Get Involved: Liverpool Biennial Fringe
Calling all artists, curators and cultural instigators! Are you running an event or exhibition during Liverpool Biennial 2016 (9 July-16 October), or considering it? Let us help you shout about it… We are...
“Completely committed to the development of young talent”: Introducing Liverpool Biennial’s Associate Artists Programme
In offering international travel expenses, curatorial mentorships and commissions, Liverpool Biennial is giving artists based in the North just what they need. Jack Welsh speaks to the people involved about how more responsive relationships between...
Bandits, Banality & Lies: Ben Rivers’ The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
Jacob Charles Wilson gets to grips with Ben River’s ‘labyrinthine’ film installations, and concludes that all stories, heard or read, are to some extent lies… The Whitworth Art Gallery’s recent renovation has revitalised...
FutureEverything Festival 2016 — Our Highlights
Smoke signals, Afro-Portuguese dance and channelling J. G. Ballard: ahead of its launch, let Vanessa Wheeler guide you through the best and most unexpected parts of Manchester’s annual innovation festival… What do you get when a community of...
Critical Writing Ensemble @ Dhaka Art Summit 2016 — Reviewed
Emma Sumner is thrown headlong into a forum for experimental critical writing practices in Bangladesh. But how would the issues faced by those actively working in the field of critical writing be discussed?...
A Phantom Of Hope: Ghost Mural, Anfield
Grace Harrison looks at the results and repercussions of a public artwork never made, echoing the stalled, ongoing regeneration plans for Anfield, Liverpool… Much of the work of the artist Jayne Lawless strives to...
Monuments Should Not Be Trusted — Reviewed
A new exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary brings together the largest ever selection of Yugoslav art in the UK from the ‘golden years’ of the Socialist Federal Republic. What emerges, finds Bob Dickinson, is a witty,...
AL And AL: Incidents Of Travel In The Multiverse — Reviewed
Combining clever forethought with mythology and modern physics, Vanessa Wheeler explores AL and Al’s new exhibition at HOME, Manchester; that takes you back — and forward — in time… Astronomy meets astrology currently...
Inhabiting The Edge: Tricksterism And Radical Liminality
An unassuming Southport beach in the hands of artist David Jacques becomes the battleground for a social and cultural negotiation, finds Les Roberts… Edges can be many things. They can be sharp (in that they incise...