Biennial Exhibition Annual Commissions

Liverpool 1 The Old Blind School Carlos Cruz-Diez 24 Hardman Street L1 9AX 10 Dazzle Ship Biennial Canning Graving Dock 2 FACT Near Albert Dock 88 Wood Street Liverpool L3 4AQ 2014 Liverpool L1 4DQ 11 Couleur Additive , 3 the Bluecoat Liverpool. , 2014 School Lane Liverpool ONE Liverpool L1 3BX Thomas Steers Way Liverpool L1 8LW 4 Liverpool Albert Dock Michael Nyman Liverpool Waterfront Liverpool L3 4BB 12 Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial f 5 St. Andrews Gardens 21 Moor Place St James Mount Liverpool L3 5XA Liverpool L1 7AZ

13 Aztecs in Liverpool Partner Exhibitions est 6 John Moores Painting Prize Liverpool L3 8EL Walker Art Gallery William Brown Street Liverpool L3 8EN Other Exhibitions

7 Bloomberg New 14 The Royal Standard & Cactus Contemporaries 2014 Vauxhall Business Centre ival World 131 Vauxhall Road William Brown Street Liverpool L3 6BN Liverpool L3 8EL 15 Victoria Gallery & Museum 8 Open Eye Gallery Ashton Street 19 Liverpool L69 3DR guide Liverpool Waterfront Liverpool L3 1BP 16 METAL Edge Hill Station 9 Exhibition Research Centre Tunnel Road John Lennon Art & Design Building Liverpool L7 6ND Liverpool John Moores University Duckinfield Street 17 Liverpool Central Library Liverpool L3 5RD William Brown Street 5 July – 26 October Liverpool L3 8EW www.biennial.com Pall Mall St Moss

Churchill Way Hatton Garden Trueman St Old Hall St 14 Norton St Islington

Cheapside 13 St Daulby 2014 Brook St Churchill Way7 17 6 Anson St Rd Bixteth St Vernon St William Brown St Edmund St London Rd 5 July – 26 October

Princes Parade New Quay Moorfields Crosshall St St. John’s

Tithebarn St Old Seymour St Pembroke Rd HaymarketSt. John’sGardens Lane

Sir Thomas St St. George's Lord Nelson St Exchange St Victoria St Hall

Stanley St St. Georges Place Great Newton St Brownlow St Brownlow Dale St Ashton St ChapelRumford St St North John St 5 Covent Garden Lime Street Queens Square Station Bus Station

Russell St Castle St Victoria St WhitechapelWillamson Copperas Hill Square Renshaw St Fenwick St Welcome to Liverpool Biennial 2014: 16 weeks St Nicholas Pl Richmond St

Drury Lane 15 Cook St Elliot St The Liver Water St chapel of free exhibitions, events, performances, talks, Building The Goree

White Brownlow Hill Canada Boulevard Brunswick St Williamson St Tarleton St Lord St Lord St Church St Duckingfield St tours, screenings and family activities across Basnett St Parker St

South John St Brownlow Hill Clarence St Ranelagh St 9 School Lane Liverpool’s spaces, places, galleries and James StDerby Square Mount Pleasant Liverpool ONE 3 Wood St Bold St Metropolitan Mount Pleasant Strand College Lane Renshaw St Mann Island 8 Hanover St Cathedral River Museum of 16 Gradwell Mersey Liverpool 11 Fleet St Bold St Oxford St Liverpool ONE Seel St Canning Thomas Steers Way Hanover St

10 Bus Station Paradise Street St Dock St Mulberry Wolstenholme Roscoe St Rodney St Liverpool Square 2 Duke St Hope StEveryman Canning Place Parr St Seel St Argyle St Slater St Hardman St Maritime Museum Parr St Biennial Exhibition: A Needle Walks into a Haystack p.5 York St Myrtle St Salthouse Quay Duke St 1 Back Colquitt St Salthouse Henry St Myrtle St Dock Liver St Partner Exhibitions p.20 4 Colquitt St Hope Place

Berry St Roscoe St Henry St Rodney St Albert Dock Knight St Pilgrim St Annual Commissions p.25 Park LaneUpper Frederick St Falkner St Hope St

Duke St Mount St St Bedford Other Exhibitions & Events p.30 Gower St Blackburne Place Wapping Education & Family Programme p.32 Kent St Cornwallis St Upper Duke St Visitor Information p.35 Canning St Catharine St Calendar of Events p.38 Big 12

Wheel St James St Nelson St Bedford St

Hope St Blundell St Great George St ACC Liverpool Huskisson St Jamaica St Liverpool Cathedral

Kings Parade

Chaloner St Princes Rd Upper Parliament St

Princes Rd St James Upper Stanhope St Windsor St Queens Parliament St Dock Grafton St 0 100 200 300 Place metres www.biennial.com Stanhope St Liverpool Biennial 2014 www.biennial.com 2 Liverpool Biennial 2014 www.biennial.com 3

Introduction

Welcome to the 8th edition of Liverpool Biennial, the Welcome Desk UK Biennial of Contemporary Art. This is an exciting time We hope you enjoy your to be in Liverpool. Since the last Biennial in 2012 we have stay in Liverpool as you developed a programme that is deeply connected to explore the Biennial the city and to an international context. For the first time, exhibitions and events. Liverpool Biennial takes place during the summer months, which coincides with Liverpool hosting the International Please visit our Festival for Business. It also means audiences can enjoy welcome desk at the city and its historic waterfront in the sunshine! The Old Blind School, I am grateful to this year’s guest curators Mai Abu 24 Hardman Street with ElDahab and Anthony Huberman for curating A Needle any enquiries. It is open Walks into a Haystack, the 2014 Biennial Exhibition. daily from 10am – 6pm. They have worked closely with our partners at the Bluecoat, FACT and , as well as with the Contact Us Liverpool Biennial team, and produced a challenging +44 (0)330 123 0584 and rich exhibition. [email protected] A regular series of related talks and events underpins and develops conversations that are central to Liverpool’s Booking Information growing community of artists, designers, writers and Entrance to exhibitions curators. The City Is a School is a new free open learning and events is free unless network that has been established to support the stated otherwise. Where development of a team of mediators and fellows who ensure booking is required, visit that the Biennial is accessible to an ever-widening public. www.biennial.com We are once more delighted to present the John Moores Painting Prize and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Connect which have both been partners of the Biennial since @biennial the first edition in 1999. Open Eye Gallery and Liverpool @liverpoolbiennial John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Centre liverpoolbiennial are presenting new exhibitions and we are grateful to them all for their support and collaboration. Share your photos with We are also grateful to our many supporters and in us using #biennial2014 particular Arts Council and Liverpool City Council for their continued support. There are many organisations presenting exhibitions and projects in the city concurrently with the Biennial, and we have listed some of them in this guide and online so that you can visit as many of them as you can whilst you are here.

