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Welcome to the 10th edition of Liverpool Biennial as we Visitor Information celebrate 20 years of presenting international art in the city and region. Beautiful world, where are you? is a call Opening Hours to artists and audiences to reflect on a world in social, All exhibitions are open political and economic turmoil. Tuesday to Sunday, with Kitty Scott (Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern public artworks and and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario) some venues also open has co-curated Liverpool Biennial 2018 with me, the Mondays. Check individual Liverpool Biennial team and our partners in the city. venues’ pages in this I am grateful to her and to them for their commitment guide or biennial.com and thoughtful work on this ambitious project. for opening times. Over 40 artists from 22 countries present work that responds to Beautiful world, where are you? The city of Contact Us Liverpool provides the setting with its public spaces, [email protected] galleries, museums and great civic buildings. We are +44 (0)300 234 0022 delighted that artists have created ambitious and engaging projects with children and local communities for this Booking Information Biennial, building new relationships and solidifying those Entrance to exhibitions and that already exist. As an additional strand, Worlds within events is free unless stated worlds invites audiences to explore the rich histories and otherwise. To book, please Biennial stories evoked by objects and artefacts from the city’s civic visit biennial.com collections and architecture. Liverpool Biennial 2018 also welcomes partner Connect exhibitions John Moores Painting Prize, celebrating its @biennial 60th anniversary; Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018; @liverpoolbiennial This is Shanghai; and the Biennial fringe. /liverpoolbiennial Exhibition This is a special year for the city and we are thrilled to be part of Liverpool 2018, a year-long programme Share your photos and that proudly showcases the city’s culture and creativity thoughts with #LB2018 a decade on from its accolade as European Capital of Culture. Audio Guide We are very grateful to our many supporters and in Go to bit.ly/liv-bi or scan particular Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council this QR code with your for their continued support. phone’s camera for our I hope you will enjoy exploring this year’s programme free audio guide. of exhibitions and events.

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Madiha Aijaz Brian Jungen Abbas Akhavan Janice Kerbel Morehshin Allahyari Duane Linklater Francis Alÿs Mae-ling Lokko Ei Arakawa Taus Makhacheva Kevin Beasley Ari Benjamin Meyers Mohamed Bourouissa Naeem Mohaiemen Banu Cennetog˘lu Paulina Olowska The 10th edition of Liverpool Biennial, sets off the shortness and insignificance of Shannon Ebner George Osodi Beautiful world, where are you? invites human life. artists and audiences to reflect on a world Today, the line from the poem continues Paul Elliman Silke Otto-Knapp in turmoil. to resonate in a world gripped by deep Inci Eviner Mathias Poledna The title derives from a line in a poem, uncertainty; a world of social, political, Die Götter Griechenlands, written by the economic, even climatic turmoil. We can Aslan Gaisumov Annie Pootoogook German poet Friedrich Schiller in 1788 understand it as an invitation to reconsider and set to music by Austrian composer our past and to advance a new sense of Ryan Gander with Reetu Sattar Franz Schubert in 1819. While the verse beauty that might be shared in a more Jamie Clark, Suki Seokyeong Kang is an ode to the glory of ancient Greece, equitable way. here the emphasis falls on a lament for Phoebe Edwards, Iacopo Seri what has been lost. That sense of loss was Beautiful world, where are you? is curated by Kitty widespread in the early part of the 19th Scott (Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Tianna Mehta, Melanie Smith century, unsurprisingly given that the years Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario) and between the composition of Schiller’s poem Sally Tallant (Director, Liverpool Biennial) with the Maisie Williams The Serving Library and Schubert’s song saw great upheaval Liverpool Biennial team. and Joshua Yates Agnès Varda and profound change, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Napoleonic Partners: Bluecoat (Marie-Anne McQuay, Head Joseph Grigely Joyce Wieland Empire. It was an era that introduced a of Programme and Adam Smythe, Curator); FACT modern age of indifference and alienation. (Mike Stubbs, Director and Ana Botella, Head of Dale Harding Haegue Yang It was also a moment when science Programme); LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab was reshaping the understanding of nature, (Professor Joasia Krysa, Director); Open Eye Gallery Holly Hendry Chou Yu-Cheng revealing that it was radically removed from (Thomas Dukes, Curator); RIBA North – National Lamia Joreige Rehana Zaman the scale of the individual. Scottish geologist Architecture Centre (Suzy Jones, Director); Tate James Hutton (1726–1797) published his Liverpool (Tamar Hemmes, Assistant Curator); two-volume Theory of the Earth (1795), Victoria Gallery & Museum (Leonie Sedman, Curator introducing the ideas of uniformitarianism of Heritage & Collections Care and Amanda Draper, – the recognition that today’s landforms Curator of Art & Exhibitions ) and Whitney Museum were shaped by geologic processes over of American Art (Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of enormous spans of time. This ‘deep time’, New Media Arts) the inconceivably great age of the earth, 6 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 7

Tate Liverpool

14 July – 28 October

Open daily 10am – 5.50pm, Free 1 Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, L3 4BB

At Tate Liverpool new and existing works juxtaposing pagan traditions and modern are presented by artists Kevin Beasley, history, and suspended ribbons that evoke Dale Harding, Brian Jungen, Duane Linklater, folk traditions such as maypole dancing. Annie Pootoogook, Joyce Wieland and Her multisensory, hybrid environments Haegue Yang. suggest fleeting connotations of time, place, figures and experiences that connect ‘folk’ Haegue Yang has created an immersive traditions and contemporary culture. environment for her sculpture series The Intermediates (2015-ongoing) in the On the gallery’s top floor, artists address Wolfson Gallery. Made from artificial woven the complex interactions of race, nation and straw, The Intermediates allude to both culture in settler societies. The presentation traditional arts and crafts techniques and brings to the fore work from America, modern industrial production methods. Australia and Canada that takes up the Representing figures and sites from often violent legacies of colonisation while folk tales and ancient traditions, they simultaneously revealing the undercurrents Kevin Beasley, Your face is / is not enough, 2016. Image courtesy the artist, Casey Kaplan, New York question definitions of ‘paganism’. Yang’s of strength and resilience that have and The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago. Photo: Tom Van Eynde environment for these works includes been essential to survival for subaltern recordings of wildlife taken from the British populations around the globe. Library’s sound collection, a wallpaper Dale Harding is a descendent of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of Central Queensland, Australia. He has created a new wall-based work for the gallery that is inspired by rock art sites in Queensland and uses a stencil technique practised by the artist’s ancestors. The predominant material is Reckitt’s Blue, an ultramarine pigment and optical whitener with strong symbolic power. Produced in the UK and used in Liverpool’s public washhouses, it travelled along the colonial frontier to Africa Dale Harding, Ngaya boonda yinda nayi yoolgoogoo / I carry you in my heart, 2016. Image courtesy the artist and Australia, where Harding’s mother and Milani Gallery, Brisbane. Photo: Carl Warner used it in her job at a laundry. This new work tells stories of female labour in the UK and Australia, connecting histories from repurposed NATO-issued gas masks different parts of the globe. stabilised by microphone stands and paired with altered megaphones. Encased in Kevin Beasley’s Your face is / is not enough pigmented foam pierced with adornments (2016) is a sculptural and performance- that range from guinea fowl feathers Haegue Yang, The Grand Balcony, 2016. Installation view at La Biennale de Montréal. Photo: Guy L’Heureux based installation consisting of twelve to glass beads, and further altered by 8 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 9

sculptural extensions made up of articles amnesia and identity from the perspective of clothing, each mask differs from the of the indigenous peoples in Canada. next. Transforming symbols of control, Commenting on the economy of the fur Beasley evokes gestures of empowerment trade, they suggest that animals, even and agency within individual and collective in death, might retain their spirits or acts of protest, power and protection. This selfhood beyond the value they possess as work was acquired by Tate in 2016 with the commodities. By showing these works for support of the Tate Americas Foundation, the first time outside of Canada, the artist and this marks the first presentation at one invites us to explore indigenous traditions of its sites. and bodies within institutional settings. In the context of a gallery display, the works Brian Jungen carves ‘feathers’ from the reflect Europe’s own colonialist history, in soles of Nike trainers to create a series of which the natural resources and rights of sculptures that resemble Cheyenne-style indigenous peoples were heavily exploited. war bonnets. These headdresses, familiar from countless Westerns, address a long Annie Pootoogook’s drawings serve history of conflict and the lingering effects as a diary of the artist’s life and are of colonisation. They signify the strength indicative of the sulijuk (‘true’ or ‘real’) and pride of indigenous people today. tradition. Pootoogook worked with a singular clarity of vision, often depicting The sculptural works of Duane Linklater poignant moments of emotion or violence consider the notions of cultural loss, social in intimate domestic environments.

