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Introduction

Welcome to the 9th edition of Liverpool Biennial. Liverpool Visitor Information Biennial 2016 explores fictions, stories and histories, taking We hope you enjoy your viewers on a series of voyages through time and space, stay in Liverpool as you drawing on Liverpool’s past, present and future. These explore the Biennial journeys take the form of six ‘episodes’: Ancient Greece, exhibitions and events. Chinatown, Children’s Episode, Software, Monuments Visit our Visitor Hub from the Future and Flashback. They are sited in galleries, at Cains Brewery, public spaces, unused buildings, through live performance Stanhope Street, L8 5XJ. and online. Many of the artists have made work for It is open daily from more than one episode, some works are repeated across 10am – 6pm. different episodes, and some venues host more than one episode. For exhibition opening For Liverpool Biennial 2016, a Curatorial Faculty times, please consult has been assembled to work together, sharing different individual venue interests and expertise. I am grateful to all of them pages in the guide or for participating with me in such an open and www.biennial.com collaborative process. For the first time, artists have worked together with Contact Us children to produce new work for the Biennial. An exciting +44 (0)330 123 0584 new partnership with Arriva North West has enabled us [email protected] Bie nial to commission artists to paint three working buses that will be in service in the region during the Biennial. Booking Information We are excited to be collaborating with CACTUS Entrance to exhibitions and and Independent Curators International to present work events is free unless stated by ten Associate Artists who are participating in a new otherwise. Where booking long-term programme of mentoring and research. We are is required, visit Exhibiti n once more delighted to present the John Moores Painting www.biennial.com Prize and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which have both been partners of the Biennial since the first edition Connect in 1999. , FACT, Open Eye Gallery, Bluecoat, #Biennial2016 The Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art and Liverpool @biennial John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Lab are @liverpoolbiennial our exhibition partners and we are grateful to them for /liverpoolbiennial their collaboration. We are also grateful to our many supporters and in Share your photos with particular Arts Council and Liverpool City Council us using #Biennial2016 Ancient Greece for their continued support. There are many organisations presenting exhibitions Chinatown and projects in the city concurrently with the Biennial. Children’s Episode They have been listed in a separate guide. Monuments from the Future Sally Tallant, Director Flashback Software 4 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 5

Artists Episodes

Lawrence Abu Hamdan Samson Kambalu Andreas Angelidakis Oliver Laric Alisa Baremboym Mark Leckey Lucy Beech Adam Linder Sarah Browne & Marcos Lutyens Jesse Jones Jumana Manna Mariana Castillo Deball Rita McBride Yin-Ju Chen Dennis McNulty Ian Cheng Elena Narbutaite Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Lu Pingyuan Céline Condorelli Michael Portnoy The Black-E and Chinese Arch. Photo: Shirlaine Forrest / Getty Images Audrey Cottin Sahej Rahal Koenraad Dedobbeleer Ramin Haerizadeh, ANCIENT GREECE CHINATOWN In the early 1800s, architects such as Liverpool’s Chinatown has existed since Jason Dodge Rokni Haerizadeh & John Foster and Harvey Lonsdale Elmes the late 1890s and is the oldest in Europe. Lara Favaretto Hesam Rahmanian built Liverpool’s neoclassical cityscape Its entrance is marked by a traditional arch as a second version of Ancient Greece. imported from Shanghai. In the same way Danielle Freakley Koki Tanaka This allowed the rising elite of merchants that the city’s merchant class linked itself Coco Fusco Suzanne Treister who benefitted from colonial trade to Ancient Greece through neoclassical Fabien Giraud & Villa Design Group and the industrial revolution to fashion architecture, this arch links Liverpool’s themselves, and their civic commitment, Chinese community to an image of home. Raphaël Siboni Krzysztof Wodiczko as a reenactment of the legendary cradle Chinese immigration was, as with many Hato Betty Woodman of democracy. In the Walker Art Gallery migratory fluxes today, motivated by there is a watercolour by Samuel Austin, geographical labour demands and like the Ana Jotta Arseny Zhilyaev made in 1826, that continues this fiction. Greek fiction beneficial to Liverpool’s ruling Depicting Carthage in ancient times, Austin class, Chinatown was beneficial to sailors uses Liverpool’s neoclassical buildings as a and workers from a different continent. backdrop. This collapsing of space, time and But as China itself changes, this architectural Curatorial Faculty stories mirrors the way in which the Ancient arch also shifts meaning. Many now Greeks imagined and depicted their own see Chinatown as a nostalgic image of myths on and vessels. They didn’t something that has become more dispersed, Sally Tallant Polly Brannan tell stories with a beginning, middle and and that might even exist primarily in online Dominic Willsdon Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey end, but depicted many stories in parallel, networks, or through economic investment. showing how multiple things happen at Throughout Liverpool Biennial 2016, echoes Francesco Manacorda Ying Tan once, on a single plane. of these different Chinatowns resound in Raimundas Malašauskas Sandeep Parmar spaces across the city. Joasia Krysa Steven Cairns 3 The Oratory 5 Tate Liverpool 10 George’s Dock Ventilation Tower Plaza 2 Cains Brewery 19 20 21 Public Spaces Rosie Cooper 6 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 7

FLASHBACK SOFTWARE A flashback is a way of experiencing history Software is usually considered as as it punctuates the present unexpectedly. something functional, such as programmes, Flashbacks can rupture established instructions or rules that direct the computer narratives and provide new understandings to perform specific operations, but it can of the past. For instance, a building designed also open a portal to other dimensions with the image of Ancient Greece in mind and imagined worlds. This episode points can help tell a story about another city towards a broader understanding of thousands of years later, and the emergence software beyond technical application to of childhood memories in adulthood can ideas of scores and choreographies, through help the understanding of new social which one thing affects another without realities. In this episode, which was practical outcome. These scripts, running prompted by a conversation with Krzysztof through the Biennial, generate additional Wodiczko, artists interpret flashbacks and unexpected content and behaviour, through and the exhibiting of artefacts create parallel understandings of art and life, that travel through time from a different and expand and produce new social forms reality to interrupt our own. and possible worlds. The episode opens up perspectives and aesthetic experiences for 1 ABC Cinema 2 Cains Brewery 4 Blade Factory ‘users’, activating multiple portals that offer 6 FACT 7 Open Eye Gallery the ability to leap from one world to another, from everyday reality to the ‘nethersphere’ of computation and abstraction.

6 FACT 8 Bluecoat 9 Exhibition Research Lab 12 Public Spaces Online

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, filming for Dogsy Ma Bone, 2016. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Pete Carr

CHILDREN’S EPISODE MONUMENTS FROM THE FUTURE Children imagine the space between For this episode, artists have been asked to fiction and reality differently from adults, assume the role of futurologists. They were sometimes making no distinction between invited to imagine what Liverpool might look the two. They experiment with forms of like in 20, 30 or 40 years, and to design a social organisation constructed by adults, monument for these scenarios. As a result, inventing new rules, and simultaneously a series of public art commissions travel creating new futures. For the Children’s across time, appearing to be from the future Episode, artists have been invited to but situated in the present. consider children as the primary audience: sometimes making work with them, 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Public Spaces sometimes for them.

2 Cains Brewery Ian Cheng, Emissary Forks at Perfection (detail), 2015. Courtesy the artist, Standard Oslo and Pilar Corrias 8 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 9

FLASHBACK CHILDREN’S EPISODE / CHINATOWN / FLASHBACK ABC Cinema Cains Brewery

9 July – 16 October 9 July – 16 October

Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free Exhibition and Visitor Hub open daily, 10am–6pm, Free 1 2 Lime Street, L1 1JQ Stanhope Street, L8 5XJ

Beneath Cains Brewery is a lake that is 40 of episodes, including Chinatown, Flashback feet deep. It is rumoured that employees of and the Children’s Episode. At the centre the brewery used to row boats there, and in is the large structure Collider, designed by 1995 a diver found carved graffiti on the wall Andreas Angelidakis, inspired by the Large dating to 1864, 13 years before work began Hadron Collider – a giant instrument that on the red brick building above. operates at the boundaries of scientific As you walk through the brewery’s knowledge. Angelidakis’s structure divides canning hall, you will encounter a number the space into different episodes.

Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, The Unmanned (1922 – The Uncomputable), 2016. Courtesy the artists

The ABC Cinema is a Grade II listed building in 1542, and, in 2045, the moment at which in the Art Deco style that first opened its machine intelligence overtakes human doors to the public in 1931. The last film intelligence. The most recent episode, shown there, in 1998, was Casablanca. 1922 – The Uncomputable, which reflects As part of the Children’s Episode, Samson on Lewis Fry Richardson’s attempt to build Kambalu invited a group of children to a huge weather-forecast factory, has been imagine this film’s content. The experiment commissioned for this year’s Biennial as part is part of Kambalu’s concept of ‘Nyau of the Flashback episode. Every Tuesday, Cinema’, which subverts the conventions The Unmanned series plays in its entirety. and limitations of everyday life. When the films stop playing, the Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni’s ABC Cinema undergoes a transformation. film series The Unmanned recounts Marcos Lutyens’ voice permeates the a history of technology in reverse. space, and sculptures by Lara Favaretto, The Unmanned includes an account Rita McBride and Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni of the Earth’s dismantling in 7242, the Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian emerge discovery of California by conquistadors from the Chinatown episode. Cains Brewery. Photo: Shirlaine Forrect / Getty Images 10 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 11

Chinatown, the first episode you come to places where lost luggage can be found: upon, is entered through a portal made by flea-markets, railway stations or dumps. Céline Condorelli. Chinatown contains work Having obtained a suitcase, she combines made on site by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni what is already inside with new items, locks Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, who the case and throws away the key. Several have sent to Liverpool objects, props, films of these works can be found across many and works from their art collection. These exhibition sites. items have been ‘smuggled’ by sea in a Rita McBride’s Perfiles depict the shipping container from Dubai, where the outline of houses in Pompeii, a city Iranian artists are currently living in exile. in the South of Italy that was buried Nearby, Audrey Cottin’s Flour Tables invite in metres of ash and pumice after the you to tell a story using the medium volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in of dough, recorded by a graphic artist. 79AD. Sculptural memories of buildings Ian Cheng’s Emissary Forks For You consumed by time, the Perfiles are is a mixed reality simulation in which distributed across the exhibition. a small dog, Shiba Emissary, verbally Dispersed throughout the Biennial commands the viewer to follow her venues, Jason Dodge’s What the Living throughout the exhibition. With promise Do comprises small items that people of reward, the viewer assumes a new role: left behind, such as sweet wrappers, Shiba Emissary’s pet. cigarette butts, leaves, shells, receipts and Lara Favaretto’s Lost and Found used tickets. The artist has been collecting suitcases are the result of yearly visits these items for many years.

Rita McBride, Perfiles, 2010

As you walk inside Andreas away, but not before they have helped her Angelidakis’s Collider, you step into to generate the next work. the Flashback episode. Inside is a film In a room nearby, and also part of by Samson Kambalu that explores the the Flashback episode, Yin-Ju Chen’s ambivalent psychogeography of Liverpool’s Extrastellar Evaluations brings together imperial monuments, and a drawing by Koki evidence of Lemurian presence on earth. Tanaka that he made when he was a child. Lemuria is a continent that sunk beneath Ana Jotta’s wallpaper is created from the ocean thousands of years ago. Its the pages of her 2014 book Footnotes, inhabitants have been living on earth in which portrays the numerous objects and another dimension, revealing themselves paraphernalia that she has been collecting as conceptual artists in the 1960s. Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, O’ The grand old lion, tied to the over many years. Not overly attached to Extrastellar Evaluations unfolds between chain Surely from being chained, to you dishonor did not come, 2016. Photo: Maaziar Sadr these objects, Jotta often throws them Cains Brewery and FACT. 12 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 13

At the centre of the Collider is the ‘sweded’ versions of certain scenes. Children’s Episode. For this episode, Over the Biennial’s opening weekend, Céline Condorelli has designed a portal some parts of the film are being performed that is only for children to use. live in the space. Since April 2016, Marvin Gaye In the same space, Betty Woodman’s Chetwynd has been working through Kimono Ladies appear – ceramic vessels that workshops and live performances with the artist has dressed in fancy costumes. 34 children and 44 teenagers from across There is also an image from Koki Tanaka’s Liverpool to make the film Dogsy Ma Bone, re-imagining of the 1985 Youth Training using the city as a backdrop to the action. Scheme protest, in which 10,000 young The film is inspired by Betty Boop’s A Song people from Liverpool took to the streets A Day, 1936, in which Betty sings to exotic in opposition to the then Conservative animals in a hospital she owns, and Bertolt government’s work experience initiative. Brecht’s satirical musical Threepenny Opera, The project can be seen in full at Open 1928. Parts of the film have been remade by Eye Gallery. teenagers who have created home-made or

Lu Pingyuan, Do Not Open It Series, 2015

Outdoors is a sculpture by Sahej GRAFTON STREET Rahal, part of the Monuments from the Around the corner from Cains Brewery is Future episode and just one of a larger a door, set into a brick wall. The door is a body of work that can be seen throughout portal between Liverpool and Manchester, the exhibition. These belong within a and it has been installed by Lu Pingyuan, burgeoning mythology, which draws who has been collecting second-hand doors on characters from a range of sources, over the years. The title, Do Not Open It, is a from local legend to science fiction. He warning. Lu hopes to install similar doors all encourages these indeterminate beings over the world, imagining that they will all to emerge into our everyday lives, as if remain closed forever. through cracks in our civilisation.

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Dogsy Ma Bone, 12 June 2016 at Cains Brewery, Liverpool. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Mark McNulty Sahej Rahal, sketches, 2016 14 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 15

ANCIENT GREECE FLASHBACK The Oratory Blade Factory

9 July – 16 October 9 July – 16 October

Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free 3 4 Cathedral Gate, L1 9DY Camp and Furnace, 67 Greenland Street, L1 0BY

In 1979, Eric’s nightclub in Liverpool hosted a gig by Joy Division that Mark Leckey attended in his youth. Recently, the artist located amateur footage of the event on YouTube. Realising that many of the personal memories that we have can be found online, Leckey began to assemble a film, Dream English Kid, that uses archival material from television shows, advertisements and music, to recreate a record of all the significant events in his life from the 1970s until the 1990s. The film is presented in an environment that contains new sculptural works connected to material in Dream English Kid. Leckey has an ongoing fascination with the affective power of images, music and technology, and often uses reconfigured Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Rubber Coated Steel (film still), 2016. Courtesy the artist archival footage in his work. His installation forms part of the Flashback episode.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Rubber Coated The Oratory includes one of Rita Steel is part of the Ancient Greece episode. McBride’s Perfile series, Lara Favaretto’s Hamdan is a forensic audio analyst as well Lost and Found, and Jason Dodge’s What as an artist, and in 2014 he was asked to the Living Do. It is also the place where analyse audio files that recorded the shots visitors are invited to participate in another that killed Nadeem Nawara and Mohamed project happening nearby. Abu Daher in the West Bank of Palestine. The Oratory was built in 1829, and His audio investigation, which proved that its architect was John Foster, one of the the boys were shot by real bullets and not Greek Revivalists who shaped Liverpool’s rubber ones, is the starting point for Rubber neoclassical cityscape. It contains a number Coated Steel – a work about aesthetics, of neoclassical sculptures, three of which politics and the potential violence inherent are by John Gibson (1790–1866). Brought up in both noise and silence. in Liverpool, Gibson sought to emulate the style of the classical world in his own work. Mark Leckey, Dream English Kid, 1964 – 1999 AD (film The Oratory is part of National Museums Liverpool. stills), 2015. Courtesy the artist and Cabinet, London 16 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 17

ANCIENT GREECE Alongside Blundell’s figures and fragments, Koenraad Dedobbeleer has made a series Tate Liverpool of display structures to support the classical sculptures in their new context. Andreas 9 July – 30 October Angelidakis’s new film looks at Ancient Greek vases, and how they were used to Open daily 10am – 5.50pm, Free spread news and myth, comparing this 5 Albert Dock, L3 4BB dissemination to the internet. Jumana Manna’s work draws parallels between Athens and Jerusalem to relate how their stories both contributed to the West's self- construction, which in turn mirrored and Betty Woodman, Country Dining Room, 2015. partially shaped the economy and politics Photo: Brunco Bruchi of the Middle East. Betty Woodman’s mural depicts a domestic scene, complete with three-dimensional ceramic objects. Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Double Take: Office/Leader of the Chasseurs/Syrian Revolution Commanding a Charge uses an 1812 painting by Théodore Géricault as an example of the way people build complex and contradictory relationships with their colonial past. Also featured is new and previously existing work by other artists including Jason Dodge, Samson Kambalu and Sahej Rahal.

Collaborating Curators: Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Necessarily Involves Wandering, Lauren Barnes and Chrissy Partheni 2011. Courtesy Galerie Micheline Szwajcer

The Pantheon Interior at Hall, 1959 © National Museums Liverpool

After walking through a portal in Tate The Ince Blundell objects, borrowed Liverpool’s first-floor galleries, visitors from National Museums Liverpool’s encounter classical sculptures alongside antiquities collections for this episode, newly commissioned artworks. The artists include a series of classical sculptures, have imagined a world where artists from vases, busts and reliefs bought by art Ancient Greece and contemporary times collector Henry Blundell in the early 1800s. have collaborated, merging the past, Many of the sculptures were subject to present and future into a single fiction inaccurate restoration: female heads just as the city's architects did when appear fixed to male bodies, a toe is stuck they designed Liverpool's neoclassical to the wrong foot, and classical fragments buildings in the 1800s. are combined with additions made by eighteenth-century restorers to make new Jumana Manna, A magical substance flows into me, 2015. figures, an accepted practice at that time. Courtesy the artist and Chisenhale Gallery. Photo: Andy Keate 18 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 19

FLASHBACK FACT

9 July – 16 October

Open daily 11am – 6pm, Free 6 88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ

