Andrew Kötting is a film director, writer and performer. Accompanied by his daughter and collaborator Eden Kötting, he presented a body of work that was begun on the day Eden was born in 1988. The presentation, including film and music, considered the possibility of a creative output addressed to a single person.

Andrew Kötting is one of Britain’s most intriguing artists, and perhaps the only film-maker currently practising who could be said to have taken to heart the spirit of visionary curiosity and hybrid creativity exemplified by the late Derek Jarman. Formally exploratory and aesthetically innovative, like Jarman he is also a great collaborator, building around his various projects a community of shared interest, while anchoring his prolific production in an ongoing report on the lives of those closest to him.

Drinks With… was a series of commissioned presentations by noted speakers, asking pertinent questions in response to the key curatorial concerns of the 8th Biennial Exhibition, A Needle Walks into a Haystack. This talk took place on Thursday 17 July 2014, at the Liverpool Medical Institution.