Annie Pootoogook, Bear by the Window, 2004. Image courtesy The Gas Company Inc

Immediate and direct in style, her drawings chronicle the everyday events of modern Inuit life in the small community of Kinngait as she saw it. Her realism is at odds with the traditional outdoor scenes that people have come to expect from Inuit art.

Stemming from the artist’s anxiety about the survival of Canada as a nation faced with its American neighbour to the south, Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968) is a political film by Joyce Wieland. The Joyce Wieland, Rat Life and Diet in North America work tells the story of a group of political (film still), 1968. Image courtesy Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre prisoners, imagined as gerbils, who are held in the United States. Escaping their oppressors, a role taken on by cats, the Dale Harding is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial gerbils cross the border into Canada and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane where they will live in peace growing Brian Jungen, Warrior 3, 2018. Image courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver organic foods. Annie Pootoogook is curated by Dr Nancy Campbell 10 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 11

Open Eye Gallery

14 July – 28 October

Open Tuesday–Sunday 10am–5pm, Free 2 19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, L3 1BP

Open Eye Gallery presents works by George of colonialism by portraying the rulers Osodi and Madiha Aijaz. in the stately and dignified manner that befits them. Nigerian Monarchs is a series of photographs that depicts the regional Madiha Aijaz’s new film installation rulers in George Osodi’s home country of These Silences Are All the Words explores Nigeria. The images convey the different the public libraries of Karachi, Pakistan, personalities of the rulers as well as the against the backdrop of the city’s changing extravagant regalia that now stand as landscape. Focusing on librarians who symbols of lost power: their role has been have been working for years in traditional largely relegated to a ceremonial one with institutions such as Bedil Library, Aijaz no constitutional powers. Celebrating the tells the stories of an aging intelligentsia. ethnic diversity and cultural complexity The conversations with both librarians of Nigeria, the portraits also reference and the library’s users reflect on the shift Europe’s colonialist past: some of the of language from Urdu and its poetic rulers’ ancestors were kings during times and literary history to the ambition and of slavery. Osodi hopes to redress their individualism associated with English. Many inaccurate depiction during the early days of Aijaz’s works similarly offer a perspective

George Osodi, Nigerian Monarchs (HRM Princess Adetutu Adesida Regent of Akure Kingdom), 2014

on a country sharply divided along Aijaz combines different media to present a linguistic lines. Her work contextualises city’s history from a literary point of view. the complexity of the postcolonial state and its ambitions surrounding the English Madiha Aijaz is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, language, not only as the legacy of the Raj, Karachi Biennale and The Tetley, as part of the New but also as a tool for authority and social North and South, in collaboration with Hospitalfield Madiha Aijaz, These Silences Are All The Words (film still), 2017–2018 mobility. Using photography, film and text, and ROSL Arts 12 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 13

RIBA North – National Architecture Centre Bluecoat

14 July – 28 October 14 July – 28 October

Open Tuesday–Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 11am–4pm, Free Open daily 11am–6pm, Free 3 4 21 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, L3 1BP Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX

A monumental sculpture by Abbas Akhavan fills Bluecoat’s Vide gallery. Variations on a Ghost makes reference to artworks destroyed by ISIS over the last decade, in particular the ancient sculptures depicting the Assyrian protective deities called Lamassu – half man, half lion. Using a technique called ‘dirt ramming’ Akhavan has recreated the claws of the hybrid deity with soil, mesh and water. Over the exhibition period, the physical Melanie Smith, Maria Elena (film still), 2018. appearance and smell of the sculpture will Photo: Julien Devaux change, its surface appearing more stone- like as a grey crust develops. owned by the Guggenheim family in the 1920s. The film combines fragmented Melanie Smith’s new film Maria Elena takes narratives of the colonial past with the dusty its title from a town situated in the Atacama present of the salt mine. It further explores Desert, South America; one of the world’s Smith’s interest in industrial expansion in driest deserts. The settlement is connected the Americas during the 20th century and its to the oldest salt mine in Chile, which was relationship to violence and crime.

Mae-ling Lokko, CASE Chale Wote Upcycling Pavilion, 2016

Hack the Root is a newly commissioned Through a series of Grow-It-Yourself installation by Mae-ling Lokko, consisting workshops, modular biomaterial building of an architectural structure grown from panels made from a fungus developed by agrowaste-fed mycelium (mushroom) Ecovative have been grown in large-scale panels and an accompanying exhibition. grow chambers in the gallery and installed Drawing on historical and contemporary in the exhibition’s entrance tunnel. Visitors material practices, Hack the Root’s life cycle can find out more about the process proposes an alternative to the notion of the in an accompanying film exploring the root – a system that displaces all around prototyping of these unique tiles, as well it, consuming its surrounding resources to as understand the project’s proposition for grow and expand. generative upcycling economies.

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Silke Otto-Knapp, Monotones (Figures and Groups), 2016. Image courtesy Mary Boone, New York. Photo: Jeff McLane

Silke Otto-Knapp’s new large- scale painting wraps around the perimeters of the space, combining figures in group formations with abstract Suki Seokyeong Kang, Land Sand Strand (film still), 2018 panels. At the centre of the work is the construct of the stage, with motifs ranging Conceived as a visual translation of the activated by performers and the audience. from choreographed groups of Korean musical notation ‘isual tran’, Land They are given choreography inspired by the figures, historical stage sets and Sand Strand is a new multi-part installation Spring Oriole Dance, traditionally performed pared-down landscapes. Otto- by Suki Seokyeong Kang. The work on the hwamunseok. The movements on Knapp works with watercolour transforms the exhibition space into a grid. the mat serve as the blueprint for the wider on canvas, using a process Building on the concept of the hwamunseok installation consisting of painting, sculpture of removal and accumulation – a traditional Korean woven mat, and video. of pigment in order to create interpreted as the minimum space provided spaces where the flatness of for each individual in society – the piece is In the adjacent gallery is a major new project the pictorial surface contrasts by Ryan Gander, Time Moves Quickly. with an illusionistic construction Gander has worked collaboratively with five of space. children from Knotty Ash Primary School in Liverpool – Jamie Clark, Phoebe Edwards, Shannon Ebner has developed Tianna Mehta, Maisie Williams and Joshua a photographic work with a Yates – to produce a series of artworks and a related sound piece in the film exploring the activities carried out in the gallery’s courtyard. Tailored workshops. In addition to the presentation to its environment, this at Bluecoat, Gander and the children have commission connects to Ebner’s created a new public artwork for the city series STRAY (2017), which (see p.31). The project takes inspiration from comprises photographs and the Montessori method of education, based readings by the American Ryan Gander, Time Moves Quickly (workshop), 2018. on self-directed activity, hands-on learning poets Susan Howe and Shannon Ebner, Temple High and Lo, 2017. Image courtesy the artist, Photo: Brian Roberts and collaborative play. Nathaniel Mackey. Eva Presenhuber Gallery, New York/Zurich and Sadie Coles HQ, London 16 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 17

FACT

14 July – 28 October

Open Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm, Free 5 88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ

New and existing works by Agnès Varda period, all three films portray individuals and Mohamed Bourouissa are presented in society through poetic images. Together at FACT. with 3 Mouvements, Varda presents Ulysse, consisting of her short 1982 film of that Legendary French New Wave filmmaker name and a photograph she took in 1954. Agnès Varda presents her first commission The film raises questions about the impact in the UK: a three-channel video installation, of images on our collective and individual whose varying speeds stimulate a reflection memory, as well as the nature of the filmic on temporality and the rhythm of human medium itself. Finally, 5 reveurs is a large- life. 3 Mouvements combines extracts scale photographic installation. Varda’s from three of Varda’s films: Documenteur presentation is accompanied by a weekly (1981), Vagabond (1985) and The Gleaners film programme (see p.44). (2000). Though created over a long time

Mohamed Bourouissa, Untitled, 2014. Image courtesy the artist and Kamel Mennour, Paris/London. Photo: Lucia Thomé © ADAGP, Paris, 2018

With a strong collaborative sensibility, as occupational therapy, reflecting the Mohamed Bourouissa embeds himself organisation of his mental space in its within communities, examining how society structure. Bourouissa also presents a new is structured and how social processes are installation of his film Horse Day (2013). The activated. His film documenting a newly work, in which the artist designs, stages and built community garden in Liverpool documents an equestrian event, focuses on (see p.32) is presented in the upper-floor a North Philadelphia community’s efforts at gallery. The project is inspired by a garden neighbourhood revitalisation. made by a patient of the psychoanalyst and writer Frantz Fanon at the Blida- Agnès Varda is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in Blida, and FACT. Mohamed Bourouissa’s new film is Agnès Varda, Ulysse (film still), 1982 Algeria. Fanon’s patient created the garden commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and FACT. 18 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 19

The Playhouse Theatre Across the first and second floor bars, Ei Arakawa presents a new version of his 14 July – 7 October project Performance People for Liverpool. Using the astrological natal charts of Open Tuesday–Saturday 11am–6pm, Sunday 12–4pm, Free key figures in performance art, Arakawa 6 Williamson Square, L1 1EL presents an analysis of figures including Yoko Ono, Tony Conrad and Andrea Fraser on an LED screen, posters and audio.