Lucy Beech’s new film Pharmakon is For Krzysztof Wodiczko, a flashback an interpersonal drama that explores means traumatic re-emergence of how disease operates in an era of mass memories from the past, characterised communication. The film focuses on female by psychological conditions such as Post group dynamics, and how support networks Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This can care for the individual whilst conversely presentation brings together exhibits from intensifying symptoms. It examines how over 40 years spent working in collaboration connectivity in this context can be both with marginalised communities such as illness and remedy, and how diagnosis war veterans and the homeless. Wodiczko’s is dependent on our ability to impose large-scale installation Guests (2011), particular narratives on the body. Shot originally commissioned for the 53rd and produced in sites across Liverpool, the Venice , forms a central part of the screenplay has been developed through exhibition, reflecting in this context on the the artist’s active engagement with therapy current migratory crisis and debates around Krzysztof Wodiczko, Homeless Vehicle, 1988. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York groups, advocacy websites, patient forums, immigration. Veteran Helmet was created and interviews with clinicians working in 2015, and uses technology and prosthetics within the field of delusional infestation. to aid veterans suffering from PTSD to Other works include the Homeless Vehicle communication with their motherland. The film is also part of the Software episode. share their experience of the condition. Project (1988–89), for which Wodiczko As a result, they were pushed to invent worked with members of the homeless extreme methods of transmission community in New York to create tools to that involved the creation of large-scale aid their survival and communication. geometric devices, understood by The land of Lemuria sank into the ocean humans as conceptual artworks. thousands of years ago, but its natives have been living invisibly amongst us ever since. Lucy Beech is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and In the 1960s, some of them re-emerged, FACT. Yin-Ju Chen is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial using the identities of conceptual artists in collaboration with CFCCA and Kadist Foundation. such as Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and Carl Andre. Yin-Ju Chen’s work, Extrastellar Collaborating Curators: Mike Stubbs, Ana Botella, Evaluations, part of the Flashback episode, Lesley Taker and Amy Jones brings together evidence of Lemurian presence on earth, and considers the impact FILM PROGRAMME of the 1960s as a defining era for humans Another Version of Events and Lemurians alike. For humans, civil- Every Thursday throughout the festival, see p.46 for listings rights struggles, the Cuban Missile Crisis A selection of films inspired by sci-fi, and Vietnam shook the status quo, but for , pseudo-documentary, Lemurians, the era was characterised by mockbuster and . Lucy Beech, Pharmakon (film still), 2016. Courtesy the artist severe weather events that disrupted their 20 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 21

FLASHBACK to share their memories of the event. Three submersibles, Anti-Catty, They were joined by young people in order Princess Rambo and Space-Sheep, have Open Eye Gallery to reflect on the way in which the future smuggled artwork from Dubai to Liverpool. that the students fought for in 1985 relates By circumnavigating the normal procedures 9 July – 16 October to the present political situation. This walk used to transport artworks from one place has been documented, and the resulting to another, they deliberately degrade the Open daily 10am –6pm, Free film is presented as part of the Children’s usual values assigned to art objects. In the 7 19 Mann Island, L3 1BP Episode and the Flashback episode, gallery, and across other venues, are videos alongside photographs by Dave Sinclair. by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh Each time significant technological and Hesam Rahmanian that document progress is made in image resolution, the daily lives of the submersibles, the Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni buy smuggling and objects that have emerged a new video camera and use it to film from this process. a sunset, but without a lens. The series, titled La Vallée Von Uexküll, and included Collaborating Curator: Thomas as part of Flashback, will end when the camera is able to capture more than the human eye can see.

Dave Sinclair, Youth Training Scheme Protest, Liverpool, 25 April 1985 © Dave Sinclair

When Koki Tanaka visited Liverpool for the march, which took place on 25 April 1985, first time, he came across a book, Liverpool began outside St George’s Hall and moved in the 1980s, by photographer Dave Sinclair. quickly down Dale Street, past the Town The book contains images of a mass protest Hall, ending at the Pier Head. This wasn’t Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Untitled (La Vallée against the Conservative Government’s the route the organisers had planned, but Von Uexküll, 2048 × 1152) (film still), 2009–2014. Courtesy the artists Youth Training Scheme, criticised as a the sheer enthusiasm of the students meant means of providing cheap labour with that the crowd moved fast and was hard to no guarantee of a job at the end. contain. For Tanaka, Sinclair’s photographs In Liverpool, where youth unemploy- show an unusual combination of energy, ment was as high as 80 percent in some optimism, joy and anger. Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, areas, 10,000 young people took to the In June 2016, Tanaka revisited the scene Submarine I: Space Sheep (Space Sheep Was Paid To Land streets in opposition to the initiative. The of the protest, inviting original participants On a New Zeeland!) (film still), 2016. Courtesy the artists 22 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 23

SOFTWARE SOFTWARE Bluecoat LJMU Exhibition Research Lab

9 July – 16 October 9 July – 16 October

Open daily, Monday–Saturday 10am–6pm, Sunday 11am–6pm, Free Open daily 10am – 5pm, Free 8 9 School Lane, L1 3BX John Lennon Art & Design Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Duckinfield Street, L3 5RD

Suzanne Treister’s HFT The Gardener, Traumberg communes with the part of the Software episode, is developed traditional shamanic users of these plants, as a fictional narrative focusing on the whose practices include healing, divining underlying world of algorithms. It features the future, entering the spirit world, and artworks created by the fictional character exploring the hallucinatory nature of reality. Hillel Fischer Traumberg, a banker turned He develops a fantasy of himself as a techno- 'outsider’ artist. shaman, transmuting the spiritual dimensions Traumberg is an algorithmic high- of the universe and the hallucinogenic nature frequency trader (HFT), who experiments of capital into new art forms. Ultimately, with psychoactive drugs and explores he becomes an ‘outsider’ artist whose the ethno-pharmacology of over 100 work is collected by oligarchs, bankers and psychoactive plants. He uses gematria museums. Unaffected by worldly success he (Hebrew numerology) to discover the continues his parapsychopharmacological numerological codes in the plants' research, working on a new algorithm to Dennis McNulty, PRECAST, 2012. Photo: Ollie Harrop botanical names, finding their equivalents discover the true nature and location of with companies in the FT Global 500 consciousness and to determine whether Financial Index. psychoactive drugs open a portal to the In his book More than Human (1953) PERFORMANCE holographic universe. science-fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon Homo Gestalt: The Time Domain describes a scenario in which multiple Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 July, 12.30 & 3.00pm, humans blend their abilities to act as a , L3 9PP single organism. Dennis McNulty pairs This promenade performance is set in this idea with the ‘multinode’: a concept and around New Hall Place, a 1970s office developed by pioneering cyberneticist complex locally known as ‘The Sandcastle’. Stafford Beer (1926–2002) to describe a The brutalist architecture of New Hall collective biological or machinic decision- Place was built to reflect the management making entity. The result is Homo Gestalt, systems and hierarchies of Royal Insurance, a collective technology that is performed the original occupying company. McNulty’s into existence with the participation of performance moves the audience through audience members, presented as part of these different times zones, highlighting the Software episode. The commissions where historical, social, acoustic and include a data-driven installation, a digital infrastructural concerns collide. app and an off-site performance work. Free, booking required

Collaborating Curators: Marie-Anne McQuay and Also on show at Bluecoat during Liverpool Biennial 2016 Adam Smythe. Dennis McNulty is commissioned is Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016 (see p. 36). Suzanne Treister, HFT The Gardener/Outsider artworks/Mimosa hostilis (Jurema), 2014–2015. by Liverpool Biennial and Bluecoat. Courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W., New York 24 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 25

ANCIENT GREECE / MONUMENTS FROM THE FUTURE MONUMENTS FROM THE FUTURE Public Spaces

9 July – 16 October

Betty Woodman Mariana Castillo Deball Lawrence Abu Hamdan Sahej Rahal 10 11 12 13 George’s Dock Ventilation Tower Plaza, Liverpool ONE, Paradise Street, L1 8JF Derby Square, L1 7NU Exchange Flags, L2 3YL Mann Island, L3 1DD

Sahej Rahal’s sculptures imagine artefacts from science fiction and popular culture thousands of years into the future, fossilised. The backdrop is a square behind the Town Hall that is often used by the film industry: it has been cast as New York several times, and once it was covered in snow, to represent Moscow.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, view from the Hummingbird Mariana Castillo Deball, detail from To-day 9th of Clock, Derby Square, Liverpool, 2016. Courtesy the artist July 2016 (time pattern), 2016. Courtesy the artist

Opposite Liverpool’s law courts, Lawrence Betty Woodman, A Visit to Rome (detail), 2009. Mariana Castillo Deball’s To-day 9th of July Abu Hamdan’s Hummingbird Clock, a tree Photo: Mario Ciampi 2016 is part of the Monuments from the of binoculars resembling CCTV cameras, Future episode. It is a large-scale sculpture: keeps watch over the Town Hall’s clock. The Sahej Rahal, sketch, 2016 an infinite staircase built for a character Hummingbird Clock is a new kind of public Betty Woodman has created a large-scale who can jump across the same date in time piece that exists physically and online. public artwork, a bronze fountain, which different years throughout history. The title It is designed as a tool for investigations into 14 Rita McBride is part of the Ancient Greece episode. coincides with the date on which Liverpool civil and human rights violations and state Toxteth Reservoir, High Park Street, L8 8DX Her work refers to classical imagery and Biennial 2016 opens to the public, but it also corruption: recording the second by second architectural decoration, combining sources references other 9th July events across time. variations in the buzz made by the electrical Rita McBride’s large-scale installation that include Greek and Etruscan sculpture, An accompanying newspaper, which can be grid, and making that publicly available represents an opening between real and Minoan and Egyptian art, Italian found across all exhibition sites, contains to anyone who might need it. For over 10 fictional worlds. It is a wormhole created architecture and the paintings of Bonnard, found news stories from many different years, the UK government has been using with laser-beams, in the form of a hyperbola Picasso and Matisse. 9th of Julys. Castillo Deball began this this humming sound as a surveillance tool. – a smooth symmetrical curve with two Woodman’s fountain is next to George’s work in 2005, and it will be completed after Nearly all recordings made within earshot branches, produced by the section of a Dock Ventilation Tower, an Art Deco 365 editions. of this almost-silent humming can be conical surface. structure built in 1931 that ventilates the forensically analysed to determine time and road tunnel below. Like many in the Art date, and whether the recording has been Note: This work is only open on Saturdays Deco movement, the building’s architect edited or altered. This technique has, so and Sundays between 10am–6pm. Herbert J Rowse was influenced by recent far, only ever been used by the state, but it discoveries in Egypt, such as the tomb of can now be accessed by anyone who might Tutankhamun, first entered by need it at www.hummingbirdclock.info. This archaeologists in 1922. work is also part of the Software episode. 26 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 27

