and Public Programme Paul Domela, Liverpool Biennial Vanessa Boni, Liverpool Biennial Family Programme Francesca Williams, Liverpool Biennial

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Calendar (P) Performance (TK) Talk (F) Film

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Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail ( P ) Art Criticism, Globalisation ( T K ) Everton Peoples Park: Fritz Haeg ( S ) 15 September Anfield Home Tour ( T K ) Artists in Conversation ( T K ) Everton Peoples Park: Fritz Haeg ( S ) Palestinian Embassy
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Unexpected Guest Tour ( T/ S ) Family Programme ( F ) 23 September Curatorial Tour ( T ) 25 September The Wolf Knife ( F ) Shame ( F ) Talk Tuesday ( T K ) 27 September RIBA Tour ( T ) 28 September George Shaw in Conversation ( T K ) 29 September Anfield Home Tour ( T K ) Family programme ( F M ) Unexpected Guest ( T ) Simon Munnery / Bedwr Williams ( P ) Held: Kevin Hunt ( P ) Walk on the Wildside ( F M ) 30 September Curatorial Tour ( T ) 02 October Talk Tuesday ( T K ) 03 October Post-revolutionary Cities ( F ) 05 October Electronic Voice Phenomena (W) 06 October Anfield Home Tour ( T )

Electronic Voice Phenomena (W) Unexpected Guest Tour ( T ) Family Programme ( F M ) The Horses Teeth ( T ) 07 October Electronic Voice Phenomena (W) Curatorial Tour ( T ) 09 October Time Topographies ( F ) Talk Tuesday ( T K ) 10 October The Three Disappearances ( F ) 11 October RIBA Tour ( T ) 13 October Anfield Home Tour ( T ) LJMU Mobile Academy ( W ) Liverpool Improvisation Collective ( W ) Family Programme ( F M ) 14 October Liverpool Improvisation Collective ( W ) Curatorial Tour ( T ) 16 October Redeye photographers Network ( T ) Talk Tuesday ( T K )

17 October Marina Abramovic ( F ) 18 October RIBA Tour ( T ) 19 October Long Night ( S ) Break Bread Open ( S ) Sense of Sound ( P ) 20 October Deadline! ( P ) Anfield Home Tour ( T ) Young Peoples Biennial Question Mark! ( W ) Family Programme ( F M ) 23 October Talk Tuesday ( T K ) Family Programme ( F M ) 24 October Understanding Art ( T ) The Wildness ( T ) 25 October Understanding Art ( T ) RIBA Tour ( T ) Family Programme ( F M ) 26 October Understanding Art (T) Festival of New Cinema ( F ) 27 October Anfield Home Tour ( T ) Family Programme ( F M )

31 October Deep State ( F ) 01 November RIBA Tour ( T ) 02 November John Moores Painting Prize Summit ( T K ) 03 November Anfield Home Tour ( T ) John Moores Painting Prize Summit ( T K ) Unexpected Guest Tour ( T/ S ) Family Programme ( F M ) 07 November The Creator ( F ) 08 November RIBA Tour ( T ) 10 November Anfield Home Tour ( T ) Family Programme ( F M ) Symposium: Reconstruction Work ( T ) 12 November Photographer Surgery ( S ) 13 November Talk Tuesday ( T K ) 14 November I Remember and Teenage ( F )

15 November Aaron Williamson (TK) 16 November Aaron Williamson ( T K ) 17 November Anfield Home Tour ( T ) Anthony McCall: Column ( T ) Aaron Wiliamson ( T ) Drawing Sessions 2 ( W ) Family Programme ( F M ) Unexpected Guest Tour ( T/ S ) 18 November Curatorial Tour ( T ) 19 November Expert Meeting ( T K ) 21 November Two Years at Sea ( F ) The Nine Muses ( F ) RIBA Tour ( T ) 22 November Mark Morrisroe Screening ( F ) 23 November Changing the World From Here ( W ) 24 November Anfield Home Tour ( T ) Family Programme ( F M )

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