Reetu Sattar’s film Harano Sur (Lost Tune) takes over the theatre’s rehearsal studio. It focuses on the harmonium, a musical instrument that is tightly integrated into the traditional culture of Bangladesh but is in danger of disappearing. The film documents a performance that took place earlier in the year at Dhaka Art Summit and brought together many performers, each playing one of the seven notes of the harmonium. The artist uses the sustained droning Ei Arakawa, Performance People, 2018. Image sounds as a way to explore the violence courtesy the artist and Kunstverein Duesseldorf

Ari Benjamin Meyers, Four Liverpool Musicians (film still), 2018

Liverpool’s Grade II listed Playhouse theatre and Louisa Roach (She Drew The Gun). The hosts works by Madiha Aijaz, Ei Arakawa, films do not reference the subjects’ personal Ari Benjamin Meyers, Reetu Sattar and histories directly, but tell Liverpool’s musical Iacopo Seri. history, representing its major musical movements while at the same time relating Ari Benjamin Meyers has created a series back to the city’s industrial past. This is of musical compositions that form the basis the artist’s first film-based work and is for film portraits of four musicians from presented on the theatre stage. The four Liverpool, or with musical ties to the city: films are played back with varying amounts Bette Bright (Deaf School), Budgie (Siouxsie of overlap to create a meta-composition and and the Banshees), Ken Owen (Carcass) a dialogue between the performers. Reetu Sattar, Harano Sur (Lost Tune), 2017–2018. Image courtesy Dhaka Art Summit. Photo: Pranabesh Das 20 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 21

St George’s Hall

14 July – 28 October

Open Tuesday–Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 12–5pm, Free 7 St George’s Place, L1 1JJ

The Grade I listed St George’s Hall is regarded as one of the finest Neoclassical buildings in the world and dates back to 1854. Making their way through underground spaces, visitors encounter several artists’ work presented within the building’s original prison cells and courtroom.

A reflective, gold-plated work by Chou Yu-Cheng interrogates the act of protest, Madiha Aijaz, Memorial for the Lost Pages (film still), 2018 showing indentations made by the public when it was first presented. and social upheaval that have recently humorous story of the tradition in Pakistan Joyce Wieland’s Sailboat (1967) is a short affected Bangladesh and as a wider of both naming and speaking to one’s film that depicts yachts moving across the Inci Eviner, Reenactment of Heaven (film still), 2018 metaphor for issues of cultural control, dog in English. Memorial for the Lost water intercut with the exaggerated sound diasporas and partition. By playing a Pages (2018) focuses on the spaces and of roaring waves and the word ‘sailboat’. sustained note, the performers make the communities that have become peripheral The parade of endless similar looking boats, Reenactment of Heaven, Inci Eviner’s powerful statement that they and their to civic life in Karachi, Pakistan, but which as well as the horizontal division of the newly commissioned film, reflects on traditions are here to stay. – either by tenacity or chance – continue picture frame by the water, gives the film ideas of heaven, religion and authority. to survive. an innocent child-like quality, like a simple Eviner specifically addresses the place Madiha Aijaz presents two films. In Brown painting. The distant passing sailboats hint of women in heaven, rejecting the role Sahib and the Pomeranian (2017) filmed In the first-floor bar, Iacopo Seri is creating at themes of desire, loss and yearning for consigned to women in societies dominated at Ghalib Library, Karachi, a man tells his a new work exploring drunkenness and an ideal of perfection that is always just by the male gaze. She also explores the the effect of altered states in relation to out of reach. rhetoric connected to religion and powerful forms of reality and artistic production. authorities. For her film, Eviner collaborated The project takes the form of a communal with a female singer and performer, workshop over the opening weekend of the presenting women as self-determined and Biennial (see p. 41), with transcriptions from active. Based on drawings and a multi- the collective discussion subsequently layered choreography, the film blurs the published in a zine. borders between reality and fiction, using masks, stage design and symbolic props. Reetu Sattar is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and Dhaka Art Summit, as part of the Tracing the struggles and turbulent New North and South histories of the Chechen people, Aslan Gaisumov’s most recent work Keicheyuhea (2017) follows the artist’s grandmother as Iacopo Seri, A drunken lesson (documentation), Kassel 2012. Joyce Wieland, Sailboat (film still), 1967. Image courtesy she returns to her lost homeland in the Image courtesy the artist. Drawing: Henrike Terheyden Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre mountainous scenery of the North Caucasus 22 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 23

Aslan Gaisumov, Keicheyuhea (film still), 2017 Naeem Mohaiemen, Two Meetings and a Funeral (film still), 2017 for the first time since the displacement of Modest Livelihood by Brian Jungen and her family 73 years earlier. Duane Linklater was filmed during two The work revisits the Cold War-era power convenience made during Bangladesh’s hunting trips in Dane-zaa Territory in struggles between the political coalitions fight for UN recognition, as well as parallel Lamia Joreige’s three-channel video Northern British Columbia in 2011. The of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and decolonisation struggles in Palestine-Israel, installation After the River (2016) is part of film follows the artists and Jungen’s the Organization of Islamic Cooperation the Portuguese colonies and South Africa. a project dedicated to the exploration of uncle as they move through the landscape. (OIC). The project navigates alliances of the river Nahr in Beirut. Unfolding past and For Jungen, of Dane-zaa and European present stories associated with the river, ancestry, and Linklater, who is Omaskêko Joreige draws a social portrait of a landmark Cree, the ritual of the hunt is a customary with varying roles in the rapidly changing practice of ancestral tradition central city. Her video discusses gentrification, waste to their First Nations identity, and is and current problems in the neighbourhood inextricable from the century-old treaty of the river, whilst touching upon the rights of First Nations, which the title of impact of the multicultural population and the film references. redevelopment plans for the area. Through the example of the river, Joreige also reflects Screened in the courtroom at St George’s on the changing definition of landscape and Hall is Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017), the notion of border. a three-channel film by Naeem Mohaiemen.

Lamia Joreige, After the River, 2016. Photo: Jamie Woodley © Artes Mundi Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Modest Livelihood (film still), 2012 24 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 25

Victoria Gallery & Museum actor Eartha Kitt. By removing the captions accompanying the images, Grigely points to 14 July – 28 October the significance of contextual information. Without the captions, the singers’ poses Open Tuesday–Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday 12–4pm, Free concentrate our attention on their ambiguity, 8 University of Liverpool, Ashton Street, L69 3DR as if we are watching the world with the sound turned off.

Silke Otto-Knapp’s paintings can be found here, as well as at Bluecoat. An artist’s book, produced in collaboration with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, accompanies the display.

People of No Consequence (2016) by Aslan Gaisumov documents the gathering of a group of elderly men and women, all survivors of the 1944 Soviet deportation of the Chechen and Ingush nations to Central Asia. In this powerful film, the group faces Joseph Grigely, Songs without Words (Eartha Kitt), 2009. the camera, addressing viewers directly as Image courtesy the artist they enter the building’s Tate Hall.

Francis Alÿs, Outskirts of Mosul, 2016

The building that houses the Victoria Gallery scene. Many of the paintings were done & Museum was designed by architect Alfred while scouting new locations for future film Waterhouse and opened in 1892. Works by projects, often in conflict zones such as contemporary artists span several floors, Israel and Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq. where permanent collections and temporary displays can also be found. Joseph Grigely’s series Songs without Words is based on newspaper images of Francis Alÿs presents a selection of singers and musicians. The works explore postcard-size paintings from the 1980s to the representation and communication of today under the title Age Piece. Executed sound. Taken from the New York Times, the in the tradition of classic plein air painting, series features images of celebrities from these works allude to the condition of the music world such as the opera singer global tourism in the contemporary art Andrea Bocelli or the American singer and Aslan Gaisumov, People of No Consequence (film still), 2016 26 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 27

LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab

14 July – 28 October

Open Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm, Free 9 John Lennon Art & Design Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Duckinfield Street, L3 5RD

Taus Makhacheva, Tightrope (film still), 2015

In Tate Hall, Holly Hendry presents a selection of floor-based sculptures. The works are formed from multi-layered materials including jesmonite, cement and oak, each embedded with foreign objects which reference the artist’s visit to Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum – an Paul Elliman, After America, bracelet of ‘fordite’ car enamel paint beads, 2014 institution of medical history and oddities.

