Liverpool artwork of the week 41. 'Re-Presentation' by Laurence Payot at the New Slaughterhouse 24 October - 26 November 2008
A clever idea, beautifully executed, public art in a gallery window. Its a mirror image of the scene directly opposite the gallery.
Re-Presentation is a site-specific installation by French artist Laurence Payot at The New Slaughterhouse gallery in Garston, and the result of an ongoing and intricate examination into the conventions of landscape, a subject deeply rooted in art history. Responding directly to the gallery setting, Payot will 're-present' the view that is seen whilst looking out of the gallery windows and across the street, reflecting this back into the space from which it can be seen.
Neighbourhoods like Garston, out of the city have been affected greatly by the influx of money seemingly pumped into the centre of Liverpool, which in turn has diverted custom and commerce away from local businesses. Abandoned buildings and deserted streets are not an uncommon sight, and areas previously at the heart of the community are becoming more like ghost towns, vacantly sat waiting for life. The boards that now cover the windows and doors of these buildings conceal the histories that lay within; façades disguising what is actually there.
Barcamp. 10am. 6th & 7th December 2008.
Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool.
Liverpool is getting its first ever Barcamp: a technology related 'unconference' open to all. Barcamp Liverpool invites entrepreneurs, technologists,programmers, developers, designers, bloggers, social media types, gamers, and artists to two days of unadulterated geeky Barcamp fun.
To sign up
1. Register using Eventwax
2. Add yourself to the Wiki so we can all see who's coming
3. Update the wiki with ideas for presentations, workshops and fun and games!
How it works
Barcamp is an open, participatory, democratic, workshop style 'unconference'. Everyone's welcome (until we run out of space), and everyone participates.
Arrive early on Saturday morning for the welcome presentations; and to book your presentation / workshop slot. Plan something in advance or just turn up! The organisers provide the venue, some speedy wifi, and delicious food and refreshments; you provide the content!
Barcamp Liverpool Stylee
This is Liverpool's first ever Barcamp and we're hoping it'll be a Barcamp extravaganza Liverpool style. Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture in 2008, and as the year draws to a close we know that Barcamp Liverpool will attract a diverse, and creative crowd. Liverpool is the home of many tech startups, seed funds, user groups, geek communities, support organisations and creative technology types. The creative industries are thriving and Barcamp Liverpool will be all that! Whilst Barcamp is not themed, we know Barcamp Liverpool will bring out the best of the city's Digital Cultures; showcasing the tech talent on Merseyside.
What to expect
Barcamps are a great opportunity to network, lean and share. They're loads of fun too! Barcamp attracts friendly groups of techy types for a weekend of workshops, hackathons, demos, presentations, games and of course the obligatory Wii Tennis tournament! Barcamp attracts a diverse crowd; from ubergeeks to games designers, to bloggers, to investors, to artists. Learn new skills, meet new people, pitch your startup, show and tell your latest invention or project. It's up to you!
At Barcamp you can:
* Show & Tell your latest project
* Run a workshop
* Hear from tech startups
* Learn from expert developers
* Meet and wow investors & industry experts
* Work on collaborative projects
* Meet new friends and colleagues
* Play games
* Party on the Saturday night!
Where else can you do all this & more for free?
What's an unconference... and why "Barcamp"?
An unconference is not like a normal conference. We don't know exactly what'll happen until you all turn up. There's no pre-planned list of speakers, no agenda, and no fees! "The name "BarCamp" is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, More info on the background of unconferences is here via a very old blog post of mine!
How to Get involved
There are loads of ways to participate...
* Sponsor Barcamp (we rely on sponsorship and have a range of options available to suit all budgets)
* Help us organise (if you have special skills)
* Sign Up, turn up and participate
* Write about Barcamp
* Tweet Barcamp
* Tell your friends about Barcamp
Details
Barcamp Liverpool takes place 6th and 7th December 2008 at Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Greenland Street, Liverpool, L1 0BS.
www.barcampliverpool.com
Shame there isn't a train service direct to Tate Liverpool, maybe a canal boat would be more appropriate now. I'm seriously thinking about putting an artinliverpool.com sticker on my car, I wonder if the head of Renault will come and unveil it.
Today Virgin Trains will commemorate Tate Liverpool’s twentieth anniversary by naming a Virgin Pendolino train after it, in what is a rare accolade for a museum or gallery. The dedicated train, unveiled at Liverpool Lime Street station, also marks Virgin Trains’ commitment to bringing visitors into Liverpool in its year as European Capital of Culture to enjoy cultural attractions such as Tate Liverpool.
Tate Liverpool is the home of the National Collection of Modern Art in the North of England, and the most popular gallery of modern and contemporary art in the UK, outside London. A symbol of the regeneration of Liverpool’s waterfront, Tate Liverpool has continued to attract in the region of 600,000 visitors a year since it opened in 1988, and so far this year the Gallery has welcomed 879,147 visitors (January - August 2008). These visitors to Tate Liverpool contribute over £16 million to the city region economy every year (annual average for 2006 and 2007).
