feeling listless -- "Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of... http://feelinglistless.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/liverpool-biennia... Delen 0 Meer Volgende blog» Blog maken Aanmelden Liverpool Biennial 2012: ABOUT SUBSCRIBE This blog is written by Posts Stuart Ian Burns. Museum of Liverpool (17) Comments Stuart also writes The Hamlet Weblog. PORTFOLIO He's currently living in Liverpool Confidential Liverpool. Off The Telly about the author email Behind The Sofa Volume I twitter Behind The Sofa Volume II facebook Guest Blogging Follow @feelinglistless AMAZON WISHLIST What should I read next? Art Goodness know what the attendant at the Museum of Liverpool thought as I approached him this morning with my hands around either side of my face, jumper cuffs wrapped around my fingers. He certainly didn’t seem to react. Indeed it seemed as though it was something he saw everyday. When I asked him where the Biennial “thing” was, he simply smiled, walked me to the end of the display area and pointed: “Next to those lads” he said. I thanked him and KIN carried on walking forward, the cuffs enclosed as far across my face as was possible for me to see where I was going through the slit. ARCHIVE This bizarre behaviour was prompted by the fact that despite it having been open for a year or two, despite it being the newest iteration of ▼ 2012 (566) what was one of my favourite museums (of Liverpool Life), despite it ► 10/28 - 11/04 (7) being about my city, I hadn’t visited yet. Because permanent displays ► 10/21 - 10/28 (18) can only be visited once, I’ve been putting it off, then putting it off, ▼ 10/14 - 10/21 (12) then putting it off again, my future plan to visit the venue slowly, one Liverpool Biennial display at a time. That will happen. It’s still to come. Once the 2012: Walker Art Biennial’s over, I’m hoping to complete this other project and then to Gallery (19) approach the museums not in Edwards book. It’ll be like Ian Visits for Liverpool Biennial the North West. 2012: World Museum (18) This project meant I’d need to visit now and I didn’t want to see too Liverpool Biennial LISTENING much, hence my attempt to only see what I’d come to see. I think I 2012: Museum of Liverpool (17) mostly succeeded, though the methodology must have looked very strange indeed, mostly otherwise consisting of looking at the floor, Liverpool Biennial furtive glances and at one point, a random dart to the left as I realised 2012: Some notes at this mid-po... was going to be slap bang in the middle of something amazing, accompanied by me squawking “Not yet, not yet, not yet.” Liverpool Biennial 2012: Exchange Unfortunately, the “thing” I’d come to see was in the middle of a much Flags (16) larger display but I just about managed to keep my attention on it, An entertaining old despite the many distractions. interview with Tracey Emin. * * * * * Hope. The “thing” is a cake. Well, no to be more specific it’s A Piece of Liverpool Biennial 2012: St. George's 1 van 7 01-11-12 13:20 feeling listless -- "Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of... http://feelinglistless.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/liverpool-biennia... Cake - 2 Up 2 Down/Homebaked, an architectural model with Hall (15) RECENTLY READ icing which makes it look like a cake, presumably because a real cake Camille Paglia on Star would be difficult to preserve in the warm atmosphere of the warm Wars gallery over the extended display period of the Biennial and beyond. Liverpool Biennial Unless it is a real cake. I’m not sure. Either way it’s an impressive 2012: Everton Park Powered by LibraryThing sculptural work, even if, as it’s displayed here, against a wall in a (14) perspex box, it’s difficult to see properly without crouching and He's too cool to die. craning. While I was there, most people didn’t pay it much mind, more FLICKR ► 10/07 - 10/14 (10) interested in the giant heat pad on the wall next door were people can temporarily leave their hand print. ► 09/30 - 10/07 (10) ► 09/23 - 09/30 (10) The model recreates the plans for the refurbishment of Mitchell’s ► 09/16 - 09/23 (10) Bakery, the soon to re-open business in Anfield. The artist, Jeanne van Heeswijk, was commissioned to work with the local community ► 09/09 - 09/16 (9) whose lives have been blighted by well meaning urban renewal which ► 09/02 - 09/09 (13) ignored their needs in favour of a government run programme. The ► 08/26 - 09/02 (10) 2Up 2Down project has been about putting the future of the ► 08/19 - 08/26 (8) SEARCH neighbourhood back in the hands of the people who live in that Search neighbourhood, with architects like Urbed designing an alternative to ► 08/12 - 08/19 (8) the demolition projects of recent years, with affordable housing and ► 08/05 - 08/12 (6) the remodelling of this shop and terrace. ► 07/29 - 08/05 (11) ► 07/22 - 07/29 (12) I’ll probably have an even better idea of what they’ve achieved when I visit the bakery next week (hopefully). Accompanying the “cake” is ► 07/15 - 07/22 (15) ALSO pair of headphones and an audio introduction to the history of the ► 07/08 - 07/15 (13) Crossword roundup: trolls project offered by someone called Carl (“That’s Carl with a C not with ► 07/01 - 07/08 (12) The Guardian (blog) a K”). He’s an affable presence, simplistically but clearly putting the The awful phrase lent itself ► 06/24 - 07/01 (11) wilful lack of interest from those outside the area as to what the people to some awesome acrostics: within that area actually wanted (based on a range of assumptions of ► 06/17 - 06/24 (15) Insidian's "The first to the kind we Liverpudlians are becoming used to) in the jovial style of ► 06/10 - 06/17 (11) make a needless fuss levies the kinds of audio guide that used to appear in the old Museum of unconvincing sickie", ► 06/03 - 06/10 (21) Liverpool Life. natjim's "My alarming new ► 05/27 - 06/03 (12) feeling - listless, unwell to begin with, exaggerated The audio is a version of a tour that is being offered to Biennial visitors ► 05/20 - 05/27 (10) complaint", to Anfield at weekends (which I’m sadly going to have to miss due to ► 05/13 - 05/20 (18) Pamphletbomb's "Major working every weekend) (I’m missing all of the Biennial weekend ► 05/06 - 05/13 (15) ailment? events for the same reason) (sigh). Laura Davies talks about the experience in today’s Daily Post and offers plenty of information about ► 04/29 - 05/06 (17) Talking through the The Seattle Times who Carl is, the source of his script and a few things I actually wish I ► 04/22 - 04/29 (17) Feeling listless and having didn’t know now. I certainly wouldn’t read it before visiting and ► 04/15 - 04/22 (15) little or no energy, even listening to what he has to say because you’ll hear it with different ears ► 04/08 - 04/15 (12) having a complete lack of and I was quite happy with the romance. interest in things that ► 04/01 - 04/08 (15) usually interest you, also As a piece of art, I really like Heeswijk's synecdoche-like model. There ► 03/25 - 04/01 (15) can happen when you're aren't many artworks which represent place where its made, which ► 03/18 - 03/25 (13) depressed. Your evokes the very "things" which are created inside. It's a self-portrait of relationships may suffer too ► 03/11 - 03/18 (15) sorts but in which its a business and all of its underlying beliefs because you can become represented in an example of what it manufactures which also ► 03/04 - 03/11 (13) very irritable with others ... expresses physically what it is, can be or will be. Presumably there are ► 02/26 - 03/04 (11) A Pair Of Rarities From other examples of factories creating models of themselves, but there's ► 02/19 - 02/26 (10) Twitch also something poignant about seeing a symbol of renewal within a He returns to his ordinary ► 02/12 - 02/19 (18) museum which has also regenerated itself. life feeling listless and ► 02/05 - 02/12 (20) hollow, until he meets an old high school friend who Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2012 0 Comments and 0 Reactions Labels: ► 01/29 - 02/05 (17) introduces him to his liverpool biennial 2012, museum of liverpool ► 01/22 - 01/29 (16) hapless band of hired ► 01/15 - 01/22 (11) killers. 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