Liverpool Biennial 2021 Announce Outdoor And Digital Commissions / /
The 11th edition of the Liverpool Biennial will open the first ‘outside’ chapter of The Stomach and the Port on 20 March 2021, starting with a major new outdoor sculpture series, sonic and digital commissions by nine different artists, alongside the new Biennial Online Portal (liverpoolbiennial2021.com). The second ‘inside’ chapter will launch the full festival of exhibitions and events hosted by critical venues throughout Liverpool in late Spring to align with government guidelines.
Manuela Moscoso curates the Stomach and the Port (20 March to 6 June). They will showcase the work of 50 leading and emerging artists and collectives from 30 countries worldwide, including 47 new commissions for the Liverpool Biennial. Exploring the body’s concepts, the Biennial draws on non-Western thinking that challenges our understanding of the individual as a defined, self-sufficient entity. Instead, the body i
A child looking at Barbara Hepworth s sculpture Family of Man in Wakefield
Credit: The Hepworth Wakefield
“I don’t know if you remember me,” an art student wrote to Helen Kapp, director of Wakefield Art Gallery, in 1960. “You once purchased a pot cat off me.” Kapp was the doyenne of the Yorkshire art scene at the time, known for acquiring young artists’ work for the Wakefield collection.
This student enclosed a catalogue for his solo exhibition at Skipton Castle. Kapp sent her excuses – the bus trip to Skipton would take a day – but hoped that, when he was home in Bradford, David Hackney (as she misspelled his name) would show her his pictures. Sadly, no trace of Britain’s greatest living painter’s “pot cat” survives.
Jack Jelfs and Jessica Barter experience sensory overload in ‘one1one’
Another ritualistic transmission from The Wave Epoch.
During their 2018 residency at CERN, artists Haroon Mirza and Jack Jelfs began to speculate about the future. Granted access to the largest particle physics lab in the world, home of the Large Hadron Collider, Mirza and Jelfs envisioned an age where the ruins of the site of some of the most important scientific discoveries of contemporary times are discovered by future civilizations. Thus the world of The Wave Epoch was born, taking the form of a concept album, film and multimedia performance that imagines the kinds of rituals, practices and questions that would arise upon such a discovery.
Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs and GAIKA conduct a shamanic ritual in The Wave Epoch
An audiovisual accompaniment to the concept album of the same name, set in a distant future in which the forgotten remains of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have been rediscovered.
Back in 2018 artists Haroon Mirza and Jack Jelfs took part in a residency at CERN, the largest particle physics lab in the world and the home of the Large Hadron Collider. It was during their engagement with the ideas and technology involved in some of the most important scientific discoveries of contemporary times that they began to dream of the future, speculating on what civilizations thousands of years from now would make of the gigantic circular structure.