MONUMENTS FROM THE FUTURE MONUMENTS FROM THE FUTURE

Arseny Zhilyaev Alisa Baremboym Lara Favaretto Lu Pingyuan 15 16 17 18 143 Granby Street, L8 2UR Rosebery Street, L8 2TN Rhiwlas Street, L8 3UA Epic Hotel, 75 Duke Street, L1 5AA

The Planet Parade is a term used to describe Alisa Baremboym’s sculpture is also part Momentary Monument – The Stone, 2016 Lu Pingyuan has written a series of stories the appearance of an intense concentration of the Monuments from the Future episode. is a huge granite boulder. It is hollow, that can be encountered across episodes, of stars and planets in the night sky, seen It is made from the same type of perforated and passers-by can drop money into it and in the Biennial’s book. One describes only when Earth is in a very specific position sheet metal used to shutter the doors and through a slot. This new work is part of a two-sided lake that a diver uses to swim in the Universe. Arseny Zhilyaev imagines windows of empty terraced houses in the the artist’s Momentary Monuments series, between continents, and another tells the a particular constellation of planets that area. The metal surrounds and weaves which testifies to the temporary nature of tale of little Kiki whose origami figure comes only appears during the very last days in through organic forms made of ceramic all monuments, and the impossibility of to life as a disgruntled artist. A third, which the life of Earth – The Last Planet Parade. and tinted concrete. A native grass is memorialisation. At the end of the Biennial, can be seen painted on the side of the Epic This planetary configuration is represented planted around the sculpture, and slowly the boulder will be destroyed. The funds Hotel as part of the Monuments from the on a stained glass window, and a grows through the holes in the steel. This collected will be donated to a local charity, Future episode, reveals a dystopian future, museological display nearby includes hybrid object, somewhere between organic Asylum Link , an organisation where a factory full of Van Gogh clones information on Jeremiah Horrocks and synthetic, points towards the tension dedicated to assisting asylum seekers and endlessly produce paintings made from the (1618–1641), an important astronomer between the body and its environment. refugees, and raising public awareness remains of their unsuccessful colleagues. from Liverpool best known as the first around refugee issues. man to have observed the transit of Venus. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and CFCCA. The Last Planet Parade is part of the Monuments from the Future episode.

Lara Favaretto, Momentary Monument – The Stone, Arseny Zhilyaev, The Last Planet Parade 2009. Installation view, Piazzetta Piave, Twister, (detail), 2016. Courtesy the artist GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy. Photo: Francesca Ferrandi 28 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 29

CHINATOWN CHILDREN’S EPISODE / MONUMENTS FROM THE FUTURE Arriva City Buses

Until 2018

Mr Chilli Restaurant Hondo Chinese Supermarket Check @arrivanorthwest on Twitter to find 19 21 92 Seel Street, L1 4BL, 12pm–2am 5–11 Upper Duke Street, L1 9DU out the buses’ routes on any given day.

Designed by Eduardo Costa, Elena Since the Enlightenment, the distinction Three double-decker buses have been that extra-terrestrial beings will be able to Narbutaite’s images of tiger and between humans and other creatures has transformed by artists and children in understand more about human civilisation. leopard-print swimsuits for interspecies been founded on intelligence. Ian Cheng’s a major new commission by Liverpool The bus is part of the Children’s Episode. transformation, photographed in the Adelphi Something Thinking of You examines this Biennial and Arriva North West. The buses Ana Jotta’s bus is disguised as a huge, Hotel, hang on the walls of a Chinese boundary, arguing that technology now can be seen driving on routes through solid brick wall. The pattern is reminiscent restaurant. has the capacity to think and make decisions the City Centre, South Liverpool, North of the brick buildings the artist saw when on its own. Cheng’s films use technology Liverpool and the Wirral. she came to Liverpool for the first time. that enables characters and scenes to Designed by Year 7 pupils from Her bus is part of the Monuments from Master Chef Restaurant evolve outside his control, free to create Childwall Sports & Science Academy, in the Future episode. 20 Renshaw Street, L1 2SJ, their own universe. collaboration with artists and designers Frances Disley’s Blaze is inspired by Sunday–Thursday 12pm – 12am, Saturday 12pm–1am At the counter, Lu Pingyuan’s story Hato, a Space Bus called Hello Future Me the success story of Liverpool-born Eunice The Two-Sided Lake can be taken away contains coded messages to the future Huthart, the only contestant on 1990s TV Ana Jotta’s ‘background’ paintings, titled as a piece of paper. It describes a diver citizens of Liverpool, spelled out in an action game-show Gladiators to become a No No Sir!, were painted with Master emerging unexpectedly from a lake in a alphabet of newly invented symbols that ‘Gladiator’ herself. Blaze depicts the artist as Chef Restaurant in mind. The colours are small village in China, having travelled there draw inspiration from imagined futures. a painted character with the power to blend reminiscent of antique green pottery that from a different lake in another country. It pays homage to the tradition of sending into her own artwork. the artist saw in a magazine whilst on her messages into outer space, in the hope train to Liverpool. Throughout the City

Flyposted throughout the city, Villa Design Group’s promotional images are scenographic sketches from a yet to be realised film adaptation of interior designer Jean Royere’s 1976 memoir Arab Living and Loving as seen by a French Interior Decorator. Each image represents a different chapter from Royere’s travels across the Middle East in the 1950s, and the many clients he encountered. Koenraad Dedobbeleer’s posters disseminate images of objects from National Museums Liverpool. A jingle made by Elena Narbutaite, Kevin Rice and DES can be heard throughout Villa Design Group, Promotional Image (Egypt) – A Desert the city, transmitted as an ice-cream for Love, 2014. Courtesy the artists and Mathew Gallery van’s musical announcement. Hato and Childwall Sports & Science Academy, Hello Future Me, 2016. Photo: Gareth Jones 30 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Biennial Exhibition 31

SOFTWARE Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists

Online 9 July – 16 October

9 July – 16 October Open daily 10am – 6pm, Free 22 India Buildings, 31 Water Street, L2 0RD Available from www.biennial.com/online

The computer game Minecraft allows its Dennis McNulty’s smartphone app, users to invent their own world from simple BLESH, can be used to generate low block components, and to interact with the resolution . various spheres Minecraft constitutes – An audio work by Marcos Lutyens the hell-like Nether, for instance, which incorporating myths, rumours and portals can only be entered through a smoke-filled can be downloaded and listened to whilst portal. Minecraft Infinity Project works walking around the city, or sitting near the with Minecrafters the world over to create Chinatown arch. a ‘portrait’ of Liverpool Biennial, in which users render their own version of the exhibition. It incorporates a number of artworks by participating artists. Oliver Laric’s 3-D scans of sculptures from Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery include work by John Gibson (1790–1866), who actively oversaw reproductions of his work in the form of statuettes, cameos and prints. 3-D prints of these scans exist across the Biennial, and data from the scans can be accessed, free, at www.threedscans.com. Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Hummingbird Simeon Barclay, The Feast Wagon, 2015. Exhibition installation shot at The Tetley, Leeds. Photo: Jules Lister Clock is located physically outside the law courts in Derby Square, and online at www.hummingbirdclock.info. It is designed The Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists Artists as a tool for investigations into civil and programme is a major new initiative by Simeon Barclay human rights violations. The clock records Liverpool Biennial, in partnership with Jacqueline Bebb the second by second variations of the Independent Curators International (ICI) and Lindsey Bull buzz made by the electrical grid. The sound CACTUS, which supports 10 artists based Robert Carter & Lauren Velvick files are made available online, so that the in the North of England to develop their Nina Chua public can analyse the date and time of careers internationally. Matthew Crawley any recording made within earshot of the Part of India Buildings has been Frances Disley grid, in case they need to know whether the transformed into a ‘green room’ for artists Daniel Fogarty recording has been tampered with. to reflect, explore, collaborate and develop Harry Meadley their practice. The room is a domestic-type Stephen Sheehan space that contains seating for visitors. Oliver Laric, 3-D scan of John Gibson’s Cupid Disguised as a Shepherd Boy, c. 1830. Courtesy the artist Collaborating Curator: Joe Fletcher Orr 32 Biennial Exhibition www.biennial.com Liverpool Biennial 2016 www.biennial.com 33

Places of Interest

These locations are not exhibition sites, but might be interesting to visit if you are staying longer in the city. Whilst developing the ideas behind Liverpool Biennial 2016, the curatorial faculty engaged with the past, present and future of Liverpool: the stories that emerge from the city’s architecture and the archives held in its universities.