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Biennial Exhibition A Needle Walks into a Haystack

A Needle Walks into a Haystack is an exhibition that reveals itself in different places around the City. It includes a group show at The Old Blind School, and four solo shows at FACT, the Bluecoat, Tate Liverpool and St. Andrews Gardens. These solo exhibitions present Sharon Lockhart, James McNeill Whistler, Claude Parent and Jef Cornelis, all of whom have significantly influenced their own different fields. A Needle Walks into a Haystack also includes The Companion, a weekend of performances from 19–21 September; art in public space; an events programme; and a book. A Needle Walks into a Haystack is an exhibition about our habits, our habitats, and the objects, images, relationships and activities that constitute our immediate surroundings. It is about effecting larger questions facing contemporary life and art, from an intimate and tangible scale that’s within everyday reach. The artists in this exhibition disrupt many of the conventions and assumptions that usually prescribe the way we live our lives. They attack the metaphors, symbols, A and representations that make up their own environment, replacing them with new meanings and protocols: bureaucracy becomes a form of comedy, silence becomes a type of knowledge, domesticity becomes a place of N e e pathology, inefficiency becomes a necessary vocation, and delinquency becomes an everyday routine.

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Group Show

The Old Blind School 5 July – 26 October

The Old Blind School, 24 Hardman Street, Liverpool L1 9AX 1 Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free

At the heart of A Needle Walks into a Marc Bauer Haystack is a group show that continues Over the course of a few weeks in June, Liverpool Biennial’s commitment to Marc decided to move his studio into a producing new work. This year, the dingy hotel in Liverpool, where he thought commissioned artists are also invited he could potentially become part of the to show some of their previous projects, story of the place. providing more extensive introductions to a selection of artistic languages and Bonnie Camplin practices. The show features work by The DSV is a magnification technology for artists Uri Aran (IL), Marc Bauer (CH), the enhanced observation of small objects. Bonnie Camplin (UK), Chris Evans (UK), It incorporates an ultra-specific protocol. Rana Hamadeh (LB ), Louise Hervé (FR) A serious commitment to this protocol and Chloé Maillet (FR), Judith Hopf (DE), is necessary for a successful application Aaron Flint Jamison (US), Norma Jeane of the technology. (US), Nicola L. (FR), William Leavitt (US), Christina Ramberg (US), Michael Stevenson Chris Evans (NZ), STRAUTCHEREPNIN (AT/US), Peter The luxury brand, Boodles, makes a Wächtler (DE), and Amelie von Wulffen (DE). unique piece of jewellery for the Biennial, The Liverpool School for the Blind was with a particular request of an artist. founded by Edward Rushton in 1791, and was the first such school in the country. Rana Hamadeh In 1932 a modern extension was added, A stage set based on a design used in complete with art-deco designs by the the Bauhaus Dessau in the late 1920s sculptor John Skeaping illustrating the life contains objects that serve as the and work of the school, including students characters of a play. reading Braille. The building was then used by the Police and in Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet 1983 became The Trades Union Centre, A film that combines marine archaeology, which included the music venue and Thalassotherapy, forgotten civilisations, studio The Picket and launched the immortality, and post-humanity. careers of many bands. Judith Hopf Uri Aran Silence and stillness can also contain Microcosms for plastic grapes, pizza boxes, brute force. Judith’s concrete sheep, passport photos, silkscreened websites, cast from standard moving boxes, and other stranded ephemera. Uri plays derive their strength from their truculent with the way endless repetition can strip immobility, and from how little they the banal of its meaning. seem to tolerate movement. The Old Blind School. Getty Images © Shirlaine Forrest, 2014 A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 8 A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 9

Michael Stevenson The artist has borrowed doors from the offices of LJMU’s School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and inserted a moment of irrationality into the hallways of rational thought.

Peter Wächtler To witness a battle between a crab and other sea animals is to experience a fantasy, a nightmare, and an everyday occurrence all at the same time. Judith Hopf, Flock of Sheep (detail), 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Kaufmann Repetto, . STRAUTCHEREPNIN Josef Strau and Stefan Tcherepnin Aaron Flint Jamison look back at their own past work and A signature for a stream of data that past decisions and revisit them, rethink is its contents. them, recategorise them, and try to redeem themselves. Norma Jeane An ice-making machine runs on solar Amelie von Wulffen energy, transforming heat into cold, and A banana has stage fright. A tooth walks liquid into solid. The machine keeps working with crutches. A lemon gets angry at an relentlessly, even though its product apple. An ice-cream cone goes sledding. Tours Film Screening with Q&A continually melts away into a wet floor. Free, booking required Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists Please meet at the entrance to the building (Dir. Leslie Buchbinder) Nicola L. Tuesday 16 September, 6.30pm Atmosphere in White: “I have chosen Sally Tallant Featuring work from Christina Ramberg, this name because every single one of Director, Liverpool Biennial Hairy Who… is a lavishly-illustrated romp these objects is white, and this shared Saturday 19 July, 2pm through Chicago Imagist art: the Second whiteness binds them together as a sort City scene that challenged Pop Art’s status of dream-memory”. Ellen Greig quo in the 1960s, then faded from view. Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial Free, booking required William Leavitt Saturday 9 August, 2pm The private space of an ordinary domestic RIBA Architecture Tours interior can seem quietly unnatural, as Rosie Cooper Monday 21 July, 18 August, if it exists partly in the past and partly Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial 15 September, 20 October, 1pm in the future. Saturday 27 September, 2pm Join the RIBA Liverpool City Tour guides for an hour-long tour covering the past, Christina Ramberg Anthony Huberman present and future of this important Handkerchiefs. Skirts. Hats. Hairdos. Co-Curator, Liverpool Biennial listed building. Discover the history of Lingerie. Torsos. Hips. Shirts. Pants. Sunday 19 October, 2pm the site, the architecture and design of Shoes. Shoulders. Christina worked with the building as a School for the Blind and images of bodies and body parts, making its subsequent uses as paintings that link traditional costuming and Headquarters and the Trades Union Centre. garments with anatomy and morphology, Norma Jeane, #Jan25 (#Sidibouzid, #Feb12, #Feb14, #Feb17...) 2011; William Leavitt, Body Space, 2012. Photograph: Jason Mandella. Free, booking required injecting them with a feminist punch. Photo: Tommaso Zamarchi Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. Please meet at the entrance of the building A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 10 A Needle Walks into a Haystack 11

Sharon Lockhart

FACT 5 July – 26 October

FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ 2 Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm, Free

Sharon Lockhart (US) constantly reinvents Events the documentary form by questioning both its Film Launch parameters and its message. Her exhibition at Friday 17 October, 6.30pm FACT brings together ideas about childhood, Be the first to see Lockhart’s newest film. philosophical inquiry, and the politics of the The artist will introduce the work. voice, anchored by works that refer to a young £6/£5 (FACT Members) Polish girl named Milena. Podwórka is a film the artist made in 2009 Film Programme that follows young boys as they effortlessly Monday 7 July and then fortnightly invent their own spaces of play in the dusty Wednesdays, 6.30pm streets and broken fences of a desolate Polish A collection of films about childhood, town. While on the set, Sharon met one of the chosen by Sharon Lockhart. boys’ sisters, Milena, who would become a In collaboration with Picturehouse. key figure in her life and who would inspire Free a series of other recent works. In the months prior to Liverpool Biennial, Tours the artist organised an educational residency Free, booking required in Poland for Milena and a group of twelve adolescent classmates (all girls aged 12–16). Ellen Greig, Assistant Curator, Together, they worked with a philosophical Liverpool Biennial text for children by Bartosz Przybył-Ołowski. Saturday 16 August, 2pm In the company of the author himself, along with the artist and her film crew, the girls Ana Botella, Programme Producer, FACT performed exercises and activities designed Saturday 13 September, 2pm to empower the authority of their own voices, emphasising the specific ways in which they Mike Stubbs, Director, FACT choose to articulate their own perspectives Saturday 11 October, 2pm about the world. The workshops are an extension of Sharon’s research into the Family Sessions at FACT influential Polish pedagogue Janusz Saturday 26 July, 23 August, Korczak, whose writing influenced the 20 September, 12 – 4pm United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights Artist-led family workshops designed to of the Child in 1959. be enjoyed by children and ‘big kids’ alike. The outcome includes photographs, Free, drop-in a sculptural installation of text works, and a new film, co-commissioned by Sharon Lockhart, Podwórka (video still), 2009 © Sharon the Biennial and FACT, that premieres Lockhart, 2009. Courtesy of the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Blum in October 2014 at FACT. & Poe, Los Angeles. A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 12 A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 13

