Suzanne Treister: Challenging the Art World from Within
Posted on 23 September 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Suzanne Treister, HFT The Gardener/Video stills and photo works/High Frequency Trading Floor (digital print), 2014-15. Courtesy the artist
Suzanne Treister, HFT The Gardener/Video stills and photo works/High Frequency Trading Floor (digital print), 2014-15. Courtesy the artist
Interested in the covert, unseen forces at work in the world, British artist Suzanne Treister has been a pioneer in the field of new media art since the early 1990s. We catch up with Treister about her most recent piece for the Biennial, HFT The Gardener. – Read more
Art Comes to Life
Posted on 19 September 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. Cains Brewery. Photo: Rob Battersby
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. Cains Brewery. Photo: Rob Battersby
Liverpool Biennial 2016 is built around the idea of storytelling. Co-curator Dominic Willsdon guides us through some of the Biennial artworks and spaces that generate fictions of their own. – Read more
Samson Kambalu: Play, Passion and The Gift
Posted on 13 June 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Samson Kambalu, I levitate, 2016. Photo for Liverpool Biennial Instagram takeover
Liverpool Biennial 2016 artist Samson Kambalu works across different media to explore received ideas in art, history and religion. He spent a week in Liverpool creating a series of short videos using his method of ‘Psychogeographic Nyau Cinema’ – a combination of film and site specific performance – which will be shown as part of the six episodes around which this year’s exhibition is organised. Here Kambalu discusses James Bond, literature, The Gift, ruptures in time and how he discovered his passion as an artist. – Read more
What does it mean to be a painterly painter?
Posted on 23 May 2016
Lindsey Bull, section of Glade, 2015. Photo courtesy of the artist
What exactly does the expression ‘painterly’ really mean? Manchester-based painter and Liverpool Biennial Associate Artist, Lindsey Bull, was left contemplating this question following the Speed Meet event held at Bluecoat last month. The purpose of the evening was to introduce the ten artists based in the North-West that have been selected to take part in the programme, and to provide people with a flavour of their work. Here Bull reflects on some of the ideas and questions that came out of the rapid succession of conversations that arose. – Read more
Koenraad Dedobbeleer: The Theatre of the Gallery Space
Posted on 6 April 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Koenraad Dedobbeleer, installation view of ‘A Formal Model - An Inhibition Show’, 2016, at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer. Photo courtesy: the artist and Galerie Micheline Szwajcer
Koenraad Dedobbeleer, installation view of ‘A Formal Model - An Inhibition Show’, 2016, at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer. Photo courtesy: the artist and Galerie Micheline Szwajcer
Koenraad Dedobbeleer discusses his interest in how our understanding of objects, spaces or ideas can shift, and what excites him most about being part of Liverpool Biennial 2016. – Read more
Ana Jotta: On Becoming an Artist
Posted on 5 April 2016 by Liverpool Biennial
Ana Jotta, Eduardos. Private collection. Photo: Laura C. Caldas
Ahead of Liverpool Biennial 2016, Portuguese artist Ana Jotta discusses her work, previous career as an actress and stage designer, and her love of screens. – Read more
Interview with Kevin Hunt, Education Artist-in-Residence
Posted on 15 December 2014 by Liverpool Biennial
Sunday Art School: Fantastical Objects, 2014. Photograph by Pete Carr
For Liverpool Biennial 2014, Liverpool-based artist Kevin Hunt was commissioned as Education Artist-in-Residence. Throughout the festival, Kevin worked closely with our Education team to develop artworks and projects that engage people and places in making and thinking about art, as well as working on his own research informing his artistic practice. We talked with Kevin about the importance of artist-led activity in Liverpool and what it was like working with families (and magicians) to create new artworks. – Read more
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