Adelphi Hotel Ranelagh Place, L3 5UL The Adelphi hotel, opposite the ABC The Operations Room, Project Cybersyn, Chile, 1971–1973. Cinema, is a container and generator of Courtesy the Stafford Beer Collection, Liverpool John Moores University fiction. When it opened in 1914, the Adelphi Hotel was regarded as the most luxurious outside London, and its main hall is said Stafford Beer Archive to resemble the First-Class lounge of the Open Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm by appointment only Titanic. On the left hand side of the entrance, Aquinas Building, off Maryland Street, L1 9DE there is a small brass plaque that honours Stafford Beer worked through the ‘50s and the staff of the Adelphi for their ‘Services to ‘60s to translate principles of cybernetics Part er Science Fiction Fandom in the 20th Century’. into the practices of business management. As well as science fiction conferences, it From 1971–73, he worked in Chile during the plays host to musical tribute acts, ballroom revolutionary period of Salvador Allende’s dance parties and magic conventions. You presidency to create the work of a lifetime: can also go there for afternoon tea. Cybersyn, which was to enable workers up and down the country to collaborate in E hibitions Science Fiction Foundation Collection real time, using experimental technology. Open Monday–Friday, 9.30am–4.45pm by appointment only At the end of his life, he was a professor at Sydney Jones Library, L7 7BD Liverpool John Moores University, where One of the largest and most important his archives are currently held. science fiction collections in the world is held by Liverpool University Library’s To make an appointment contact [email protected] or Special Collections and Archives division. 0151 231 3813 Among its highlights are the Science Fiction Foundation Collection – 35,000 books and over 2,000 periodical titles – and the Olaf Stapledon archive.

For details of the collection visit liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca. John Moores Painting Prize To make an appointment contact [email protected] Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016 Biennial Fringe CFCCA: Yin-Ju Chen and Lu Pingyuan 34 Partner Exhibitions www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Partner Exhibitions 35

John Moores Painting Prize Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016

9 July – 27 November 9 July – 16 October

Open daily 10am – 5pm, Free Open daily, Monday–Saturday 10am–6pm, Sunday 11am–6pm, Free

3434 23 8 Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, L3 8EL Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX

The internationally renowned John Moores this year are artists Gillian Carnegie, Ansel New Contemporaries is recognised Contemporaries 2016 shows the diverse Painting Prize has been championing Krut, Pheobe Unwin, Ding Yi and writer nationally and internationally as a reliable approaches of emerging artists working contemporary British painting for almost and freelance curator Richard Henry Davey. barometer of future trends in art. Since 1949, today. Social, cultural and environmental 60 years. Representing the UK’s most For 2016, 54 works have been selected from New Contemporaries has profiled emerging changes to the world around us are talented artists, it is the country’s longest more than 2,500 entries. From the selected talent from the UK’s art schools through represented in the show, with artists established painting prize for artists working artists, four painters have been awarded an annual open submission exhibition. reflecting on geo-political turmoil, cultural with the medium of paint. The exhibition prizes of £2,500, while the overall winner Past exhibitors include Ed Atkins, Helen legacies and environmental concerns. is organised in partnership with the John has received £25,000. Chadwick, , Chris Ofili and The exhibition will travel to the Institute Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust. Judges Simon Starling. of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, in At Bluecoat, Bloomberg New November. 2016 marks 30 years since Contemporaries 2016 features 46 artists Bluecoat last hosted New Contemporaries. chosen by guest selectors Anya Gallaccio, Alan Kane and Haroon Mirza. From Richie Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Arts Council Moment’s high octane, satirical videos England, Art Fund, Royal Norwegian Embassy and the to Michael Cox’s detailed paintings of Embassy of Ireland. urban architecture, Bloomberg New

Alex Rennie, Totem, 2015 Richie Moment, Richie Moment Green Scream, internet presence 001 (film still), 2014 36 Partner Exhibitions www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Partner Exhibitions 37

Biennial Fringe Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA)

Manchester

Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–5pm, Free Market Buildings, 13 Thomas Street, Manchester, M4 1EU

5 August – 16 October 21 October – 15 January 2017

Upon watching CCTV footage of a ghost Yin-Ju Chen is a multimedia practitioner reportedly seen by staff in the pub Ye Olde who in recent years has explored the Man and Scythe in Bolton, Lu Pingyuan function of power in human society, decided to use his exhibition at CFCCA to collective thinking and collective catch it, as an attempt to ‘take something unconsciousness, and most recently the back’ from the UK in response to that which relationship between human behaviour was lost through the UK’s colonial past. The and the cosmos. Her three-part project pub, which dates from 1251, is the fourth- Extrastellar Evaluations continues her oldest pub in Britain and is reputedly haunted research into dystopia, conspiracy and by the Seventh Earl of Derby, James Stanley. art history through the mythological land The royalist, whose family originally owned of Lemuria and its inhabitants. the inn, is said to have spent the last hours of his life there before he was beheaded in 1651. Yin-Ju Chen and Lu Pingyuan are commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and CFCCA. Ryan Gander, Is this guilt in you too (The study of a car in a field) (film still), 2005 © Ryan Gander

A wide range of exhibitions, performances Portrait Of British Songwriting, in Bold Street and events are presented concurrently Coffee; while on Strand Street, a private with Liverpool Biennial 2016. Independent apartment hosts the work of Indonesian screenings, gigs, performances, artist collective Tromarama. symposiums, mini-festivals and happenings are hosted by individuals, collectives and SWAP: UK/Ukraine Artist Residency artist-led spaces throughout the city. For Programme (British Council) all the Fringe listings, pick up a free copy of In the spring of 2016, four Ukrainian artists The Double Negative’s special Culture Diary spent eight weeks in Liverpool, and as pocket guide or visit doublenegative.co.uk part of their residencies, they produced Highlights include British artist Ryan an alternative guide to Liverpool. Alevtina Gander’s solo show at CACTUS, featuring Kakhidze, one of the artists, has also artworks he made 12–13 years ago; The produced an audio guide which shares her Serving Library, a permanent display experience of the city and the residency. of artefacts drawn from 16 years of the institution’s house journal, accompanied by Download the audio guide from a related programme of events; independent www.biennial.com and pick up a music label Domino Records’ exhibition, printed guide from Cains Brewery. Yin-Ju Chen, Extrastellar Evaluation (film still), 2016. Courtesy the artist and Chi-Wen Gallery Annua C mmi sions

Raphael Hefti, performance at Pullman Liverpool, 19 May 2016. Photo: Nick Mizen 40 Annual Commissions www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Annual Commissions 41

Assemble / Granby Workshop Raphael Hefti Koo Jeong A

142 Granby Street Pullman Hotel Everton Park, Prince Edwin Street / 24 25 26 L8 2US Kings Dock, L3 4FP Roscommon Street L5 3NG

Since 2012, Assemble have been working the Four Streets residents. They used this In May 2016, Raphael Hefti created a new Artist Koo Jeong A, in collaboration with with local residents and others in the Granby opportunity to launch Granby Workshop, site-specific commission for the newly Wheelscape Skateparks, worked with young Four Streets area of Toxteth, Liverpool. a social enterprise that makes handmade opened Pullman Liverpool hotel. For a people and skaters in North Liverpool The houses that constitute the Four products for homes, all of which are made week, the artist transformed part of Kings to devise a fully functional wheels park Streets were built around 1900. Granby in Granby by local people. Dock into a studio and film set, which also and a new permanent sculpture for the Street was once a lively high street at A sign built on the occasion of the functioned as a stage for a live performance. city. Evertro, the UK’s first glow-in-the- the centre of Liverpool’s most racially International Festival for Business 2016 A huge pile of sand worked as a makeshift dark wheels park, opened in October and ethnically diverse community. After introduces the ethos of the Workshop, foundry, and with a technique usually 2015. Familiar skating forms have been the Toxteth Riots in 1981, many of the presenting the project back to its home used to repair high-speed railway lines, combined with new sculptural elements to houses were purchased by the Council and city in a public context, and exploring Hefti made a new performance, film and create a unique space for experimentation. earmarked for redevelopment. As a result, the relationship between creative action, sculpture. The welding process melts steel The design responds to its immediate hundreds of people were forced to move production and regeneration. The sign very quickly: lava-like flows of molten metal surroundings, as well as drawing on Jeong out of their homes. Over the past 10 years, is located on the permanent premises poured down the sand, finding final form as A’s references to diamond shapes and forms residents who resisted these plans have of the Workshop and forms part of the the material cooled down. Hefti references conceived through her interpretation of the tenaciously fought to save the area from building’s refurbishment. heavy labour and iron casting, the backbone area. The wheels park is open to skaters and demolition, reversing dereliction through of contemporary infrastructure: processes BMX bikers to enjoy. domestic acts of care and creativity. Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial as part of the that have long histories but that usually In 2015, Assemble won the Turner International Festival for Business 2016 (IFB2016). remain hidden. The film is shown at the Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool Mayor Prize for their ongoing collaboration with end of each film programme screening Joe Anderson, in partnership with Friends of Everton (see p.46). For further screenings, check Park, the Land Trust and Liverpool Vision, with support www.biennial.com. from St Modwen.

Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and AccorHotels.