Taus Makhacheva interrogates notions Liverpool John Moores University’s the Merseyside car industry (1962–1978) relating to cultural authenticity and Exhibition Research Lab hosts Paul Elliman’s via a year in Detroit in 1979, to California’s assimilation following the Sovietisation of new work and a public programme of talks Silicon Valley, where he worked at Apple as Dagestan. Her video piece Tightrope (2015) curated by The Serving Library (see p.42 a production engineer from 1982–2005. At is a complex work that plays on the delicate for details). Exhibition Research Lab, Elliman presents relationships between art history, politics, the Vauxhall Astra 2020, the forthcoming past and contemporary culture. For Liverpool Biennial 2018, Paul Elliman and newest model of a car available since has worked with Sara De Bondt and 1979 when General Motors launched the A selection of objects and collections are Mark El-khatib on the graphic identity, using Vauxhall/Opel Astra, now the only car highlighted to visitors as part of Worlds letter-like shapes and symbols gathered produced at Ellesmere Port. The within worlds, alongside a display of as part of a durational work – a ‘found Astra 2020 is offered as a constellation anatomical models of plants from World font’ – that Elliman calls The Day Shapes. of raw materials, half-a-dozen boulders Museum (see p.37). Pursuing the mechanisms of language as a and rock-like lumps of the car’s constituent mode of economic production, Elliman has parts at original scale, made of steel (iron spoken about how the origins of his work ore), glass, plastic, aluminum, rubber and with object letters began in thoughts about electrical components. Holly Hendry, Gut Feelings, 2016. Image courtesy the artist the path of his father’s migration: from 28 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 29

Blackburne House

14 July – 28 October

Open Tuesday–Saturday 10am–6pm, Sunday 12–4pm, Free 10 Blackburne Place, L8 7PE

Blackburne House is located in the city’s new range of beauty products has been Georgian Quarter and was the home developed with Tigran Geletsyan from 22|11 of the first girls’ school in the country. Cosmetics for spa treatments. Throughout Currently an educational centre for women the Biennial, visitors are invited to book a and home to a number of social enterprises, facial treatment, which will be conducted it houses new commissions by Taus by a performer and take approximately 30 Makhacheva and Rehana Zaman. minutes. In this passive state, the visitor becomes a sculptural subject. During the Taus Makhacheva has created a ruin-like treatment, stories about artworks that sculptural installation that serves as a have disappeared throughout the history spa, in collaboration with artist Alexander of art will be told. The work reflects on our Kutovoi. The installation incorporates contemporary condition, dominated by ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian screens and membranes, anxiety and loss Response) techniques and video. A of intimacy.

Rehana Zaman, How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear? (film stills), 2018

organisations. The group has documented Rehana Zaman’s new film has been the development of the co-operative as developed over the course of six months the project has unfolded, addressing their with a group of young women from experiences as young women of Somali and Liverpool at Blackburne House; it is also Pakistani background and the complexities the starting point for a new women’s film of working collaboratively. It interweaves co-operative. How Does an Invisible Boy fictional and non-fictional accounts of Disappear? draws upon marginalised past, present and invented occurrences histories of the city and explores the work of to examine how spaces and positions of Taus Makhacheva, ASMR (Art) Spa (production detail), 2018 anti-racist and women-led grassroots film authority are gendered and racialised. 30 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 31

The Oratory Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Plateau

14 July – 28 October 14 July – 28 October

Open Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm, Free 11 12 Mount Pleasant, L3 5TQ Cathedral Gate, L1 7AZ

Situated near Liverpool Cathedral, the instead focuses on the transient and the Oratory was designed by John Foster in the disjointed. The work draws from contiguous Greek Revival style and was originally the art practices, such as literature and painting, chapel of St James’s cemetery. It houses as well as from popular culture, in particular an outstanding collection of 19th-century explorations of history in genre and auteur memorial sculpture. film. Working primarily in film, Poledna creates highly concentrated pieces that Screened within a specially designed share a rigorous interest in the language structure, Mathias Poledna’s new film of film and, more broadly, of images in our installation further advances his exploration collective imagination, present and past. of modernity’s visual imaginary. The work is set against the backdrop of early 17 In St James’ Gardens, Abbas Akhavan 20th-century European history, a period has created a subtle intervention. of traumatic modernisation and conflict. Forgoing expansive narratives, Poledna The Oratory is part of National Museums Liverpool

Ryan Gander, Time Moves Quickly (workshop), 2018. Photo: Brian Roberts

Five bench-like sculptures can be found on the plateau behind the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. For this new commission, Ryan Gander dissected a model of architect Frederick Gibberd’s modernist cathedral into a series of simple ‘building blocks’. The blocks were then reassembled into different configurations by schoolchildren from Liverpool: Jamie Clark, Phoebe Edwards, Tianna Mehta, Maisie Williams and Joshua Yates. The maquettes that Gander and the children created have been reproduced on a larger scale to produce this new public seating Maquette of From five minds of great vision (The Metropolitan arrangement within the cathedral grounds. Cathedral of Christ the King disassembled and reassembled This presentation is part of a larger project, to conjure resting places in the public realm), 2018. Image Mathias Poledna, Untitled (film still), 2018 Time Moves Quickly (see p.14). courtesy the artist. Photo: Stevie Dix © Ryan Gander 32 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 33

Resilience Garden Invisible Wind Factory

14 July – 28 October 14 July – 28 October

Open Saturday 2–5pm 13 14 3 Regent Road, L3 7DS 75-77 Granby Street, L8 2TX

Grace, Charles and the Sunflower is a new the future. By presenting a similar mosaic mosaic by Paulina Olowska that references in Liverpool, Olowska champions the the socialist belief that through the creation value of these works and suggests that of a public work one can influence and they should be protected as part of the present optimistic visions of a better world. country’s national heritage. The main motif The artist’s idea is based on a Polish mosaic in Olowska’s work is a stylised sunflower from the 1960s situated on the side of a that contains at its centre a famous public school in the village of Raba Zdroj, image from 1969 by Norman Parkinson: where Olowska lives. Despite its history, Vogue America’s Creative Director Grace the mosaic remains unprotected and Coddington powdering the nose of Prince unmaintained: this kind of popular, public, Charles at Windsor Castle. In Olowska’s post-soviet art is no longer favoured by the practice, the fashion world is often used Polish government and there is a strong to reference major political events and the possibility that it will be demolished in permeability of culture and society.

Mohamed Bourouissa, Resilience Garden, 2018. Photo: Pete Carr

Mohamed Bourouissa has created a garden architecture and therapy in order to create a working with local people, gardeners, school similar garden in Liverpool. The garden has pupils, teachers and artists. The artist was been conceived as a space of ‘resilience’. inspired by a garden made by a patient of Some of the plants are native to Algeria the psychoanalyst and writer Frantz Fanon and others have healing effects. A film at the Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in documenting the garden and its evolution is Blida, Algeria. Fanon’s patient created the presented at FACT (see p.17). garden as occupational therapy, reflecting the organisation of his mental space through Mohamed Bourouissa is commissioned by Liverpool its structure. Bourouissa researched and Biennial in partnership with Kingsley Community learnt the patient’s approach to botany, School and Granby Four Streets CLT Paulina Olowska, Grace, Charles and the Sunflower (detail), 2018. Photo: Paulina Wlostowska 34 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 35

Exchange Flags Great George Street

14 July – 28 October 14 July – 28 October

15 L2 3SW 16 L1 7BX

Exchange Flags, a public square by buried under Liverpool ONE. To bring Compiled and updated each year by UNITED Liverpool’s Town Hall, is the grand setting together this new work, Hendry researched for Intercultural Action, an anti-discrimination for Holly Hendry’s new large-scale materials and material processes tied to network of 550 organisations in 48 countries, commission. The sculpture takes the form of Liverpool, particularly the techniques of The List traces information relating to the ‘pipe’ sections made from Glass Reinforced the major ship builders of Merseyside, deaths of more than 34,000 refugees and Concrete (GRC) and reflects the artist’s the use of cast iron for manhole covers, migrants who have lost their lives within, or interest in the city’s architecture, from the and the city’s pioneering employment of on the borders of Europe since 1993. Since Williamson tunnels that were purportedly architectural supports and precast concrete 2007, in collaboration with art workers and built for land reclamation, to the old dock in panelled buildings. institutions, Banu Cennetog˘lu has facilitated up-to-date and translated versions of The List using public spaces such as billboards, transport networks and newspapers. An updated edition of The List is presented at a public site in Liverpool and can be accessed online at guardian.co.uk. Copies of The List, which were distributed by The Guardian newspaper on World Refugee Day on 20 June, are also available at exhibition venues.

