Published by
Liverpool Biennial
ISSN: 2399-9675
Editor:
Joasia Krysa
Editorial Assistant:
Hannah Tolmie
James Maxfield
Copyeditor:
Melissa Larner
Web Design:
Mark El-Khatib
Colophon
Stages #8
Beautiful world, where are you?
Published by Liverpool Biennial, November 2018
ISSN 2399-9675
Stages is an open-access, contemporary art journal published by Liverpool Biennial. It is a space for staging research generated in connection with Liverpool Biennial's artistic programme and appears at irregular intervals. Launched in 2013, Stages is freely available both online and in PDF format.
Commissioning Editors:
Joasia Krysa and Sally Tallant
Editor:
Joasia Krysa
Editorial Assistant:
Hannah Tolmie
James Maxfield
Copy Editor:
Melissa Larner
Design:
Mark El-Khatib
Acknowledgements:
This volume is produced in partnership with Exhibition Research Lab at Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, with support from Arts Council England.
Alien Speaks by Jessica Coon was originally commissioned by and published on Sloan Science & Film as part of its 'Peer Review' series, and is republished with kind permission from the Museum of the Moving Image.
'Outlawed Social Life' by Candice Hopkins was originally published in the South as a State of Mind (volume/date) and is republished with kind permission of the journal Editor Marina Fokidis and Documenta 14 Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk and Editor-in-Chief Quinn Latimer.
Cover image: Beautiful world, where are you? is based on a graphic identity created by Paul Elliman with Sara De Bondt and Mark El-khatib for Liverpool Biennial 2018.
- Introduction: Beautiful world, where are you?
Joasia Krysa - Beauty: A Logistical Imaginary [1]
Jussi Parikka - Excerpt from ‘Climate Grief and the Visible Horizon’
Meehan Crist - Outlawed Social Life
Candice Hopkins - Re-figuring Ourselves – A Conversation
Morehshin Allahyari & Christiane Paul - Forensic Aesthetics
Eyal Weizman - Technology, magic and the quest for meaning
Ryan Avent - Self-repairing Cities
Mark Miodownik - Alien Speak: Linguist Dr Jessica Coon on Villeneuve’s ARRIVAL
Jessica Coon - Outside the Hit Factory: The Playlist
Alexander Provan - Colophon