James McNeill Whistler the Bluecoat 5 July – 26 October

the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX 3 Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free

Events Tours Margaret MacDonald Talk Free, booking required on James McNeill Whistler Saturday 5 July, 12pm Sara-Jayne Parsons Leading Whistler scholar Margaret Exhibition Curator, the Bluecoat and MacDonald from the Department of Art Rosie Cooper History, University of Glasgow, talks about Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial the artist and the world-famous collection Saturday 12 July, 2pm of his prints, copper plates and other works at the Hunterian Art Gallery. Simone Mair Free, booking required Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial Saturday 2 August, 2pm Paul O’Keeffe: Whistler v Ruskin: the ‘Pot of Paint’ Libel Trial Mai Abu ElDahab Wednesday 15 October, 7pm Co-Curator, Liverpool Biennial Whistler’s famous court case with John Tuesday 16 September, 2pm Ruskin is brought to life in this illustrated talk. Free, booking recommended Explore at the Bluecoat Every Saturday throughout On New Grounds the festival, 1 – 4pm James McNeill Whistler, The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre (The Creditor), 1879 (detail). Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Thursday 3 July – Sunday 3 August A host of creative activities related to Daily, 10am – 6pm the Whistler exhibition for families to A selection of intaglio prints exhibited do together. Drop in for a short time Outspoken and argumentative, dressed extended to the yellow clothing worn by upstairs at the Bluecoat take inspiration or spend all afternoon making your in his black patent shoes and with a white the gallery attendants. Equally concerned from Whistler’s drypoints and etchings, own masterpiece. plume of hair coiffured amongst black with the way his art was received, Whistler and explore the potential of traditional Free, drop-in waves, the painter James McNeill Whistler was active in directing conversation print processes within contemporary (US, 1834 – 1903) cultivated a charismatic around his work, and about art at large. fine art practice. Summer Holiday Explore public persona who challenged the art More than 100 years after his death, Free at the Bluecoat community and elicited the mocking Whistler takes part in A Needle Walks Mondays to Saturdays attention of the popular press. into a Haystack because his attitude, Printmaking Workshop: Introduction 23 July – 30 August, 10am – 4pm One of the most influential figures motivations and commitment are as to Intaglio with Emma Gregory Why did Whistler make his gallery in the arts of the nineteenth-century, he resonant now as they ever were. Whistler Saturday 12 July, Sunday 13 July, attendants wear yellow? Find out the played an important role in paving the way spoke for himself, and to continue his 10am – 4pm answer to this question and more with for abstract painting, but was also the first legacy we’ve summoned his thoughts and Learn about the technique Whistler the Bluecoat’s Engagement Team who are to consider the exhibition space as a total writings to guide you through the show. used to create his prints in this two-day in the galleries with activities for families environment, creating colour schemes workshop in the Bluecoat print studios. and anyone with an enquiring mind. and arrangements that on one occasion Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Rosie Cooper £130 / £120 con, booking required Free, drop-in A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 14 A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 15

Claude Parent Works from the Tate collection

La colline de l’art, Tate Liverpool Tate Liverpool 5 July – 26 October 5 July – Spring 2015

Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront L3 4BB Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront L3 4BB 4 4 Daily 10am – 5.50pm, after 6 October 10am – 5pm, Free Daily 10am – 5.50pm, after 6 October 10am – 5pm, Free

Linking the institutional space of the museum to the familiar space of the home, works from the Tate collection are brought together in the manner of a domestic environment. The broad range of works selected, together with their staging, alludes to the central role of the intimate and familiar space and the way in which it has been represented by artists throughout history – as well as being a tendency within the Tate Collection. Works presented from the Tate collection by: Ivor Abrahams (UK), Helena Almeida (PO), Richard Artschwager (US), Francis Bacon (UK), Rut Blees Luxemburg (DE / UK), Claude Cahun (FR), (UK), Marc Camille Chaimowicz (FR / UK), Saloua Raouda Choucair (LB), French Pavilion for the Venice , 1970. Private coll. S. Ehrmann. Photo: Gilles Ehrmann. Giorgio de Chirico (IT), Joseph Cornell (US), Keren Cytter (IL), André Derain (FR), Sam A Needle Walks into a Haystack presents Babette Mangolte (FR), Gustav Metzger (DE), Durant (US), André Fougeron (FR), Naum a new commission by prominent architect Francis Picabia (FR), (UK), Mark Gabo (RU / US), Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Vilhelm Hammershoi, Interior, Sunlight on the Floor, 1906. Claude Parent (FR), who for the last forty Leckey (UK) among others, are presented (FR), Robert Gober (US), Courtesy of Tate. years has been taking his profession to its here to complement Parent’s on-going (US), Spencer Gore (UK), Philip Guston most avant-garde limits. Parent’s work, passion for challenging conformity. (US), Richard Hamilton (UK), Vilhelm Tours while considered part of the revolutionary Hammershoi (DK), Susan Hiller (UK), David Free, booking required utopian architecture discourse, is focused Events Hockney (UK), Sanja Ivekovic (HR), George on meticulously shifting daily experience Rolling around like gorillas on the Jones (UK), R.B. Kitaj (US), Sherrie Levine Stephanie Straine through subtle yet dramatic changes in incline: opening the imaginary in (US), Linder (UK), Andrew Lord (UK), Assistant Curator, Tate Liverpool the lived environment. He has built, lived, architecture and the arts Lucy McKenzie (UK), Sylvia Melland (UK), Saturday 26 July, 2pm worked and taught in the constructions he Friday 26 September, 10 am– 5pm Rodrigo Moynihan (UK), Paul Nash (UK), devised according to his Fonction Oblique Tate Liverpool Gabriel Orozco (MX), Blinky Palermo (DE), Rosie Cooper methodology. For A Needle Walks into a This one-day event takes architect Claude Blinky Palermo and Gerhard Richter (DE), Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial Haystack, he has re-designed the Wolfson Parent’s Twelve Subversive Acts to Dodge Claude Parent (FR), Thomas Schütte (DE), Saturday 30 August, 2pm Gallery, incorporating slanted floors the System as the starting point to discuss Kurt Schwitters (DE), Thomas Struth (DE), and ramps to ensure that the audience ideas and concerns common to architecture Andy Warhol (US), (UK). Francesco Manacorda experiences the museum anew. Works from and the visual arts. Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool the Tate collection by Anni Albers (DE/US), £15 / £10 conc, booking required Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Stephanie Straine. Saturday 6 September, 2pm A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 16 A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 17