This edition of The List is produced by Liverpool Biennial and Chisenhale Gallery, London

Fight is a series of silkscreen posters by Janice Kerbel located outside Bluecoat. Kerbel first choreographed an unarmed fight for a group of 12 individuals. Every action of the fight was recorded on sheets of paper the size of a body, using text in the area corresponding to the part of body where the impact is received. These drawings act both as recipients of action – becoming illegible with the layering of type – and a score for future action. The drawings were then printed onto campaign poster paper, which are presented from the ground up, emphasising their relationship to humans. Kerbel is interested in how fights can both erupt and dissipate unannounced, regardless Holly Hendry, Cenotaph (detail and maquette), 2018 of context or setting. Janice Kerbel, Fight (detail), 2018 36 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com #LB2018 Biennial Exhibition 37

Online Worlds within worlds

Visit at biennial.com/online Liverpool’s history as a port city embraces 7 St George’s Hall moments of great prosperity as well Minton floor reveal as charting postindustrial decline and 3 August – 12 August, open 10am–5pm postcolonial histories. Worlds within £3 on the door worlds invites audiences to explore the rich histories and stories evoked by objects and The encaustic-tiled Minton floor in the artefacts from the city’s civic collections and concert room of St George’s Hall is architecture. considered one of the world’s finest. It contains over 30,000 tiles and was amongst Worlds within worlds directs viewers the largest tiled pavements when first towards a selection of paintings and objects installed in 1852. The floor has been mostly at the Walker Art Gallery by artists including covered since then. George Stubbs, David Hockney, Augustus John and Joseph Wright of Derby; a rare 8 Victoria Gallery & Museum complete edition of The Birds of America by Selected objects and collections John James Audubon at the Central Library; Display of the Brendel Plant Models the Haida totem pole at the World Museum; of World Museum and a collection of anatomical plant models Gallery open Tuesday–Saturday, 10am–5pm made by the Berlin firm R Brendel & Co in Germany around the turn of the 20th century. A selection of objects and collections Special events include the revelation of are highlighted for visitors, including CR Cockerell’s magnificent Minton tile floor the Scrimshaw collection – works of art in St George’s Hall and a presentation of the that were carved from tusks and bones; Civic Silver in the Town Hall. zoological exhibits; the Waterloo Teeth collection; and the world’s first scientific best-seller from 1665, Micrographia by Morehshin Allahyari, Material Speculation ISIS, Marten, 2016 Robert Hooke.

A display of anatomical models of plants She Who Sees The Unknown: The Laughing to consider a series of current and imagined from World Museum, made for display Snake is a new online commission by news stories and catastrophes in relation and teaching purposes by the Berlin firm Morehshin Allahyari that takes the form to the Middle East. By adopting the form R Brendel & Co in Germany around the turn of a web-based hypertext narrative. It is of an online work, she introduces a 21st- of the 20th century, is also presented here. composed from a series of images and century mirror with which online users can Chalybeate Spring at gifs that re-appropriate the story of the interact. Exploring the political, social and 17 Laughing Snake taken from the late 14th- cultural contradictions that we face every St James’ Gardens century Arabic manuscript known as Kitab day, Allahyari uses technology both as a al-Bulhan (Book of Wonders). The various philosophical tool to reflect on objects and Discovered in 1773 by quarrymen, this myths about the Laughing Snake tell the as a poetic means to document our personal natural water source named ‘Chalybeate’ story of a monstrous figure that has taken and collective life struggles. – meaning ‘containing iron’ – is said to over a city and its lands. The only way to promote appetite and quicken digestion. destroy the snake is to hold a mirror in front Morehshin Allahyari is commissioned by John James Audubon, Snowy Owls, 1838 from The of her. Allahyari uses the concept of the Liverpool Biennial, FACT and Whitney Museum Birds of America. Image courtesy Liverpool Libraries Laughing Snake and the mirror as symbols of American Art and Information Services, Liverpool City Council 38 Biennial Exhibition biennial.com

18 Town Hall Civic Silver display 13 August – 24 August, open 10am–5pm Daily tours: 10am, 11.30am, 1pm, £5.50

Exclusively for the Biennial, Liverpool Town Hall is giving visitors access to parts of its silver collection. The eclectic collection of the silver gifts that the city has received over the centuries takes viewers on a journey into Liverpool’s historical past.

19 Central Library The Birds of America by John James Audubon Page-turning events every Wednesday, 12pm

Liverpool Central Library holds on display one of only 120 copies still in existence of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. George Stubbs, A Monkey, 1799. Image courtesy the The 19th-century book contains exquisite Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the Public United States.

20 World Museum Haida pole von Herkomer, David Hockney, Augustus Museum open daily, 10am–5pm John, John Martin, Simone Martini, Claude Monet, Nicolas Poussin, Salvator Rosa, Programme The Haida pole was carved during the Salomon van Ruisdael, Frederick Sandys, 1860s or 1870s and stood in front of George Stubbs, Guy Green Wedgwood, Something Terrible Happened House – the John Williamson and Joseph Wright of northernmost house in the village of Xaayna Derby. See the full list at biennial.com (Haina), Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands, Northwest Coast, Canada). It 22 Garstang Museum of Archaeology was the centrepiece of the museum’s Open Wednesday–Thursday, 10am–4pm ethnographic collections and survived bombing during World War II. The museum features artefacts from the excavations of Garstang in Egypt, Sudan 21 Walker Art Gallery and the Near East. The head and shoulders Selected paintings and objects of an Egyptian woman’s coffin, dating back Gallery open daily, 10am–5pm to 1539-1252 BC, is among the highlights.

Visitors are guided to a selection of artworks Allerton Oak in Calderstones Park from Walker Art Gallery’s collections, including works by Giovanni Bellini, John Allerton Oak has been named the oldest Brett, Joos van Cleve, Hendrick Cornelisz oak tree in the North West at about 1000 van Vliet, William Davis, Peter Doig, Hubert years old. 40 Public Programme biennial.com #LB2018 Public Programme 41

Performance

Events are free unless otherwise stated Booking via biennial.com

Every Friday and Saturday Saturday 14 July & Sunday 15 July Sculptural Signature Facial Land Sand Strand – Activation 10am–6pm, Blackburne House 1pm, Bluecoat £25 for a 30-minute session Advance booking essential Suki Seokyeong Kang’s sculptural installation Land Sand Strand will be As part of her ASMR (Art) Spa, artist Taus activated through a series of movements Makhacheva offers facial treatments inside inspired by the Korean Spring Oriole Dance. her sculptural installation. Each one-to- The activation involves three-minute one session follows a script by writer choreographies which can be carried David McDermott and includes surface out one after the other by a performer, assessment, deep cleaning and plastifying a member of staff or the audience. The masks. The spa products have been choreographies are outlined in a manual designed by Tigran Geletsyan from 22|11 which is available in the gallery and cosmetics exclusively for this project. activation after the opening weekend is dependent on the participation of the audience. Kevin Beasley, Your face is / is not enough, 2016. Image courtesy the artist, Casey Kaplan, New York and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Photo: Tom Van Eynde

Saturday 14 July Saturday 14 July Your face is / is not enough What Is (A drunken meditation on the 3pm, Tate Liverpool mystery of existence) 6–9pm, the Playhouse theatre bar Kevin Beasley’s sculptural installation Your Limited spaces, advance booking essential face is / is not enough will be activated through a performance as part of the work’s Conceived and facilitated by Iacopo Seri, installation process. The activation involves this workshop provides a platform for the a group of 12 performers, wearing masks exploration of metaphysical themes such and megaphones, who will move through as existence, eternity and reality. The artist Tate Liverpool in procession to the gallery, invites a group of people to participate in where the work will be installed by them for an experiment including wine, discussion the remainder of the exhibition. and philosophy in order to monitor and document the change of ideas and behavioural patterns through the influence of alcohol.

