The eighth Liverpool Biennial is entitled A Needle Walks into a Haystack and is curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman. Its programme features events aimed at all age groups and is designed to encourage debate on the role and value of artists, while helping shape an audience capable of critical thinking and committed to the visual arts.
AC/E is collaborating in this eighth Biennial by supporting the participation of Spanish guest artists Cristina De Middel and Ira Lombardia with the project Not All Documents Are Records: Photographing Exhibitions as an Art Form, curated by Lorenzo Fusi and due to be held at the Open Eye Gallery; and Víctor Herrero in The Companion – A Weekend Performance Programme, a project devised by Mai Abu ElDahab and Angie Keefer.
Cristina De Middel reinterprets the history of the Liverpool Biennial in her project through an installation based on photographs that can be seen in Gallery One of the Open Eye Gallery. Through her work she hints at what this year’s Biennial may and can credibly be, but it is totally fictitious, and she thus challenges photography as a medium, its format, genre and function, while exploring the power of persuasion and conviction images have. She will also teach a workshop in Liverpool on documenting reality using fictitious narratives through photography and will design a toolkit audiences can use to design their own document on the Biennial and later share their experience.
In her project, Ira Lombardia infiltrates a fictitious artist whose work has been created by chance into the catalogue of Documenta (13), a contemporary art event held in Kassel (Germany) in 2012. Her work will be on view together with that of Cristina de Middel, Hans Hacke and Ugo Mulas at the Open Eye Gallery.
The Companion – A Weekend Performance Programme, a project in which Spanish musician Víctor Herrero is taking part, consists of an experimental situation created after seven months’ prior contact between the guests (artists, writers, designers and scientists) and the host, Angie Keefer, resulting in a three-day programme of luncheons, debates, public actions, improvised performances and other acts staged by the guests. The public can take part in all of them.
AC/E is collaborating in this eighth Biennial by supporting the participation of Spanish guest artists Cristina De Middel and Ira Lombardia with the project Not All Documents Are Records: Photographing Exhibitions as an Art Form, curated by Lorenzo Fusi and due to be held at the Open Eye Gallery; and Víctor Herrero in The Companion – A Weekend Performance Programme, a project devised by Mai Abu ElDahab and Angie Keefer.
Cristina De Middel reinterprets the history of the Liverpool Biennial in her project through an installation based on photographs that can be seen in Gallery One of the Open Eye Gallery. Through her work she hints at what this year’s Biennial may and can credibly be, but it is totally fictitious, and she thus challenges photography as a medium, its format, genre and function, while exploring the power of persuasion and conviction images have. She will also teach a workshop in Liverpool on documenting reality using fictitious narratives through photography and will design a toolkit audiences can use to design their own document on the Biennial and later share their experience.
In her project, Ira Lombardia infiltrates a fictitious artist whose work has been created by chance into the catalogue of Documenta (13), a contemporary art event held in Kassel (Germany) in 2012. Her work will be on view together with that of Cristina de Middel, Hans Hacke and Ugo Mulas at the Open Eye Gallery.
The Companion – A Weekend Performance Programme, a project in which Spanish musician Víctor Herrero is taking part, consists of an experimental situation created after seven months’ prior contact between the guests (artists, writers, designers and scientists) and the host, Angie Keefer, resulting in a three-day programme of luncheons, debates, public actions, improvised performances and other acts staged by the guests. The public can take part in all of them.
