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Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest festival of contemporary visual art. Established in 1998, the International exhibition has commissioned well over 100 new works, many for the streets and public spaces of Liverpool, by established contemporary artists from around the world. The Biennial was partly set up and is organised in collaboration with the A Foundation.
On Thursday 23 October 2008, Portable Radio visited Liverpool and spoke with Emily Speed, artist and member of Wolstenholme Projects, Joshua Tennant, artist and member of Redwire studio group and gallery, John Byrne, lecturer on the History of Art course at Liverpool School of Art and Design, Sacha Waldron, artist and currently working for the Liverpool Biennial, and Briony Bond, Exhibitions Curator at A Foundation, Liverpool.
More images of the session in Liverpool are here - use the Next and Previous control to browse the images.
During each Portable Radio session we make a careful note of all of the organisations people refer to. Below are a list of links to the projects, organisations and information people mention in this dialogue.
Liverpool 1 Shopping Centre
Newly opened and very large shopping centre in the middle of Liverpool, built
on recently derelict / brownfield site.
Liverpool Capital of Culture
Liverpool was selected by the EU to be the 2008 capital
of culture.
Liverpool Biennial
City-wide festival of contemporary visual arts taking place in Liverpool every
second year since 1998.
Tate Liverpool
Independent regional gallery initiated by the national Tate
Galleries.
Toxteth riots
Riots in the Toxteth area of Liverpool in July 1981, springing from racial tensions
and police activities.
Liverpool John Moores University
University in Liverpool.
The Royal Standard
Artist-led gallery space and studios in central Liverpool
Arena Studios
Artist-led studios and gallery, founded in 1984.
Bridewell Studios
Artist-led gallery space and studios.
Static
Static is an organisation that promotes its ideas through the disciplines of
art, architecture, critical writing, business and trade.
Exit Review
Past project by Static to give graduating artists informed feedback about
their work.
The Beatles
World famous pop group from Liverpool active in the 1960's.
Yoko Ono
International performance and visual artist and former wife of John Lennon (singer
/ songwriter in The Beatles).
Eleanor Rigby sculpture
By sculptor Tommy Steele, personifying the fictitious heroine of eponymous
The Beatles song.
Wolstenholme Projects
Artist-led gallery and studio project.
Bluecoat Studios
Regularly funded project providing gallery and studios to creative professionals
in Liverpool.
Novas Contemporary Urban Centre
Novas Scarman Group are a charitable organisation providing professional development
and studio spaces to creative professionals.
Art in Liverpool
Hosting
reviews, listings and news about the Liverpool art scene.
Circa Magazine
Irish contemporary visual arts magazine.
Open Eye Gallery
Venue of the Liverpool Biennial showing Nancy
Davenport exhibition.
Living and Working in Vienna
Exhibition run by the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York in April 2005
Becoming Dutch
Ongoing exhibition since 2006 organised by Vanabbemuseum.
Cork Caucus
Cork Caucus took the form of a major interdisciplinary, international meeting
of 60-80 artists, thinkers, writers, philosophers and other creative individuals
during the summer of 2005 and investigated cultural, political and artistic
issues.
Castlefield Gallery
Artist-led gallery in Manchester, founded in 1984.
Chisenhale Gallery
Medium-size gallery in London inviting artists to exhibit, as opposed to accepting
proposals.
Whitechapel
Major gallery space in London with internationally respected programme.
Gasworks
Studios, galleries and an international residency programme in London.
Arnolfini
Major international gallery space in Bristol.
Cafe Gallery Projects
Respected artist-led gallery space in London
Artsway
Contemporary visual arts studios and gallery space in the New Forest.
Turner Prize 2007
at Tate Liverpool
Major UK visual arts prize, usually hosted by Tate
Britain in London but held
in Tate Liverpool during the 2008 Capital
of Culture celebrations.
Mercy magazine
Magazine produced quarterly by Liverpool-based arts events organisation.
High Art Lite
2006 published book by Julian Stallabrass subtitled: The Rise and Fall of Young
British Art