Jef Cornelis The Companion Drinks With…

St. Andrews Gardens Music, Performance, Gestures, and more Thursday 17 & 31 July, 14 & 28 August, 5 July – 26 October Friday 19 – Sunday 21 September 11 September and 23 October

St. Andrews Gardens, 21 Moor Place, Liverpool L3 5XA Various locations The Lecture Theatre, Liverpool Medical Institution 5 Open daily 10am–6pm, Free 114 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5SR; Free, booking required

Central to any daily experience are personal Drinks With… is a programme of exchanges and intimate relationships. lectures and screenings. These specially The Companion is a performance project commissioned events by writers, artists, conceived in collaboration with artist and filmmakers, philosophers and cultural critics writer Angie Keefer (US). It is inspired by the extend and continue the key curatorial ancient symposium form, which consisted concerns of A Needle Walks into a Haystack. of a long dinner party punctuated by music and improvised commentary on a subject Andrew Kötting of shared interest, and is an experimental Thursday 17 July, 6.30pm situation where performances, actions Andrew Kötting is a film director, writer and ephemeral gestures take place. The and performer. Accompanied by his three-day event includes performances by daughter and collaborator Eden Kötting, artists including Federica Buetti (IT) and he will present a body of work that was Jan Verwoert (DE); Concert: Chris Evans begun on the day Eden was born in 1988. (UK), Morten Norbye Halvorsen (NO) and The presentation, including film and music, Over the course of three decades (1963 – Tours Benjamin Seror (FR); Jeremiah Day (US); will consider the possibility of a creative 1998), many Belgians turned on VRT, the Free, booking required Géraldine Geffriaud (FR); Josephine Foster output addressed to a single person. Dutch-language Belgian public-broadcast (US) and Victor Herrero (ES); Will Holder channel, and encountered programmes Vanessa Boni (UK); Hassan Khan (EG), James English Lynne Tillman conceived by Jef Cornelis, introducing Public Programmes Curator, Leary (US); Jaxson Payne (UK); Mounira Thursday 31 July, 6.30pm mass audiences to contemporary art and Liverpool Biennial al-Solh (LB/NL); Lucy Skaer (UK); C. Spencer Novelist and critic Michael Bracewell in culture. Eschewing traditional TV formats, Saturday 23 August, 2pm Yeh (TW/US); Oskar Schlemmer Dances with discussion with novelist and critic Lynne the programmes made use of the language Erik Eriksson (SE), Darko Radosavljev (DE), Tillman, about her approaches to writing of art itself – sudden juxtapositions, abstract Polly Brannan Alma Toaspern (DE) and Christoph Wavelet fiction, and art and cultural criticism. compositions, or conceptual mise-en-abyme. Education Curator, Liverpool Biennial (FR); and more. For A Needle Walks into a Haystack, Koen Saturday 18 October, 2pm Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Brams (BE) has selected films by Cornelis The Companion takes place at several venues Thursday 28 August, 6.30pm for viewers to watch on televisions, not only Events around the city, including the Philharmonic Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev gives a introducing a UK audience to this important TV AS MATERIAL 4: The Longest Day Dining Rooms, the Kazimier and the Black-E. lecture on the idea of withdrawal. and recalcitrant figure, but also serving as a Sunday 28 September, 3 – 9.30pm For full listings of the performance weekend place for conversations about what television , The Starr Auditorium, visit www.biennial.com Ben Highmore can be and how this medium can be used Bankside, London SE1 9TG Thursday 23 October, 6.30pm to document and represent art. A special screening of The Longest Day Conceived by Mai Abu ElDahab with Angie Keefer A lecture on habits and their relation (1986) by pioneering filmmaker Jef Cornelis, to our habitats. co-curated with Koen Brams in association with Liverpool Biennial, forms part of a Other events to take place on Thursday Images: Jef Cornelis, Voyage à Paris, 1993 (filmstill) ; Jef Cornelis, De langste dag (featuring Panamarenko, weekend looking at the relationship between 14 August and 11 September. For the latest Chris Dercon), 1986 (filmstill) Art and Television at Tate Modern. information please visit www.biennial.com A Needle Walks into a Haystack www.biennial.com 18

The Book Partner Exhibitions & Annual Commissions A Needle Walks into a Haystack 15 × 23cm, 144 pages, 30 b/w drawings Softcover with printed edges ISBN 978-3-86335-571-5

Co-edited by Mai Abu ElDahab, Anthony Huberman and Camille Pageard, the book, A Needle Walks into a Haystack, is conceived as another site of the Biennial Exhibition and consists of new texts by the curators and by Keren Cytter (IL), Angie Keefer (US), Hassan Khan (EG), Karl Larsson (SE), Eileen Myles (US), Lisa Robertson (CA) and Matthew Stadler (US), along with existing texts by David Antin (US), George Szirtes (HU) Edward Said (1935 – 2003, US), with drawings by Abraham Cruzvillegas (MX). The book extends the exhibition to the written word, locating a similar spirit in the work of cultural critics, novelists, philosophers, poets, and others. A Needle Walks into a Haystack is published by Koenig Books and Liverpool Biennial and designed by Sara De Bondt and Mark El-khatib.

The book is available to buy from The Old Blind School, the Bluecoat, Tate Liverpool, News from Nowhere, Koenig Books and online at www.biennial.com.

Drawing: Abraham Cruzvillegas from the series Autoportrait avec pouce opposable, 2013 Partner Exhibitions www.biennial.com 20 Partner Exhibitions www.biennial.com 21

John Moores Painting Prize Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014

5 July – 30 November 20 September – 26 October

Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL , William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EN 6 7 Daily 10am–5pm, Free Daily 10am–5pm, Free

Events Talk Tuesdays Every Tuesday from 5 August – 30 November, 1pm Join us every Tuesday for an exhibition tour, artist talk or gallery discussion as we explore the history of the Prize and its role in contemporary art. Free

Contemporary culture course Tuesday 29 – Thursday 31 July The John Moores Painting Prize is the UK’s The Contemporary Culture Course is a three- best-known and longest-running painting day programme for young people aged competition. Named after its founder, Sir 14 –18, focusing on the John Moores Painting John Moores (1896 – 1993), the competition Prize in a fun and informal way. Enjoy was first held in 1957. The prize culminates interactive tours, join practical workshops, in an exhibition held at the Walker Art research for inspiration, share skills and Gallery from 5 July to 30 November 2014. be guided through a Bronze Arts Award Judges this year include artists Zeng Fanzhi, (level 1 national qualification). , Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Free, booking essential on 0151 478 4173 Tom Benson, along with director of artistic programmes at the Royal Academy and Schools exhibition tour Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013 Spike Island, Bristol broadcaster Tim Marlow. The first prize, Between Mon 7 July – Fri 28 November sponsored by David M Robinson, is £25,000. Budding artists can benefit from this special Four further prize-winners each receive John Moores Painting Prize tour for schools. This year, fifty-five artists join the roster of at World Museum, from 20 September £2,500. The shortlist is announced on Students can learn about artists and the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which to 26 October 2014 before touring to 4 July and winner on 18 September. artworks featured, painting techniques includes previous exhibitors Jake & Dinos ICA, London from 26 November 2014 The exhibition also celebrates the and the exhibition’s history. Chapman, Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, to 25 January 2015. work produced by the winners of the Free, booking essential on 0151 478 4173 Damien Hirst, and Mike Showcasing final year students, John Moores Painting Prize China, which Nelson. Marking its 65th anniversary, graduates and artists one year out of study, offers Chinese artists the opportunity to Part funded by the European Union – the European selectors Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico the annual national touring exhibition win a residency in Liverpool. Regional Development Fund (ERDF). David and Goshka Macuga have chosen has consistently acted as a barometer A key strand of Liverpool Biennial, the works by the most promising artists of contemporary art practice, shining a John Moores Painting Prize is delivered emerging from UK art schools from nearly spotlight on the hottest talents of the year. in partnership with National Museums 1,400 submissions. Liverpool and the John Moores Liverpool An integral part of Liverpool Biennial Private view Friday 19 September, 6 – 8pm Exhibition Trust. Barbara Howey, Orange Sash (detail from a photograph by Jett Loe) since it began, this year’s show launches Partner Exhibitions www.biennial.com 22 Partner Exhibitions www.biennial.com 23