A Personalised Calendar
for your business
Give stunning Liverpool 2009 calendars to colleagues, staff and customers this Christmas
and support Zöe’s Place Baby Hospice.
The calendar comprises 12 photographs of Liverpool by Anita Smith. Measuring 302 x 205mm each page features a view of Liverpool and large date pad. The calendar is the ideal gift and the cover and each page can be personalised to include your company's logo
and details.
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£1 from each calendar is donated to to Zöe’s Place.
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Liverpool Based artist Pete Clarke new solo show in Koln
‘SCARS FROM FALLS’ ‘NEW PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS’ by PETE CLARKE
Kyotobar, Architectural Gallery, Gereonswall 75, 50670 Köln
Exhibition: October 25 – November 28 2008
Discussion with the Artist: Saturday 25 October 2.00 – 5.00pm
Dr Martin Turke, art historian and curator invited Pete Clarke to exhibit new work at Kyotobar, the award winning architectural space designed by Johannes Schilling. This interesting and uncompromising ‘modernist’ concrete gallery produces a fascinating context and contrast to the works on display.
‘Scars from Falls’ is new work derived from a range of social and cultural references including the metaphoric images of the ruins of Rome by Piranesi, images of coastal erosion and drawings of ‘Gordale Scar’, the 150 metre limestone gorge in Malham, Yorkshire. This spectacular feature of the Craven fault is believed by many geologists to be the remains of a huge underground cavern whose roof collapsed around the time of the last ice age. It is also the subject of a famous painting by Turner [circa 1816] Tate Britain.
Pete Clarke is a Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston and the Lead Artist of ‘Eight Days A Week’, the artists’ initiative that explores strategies for creative dialogue between the cities of Liverpool and Köln.
Recent exhibitions by Pete Clarke include: ‘Ex Libris’, a Prize winner at the International Printmaking Biennial, Pancevo, Belgrade, 2008, ‘In exposed Areas’, Kulturbunker, Mülheim, Köln and Atkinson Art Gallery Southport 2006, and ‘Rheinwärts’, the collaboration project’ by Pete Clarke & Georg Gartz, Museum Zündorfer Wehrturm, Köln 2008.
He will also be making ‘Turner’s travels,’ more collaborative work with Georg Gartz in December at ‘Eight Days A Week at the Bluecoat’ which runs from October – December 2008.
The exhibition was sponsored and acknowledges support from Stadt Köln, Kulturamt Köln, The University of Central Lancashire, Preston, ‘Eight Days A Week’, and the Liverpool Culture Company, Liverpool European Capital of Culture.
For more details refer to the websites:
www.peteclarke.org.uk
www.uclan.ac.uk/centrecontemporaryart
www.eightdaysaweek.org.uk
Mothman The Comic Book : Tony Knox, Anna McDade ,Katie Hanratty
Now -25th December 2008
A Limited edition of Three hundred issues of Mothman Comic book have been released as part of the Independents Liverpool Biennial and distrusted in selected gallery’s throughout Liverpool and the Kyotobar, Architectural Gallery, Köln in connection with eight days a week. This free preview issue zero is also available as a downloadable comic book only available now until 25th December 2008.
The mothman a tragic dysfunctional hero that would save you if he could only save himself ...
Artist Tony Knox developed the pseudo hero Mothman in 2004, inspired by comic books and a fascination of moths this hero was born, This nomadic being appears though various locations through out the world creating a sense of Mystery where did he come from, Why did he appear like a apparition at Pyramids in Egypt, then the streets of Köln to the abandoned Garden festival site in Liverpool to the centre stage of a wrestling ring and is Harry Hill the mothman?
One of the factors that has inspires Knox art is the desire to tell a story to finally give a insight into who the character is and show it’s origins. An important factor to the success of this collaboration was giving a lose narrative, Wirral based Katie Hanratty illustrations brought a freshness by stamping her own style on her pages, Anna McDade a multimedia artist set the scenario where mothman was sitting on the angle of the north only to be accidentally joined by a farther for justice planned protest.
Grab your copy while you can or download or view online.
http://www.mothman.org.uk/
http://www.eightdaysaweek.org.uk/2008_mothman_sep.htm
Nominations for prestigious awards closing soon
Excellence in the work of Deaf and Disabled people is being celebrated with an award ceremony to coincide with International Disabled People's Day. Nominations for the awards are due to close on 30th October 2008
The eight DaDa Awards 2008 will be presented on 3rd December at Liverpool's fantastic Arena and Convention Centre on the Mersey Waterfront. A dinner and auction of exciting cultural items from both disabled and non-disabled artists will take place on the night, as well as top-notch performances.
Awards are being presented in the following categories:
1) Emerging Artist
2) Emerging Group or Company
3) Visual Artist
4) Performance Artist
5) Community Arts Award
6) Writers Award
7) New Media Award
8) Music Award
Plus a special Lifetime Achievement Award.