© Assemble / Granby Workshop Koo Jeong A x Wheelscape, Evertro, 2015. Photo: Gareth Jones 42 Annual Commissions www.biennial.com

Sir Peter Blake

Sir Peter Blake, Everybody Razzle Dazzle, 2015. Photo: Mark McNulty Pe formance

27 Mersey Ferries Terminal modern culture, including comic books, Pier Head, Georges Parade, L3 1DP​​​ consumer goods and advertisements. He has a strong relationship with Liverpool that As part of First World War commemorations, extends beyond his famous design of The and Publ c Sir Peter Blake’s design Everybody Razzle Beatles’ album cover, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Dazzle covers the iconic Mersey Ferry Hearts Club Band in 1967. Snowdrop with a distinctive dazzle camouflage pattern, transforming the vessel into a moving See Everybody Razzle Dazzle for free from artwork as it continues its service. the waterfront or hop on board to explore Unlike other forms of camouflage, the curated display. Progra me dazzle works not by concealing but by baffling the eye, making it difficult to For tickets and sailing times, visit estimate a target’s range, speed and www.merseyferries.co.uk. Biennial visitors direction. Realised in monochrome and get 20% off tickets for Summer Evening colour, each ship’s dazzle pattern was Cruises on 24 July, 28 July, 18 August and unique in order to avoid making classes 28 August. Advance booking required of ships instantly recognisable to enemy quoting BIENNIAL. U-boats and aircraft. Visitors who board the Snowdrop can #DazzleFerry learn more about the history of dazzle and the role that the Mersey Ferries took in the Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, 14–18 NOW: First World War in an on-board display WW1 Centenary Art Commissions and Tate Liverpool, in curated by Merseyside Maritime Museum partnership with Merseytravel and National Museums and Tate Liverpool. Liverpool. Supported by Arts Council England's Sir Peter Blake is a leading figure in the Exceptional Awards programme, National Lottery development of British Pop art and his work through the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department is synonymous with the use of imagery from for Culture Media and Sport. 44 Performance and Public Programme www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Performance and Public Programme 45

Performance Free, booking required at www.biennial.com SATURDAY 9 JULY FRIDAY 7, SATURDAY 8 Elena Narbutaite and Eduardo Costa & SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER Sun Kiss Feline, 1982–2016 Adam Linder 5pm–9pm, Adelphi Hotel swimming pool, L3 5UL Some Strands of Support Swimsuits with tiger and leopard cut-out Throughout the day, Tate Liverpool patterns designed by Costa in the 1980s, Some Strands of Support is a choreography and produced with Narbutaite in 2016, are for hair prostheses in which a designated the core component in an interspecies object, sculpture or statue is cared for and transformation photo-shoot performance coerced through the movement of hair. inspired by the Adelphi Hotel. The final This performance is part of the Ancient images will be published in local and Greece episode. international fashion magazines, and displayed in Mr Chilli restaurant. SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER Coco Fusco THURSDAY 21 JULY Observations of Predation in Humans: Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones A Lecture by Dr Zira The Truncheon and the Speculum 6.30pm, Epstein Theatre, L1 3DZ 7.30pm, www.biennial.com/live Drawing from primatology, neuroscience This live broadcast of a workshop at News and evolution, this lecture as part of From Nowhere, part of the Flashback Monuments from the Future provides a episode, explores historic state violence commentary on contemporary forms of enacted through gynaecological means, aggression and predatory behaviour relating identifying the Contagious Diseases Act to the desire for resources in post-industrial Michael Portnoy, 100 Beautiful Jokes, 2010. Courtesy Stedelijk Museum. Photo: Ernst van Deursen of 1860 as a key moment. This legislation societies. The lecture is delivered by Dr Zira, addressed the threat of venereal disease to the chimpanzee psychologist and expert in British soldiers, and permitted compulsory human behaviour made famous by Planet SATURDAY 9 JULY systems and hierarchies of Royal Insurance, gynaecological inspection of women of the Apes (1968). Marvin Gaye Chetwynd the original occupying company. This suspected to be prostitutes in certain Dogsy Ma Bone performance is part of the Software episode. military camps in England and Ireland. 4pm, Cains Brewery Working in collaboration with 78 young SATURDAY 9 JULY Commissioned by Artangel (UK) and Create, people across Liverpool, Chetwynd has Michael Portnoy with additional support from Heart of Glass. created a new work inspired by Betty Boop Relational Stalinism: the Musical and Bertolt Brecht as part of the Children’s 6–7.30pm, The Black-E, L1 5EW, £5 Episode. This performance, devised with the Part of the Chinatown episode, Relational project’s young participants, enacts some of Stalinism: the Musical is an assemblage the key scenes from the film as a live event. that uses many different registers of performance simultaneously. It mixes SATURDAY 9 & SUNDAY 10 JULY taiko micro-dance, exhausting feats of Dennis McNulty reading, experimental physical comedy, Homo Gestalt: The Time Domain melodramatic operatic interlude, call-centre 12.30 & 3pm, New Hall Place, L3 9PP language-torture games, and satire of the This promenade performance is set in Immaterial Turn. Coco Fusco, TED Ethology and around New Hall Place, a 1970s office – Primate Visions of the Human Mind, 2015. complex locally known as ‘The Sandcastle’. Originally commissioned by Witte de With Center Courtesy the artist The brutalist architecture of New Hall for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, together with and Alexander Gray Place was built to reflect the management A.P.E. (Art Projects Era). Associates 46 Performance and Public Programme www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Performance and Public Programme 47

Film Programme THURSDAY 28 JULY THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER Tampopo Paris Is Burning Dir. Juzo Itami, 1985, Japan, 114 min Dir. Jennie Livingston, 1991, USA, 71 min Another Version of Events Selected by Oliver Laric. Comedy ensues A cult classic following a community of Black Every Thursday, 6pm, £7 / £5, book at www.biennial.com when a truck driver helps a young widow and Latino gay and transgender New Yorkers, named Tampopo improve her roadside who find sustenance, creativity and family A selection of films influenced by feature noodle restaurant. through dance and performance. Screening film including sci-fi, mockumentary, accompanied by a special performance. pseudo-documentary, mockbuster and THURSDAY 4 AUGUST ethnofiction is being screened every week Group Screening: THURSDAY 8 SEPTEMBER Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (film still), 1983 throughout the Biennial. The programme Jump (Hysterique Bourreé) Dust Group Screening: looks at alternative realities, history and Dir. Charles Atlas in collaboration with Philippe Découflé, The Coming Race ‘sampling’, together with ethnography and 1984, France, 14 min. 43 sec Dir. Ben Rivers, 2007, UK, 5 min THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER social anthropology. Several Biennial artists Parade The Many Colors of the Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore have been invited to select and introduce Dir. Shahryar Nashat, 2014, , 38 min Sky Radiate Forgetfulness Dir. Mark Leckey, 1999, UK, 15 min feature-length works. Elsewhere, thematic Two films that capture dance on screen and Dir. Basim Magdy, 2014, 11 min Taking found footage of British dance halls, screenings address distinct subjects unique interactions with the camera. Subconscious Society discos and raves of the 70s, 80s and 90s, drawn from themes arising in the Biennial Dir. Rosa Barba, 2014, UK/Germany, 40 min Leckey charts changes in style through the artists’ practices, including choreography, THURSDAY 11 AUGUST Short films by artists and filmmakers on decades. Followed by other short works. ethnography, design and technology. Celine and Julie Go Boating the theme of histories and landscapes. Dir. Jacques Rivette, 1974, France, 193 mins THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER THURSDAY 14 JULY Selected by Mark Leckey. Celine, a THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER Nothing More (NADA +) News From Home magician, and Julie, a librarian, meet Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Dir. Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, 2001,Cuba, 88 min Dir. Chantal Ackerman, 1976, Belgium/France/USA, 85 min in Montmartre and wind up sharing the Saved the World) AKA Turkish Selected by Coco Fusco. Depicting the social A portrait of 1970’s New York City, same flat, bed, fiancé, clothes, identity Dir. Çetin Inanç, 1982, Turkey, 91 min and political struggles in present day Cuba, punctuated by a monologue of letters to and imagination. This cult is affectionately the film follows a young postal worker who the filmmaker’s mother, alluding to the known as the Turkish Star Wars due to its dreams of joining her parents in Miami. loneliness and isolation of the big city. THURSDAY 18 AUGUST bootleg use of clips from the official movie. Castle for Home Group Screening: THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER THURSDAY 21 JULY H is for House THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER Freak Orlando Remote... Remote… Group Screening: Dir. Peter Greenaway, 1976, UK, 9 min Circuit Breaker Group Screening: Dir. Ulrike Ottinger, 1981, Germany, 126 min To Camera At the House of Mr X Seduction of a Cyborg Set in former West Berlin, this Dir. Michelle Deignan, 7 min Dir. Elizabeth Price, 2007, UK, 20 min Dir. Lyn Hershman-Leeson, 1994, France/USA, 8 min uncompromising fantasy explores Jennifer Where Are You? Letter of Complaint Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen society’s outsiders in a boundary breaking Lesley Thornton, 10 min Dir. Rachel Reupke, 2015, UK, 9 min. 54 sec Dir. Cecile B. Evans, 2014, 22 min. 30 sec cinematic epic of experimentation and Remote… Remote… Bestiary Remember Carthage visual extravagance. Dir. Valie Export, 10 min Dir. Chris Marker 1985–90, France, 9 min. 4 sec Dir. Jon Rafman, 2013, 14 min My Name is Oona Short films by artists and filmmakers Delusional Mandala Dir. Gunvor Nelson, 10 min on the theme of domestic, interior and Dir. Lu Yang, 2016, 15 min Man, Woman and Animal artificial habitats. Short films by artists who use new Dir. Valie Export, 8 min technologies in their work. Selected by Jesse Jones. Short films THURSDAY 25 AUGUST exploring representations of the body and Sans Soleil identity in public and private spaces. Dir. Chris Marker 1983, France, 104 min This mind-bending free-form travelogue charts late French filmmaker Chris Marker’s journey from Africa to Japan. Ulrike Ottinger, Freak Orlando (film still), 1981