Disclaimer: The event includes the consumption of alcohol and might therefore not be suitable for all visitors. Participation is at the visitor’s own risk. Suki Seokyeong Kang, Jeong ¼, 2011–2015. Image courtesy the artist Over 18s only. 42 Public Programme biennial.com #LB2018 Public Programme 43

Talks Thursday 11 October OTHER LOCATIONS A Great Enchanted Garden: Can AI Give Us Events are free unless otherwise stated Back Our Sense of Wonder? Saturday 14 July Booking via biennial.com Rather than ugly and dystopian, could Artist Talk: Haegue Yang today’s advances in artificial intelligence 1pm, Tate Liverpool actually be beautiful and affirming? The Economist’s Ryan Avent finds out. Saturday 14 July Artist Talk: Mae-ling Lokko Thursday 18 October 2pm, RIBA North Reclaiming Beauty as a Public Good Author Angela Nagle questions why beauty Saturday 14 July remains such a controversial aesthetic ideal Artist Talk: Mohamed Bourouissa that seemingly only the privileged few can 4pm, Resilience Garden, Granby now access. Saturday 4 August Friday 26 October Artist Talk: Ryan Gander Aliens, Fieldwork, and Universal Grammar in conversation with Dominic Wilkinson Jessica Coon, a scientific consultant on 11am, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral science-fiction film Arrival (2016), joins novelist Vincenzo Latronico to investigate Saturday 8 September how we could communicate with aliens. The Brendel Plant Models of World Museum with Donna Young 3pm, Victoria Gallery & Museum Part of Worlds within worlds Unknown Fields in collaboration with Tushar Prakash, Unravelled (film still), 2017 Thursday 4 October Soulless, A Fireball is Turning Curated Talks Programme Thursday 26 July with Central Saint Martin’s MA Culture, 6.30pm Climate Grief and the Visible Horizon Criticism and Curation, University of The Serving Library at LJMU’s Exhibition Author Meehan Crist explores how the Arts London Research Lab traditional notions of grief have become A look into artistic and political obsolete in the age of climate change and engagements in Liverpool Biennial through A wide-ranging list of participants including imagines new ways to live with loss. film screenings and discussion. economists, media theorists, writers, 5pm, LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab architects and painters are invited to Thursday 13 September variously address or refract the question Self-Repairing Cities Saturday 13 October borrowed from Friedrich Schiller to title In an age of animate material technologies, John James Audubon: The Birds of America the Biennial: Beautiful world, where are materials engineer Mark Miodownik asks with David Stoker you? The public programme of talks for if the goal of creating self-repairing cities 12pm, Central Library Liverpool Biennial 2018 is curated by The is achievable. Part of Worlds within worlds Serving Library in partnership with LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab. The programme Thursday 27 September Every Tuesday started in May with talks by Candice The Fabric of the Planetary Surface John Moores Painting Prize: Talk Tuesdays Hopkins, Eyal Weizman, Alexander Provan, How do we address the ebbs and flows 1pm, Walker Art Gallery and Ei Arakawa and Silke Otto-Knapp. of media culture on a global scale? Media theorist Jussi Parikka considers the global The Brendel Plant Models. Image courtesy the World character of the textile industry. Museum, National Museums Liverpool. Photo: Jay Ratcliffe 44 Public Programme biennial.com #LB2018 Public Programme 45

Film Wednesday 12 September Wednesday 25 July The Demoiselles De Rochefort Agnès Varda: Pioneer Cléo from 5 to 7 Dir. Jacques Demy, 1967, France, 120 min Every Wednesday, 6.30pm Dir. Agnès Varda, 1962, France, 89 min Twin sisters Delphine and Solange Adult £12.20 / Concessions £11.20 / An elegant snapshot of a singer’s life in leave their small seaside town in search Members £10.20 the 1960s as she awaits the test results of of romance. a biopsy. Over six decades, multi-award winning Wednesday 19 September Agnès Varda has established herself at the Wednesday 1 August Jacquot De Nantes vanguard of world cinema, directing over 50 The Piano Dir. Agnès Varda, 1991, France, 118 min films, shorts and documentaries. Alongside Dir. Jane Campion, 1993, New Zealand/Australia/ Ingmar Bergman, Persona (film still), 1966. Varda’s portrait of French New Wave presenting a newly commissioned work for France, 121 min Image courtesy The Criterion Collection filmmaker Jacques Demy, following his the Biennial, FACT and Picturehouse present A tale of attraction and passion set in 1851 formative years in 1940s France. weekly screening of the works of Agnès about a pianist and her daughter who Varda, and a personally curated set of films travel from Scotland to New Zealand for an Wednesday 22 August Wednesday 26 September to accompany her own. The film programme arranged marriage. L’une Chante, L’autre Pas Pierrot Le Fou is accompanied by a wide range of talks, Dir. Agnès Varda, 1977, Venezuela/France/Belgium, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France, 110 min live events and Q&As, offering a variety of Wednesday 8 August 107 min Weary of his stagnant life, Ferdinand approaches into the themes and subjects Le Bonheur In 1970s France, the lives of two women abandons his family for an enigmatic covered by the films. Dir. Agnès Varda, 1965, France, 80 min intertwine during the progress of the babysitter; he soon discovers his mistress In this deceptively cheerful examination of women’s movement. is not who she seems. Agnès Varda: Pioneer is presented in partnership infidelity, a carpenter lives an uncomplicated between FACT, Liverpool Biennial, Picturehouse, life with his family until he meets a woman Wednesday 29 August Wednesday 3 October BFI and University of Liverpool. who alters his sunny world. Talk to Her The Gleaners and I Dir. Pedro Almodovaró, 2002, Spain, 112 min Dir. Agnès Varda, 2000, France, 82 min Wednesday 18 July Wednesday 15 August A beautiful exploration into identity and An 1867 painting by Jean-Francois La Pointe Courte Persona sexuality, as two men form a friendship Millet inspired Varda to cross the Dir. Agnès Varda, 1955, France, 76 min Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden, 85 min based on the fact they both care for their French countryside to videotape people Considered one of the progenitors of the An emotional and spiritual transference comatose wives. who scavenge. French New Wave, Varda’s debut film is a ensues between two women in this documentary-style look at daily life. psychologically driven masterpiece. Wednesday 5 September Wednesday 10 October Vagabond A Woman Under the Influence Dir. Agnès Varda, 1985, France, 105 min Dir. John Cassavetes, 1974, USA, 155 min A young woman is found frozen in a ditch; Mabel’s increasingly volatile behaviour through flashbacks, we discover how her commits her to an institution. Her husband desire for freedom led to her demise. and kids await her return, which holds more than a few surprises.

Wednesday 17 October The Beaches of Agnes Dir. Agnès Varda, 2008, France, 110 min In this autobiographical documentary, Varda provides a window into her eventful life as she revisits various locales that have been important to her. Agnès Varda, Vagabond (film still), 1985. Agnès Varda, Le Bonheur (film still), 1965. Image courtesy The Criterion Collection Image courtesy The Criterion Collection 46 Public Programme biennial.com #LB2018 Public Programme 47

Family and Education 31 July – 2 August, 7–9 August, SCHOOL TOURS & RESOURCES 14–16 August, 21–23 August Events are free unless otherwise stated Prototype Camps At Liverpool Biennial we want every school Booking via biennial.com 10am–3pm, FACT, £60 pupil to have the opportunity to experience The Prototype camps offer young people a and engage with international art. There are There is an exciting programme of events Every Saturday range of digital and creative skills. Children loads of activities for schools taking place for families and schools throughout the Do Something Saturdays will learn about designing and prototyping, throughout term-time at Liverpool Biennial. festival. These fun sessions offer a great 12–4pm, FACT whilst making surreal Virtual Reality 360 opportunity for people of all ages to interact Every Saturday, discover a different way of films. Suitable for ages 9–12 and 13–15. Book onto one of the free school tours and with and enjoy contemporary art. experiencing the Biennial exhibition at FACT. workshops, taking place Monday to Friday Drop-in sessions designed for families to Thursday 2 August, 16 August, 30 August at a number of our venues, and get creative YOUNG PEOPLE & CHILDREN make, do and be creative together. Family Workshops whilst exploring amazing contemporary 1–4pm, Victoria Gallery & Museum art. You can also get involved through our Every Saturday until 22 September Sunday 29 July, 26 August, 30 September Explore the Biennial exhibition at Victoria free digital learning resource, which is Granby Gardening Club & 28 October Gallery & Museum and take part in creative packed full of activities for use inside and 2–5pm, 75–77 Granby St Family Tours workshop activities designed by artists in outside the classroom. The cross-curriculum Gardening and growing sessions for the 3pm, various sites and venues response to the works. resource ties in with Key Stages 1-4 and is whole family at Mohamed Bourouissa’s Explore and learn more about the Liverpool available from biennial.com Resilience Garden. Activities include Biennial exhibition across the city on Saturday 18 August gardening, watercolour painting, games, a family-friendly tour (see p.48 for Family Day To book a tour or find out more about our plant potting, seed bomb-making and more. further details). 1–4pm, Bluecoat schools offer contact Kayt Hughes on Join us at Bluecoat for an afternoon of free [email protected] or 0151 709 7444. creative fun. Inspired by the work of Ryan Gander, we will create a range of artworks Wednesday 18 July including sculptures, large-scale drawings Teachers' Private View and dens. 5–8pm, Bluecoat Teachers and educators are invited to join us Sunday 30 September for a Private View to get an exclusive look at Get Creative with Tate’s Family Collective the Liverpool Biennial 2018 programme, 1–3pm, Tate Liverpool meet artists and find out more about our Try out hands-on activities, learn new schools offer. techniques, explore artworks from Tate’s displays and work as a group to help us plan and shape our next family activity.