CEO of NWDAF, Ruth Gould, said: "The DaDa Awards have in the past had a great effect on the winner's careers, marking them out as being at the top of their field. The quality of work produced by Deaf and Disabled artists and performers is excellent and we want to make sure
that the world recognises that."
There is only a short time to nominate your favourite Deaf or Disabled artists. Simply visit www.nwdaf.co.uk or call 0151 707 1733 for more information. Tickets for the award ceremony will go on sale shortly.
Public Consultation on Liverpool's cultural strategy
A number of Liverpool libraries will be hosting sessions to give local people the opportunity to have their say about the cultural strategy.
Consultation is taking place over the next week up to the deadline date of 31st October:
· Thursday 23rd - Friday 24th - Breck Road
· Monday 27th - Tuesday 28th - Spellow Community Library
· Wednesday 29th - Thursday 30th - Childwall Community Library
· Friday 31st October - Parklands, Speke (deadline for consultation end)
If you are unable to attend any of the sessions the questionnaire can to be found at:
http://www.liverpoolfirst.org.uk/consultations/city-vision-residents
Northwest Vision and Media has teamed up with the UK Film Council to once again launch the Digital Shorts short filmmaking scheme.
There are now three separate strands to the short filmmaking scheme on offer at Northwest Vision and Media: Digital Shorts, Digital Nation (formally Digital Plus) and 4mations. All genres of film are welcome, including drama, documentary and animation, and a total of four Digital Shorts films will be commissioned early next year, with budgets of up to £13,5000 for each project. After a period of development, we’ll select one animation to be commissioned through the 4mations Digital Shorts Scheme, with a budget of £15,000.
4mations is a new animation strand of the Digital Shorts scheme, which has its own guidelines and deadline date. 4mations Digital Shorts opened for applications on the 10th October and will close on the 10th November. If you are an animator then you should apply to that scheme through the 4mations website directly www.4mations.tv
Digital Shorts is open to writers, directors and producers, living in the Northwest region who have a short film script they would like to make.
Digital Nation replaces Digital Plus and is for writers, directors and writer/directors who are ready to make the leap to more ambitious cinematic short films. Digital Nation will provide filmmakers with the opportunity to join a nationwide talent pool and participate in an intensive tailored development process designed to hone their voice as a filmmaker. At the end of this development process the UK Film Council will choose 12 films over two years, each to be made with a budget of up to £20,000.
Information Seminars
If you intend to apply to Digital Shorts or Digital Nation, or if you simply want to know more about our schemes, then we recommend you attend one of our information and networking seminars. Each of these events will include a talk from a previous Digital Short awardee, together with screenings of selected previous commissions and a Q&A with short film guru, Paul Welsh.
Information seminars are as follows:
An Evening of inspiration with Paul Welsh 5th November 7-9pm
CUBE
113 - 115 Portland Street
Manchester
M1 6DW
Networking event 18th November 6-9pm, with presentation at 7pm
Blackburne House
Blackburne Place
Off Hope Street
Liverpool
L8 7PE
Please email digitalshorts@visionandmedia.co.uk to register for one of our events – but be quick, as it’s first come first served. How to Apply
Please read the Guidelines before completing an Application Form and Monitoring Form, and return them to digitalshorts@visionandmedia.co.uk
The deadline for applications is 12pm, Friday 8th December 2008
Eight Days A Week at the Bluecoat
basement at the Bluecoat. 20th – 26th October 2008
Open studio: Thursday 23rd October 4pm - 6pm.
basement artists Susan Leask and Margaretha Schöning have invited Maria Luiza Pyrlik from Krakow and Sandra Zarth from Cologne to journey across Merseyside mapping the geographical, social and cultural landscape.
Susan Leask
Margaretha Schöning
Maria Luiza Pyrlik
Sandra Zarth
basement XIII
basement artists Susan Leask and Margaretha Schöning have invited Maria Luiza Pyrlik from Krakow and Sandra Zarth from Cologne to journey across Merseyside mapping the geographical, social and cultural landscape.
Departing from the cellars, basement previously visited garages and attics in Liverpool and created work in response to sites in Mumbai and Lima. Now basement is returning to Liverpool to re-examine their home base.
Travelling from the Project Space at the Bluecoat they will crisscross Merseyside. It is a new world to explore for the visiting artists and for the Liverpool based artists a chance to revisit and investigate new avenues. The journeys undertaken individually and together, by foot or on public transport will be interspersed with crossovers, junctions and meetings with others; artists and inhabitants of the city, offering varying opportunities to sample and examine the daily social and cultural life.
Guided by their own curiosity, public transport routes, suggestions by studio visitors and via email or chance encounters in the street, the artists will gather information, collect memorabilia and insights, take notes and snapshots. On returning to base they will reflect on their daily discoveries and with invited guests will discuss, critique and debate their findings.
If you have any suggestions for journeys, places or events happening during this week for the artists to include please email these to:
margarethaschoening@hotmail.com or susanleask@yahoo.co.uk