Not All Documents Are Records Adrian Henri: Total Art

Photographing Exhibitions as an Art Form, Open Eye Gallery Liverpool John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Centre 5 July – 19 October 5 July – 26 October

19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 1BP The John Lennon Art & Design Building, Duckinfield Street, Liverpool L3 5RD 8 9 Tuesday–Sunday 10.30am–5.30pm, Free Monday–Friday 10am–6pm and selected weekends, Free

Total Art at the Exhibition Research Centre (ERC), showcases Adrian Henri’s multi- faceted oeuvre from the 1960s and 1970s, a period of intense creativity and collaborative artistic endeavours. Henri (1932 – 2000) trained as a painter under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton, and taught at Liverpool Art College in the 1960s. He came to prominence as one of the ‘Liverpool poets’, alongside Roger McGough and Brian Patten, in the best- selling Penguin anthology The Mersey Sound – irreverently urban and popular. Ugo Mulas, Venezia, 1968. Proteste studentesche, XXXIV Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte (detail) Although Henri is best known as a painter Photo Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs. courtesy camera16 contemporary art and poet, this exhibition reveals him to be a pioneer of performance and collective This exhibition looks at three key Events practices in Britain and internationally, international visual-art platforms – Brunch and Artist Talk taking part in happenings in Liverpool Documenta, The and Sunday 6 July, 11.45am as early as 1962, and crossing over into Liverpool Biennial – through the lens Join us for brunch at the gallery with the world of rock with the touring band of photography, moving between the an artist talk led by Ira Lombardía. The Liverpool Scene. Book Launch past and future. The main theoretical £10 / £8 conc, booking required Reflecting Henri’s eclecticism and Adrian Henri: Total Art question underpinning the project is: insatiable curiosity, the exhibition features Saturday 20 September, 6pm ‘Can photography retain its artistic licence Fictional Storytelling Through Photography numerous artifacts from the Adrian Henri the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX and overcome pure documentation, with Cristina de Middel estate, including original paintings, collages, With Occasional Papers whilst also narrating the history of an Thursday 17 – Saturday 19 July prints, annotated scripts and hand-made Free important art exhibition?’ Tell fictional stories using photography and posters for happenings, objects, ephemera, The show starts with two seminal create your own ‘dummy’ photobook with rock posters, counterculture documents and Tours photographic series – Hans Haacke’s 1959 self-publishing expert Cristina de Middel. correspondence, as well as rare audio and Catherine Marcangeli, Curator photographs of Documenta 2 and Ugo Organised with LOOK/15. video material. Total Art at the ERC is curated Saturday 5 July, Saturday 20 and Mulas’ photographs of the 1968 Venice £250/£220 conc by Paris-based art historian Catherine Sunday 21 September, Saturday 25 Biennale. It then progresses with a new Marcangeli. A fully illustrated exhibition and Sunday 26 October, 2.30pm commission from Cristina de Middel Curator Tours catalogue will appear in September 2014, Free reinterpreting the history and imagining Sunday 13 July, 10 August, 14 September, published by Occasional Papers. possible future developments for the 12 October, 2.30pm Catherine Marcangeli, Curator and Liverpool Biennial, and with Ira Lombardía’s Free Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director, the Bluecoat infiltration of a fictional character into the Adrian Henri, publicity shot for The Liverpool Scene, c.1968 Sunday 6 July, 2.30pm catalogue of dOCUMENTA (13). © Adrian Henri estate Free Annual Commissions 24 Annual Commissions www.biennial.com 25

Carlos Cruz-Diez

Dazzle Ship: Induction Chromatique Couleur Additive Liverpool ONE, à Double Fréquence pour l’Edmund Liverpool. Paris, 2014 Gardner Ship / Liverpool. Paris, 2014

10 Canning Graving Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, L3 1DG 11 Liverpool ONE, Thomas Steers Way, L1 8LW

Using the pilot ship Edmund Gardner This newly commissioned work spans as his canvas, Venezuelan artist Carlos Thomas Steers Way and links Liverpool ONE Cruz-Diez (cruz-diez.com) has responded to the Dazzle Ship commission. to the practice of Dazzle painting in a new work co-commissioned by Liverpool Events Biennial, 14-18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Tours of the Edmund Gardner Art Commissions and Tate Liverpool, in Thursday 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 July, partnership with Merseyside Maritime 7, 14, 21, 28 August Museum. 11am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm Induction Chromatique à Double Free, booking required on 0151 478 4499 Fréquence pour l’Edmund Gardner Ship / Liverpool. Paris, 2014 takes as its starting point Education Programme a style of optical distortion used extensively Liverpool Biennial artist-in-residence Kevin during the First World War, called Dazzle Hunt will be working in response to the painting. Devised by British artist Norman Dazzle Ship commission with various groups Wilkinson and supervised by vorticist of people, exploring the history surrounding artist Edward Wadsworth, the camouflage WW1. There will also be a learning resource technique incorporated bold shapes and available on the website. strong contrasts, with an aim to confuse rather than conceal. Co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool This work brings Dazzle painting back to and 14–18 NOW, WW1 Centenary Art Commission in Liverpool, where much of the Dazzle painting partnership with Merseyside Maritime Museum. on ships was undertaken in dry docks, such as the Canning Graving docks, during 1917 Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage and 1918. Not in operation when Dazzle Lottery Fund and Arts Council England, Bloomberg, painting was originally developed, the pilot Cammell Laird, International Paint and Weightmans LLP. ship Edmund Gardner was built in 1953 as a base at sea for pilots who guide shipping safely in and out of Liverpool. It is owned and conserved by Merseyside Maritime Museum, which is part of National Museums Liverpool. The Edmund Gardner will remain Dazzled until the end of 2015 when it will return to its original livery. It has been realised by a team of painters from Cammell Laird in association with International Paint.