Monday 22 – Thursday 25 October Half-Term Family Activities 1–4pm, Tate Liverpool Drop in to our fun free family activities this October half-term, designed by Tate Liverpool’s family collective and inspired by the Biennial exhibitions.

Granby Gardening Club, 2018. Photo: Pete Carr 48 Public Programme biennial.com #LB2018 Public Programme 49

Tours Saturday 20 October Sunday 22 July Sunday 9 September LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab with Changing Cultures Narratives of Political Conflict 1 Events are free unless otherwise stated Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey Open Eye Gallery, the Playhouse theatre St George’s Hall, Bluecoat Booking via biennial.com From social structures to musical See the different ways that artists have Saturday 27 October instruments, see artworks which explore represented political conflicts. CURATOR TOURS Blackburne House with Sarah Happersberger cultural shifts. Saturdays, 3pm, various venues Sunday 16 September Sunday 29 July Visions of Life and Heaven Saturday 14 July WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS TOURS Environments of a Beautiful World FACT, St George’s Hall Bluecoat with Adam Smythe RIBA North – National Architecture Centre Two artists explore the nature of life Saturday 4 August Learn about the environmental themes and heaven. Saturday 21 July St George’s Hall of Mae-ling Lokko’s installation. Resilience Garden, Granby with Polly Brannan with Alan Smith Sunday 23 September 12pm, St George’s Hall Sunday 5 August Found Objects and The Serving Library Saturday 28 July Extreme Landscapes LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab FACT with Mike Stubbs 14 August – 24 August Bluecoat, St George’s Hall Visit Paul Elliman’s found objects and see The Civic Silver How have artists responded to extreme The Serving Library collection. Saturday 4 August Daily at 10am, 11.30am, 1pm, £5.50 landscapes? St George’s Hall with Sarah Happersberger Saturday 18 August, 3pm with Steve Binns Sunday 30 September Town Hall Sunday 12 August Time Moves Quickly Saturday 11 August Public Sites Bluecoat Open Eye Gallery with Thomas Dukes Friday 14 September Exchange Flags, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Take a tour of Ryan Gander’s project, created The Collection of Walker Art Gallery Take a walk around the city to discover our in collaboration with five young local artists. Saturday 18 August with Sandra Penketh public artworks. Victoria Gallery & Museum 3pm, Walker Art Gallery Sunday 7 October with Silvia Sgualdini Sunday 19 August Landscapes in Memory Saturday 29 September On Repetition and Memory St George’s Hall, Victoria Gallery & Museum Saturday 25 August The Collection of Victoria FACT, Bluecoat Experience landscapes that activate cities Public spaces with Sunny Cheung Gallery & Museum A tour of artworks which consider our and memories. with Leonie Sedman notions of memory. Saturday 1 September 3pm, Victoria Gallery & Museum Sunday 14 October Tate Liverpool with Tamar Hemmes Sunday 26 August Family Narratives Resilience Garden St George’s Hall, Victoria Gallery & Museum Saturday 8 September MEDIATOR TOURS Granby Street, Victoria Gallery & Museum, FACT Learn how the theme of ‘family’ appears in The Playhouse theatre with Sunny Cheung Every Sunday, 3pm Journey to Toxteth’s new community garden Aslan Gaisumov’s video works. Explore and learn more about the Liverpool and learn more about the artist behind it. Saturday 15 September Biennial 2018 exhibition across the city with Sunday 21 October Bluecoat with Marie-Anne McQuay our mediation team. Sunday 2 September Narratives of Political Conflict 2 Visions of North America Victoria Gallery & Museum, St George’s Hall Saturday 22 September Sunday 15 July Liverpool Central Library, Tate Liverpool See the different ways in which artists have FACT with Mary Jane Edwards Approaches to Music See John James Audubon’s famous book, represented political conflicts. The Playhouse theatre, Bluecoat, The Birds of America, and encounter artworks Saturday 6 October Victoria Gallery & Museum by indigenous North American artists. Sunday 28 October RIBA North with Suzy Jones Inspired by the musical source of the Music and Activation Biennial’s title, investigate how artists Bluecoat Saturday 13 October reference music in their work. How is music represented in Suki Bluecoat with Bryan Biggs Seokyeong Kang’s work? 50 Public Programme biennial.com #LB2018 Public Programme 51

Liverpool Biennial at 20

This year Liverpool Biennial celebrates Liverpool Biennial’s ambition remains 20 years of presenting international art to keep developing Liverpool as an in the Liverpool City Region. In that time, international centre for art and artists, whilst the Biennial has commissioned over 300 broadening and deepening engagement new artworks and presented more than with contemporary art. 450 artists from around the world. To mark the 20th anniversary of Liverpool Working in the context of the city, artists Biennial, we invite you to discover those have created works for Liverpool’s galleries, artworks that have remained and celebrate squares, cathedrals, streets, unused and the idea of art in everyday life. civic buildings, delighting and surprising millions of people over the years. Artist We would also love to hear your own residencies and long-term projects with Biennial stories of encountering incredible local communities, as well as on-going art – share your memories with us via social education and professional development media or by emailing [email protected]. programmes, have further embedded the Biennial in the fabric of the City Region. #artineverydaylife Betty Woodman, Liverpool Fountain, 2016. Photo: Joel Chester Fildes

Everybody Razzle Dazzle (2015) Penelope (2004) 25 Sir Peter Blake 29 Jorge Pardo Mersey Ferries Terminal, Pier Head, Wolstenholme Square, L1 4JJ Georges Parade, L3 1DP Blaze, Hello Future Me and Mrs. Muir (2016) Liverpool Fountain (2016) Frances Disley, Hato with Childwall 26 Betty Woodman Academy and Ana Jotta George’s Dock Ventilation Tower Plaza, Arriva buses across the City Region Georges Dockway, L3 1DD Evertro (2015) Hummingbird Clock (2016) Koo Jeong A x Wheelscape 27 Lawrence Abu Hamdan Everton Park, Prince Edwin Street / Derby Square, L1 7NU Roscommon Street, L5 3NG

Arbores Laetae (Joyful Trees) (2008) Dream (2009) 28 Diller Scofidio + Renfro Jaume Plensa Parliament Street / Great George Street Sutton Manor, St Helens, WA9 4BE corner, L8 5RW Rotunda Pavilion, Kirkdale (2008) A special anniversary re-activation of Rotunda and GROSS Max this artwork, which consists of three Great Mersey Street, Kirkdale, L5 7TR slowly rotating trees. The piece playfully reinvents the tradition of the public park Another Place (2005) and proposes a new model for green space Antony Gormley Sir Peter Blake, Everybody Razzle Dazzle, 2015. Photo: Mark McNulty in the urban context. Crosby Beach 52 Public Programme biennial.com

Book Limited editions

Liverpool Biennial 2018 artists, including Inci Eviner, Dale Harding, Holly Hendry and Silke Otto-Knapp, have made new limited edition works, on sale throughout the festival. The sale of Limited Editions directly supports the Biennial’s new commissions, exhibitions, talks and educational programmes.