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Tours & Talks Conversations with Ancient Greece Conferences & Symposia WEDNESDAY 13 JULY Events are free, unless otherwise stated. For further Dr Mark Wright (FACT and LJMU) and listings and booking information, see www.biennial.com. Francesco Manacorda (Tate Liverpool) WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER 6.30pm, Tate Liverpool Episodic Data of Culture In Athens’ Shadow? Radical Cultural TOURS TUESDAY 2 AUGUST 2–4pm, FACT Responses to Crisis in Urban Democracy Dr Chrissy Partheni (National Museums Can time and data work hand in hand? This 10am–5pm, Tate Liverpool EVERY SATURDAY Liverpool) and Lauren Barnes (Tate Liverpool) event considers what cultural institutions can Bringing together key thinkers, artists and Liverpool Biennial 2016: Curator Tours 6.30pm, Tate Liverpool proactively do with the data they accumulate. cultural workers, this symposium reflects 3pm, Various venues from 17 July WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER Presenters include Mark Cote, Jussi Parikka, critically on pressing issues raised by Rosie Cooper (Liverpool Biennial) and Richard Wright and Hannah Redler. problems for, and relations between the EVERY SUNDAY Sandeep Parmar (University of Liverpool) arts, democracy and the city in the 21st Liverpool Biennial 2016: Mediator Tours 6.30pm, Tate Liverpool FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER, 5–6PM & century. Speakers include Jen Harvie and 3pm, Cains Brewery / ABC Cinema alternately from 17 July SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER, 10–6PM Malcolm Miles. WEDNESDAY 3 AUGUST The Biennial Condition: On EVERY TUESDAY Ranjit Hoskote in Conversation Contemporaneity and the Episodic Jointly hosted by Tate Liverpool and John Moores Painting Prize: Talk Tuesdays with Sally Tallant The Johnson Foundation Auditorium, John Lennon Art and Liverpool Hope University. 1–2pm, Walker Art Gallery 6.30pm, Bluecoat Design Building, Liverpool John Moores University A series of talks and tours. The Mumbai-based poet, critic and curator This conference gathers researchers, THURSDAY 13 – FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER / will read his poetry and discuss his varied curators, artists and writers to explore the FRINGE: 12, 13 & 15 OCTOBER SATURDAY 13 AUGUST career across the arts. Biennial form as the site for the production Whose Art? Our Art! Gallery Tour with Deep Hedonia of contemporaneity in art and exhibition Access and Activism in Gallery Education 2pm, Bluecoat TUESDAY 9 AUGUST making. Participants include Terry Smith, Various times, Liverpool Hope University & other venues Juliana Spahr, Sean Bonney Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, The 2016 engage International Conference TALKS and Ruby Robinson Marina Fokidis, Juliana Engberg, Elvira will explore how issues of access and 6.30pm, Tate Liverpool Dyangani Ose, Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund, activism impact on gallery and visual arts SATURDAY 9 & SUNDAY 10 JULY Join the radical poets for an evening of Verina Gfader, Anne Kølbæk Iversen, approaches to education and outreach. Liverpool Biennial 2016: Artists in politically-charged poetry readings. Francesco Manacorda, and convened by Speakers include Rabab Ghazoul, Bryan Conversation with Dominic Willsdon Joasia Krysa. Biggs, Mike Fairclough, Kenn Taylor, 1–5pm, Bluecoat TUESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER Rebecca Ross-Williams, Steffan Jones- Dennis McNulty in Conversation with Organised in partnership with Aarhus University’s The Hughes, Oriel Wrecsam and Nina Edge. SUNDAY 10 JULY Matthew de Abaitua Contemporary Condition research project and Liverpool Contemporary Painting in China 6pm, Bluecoat, £3/£2 John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Lab. 2pm, Walker Art Gallery De Abaitua’s recent novel If Then draws on A panel discussion exploring John Moores the war diaries of Wirral-born science-fiction Painting Prize China. writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon.

TUESDAY 12 JULY FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER The Politics of Everyday Practice Sleeping Giants: Theories of Sleep in Art 6pm, Bluecoat, £4/£3 and Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Dr Lucy Jackson explores how routine actions Present Night form communities, boundaries and identities. 6–8pm, Tate Liverpool Alexi Penzin and Matthew Fuller consider SATURDAY 30 JULY sleep as a point of resistance towards late A New Chineseness capitalism. 4–5.30pm, Bluecoat Community Arts Conference, 2015. Ying Tan in conversation with En Liang Khong. Photo: Charlotte Horn 50 Performance and Public Programme www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Performance and Public Programme 51

Education & Family Programme

There is a packed programme of events 27–29 JULY OR 3–5 AUGUST and practical workshops for families and (AGES 8–11) / 10–12 AUGUST OR adults throughout the festival, with many 17–19 AUGUST (AGES 12–14) of the Biennial exhibitions supported by Prototype weekly activities. FACT, £60 for three days Designed to inspire confidence and YOUNG PEOPLE & CHILDREN creativity, Prototype is a summer camp where tinkering with tech allows young SATURDAY 9 JULY people to build their own knowledge. Minecraft Infinity Project Learn a range of digital skills from coding 11–12pm (presentation), 12–5.30pm (drop-in), FACT and circuitry to designing and building See what happens when art and Minecraft in Minecraft. collide! Presentation followed by open play session led by YouTube experts. MONDAY 22 – THURSDAY 25 AUGUST Bluecoat Summer School SUNDAY 31 JULY, 28 AUGUST, 10–3.30pm, Bluecoat, £80 25 SEPTEMBER & 16 OCTOBER Led by experienced workshop leaders, Sunday Comedy Club children will spend time in 1–5pm, Tate Liverpool engaging with the artworks and getting A monthly workshop for families to create inspired to create their own masterpiece. Arriva bus workshop with Childwall Sports & Science Academy, 2016. Photo: Pete Carr their own comedy shows inspired by They will also achieve their Discover Arts Liverpool Biennial 2016. Spend the day with Award and showcase the work they have educators and comedians to develop your created at a small sharing event. Suitable MEDIATION PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER acts, which can include poetry, song and for ages 6–11. Jessica Foley: Engineering Fictions stand-up. EV ERY T U ESDAY 6pm, Bluecoat, £3/£2 SCHOOL TOURS AND RESOURCES The City is a School A hands-on writing session where collective EVERY OTHER SATURDAY 6.30pm, Various locations day-dreaming, conversation, experimental 16 JULY – 8 OCTOBER Liverpool Biennial 2016 welcomes all The City is a School is an experimental and uncreative writing help to tilt habits of Do Something! Saturdays school pupils to experience international co-learning programme that trains the occupational communication. 12–4pm, FACT art across Liverpool’s public spaces, Biennial’s Mediation team as storytellers, Explore hands-on skills from designing with galleries and unused spaces this summer researchers and public guides. Every EVERY WEDNESDAY technology and the role of art in gaming, and autumn term. A free digital learning Tuesday, a public event organised 13 JULY – 7 SEPTEMBER to sculpting, filmmaking and resource with fun educational activities, by the Mediators takes place. For the FACTLab Hack Nights techniques. Suitable for ages 7+. designed for use inside and outside the full programme and locations visit 6–8pm, FACT classroom and tying in with Key Stages 2 www.biennial.com. Understand more about the tools used to EVERY SATURDAY and 3 of the national curriculum, is available make digital artworks, and try them for Explore from www.biennial.com. ADULTS yourself in this introductory course, focused 1–4pm, Bluecoat on interactive and creative technologies. Artist-led activities for families to do together, Bespoke school tours can be organised WEDNESDAY 20 JULY Basic concepts of programming, electronics inspired by the Biennial exhibitions. Drop in upon request. For more information, contact Introduction to Cybernetics and interactivity will be introduced. for a short time or spend all afternoon making [email protected] or call 0151 203 3572. 6pm, Bluecoat, £3/£2 your own masterpiece. Suitable for all ages. Bernard Geoghegan, a cultural historian of media and technology, leads a beginner’s guide to cybernetics. 52 Performance and Public Programme www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Performance and Public Programme 53

Limited Editions

Liverpool Biennial 2016 artists, including Mariana Castillo Deball, Yin-Ju Chen, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Céline Condorelli, Frances Disley, Daniel Fogarty, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, Mark Leckey, Sahej Rahal and Betty Woodman 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.

