Biennial Radar: WCS Order Of Nothing
Head down, deep into the forest, for the last event in Wolstenholme Creative Space’s excellent Inhospitable Landscape installation. As Ash trees fall across the country, celebrate the primeval lure of our native woodlands, as WCS crew commission SevenStreets’ favourites, Sun Drums to conjure up a suitably spectral soundscape to accompany their exhibition. Order of Nothing [...]
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Eavesdropping on Art
Does the Walker’s collection talk to you? If so, what does it say? That’s the intriguing starting point for a series of free performances taking place at the gallery this week (15 - 17 November) by artist Aaron Williamson (pic). With Walker’s super-sized Victorian canvasses framing many a gripping tale, Williamson researched the collection and [...]
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Biennial Review: Two things Searle Tried To Ruin
There are two Biennial installations that turn your optic nerves into a quivering wreck. And, speaking as ones who love a bit of optic shenanigans, they also happen to be our favourites. Refraction, a lone essential outpost on the same floor as the underwhelming New Contemporaries (honestly, there’s a video installation that had crashed, and [...]
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Biennial Radar: Wendy Williams ‘Journeys End’
Art blurb becomes art in ‘Journey’s End’ where planes and boats and houses made from recycled art mags represent a creative and geographical journey. After being awarded a bursary to visit and exhibit in Tromso, Norway in 2011, artist Wendy Williams needed to find a way of ‘travelling light’ with her work. She had started [...]
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Biennial Review: Sabelo Mlangeni
Sabelo Mlangeni offered that “two seemingly unrelated works are placed in conversation to each other and perhaps destabilise what people imagine South Africa is” in his 2012 Biennial photography exhibition My Storie (2012) and Men Only (2008-09) at the Tea Factory and it seems that his hopes for a dialogue have been realised. The presentation [...]
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Biennial Radar: Echoes at High Park Street Reservoir
An exhibition in one of Liverpool’s most unlikely venues? Opportunities are limited, but we think the effort to see Surface’s Echoes exhibition will be worth it.
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Biennial Radar: Biennial 2012 discussion meet-ups
We’ve all been enjoying the Biennial this year, right? Good. But, as much as we love all the to-and-fro on social media about the individual exhibitions, events, and bits going on across town, it’s nothing compared to having a good ol’ natter about it. Which is where the new, Biennial approved, discussion groups come in: [...]
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Biennial Radar: Bill Is Dead, WCS
Wolstenholme Creative Space’s Biennial has seen darkly mysterious dinner parties (with another Inhospitable Supper Club happening next week) and their in-situ installation, Inhospitable Landscape (the circular saws were still buzzing the day before they were due to launch, when SevenStreets popped round for tea), this week sees the mighty talented writer/performer Craig Sinclair presenting another [...]
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The Unexpected Gest
Let’s face it, it was only a matter of time. The man is a walking, talking installation, and he is intervening his way around us - regularly to be seen sizing up the soft fruit in Tescos on Park Road. We were unfortunate enough to sit behind him all the way back from London the [...]
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Biennial Review: Landbaby
Tucked away in the corner of a small shop in the corner of an old school yard, a thoughtful installation tells the story of a Haversham-esque character whose maternal instincts for injured WWI soldiers in her care at The Soldier’s Rest drives her to sinister distraction. Artist Claire Bates and poet Rebecca Sharp have realised [...]
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Biennial Radar: Pendle Witches at Metal
If you, like us, saw the episode of Most Haunted with Yvette Fielding and Derek Accorah f-ing and blinding their way around a derelict farmhouse near Clitheroe, perhaps the dark heart of the Pendle witch trials story will be lost on you. This week, then, is a chance to reacquaint yourself with a particularly black [...]
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Biennial Review: Ark
Earlier in the Biennial calendar we asked if you’d ever wondered what the perfect number might sound like, unfortunately after visiting Ark at bombed-out church, we’re still wondering. I am ‘aurally challenged’. Any bish, bash, bosh will distract me from the most scintillating of conversations, so I was attracted to James Brady’s proposal that his [...]
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Biennial Review: Open Eye
If, as George Michael slyly infers, you’re looking for fast love, can SevenStreets make a suggestion? Don’t look for it in Japan. If Open Eye’s Biennial strand shows anything (and it shows more than most) it’s that those lunchtime assignations, those snatched trysts and fumbles can have repercussions way, way down the line. Lunchtime love [...]
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Biennial Radar: Sabelo Mlangeni, My Storie & Men Only
This year’s Biennial marks the world premiere presentation of My Storie (2012) by South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni which, shown alongside his earlier series Men Only (2008-09), he hopes will prompt people to question their perceptions of South Africa. Mlangeni tells us more… What’s Happening? I am exhibiting two photographic bodies of work at the [...]
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Biennial Radar: The Anfield Home Tour
The Biennial isn’t just about discovering art in the city centre; and some of its most admirable and thought-provoking works are often commissioned to create and inspire social change in more deprived, out of town areas. This year that includes 2Up2Down and its regeneration of the old Mitchell’s bakery in Anfield, a long-term community project [...]
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Review: Il Forno
— Can you judge a book by its cover? Is Duke Street's Il Forno as dramatic and mouth watering as it looks? We reacquainted ourselves with the showy Italian to find out...
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