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16 August – 30 September Limited Editions Display Cass Art, 18 School Lane L1 3BT

Beautiful world, where are you? £18.95, 320 pages Partner Available from exhibition venues and biennial.com/books

The accompanying publication Beautiful world, where are you? is published as part of Liverpool Biennial 2018. The book gives Exhibitions another medium for artists and contributors to respond to this timely question, offering the pages as a place to reflect, educate and invigorate. Designed as a non-hierarchal platform, the book explores ideas around language, gender, migration, histories, economics, music, technology and environment.

Including texts by Lucy Ash, John Bridgeland and Sylvia Earle, Eugenia Cheng, Sophie Collins, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Inua Ellams, Geoffrey Farmer, Candice Hopkins, Kenric McDowell, Gerald McMaster, David Inci Eviner, Bird Mind, 2018 Suzuki, Imre Szeman, Rufus Wainwright and contributions from the Liverpool Biennial 2018 artists.

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John Moores Painting Prize 2018 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018

14 July – 18 November 14 July – 9 September

Open daily 10am–5pm, Free Open Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm, Free 21 23 Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, L3 8EL Liverpool School of Art & Design, John Lennon Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Duckinfield Street, L3 5RD

New Contemporaries offers an insight into Hosted for the first time at Liverpool School today’s creative practices, showcasing some of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores of the most dynamic work being made by University, Bloomberg New Contemporaries emerging artists. Established in 1949, this is 2018 features 57 artists chosen by guest the first year New Contemporaries profiles selectors Benedict Drew, Katy Moran (New emerging talent from alternative as well as Contemporaries alumnus 2006) and Keith formal learning programmes from across Piper (New Contemporaries alumnus 1986). the UK. Past exhibitors include post-war figures Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego; pop The exhibition will travel to the South artists Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney; London Gallery in December 2018. YBAs Damien Hirst and Gillian Wearing; contemporary figures such as Tacita Dean Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Arts and Mike Nelson; whilst more recent Council England, Government Art Collection, emerging artists include Ed Atkins and Department for Digital, Culture Media & Sport, Laure Prouvost. Danish Arts Foundation, SAHA Association and Flanders State of the Art

This year, the John Moores Painting Prize cross-section of influential voices from celebrates 60 years as the UK's best known the art world: Monster Chetwynd, Lubaina and longest running painting competition. Himid MBE, Jenni Lomax, Liu Xiaodong, Launched in 1957, it has been won by and 1985 first prize winner, Bruce McLean. leading British artists including David Disagree with them? Have your say by Hockney, Peter Doig and Rose Wylie. 60 voting for your favourite painting in the artists make up the 2018 exhibition, which popular Visitors’ Choice award. The is filled with works that cover a spectrum commemorative artwork created for the of artistic styles, from the realist to surreal. exhibition is by Sir Peter Blake, Patron of the As a snapshot of contemporary painting in Prize and winner of the John Moores junior Britain, the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 painting prize in 1961. will surprise, engage, puzzle and provoke visitors. Named after its founder, Sir John Also showing until 14 October is an Moores (1896-1993), the Prize has always exhibition of early works by Sean Scully, been selected and judged anonymously. a past prize winner in the John Moores This year’s panel included an international Painting Prize (1972 and 1974). Chris Alton, After the Revolution They Built an Art School Over the Golf Course, 2017 56 Partner Exhibitions biennial.com #LB2018 Partner Exhibitions 57

This is Shanghai We Are Where We Are

9 July – 7 September 15 June – 21 October

Open Tuesday–Sunday Open Wednesday–Sunday 10am–6pm, Free 24 Cunard Building and various Waterfront locations BALTIC 39, 39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1EW

Presented by Liverpool Biennial with BALTIC This is Shanghai explores and celebrates This is Shanghai is the second chapter of the relationship between Liverpool and its China Dream, a 9-month festival celebrating twin city in China, drawing on similarities to contemporary Chinese art and culture which reflect on urban and cultural evolution and was inspired by the arrival of the Terracotta transformation through some of the leading Warriors to the city – the first time in a and emerging contemporary artists within generation they are being exhibited on Shanghai. Presented by Culture Liverpool UK soil. in partnership with Open Eye Gallery, the works are staged at iconic locations across Exhibiting artists include Xu Zhen, Zhang Liverpool Waterfront. Centred around the Peili, Yang Fudong, Shi Yong, Yang Cunard Building as well as Tate Exchange, Zhenzhong, Zhou Xiaohu, Yuan Gong, Yu Ji, Mann Island, Museum of Liverpool and Lu Pingyuan and Liang Yue. the public realm to draw parallels with the Bund in Shanghai, the works translate and reimagine Shanghai’s everyday reality in the city of Liverpool.

Frances Disley, RRR (film still), 2018. Commissioned by Sefton Libraries. Photo: George Ellis

A point, a period, or a step in a process, New York and CACTUS, Liverpool. We Are We Are Where We Are is a dark place for Where We Are is part of the Great Exhibition moving forward. Works are in, underneath of the North 2018 in NewcastleGateshead. and between treated walls. Artists: Simeon Barclay, Jacqueline Bebb, This exhibition showcases new and existing Lindsey Bull, Robert Carter, Nina Chua, works by Liverpool Biennial Associate Matthew Crawley, Frances Disley, Daniel Artists, 11 artists from the North of Fogarty, Harry Meadley, Stephen Sheehan, England. The show and programme are Lauren Velvick the culmination of a three-year initiative by Liverpool Biennial, in partnership Curated by Joe Fletcher Orr, Founder and Director, with Independent Curators International, CACTUS, Liverpool and BALTIC Centre for Shi Yong, A Bunch of Happy Fantasies, 2009. Image courtesy the artist and ShanghArt Gallery Contemporary Art 58 Partner Exhibitions biennial.com

Biennial Fringe Residencies

July – October 2018 As part of Liverpool 2018’s China Dream Various venues and sites across season, Shanghai-based artists He Yida and Liverpool City Region Boat Zhang have been invited by Liverpool Biennial to undertake residencies. He Yida The six boroughs are filled with artists will be based at the Centre for Chinese and new works as Independents Biennial, Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester and this year’s Biennial fringe, returns in 2018. Boat Zhang in Liverpool. The residencies are Over 250 new works, including five festival realised in collaboration with the Shanghai commissions and more than 100 individual Biennale and CFCCA. events, sees communities come alive in celebration of the region’s creative life. In partnership with International Curators Working in new and existing arts spaces Forum, Metal is hosting three curators from with an entirely free programme, the festival the Beyond the Frame programme for the offers a fresh perspective on how we see, duration of Liverpool Biennial 2018: Kat make and use art in the Liverpool City Anderson, Kasia Sobucka and Sunil Shah. Region. Independents Biennial is run by Art Each curator is developing a new project, in Liverpool. alongside artists from their networks, in response to the Biennial and the city Discover the full programme of exhibitions of Liverpool. Visitor and events at artinliverpool.com Information

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Every Saturday 2–5pm Granby Gardening Club (until 22 Sept) Granby Family

Every Saturday 12–4pm Do Something Saturdays FACT Family

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Every Wednesday 6.30pm Agnès Varda: Pioneer FACT (£12.20 / £11.20) Film

Every Saturday 3pm John James Audubon: The Birds of America page-turning Central Library Performance

Every Friday & Saturday Taus Makhacheva: Sculptural Signature Facial Blackburne House (£25) Performance 10am–6pm 30-minute one-to-one sessions Advance booking essential

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Sat 14 10am–6pm Taus Makhacheva: Sculptural Signature Facial Blackburne House (£25) Performance 30-minute one-to-one sessions

12pm John James Audubon: The Birds of America page-turning Central Library Performance

1pm Suki Seokyeong Kang: Land Sand Strand – Activation Bluecoat Performance

2–5pm Granby Gardening Club with Mohamed Bourouissa Granby Workshop

1pm Artist Talk: Haegue Yang Tate Liverpool Talk

2pm Artist Talk: Mae-ling Lokko RIBA North Talk

3pm Curator Tour with Adam Smythe Bluecoat Tour

3pm Kevin Beasley: Your face is / is not enough Tate Liverpool Performance

6 – 9pm Iacopo Seri: What Is (A drunken meditation Playhouse Workshop on the mystery of existence) Advance booking essential

Sun 15 1pm Suki Seokyeong Kang: Land Sand Strand – Activation Bluecoat Performance

10am–6pm Taus Makhacheva: Sculptural Signature Facial Blackburne House (£25) Performance 30-minute one-to-one sessions Advance booking essential

3pm Tour: Approaches to Music Playhouse Tour

Tues 17 6–7pm Beautiful World Reading Group Bluecoat (£3) Performance

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