Dazzle Ship, Photo: Mark McNulty, 2014 Annual Commissions www.biennial.com 26

Michael Nyman

Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial Aztecs in Liverpool Saturday 5 July, 7.30pm 5 July – 26 October

Liverpool Cathedral, St James Mount, Walker Art Gallery 12 13 Liverpool L1 7AZ; Tickets £10, booking required William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL

Liverpool Biennial, in partnership with For Liverpool Biennial 2014, Michael Nyman Liverpool Philharmonic and Liverpool creates a new film installation entitled Cathedral, present a new, specially Aztecs in Liverpool. The two-screen video composed work by Michael Nyman, installation includes footage collected by performed at Liverpool Cathedral on the Nyman over the past twenty years in his opening weekend of Liverpool Biennial. adopted home, Mexico. The title refers to, Nyman’s Symphony No.11: Hillsborough and the work derives from, the presence Memorial is performed by the Royal in the World Museum in Liverpool of one Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with of the finest Aztec codices, the Codex Liverpool-born mezzo soprano Kathryn Fejérváry-Mayer. Rudge and Liverpool Philharmonic Youth and Training Choirs, conducted by Josep Vicent. Twenty-five years after the Hillsborough tragedy, Nyman hopes that his Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial will make a small but significant contribution to the healing process that is still necessary for the families of the lost Liverpool FC fans.

Events In addition to the live performance of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial, a recording of the symphony will be played in Liverpool Cathedral at 15:06 on Wednesday 6 August, Monday 25 August, Wednesday 3 September and Wednesday 17 September.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England; supported as part of the official International Festival for Business 2014 Cultural Programme; Liverpool Biennial gratefully acknowledges financial support from PRS for Music Foundation.

Michael Nyman photographed at Liverpool Philharmonic at the Friary in West Everton, Liverpool © Mark McNulty, 2014 Annual Commissions www.biennial.com 28 Annual Commissions www.biennial.com 29

Frieze Projects Leisure, Discipline The Residents An Occasion hosted by Isabel Lewis and Punishment Monday 29 September – Tuesday 14 October – Sunday 19 October Friday 3 October Saturday 3 September, 6.30pm London and Liverpool, Free FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ, Free

An evening of new moving image works Liverpool Biennial’s first intensive research by Sonia Boyce, Petra Bauer, Keren Cytter, project takes place in Liverpool during Agnieszka Polska, and Marinella Senatore, the 2014 festival and builds a curatorial that respond broadly to the regulations and framework on which the 2016 Biennial social orders that govern our lives – and in can develop. It is convened by Liverpool turn, the way that we attempt to break or Biennial’s curatorial correspondents for navigate these rules. Education and Urbanism, Dominic Willsdon These works have been commissioned and Joseph Grima, along with other curators in partnership with Contour Biennial of and artists. The weeklong programme Moving Image, Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic is focused on asking questions about Arts and Göteborg International Biennial how we live together and how our cities for Contemporary Art, under the framework are built from their domestic spaces. of the European Culture Programme To apply and for more information 2007 – 2013. Agnieszka Polska’s film was visit www.biennial.com co-produced by the following additional partners: Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden; and ACT Art Collection Telekom. Works by Peter Wächtler, as well as Louise Hervé International Biennial and Chloé Maillet, have also been jointly commissioned and are presented at The Association Summit Old Blind School as part of A Needle Walks into a Haystack. What models are needed for the future? Saturday 11 October, 10am – 4pm

Isabel Lewis is an artist of Dominican and Her current work takes the form of Capstone Theatre, Liverpool Hope University, American origin currently working in Berlin. hosted ‘occasions’ that are concerned with 17 Shaw Street, L6 1HP, Free Previously she lived in New York City, where composition in the space of social encounter. she danced for many choreographers and, Hospitable conditions are generated for the The International Biennial Association from 2004, showed her own commissioned mixing of modalities from the sensual to Summit in Liverpool brings international works at The Kitchen, Dance Theater the discursive. representatives of the IBA together with Workshop, New Museum and Movement professionals in the UK that organise Research at Judson Church amongst other For further details visit www.biennial.com periodic and Biennial festivals. Together places. In 2009 she moved to Berlin and or www.frieze.com they explore a range of Biennial models in began working on a collection of notes order to broaden knowledge of international that would become her solo show STRANGE Isabel Lewis, Frieze Project co-commissioned practice in the UK. For further details visit ACTION. Lewis draws from her training by Liverpool Biennial, ICA and Frieze www.biennial.com in literary criticism, dance and choreography as well as from party and popular culture. Image: Isabel Lewis Supported by Arts Council England and British Council Other Exhibitions & Events www.biennial.com 30 Other Exhibitions & Events www.biennial.com 31

Other Exhibitions & Events

Solo and group exhibitions and performances across the city and nearby, running concurrently with Liverpool Biennial events.

Botech Compositions: Classic Slum present Eccentronic Research Bohemian Grove Independents Liverpool Biennial 15 New Works by Macoto Muryama Council ft. Maxine Peake 5 July – 26 October 20 September Various venues, check 5 July – 27 September 26 July Islington Mill, independentsbiennial.org METAL Islington Mill, Manchester Free for Arts Festival for full exhibition listings 14 Jesse Wine and Glen Pudvine: Small Changes Make a Big Difference 29 September – 13 October Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs 15 August Islington Mill, Manchester Sculptural Forms: A Century of Experiment 5 July – 4 August The Piazza, Millennium Centre, 15 February – 7 September Cactus Belle Vale Park Irish City Council: Create8 Manchester Art Gallery 1 October, All day 15 Susan Forsyth: Art Sheds 14 Sam Smith: Frames of Reference Various venues 6 Grayson Perry: 5 July – 25 October 22 August – 28 September The Vanity of Small Differences Victoria Gallery & Museum The Royal Standard 3 Context + Place: 16 May – 10 August A showcase series by Ireland based The Walker Art Gallery 14 Rob Chavasse: Ghostie 14 Katharina Fengler: SWEETNESS Contemporary Artists 5 July – 10 August 23 August – 21 September 1 October An Exhibition of Artists’ Books Private View 4 July from 6pm Cactus the Bluecoat and other venues 2 June – 6 July The Royal Standard Liverpool Central Library Liverpool International Music Festival 14 Harry Meadley: LEVEL 2 An Opera by Tommy Ting in association with The Kazimier and 3 – 26 October 4 Mondrian and his Studios 6 July 2014 Samizdat present: Minor Characters, Cactus 6 June – 5 October Chilli Chilli Restaurant, Liverpool Chinatown ft. Luke Abbott (new live commission) Tate Liverpool Plus support from Outfit & Big Effigy DJ sets Kazimier Presents: The Void 4 Etyma: A Tiding of Good Words 29 August, 8pm 22 – 25 October 17 Aiko Miyanaga 10 – 12 July The Kazimier Secret location 3 July – 21 September Tate Liverpool Liverpool Central Library Syndrome Sessions 2.2: HOLLY HERNDON Whitworth Reopens: Cornelia Parker, Weekend House with CHRISTEENE 29 August, 8 – 11pm Cai Guo-Qiang, Johnnie Shand Kydd, 17 Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair 18 – 20 July 24 Kitchen Street Thomas Schutte & Others 4 – 5 July 2014 Islington Mill B&B, Manchester 25 October Liverpool Central Library Syndrome 2.3: Ambisonic exploration Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Gesamtkunstwerk & Faktion feat. Kairo (Holly Herndon & Matt Dryhurst) The Art Car Boot Fair present Kevin Drumm 3 September, 8–11pm 5 July 2014 24 July 24 Kitchen Street CCP Carpark, 45 – 61 Duke St Islington Mill, Manchester 14 Joey Holder: Hydrozoan Islington Mill at The Black-E: Syndrome Sessions 2.0: featuring Apatt 19 September – 26 October Temporary Custodians of... 25 July, 8–11pm The Royal Standard 5 – 6 July 2014 24 Kitchen Street Private View 26 Sept, from 6pm The Black-E Education & Family www.biennial.com 32 Education & Family www.biennial.com 33

Education Programme Family Programme

Throughout Liverpool Biennial 2014, there is a free family programme of events and workshops, with many of our exhibitions supported by family activities.