On display and available to buy from the Biennial Visitor Hub at Cains Brewery, Cass Art, 18 School Lane, Liverpool ONE, L1 3BT and www.biennial.com

Betty Woodman, Fountain, 2016, 39cm × 74cm, Digital pigment print on Canson Edition Etching Rag paper, £750 unframed, Edition of 25

Yin-Ju Chen,The Empress, 2016, 23cm × 30 cm, Hand-coloured lino print on rice paper, £150 unframed, Edition of 50 54 Performance and Public Programme www.biennial.com

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The Two-Sided Lake: Scenarios, discontinuities, and to new conversations Storyboards and Sets from Liverpool about the past, the present, biography, Biennial 2016 collaboration, architecture, race, migration, trauma and exhibition-making. £9.99 Including texts by Zian Chen, Mark 320 pages, available to buy from exhibition Z Danielewski, Denise Ferreira da Silva, venues and www.biennial.com Matthew Garrett, Xiaolu Guo, Ranjit Hoskote, Joasia Krysa, Lars Bang Larsen, Published as part of Liverpool Biennial Francesco Manacorda, Andrew Pickering, 2016, The Two-Sided Lake brings together Denise Riley, Will Slocombe, Juliana Spahr/ a wide range of contributions by artists, C.O. Grossman and Jocelyn Penny Small curators and writers to explore the idea alongside contributions by all of Liverpool of the ‘episode’ in film, literature and Biennial 2016’s artists. computation. The book reflects on how the episodic can open us up to new and strange Published by Liverpool University Press. 56 Visitor Information www.biennial.com #Biennial2016 Visitor Information 57

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To find out more and get involved, Sat 9 11–5.30pm Minecraft Infinity Project FACT Workshop visit www.biennial.com or email [email protected] 12.30 & 3pm Dennis McNulty: Homo Gestalt: The Time Domain New Hall Place Performance 1–5pm Liverpool Biennial 2016: Artists in Conversation Bluecoat Talk Led by Dominic Willsdon

2pm Exhibition Tour: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016 Bluecoat Tour with Kirsty Ogg and Adam Smythe

Opportunities on postgraduate and research courses based in the Exhibition 3pm Exhibition Tour FACT Tour

Research Lab (ERL), which works in partnership with key cultural 4pm Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: Dogsy Ma Bone Cains Brewery Performance institutions, including Tate Liverpool, FACT and Liverpool Biennial. 5–9pm Elena Narbutaite and Eduardo Costa: Sun Kiss Feline, 1982–2016 Adelphi Hotel swimming pool Performance Liverpool School MA Exhibition Studies of Art and Design Study the history, theory, practice and understanding of 6–7.30pm Michael Portnoy: Relational Stalinism: the Musical The Black-E (£5) Performance worldwide exhibition cultures across diverse fields of art, design, Sun 10 12.30 & 3pm Dennis McNulty: Homo Gestalt: The Time Domain New Hall Place Performance architecture, fashion, crafts and technology. Consider the shifting ideas about art intersecting with larger 1–5pm Liverpool Biennial 2016: Artists in Conversation Bluecoat Talk curatorial trends and benefit from internationally distinguished Led by Dominic Willsdon research expertise of staff, advisors, and visiting staff. 2pm Contemporary Painting in China Walker Art Gallery Talk

MPhil Contemporary Art 3pm Exhibition Tour FACT Tour Designed for artists, writers, curators, and cultural Tues 12 6pm The Politics of Everyday Practice Bluecoat (£4 / £3) Talk practitioners to contribute to the wider field of with Dr Lucy Jackson contemporary art through research-based critical work. Wed 13 6.30pm Conversations with Ancient Greece Tate Liverpool Talk Delivered in partnership with Liverpool Biennial. with Dr Mark Wright and Francesco Manacorda Opportunities to undertake supervised advanced research in areas relating to a wide range of artistic Thur 14 6pm News from Home (1976, Belgium/France/USA) FACT (£7 / £5) Film practices, critical writing, exhibition studies and curating, including periodic art exhibitions such as biennials. Sat 16 3pm Curator Tour Cains Brewery Tour with Francesco Manacorda

LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE FOR A SEPTEMBER START Wed 20 6pm Introduction to Cybernetics Bluecoat (£3 / £2) Talk with Bernard Geoghegan Find out more ljmu.ac.uk/courses or for an informal discussion contact Programme Thur 21 6.30pm Remote... Remote... Group Screening FACT (£7 / £5) Film Join Joasia Krysa and Michael Birchall in the ERL Director, [email protected] Selected by Jesse Jones

Art & Design Ad.indd 1 08/06/2016 13:44 Thur 21 7.30pm Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones Live broadcast at Performance Sat 10 3pm Curator Tour (Public Spaces) Cains Brewery (meeting point) Tour The Truncheon and the Speculum www.biennial.com/live with Ying Tan

Sat 23 3pm Curator Tour (Public Spaces) The Oratory (meeting point) Tour Wed 14 2–4pm Episodic Data of Culture FACT Seminar with Mels Evers 6pm Jessica Foley: Engineering Fictions Bluecoat (£3 / £2) Workshop Wed 27 10.30–4pm Prototype Summer School FACT (£60 for three days) Family Thur 15 6.30pm Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World) FACT (£7 / £5) Film Thur 28 6.30pm Tampopo (1985, Japan) FACT (£7 / £5) Film AKA Turkish Star Wars (1982, Turkey) Selected by Oliver Laric Sat 17 3pm Curator Tour ABC Cinema Tour Sat 30 3pm Curator Tour Tate Liverpool Tour with Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey with Rosie Cooper Thur 22 6.30pm Circuit Breaker Group Screening FACT (£7 / £5) Film 4–5.30pm A New Chineseness Bluecoat Talk Ying Tan in conversation with En Liang Khong Sat 24 3pm Curator Tour Cains Brewery Tour with Polly Brannan AUGUST Tue 27 6pm Dennis McNulty in Conversation with Matthew de Abaitua Bluecoat (£3 / £2) Talk Tue 2 6.30pm Conversations with Ancient Greece Tate Liverpool Talk with Dr Chrissy Partheni and Lauren Barnes Wed 28 6.30pm Conversations with Ancient Greece Tate Liverpool Talk with Sandeep Parmar and Rosie Cooper Wed 3 6–8pm Prototype Summer School FACT (£60 for three days) Family Thur 29 6.30pm Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999, UK) FACT (£7 / £5) Film 6.30pm Summer Sessions: Ranjit Hoskote Bluecoat Talk by Mark Leckey in conversation with Sally Tallant OCTOBER Thur 4 6.30pm Stop Motion Group Screening FACT (£7 / £5) Film Sat 1 3pm Curator Tour Tate Liverpool Tour Sat 6 3pm Curator Tour Cains Brewery Tour with Lauren Barnes with Polly Brannan Thur 6 6.30pm Nothing More (NADA +) (2001) FACT (£7 / £5) Film Tue 9 6.30pm Summer Sessions: Juliana Spahr Tate Liverpool Talk Selected by Coco Fusco in conversation with Sean Bonney and Ruby Robinson Fri 7 All day Adam Linder: Some Strands of Support Tate Liverpool Performance Wed 10 6–8pm Prototype Summer School FACT (£60 for three days) Family 5–6pm The Biennial Condition: On Contemporaneity and the Episodic LJMU Conference Thur 11 6.30pm Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, France) FACT (£7 / £5) Film Selected by Mark Leckey Sat 8 All day Adam Linder: Some Strands of Support Tate Liverpool Performance

Sat 13 2pm Gallery Tour Bluecoat Tour 10–5pm In Athens’ Shadow? Tate Liverpool Conference with Deep Hedonia Radical Cultural Responses to Crisis in Urban Democracy

3pm Curator Tour Open Eye Gallery Tour 10–6pm The Biennial Condition: On Contemporaneity and the Episodic LJMU Conference with Thomas Dukes 3pm Curator Tour Cains Brewery Tour Wed 17 6–8pm Prototype Summer School FACT (£60 for three days) Family with Raimundas Malašauskas

Thur 18 6.30pm Castle for Home Group Screening FACT (£7 / £5) Film 6.30pm Coco Fusco: Observations of Predation in Humans: Epstein Theatre Performance A Lecture by Dr Zira Sat 20 10–5pm FACT on Tour: MakeFest 2016 Museum of Science Family and Industry, Manchester Sun 9 All day Adam Linder: Some Strands of Support Tate Liverpool Performance

3pm Curator Tour FACT Tour Thur 13 Various times Whose Art? Our Art! Access and Activism in Gallery Education Liverpool Hope University Conference with Mike Stubbs & other venues

Mon 22 10–3.30pm Bluecoat Summer School Bluecoat (£80 for three days) Family 6.30pm Freak Orlando (1981, Germany) FACT (£7 / £5) Film

Thur 25 6.30pm Sans Soleil (1983, France) FACT (£7 / £5) Film 6–8pm Sleeping Giants: Theories of Sleep in Art and Tate Liverpool Talk/Seminar Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Present Night Sat 27 3pm Curator Tour ABC Cinema Tour with Sevie Tsampalla Fri 14 Various times Whose Art? Our Art! Access and Activism in Gallery Education Liverpool Hope University Conference engage International Conference 2016 & other venues SEPTEMBER Sat 15 3pm Curator Tour Cains Brewery Tour Thur 1 6.30pm Paris Is Burning (1991, USA) FACT (£7 / £5) Film with Rosie Cooper Screening accompanied by performance

Sat 3 3pm Curator Tour (Public Spaces) The Oratory (meeting point) Tour Events are free unless otherwise stated. To book and for further information, visit www.biennial.com with Mels Evers All details are correct at time of going to print.

Thur 8 6.30pm Dust Group Screening FACT (£7 / £5) Film Design: El-khatib Mark Ancient Greece Chinatown Children’s Episode Monuments from the Future Flashback Software

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