Sunday Art School in collaboration with Kevin Hunt Sunday 20 July, 28 September, 26 October, 1–5pm The Old Blind School, 24 Hardman Street, L1 9AX Free, drop-in

Sunday Art School with ‘Flying Over Liverpool’ The Everton Park Kite Festival Saturday 16 August, 12 – 4pm © Pete Carr WECC, Bute St, L5 3LA from 12pm Everton Park from 2pm Create Carlos Cruz-Diez inspired dazzle Summer Holiday Explore at the Bluecoat kites and then join the Kite Festival and fly Mondays to Saturdays them over the best view of the City and the 23 July – 30 August, 10am – 4pm © Mark McNulty Mersey – you won’t want to come down! Why did Whistler make his gallery Free, drop-in attendants wear yellow? Find out the answer to this question and more with Artist-in-Residence are invited to discover a range of multi- Explore at the Bluecoat the Bluecoat’s Engagement Team who are Kevin Hunt has been commissioned as Artist arts performances and events online Every Saturday, 1 – 4pm in the galleries with activities for families in Residence for Liverpool Biennial 2014 to and across the city. From literary events, A host of creative activities related to and anyone with an enquiring mind. develop artworks and projects that engage film and music to gaming and visual arts, the Whistler exhibition for families to Free, drop-in people and places in making and thinking there is something for everyone. do together. Drop in for a short time about art. He is working across a series As part of FLUX Liverpool, Liverpool or spend all afternoon making your Family Sessions at FACT of Biennial projects including Sunday Art Biennial is launching a ‘Young Fellows’ own masterpiece. Saturday 26 July, 23 August, School, Dazzle Ship and the development programme, working with students and Free, drop-in 20 September, 12 – 4pm of learning resources, as well as the creation tutors from The City of Liverpool College Artist-led family workshops designed to of new work. and Hope University. 20 Young Fellows be enjoyed by children and ‘big kids’ alike. are creating their own project in response Free, drop-in FLUX Liverpool & Young Fellows to the training as well as facilitating the FLUX Liverpool is a pioneering arts festival Liverpool Biennial 2014 exhibition for the engineered by young people and set within duration of Flux Liverpool. They also Liverpool’s world-class arts and culture support Sunday Art School and provide offer. From 17 July – 2 August audiences tours for the public. Visitor Information www.biennial.com 35

Visitor Information & Travel Information – Calendar of Events How to Get Around

The Liverpool City Region has many Walking passions – from sport to visual arts and A great way to explore Liverpool is music to architecture. It is this variety that to start at the top of the city and walk makes it such a popular destination for down to the waterfront, visiting all of our venues visitors, and the ideal destination to explore. en route. Find a walking route anywhere in With the largest collection of museums and Liverpool on WalkIt.com galleries anywhere outside of London, culture and heritage are at the very heart of the city. Getting around by bike There’s a fantastic selection of performance It’s quick and easy to get between spaces too, from grand theatres to our venues by bike, so you’ll be able to pack intimate clubs. even more into your day. For more information Liverpool was awarded UNESCO on cycle parking and routes around town, World Heritage Status in 2004. This status download or request a copy of Liverpool’s encompasses the historic William Brown cycle map from liverpool.gov.uk/cycling. Street, the commercial district and of course And why not give Liverpool’s cycle hire the Liverpool Waterfront – perhaps the scheme a try? Sign up and you can collect and enduring image of the city, and home to drop off a bike from any one of the on-street institutions old and new: the Liver Birds, stations. No booking is needed and it is self- the , , service – just turn up and go. More information Tate Liverpool and Albert Dock. at www.citybikeliverpool.co.uk On the other side of the city centre is the Hope Street area, with its architectural Liverpool One Bus Station, smorgasbord dominated by the two Paradise Street magnificent cathedrals at either end of The main bus station is located in the the street. This area has some of the best heart of the city, with regular buses connecting food and drink in the city, whether you’re the whole Merseyside area, and an information looking for innovative dining or pubs full point where you can check travel times and plan of character. your route.

For more information visit Trains www.visitliverpool.com Travel around the city using the Merseyrail network, with stations throughout the city centre. Each of our Exhibition venues is located within walking distance of a train station. Regular services to and from Liverpool make it one of the most accessible cities on the UK rail network. Virgin trains operate a London- Liverpool service, with a journey time of just over two hours. Visitor Information www.biennial.com 36 Visitor Information www.biennial.com 37

Where to Stay Food & Drink

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Calendar of Events Thurs 17 FLUX Festival starts (runs until 2 August) FAMILY

Fictional Storytelling Through Photography Open Eye Gallery WORKSHOP with Cristina de Middel £250 / £220 conc

July Exhibitions are open daily. Entrance to exhibitions and events is free, unless otherwise stated. Fri 18 Fictional Storytelling Through Photography Open Eye Gallery WORKSHOP with Cristina de Middel £250 / £220 conc

Thur 3 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR Sat 19 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY 12.30pm 2.30pm 2pm Tour: Group Show The Old Blind School TOUR with Sally Tallant, Director, Liverpool Biennial booking required Sat 5 12pm Margaret MacDonald Talk on James McNeill Whistler the Bluecoat TALK booking required Sun 20 1–5pm Sunday Art School Summer Programme The Old Blind School FAMILY (drop-in) 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY Mon 21 1pm RIBA Architecture Tour The Old Blind School TOUR 1–4pm Artist Talks Liverpool Medical Institution TALK booking required hosted by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman Weds 23 10am–4pm Summer Holiday Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY 2.30pm Tour: Adrian Henri LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre TOUR (continues every day until 30 August, except Sundays) with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator Thurs 24 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR 7.30pm Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial Liverpool Cathedral PERFORMANCE 12.30pm by Michael Nyman £10, booking required 2.30pm

Sun 6 11.45am Brunch and Artist Talk Open Eye Gallery TALK Sat 26 12–4pm Family Sessions at FACT FACT FAMILY with Ira Lombardía £10 / £8 concessions booking required 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY

2.30pm Tour: Adrian Henri LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre TOUR 2pm Tour: Claude Parent & Works from the Tate collection Tate Liverpool TOUR with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator and with Stephanie Straine, Assistant Curator, Tate Liverpool booking required Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director, the Bluecoat Tues 29 Contemporary culture course Walker Art Gallery WORKSHOP Mon 7 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM booking required £6 / £5 (FACT Members) Weds 30 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM Thurs 10 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR £6 / £5 (FACT Members) 12.30pm 2.30pm Contemporary culture course Walker Art Gallery WORKSHOP booking required Sat 12 10am–4pm Printmaking Workshop: Introduction to Intaglio the Bluecoat WORKSHOP with Emma Gregory £130/£120 Thurs 31 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR booking required 12.30pm 2.30pm 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY 6.30pm Drinks With… Lynne Tillman Liverpool Medical Institution TALK 2pm Tour: James McNeill Whistler the Bluecoat TOUR booking required with Sara Jayne-Parsons, Exhibition Curator booking required at the Bluecoat and Rosie Cooper, Project Curator Contemporary culture course Walker Art Gallery WORKSHOP at Liverpool Biennial booking required

Sun 13 2.30pm Tour: Not All Documents Are Records Open Eye Gallery TOUR

Weds 16 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM £6 / £5 (FACT Members)

Thurs 17 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR 12.30pm 2.30pm

6.30pm Drinks With… Andrew Kötting Liverpool Medical Institution FILM booking required All listings are accurate at time of print. Calendar www.biennial.com 40 Calendar www.biennial.com 41

August Exhibitions are open daily. Entrance to exhibitions and events is free, unless otherwise stated. Tues 26 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK

Weds 27 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM Sat 2 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY £6 / £5 (FACT Members)

2pm Tour: James McNeill Whistler the Bluecoat TOUR Thurs 28 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR with Simone Mair, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial booking required 12.30pm 2.30pm Tues 5 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK 6.30pm Drinks With… Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Liverpool Medical Institution TALK Weds 6 3.06pm Broadcast of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial Liverpool Cathedral OTHER booking required by Michael Nyman Sat 30 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY Thurs 7 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR 12.30pm 2pm Tour: Claude Parent & Works from the Tate collection Tate Liverpool TOUR 2.30pm with Rosie Cooper, Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial booking required Sat 9 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY 2pm Tour: Group Show The Old Blind School TOUR with Ellen Greig, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial booking required Sun 10 2.30pm Tour: Not All Documents Are Records Open Eye Gallery TOUR September Exhibitions are open daily. Entrance to exhibitions and events is free, unless otherwise stated. Tues 12 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK

Weds 13 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM Tues 2 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK £6 / £5 (FACT Members) Weds 3 3.06pm Broadcast of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial Liverpool Cathedral OTHER Thurs 14 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR by Michael Nyman 12.30pm 2.30pm 6.30pm Leisure, Discipline and Punishment FACT FILM

6.30pm Drinks With… Liverpool Medical Institution TALK Sat 6 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY booking required 2pm Tour: Claude Parent & Works from the Tate collection Tate Liverpool TOUR Sat 16 12–4pm Sunday Art School WECC / Everton Park FAMILY with Francesco Manacorda, Artistic Director, Tate Liverpool booking required (drop-in) with ‘Flying Over Liverpool’ The Everton Park Kite Festival Tues 9 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY Weds 10 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM 2pm Tour: Sharon Lockhart FACT TOUR £6 / £5 (FACT Members) with Ellen Greig, Assistant Curator, Liverpool Biennial booking required Thurs 11 6.30pm Drinks With… Liverpool Medical Institution TALK Mon 18 1pm RIBA Architecture Tour The Old Blind School TOUR booking required booking required Sat 13 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY Tues 19 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK 2pm Tour: Sharon Lockhart FACT TOUR Thurs 21 11am Dazzle Ship: Tours of the Edmund Gardner Canning Graving Dock TOUR with Ana Botella, Programme Producer, FACT booking required 12.30pm 2.30pm Sun 14 2.30pm Tour: Not All Documents Are Records Open Eye Gallery TOUR

Sat 23 12–4pm Family Sessions at FACT FACT FAMILY Mon 15 1pm RIBA Architecture Tour The Old Blind School TOUR booking required 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY Tues 16 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK 2pm Tour: Jef Cornelis St. Andrews Gardens TOUR with Vanessa Boni, Public Programmes Curator, booking required 2pm Tour: James McNeill Whistler the Bluecoat TOUR Liverpool Biennial with Mai Abu ElDahab, Co-Curator, Liverpool Biennial booking required

Mon 25 3.06pm Broadcast of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial Liverpool Cathedral OTHER 6.30pm Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists The Old Blind School FILM by Michael Nyman booking required booking required Calendar www.biennial.com 42 Calendar www.biennial.com 43

Weds 17 3.06pm Broadcast of Symphony No.11: Hillsborough Memorial Liverpool Cathedral OTHER by Michael Nyman October Exhibitions are open daily. Entrance to exhibitions and events is free, unless otherwise stated.

Fri 19 6–8pm Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 Private View World Museum OTHER Sat 4 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY 9.30pm The Companion Opening Event Philharmonic Dining Rooms Josephine Foster and Victor Herrero PERFORMANCE Weds 8 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM £6 / £5 (FACT Members) Sat 20 All day The Companion: Performance Weekend Various venues PERFORMANCE Fri 10 10am–4pm International Biennial Association Summit Capstone Theatre OTHER 12–4pm Family Sessions at FACT FACT FAMILY Sat 11 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY 2pm Tour: Sharon Lockhart FACT TOUR 2.30pm Tour: Adrian Henri LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre with Mike Stubbs, Director, FACT booking required with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator TOUR Sun 12 2.30pm Tour: Not All Documents Are Records Open Eye Gallery TOUR 6pm Adrian Henri: Total Art Book Launch the Bluecoat OTHER with Occasional Papers Tues 14 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK

Sun 21 All day The Companion: Performance Weekend Various venues Weds 15 7pm Paul O’Keeffe: Whistler v Ruskin: the Bluecoat TALK PERFORMANCE the ‘Pot of Paint’ Libel Trial booking recommended 2.30pm Tour: Adrian Henri LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator TOUR Fri 17 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Launch, Q&A FACT FILM

2.30pm, Phillip Jeck: Vinyl Requiem Revisited the Bluecoat OTHER Sat 18 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY 7.20pm 2pm Tour: Jef Cornelis St. Andrews Gardens TOUR Tues 23 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK with Polly Brannan, Education Curator, Liverpool Biennial booking required

Weds 24 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM Sun 19 2pm Tour: Group Show The Old Blind School TOUR £6 / £5 (FACT Members) with Anthony Huberman, Co-Curator, Liverpool Biennial booking required

Fri 26 10–5pm Rolling around like gorillas on the incline: Tate Liverpool TALK Mon 20 1pm RIBA Architecture Tour The Old Blind School TOUR opening the imaginary in architecture and the arts £15/£10 booking required booking required

Sat 27 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY Tues 21 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK

2pm Tour: Group Show The Old Blind School TOUR Weds 22 6.30pm Sharon Lockhart Film Programme FACT FILM with Rosie Cooper, Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial booking required £6 / £5 (FACT Members)

Sun 28 1–5pm Sunday Art School Summer Programme The Old Blind School FAMILY Thurs 23 6.30pm Drinks With… Ben Highmore Liverpool Medical Institution TALK (drop-in) booking required

3–9.30pm TV AS MATERIAL 4: The Longest Day Tate Modern FILM Sat 25 1–4pm Explore the Bluecoat FAMILY

Tues 30 1pm Talk Tuesdays: John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery TALK 2.30pm Tour: Adrian Henri LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre TOUR with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator

Sun 26 1–5pm Sunday Art School Summer Programme The Old Blind School FAMILY (drop-in)

2.30pm Tour: Adrian Henri LJMU’s Exhibition Research Centre TOUR with Catherine Marcangeli, Curator

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