Hive Twilight City 4: Uncanny Space
Saturday 6th December
Venue: The Kazimier, 4-5 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool L1 4JJ
Time: 8pm - Late
Cost: £5
"I would work through the night and see the city waking up - the face without the make-up. At night, you would see the heat rising in the air from the stacks of the old factory buildings. I see that view, and I see the confusion of a city lost in transition from one age to another."
Derrick May on Detroit
As a new city slowly emerges from amidst the dust and clatter of construction, Hive's final Twilight City event - Uncanny Space – simultaneously sounds an elegy to Liverpool’s past whilst heralding the white heat of its future through a celebration of the best in contemporary electronica and techno. Held in one of the city’s most exciting venues, each performance will revel in the endless possibilities of electronic music to move us both physically and spiritually from the past to the future.
Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai, Raster-Noton)
Founded in 1996, Raster-Noton has become one of the world’s leading electronic music labels; its minimal aesthetic extends beyond the realm of music into art and design and such breadth was rewarded with the coveted Ars Electronica prize in 2000. As Alva Noto, co-founder Carsten Nicolai has worked with the likes of Ryiuchi Sakamoto and Bjork and here presents his latest album, Unitxt. Based on the simple concept of digitizing the everyday content of his wallet, Unitxt sees compellingly precise rhythms, cavernous bass and robotic melody collide in a telling critique of the digital nature of contemporary existence.
http://www.alvanoto.com
http://www.raster-noton.net
Uusitalo (Vladislav Delay)
Uusitalo means ‘new house’ in Finnish, country of origin of Berlin based Sasu Ripatti whose many monikers include Luomo and Vladislav Delay. ‘Electronica’s omni-musician’ according to The Wire, each of Ripatti’s guises offers up a brand new take on vocal house, abstract techno and exploratory sound; reflecting on a past indebted to dub and funk whilst challenging the orthodoxy of the dancefloor.
http://www.vladislavdelay.com
Donnacha Costello (Minimise)
Revered across Europe as a pioneer of minimal techno, Donnacha Costello is perhaps one of the most important producers working in contemporary dance music. His recent Color Series releases beautifully captured the joy of analogue sound and were heralded as a milestone in contemporary techno. Unmissable machine music and a fitting finale to Hive Twilight City.
http://www.minimise.com
Hive Visual Artists
Utilising the amazing Kazimier space to its fullest extent, Hive’s Visual Artists will provide an unforgettable collage of film, graphics, imagery and light.
Plus Hive DJs
Tickets available online and from Probe shortly
www.thehivecollective.co.uk
Liverpool artwork of the week 44. West Tower photograph by John Davies for Cities on the Edge Photography Project. Exhibiting at Novas CUC 14 November - 18 December 2008
You've probably seen this picture already on all the publicity material but it really is a stunning image. It took me a while to realise it was Liverpool, a great example of how our waterfront has changed in recent years.
Curated by John Davies, The Cities on the Edge Photography Project invited 6 European photographers to make new work in Liverpool for 2008.
This is an unique initiative which is a collaboration between 6 port cities in 6 different European countries.
The project will result in an exhibition and publication highlighting Liverpool in relationship to Marseille, Naples, Gdansk, Bremen and Istanbul.
This exhibition coincides with the book 'Cities On The Edge' published by Liverpool University Press in November 2008. Edited by John Davies with introduction text by Franco Bianchini. 72 colour and B&W photographs from the six cities and text in all six languages. ISBN 9781846311864 £24.95 hb.
Novas CUC NW
Try not to miss the second day of the Artists' Book Fair at 11 Wolstenholme Sq. this weekend, there's a lot of really clever and beautiful work on show and for sale.
Its open from 11.00 to 16.00 today (Sunday).
Also there should be the Living Market just round the corner in the CCP Car Park building on Duke St. at the same time.
I love the Jam Butty Mine installation and the ceramic cakes. Its all in the Studio Gallery on the 1st floor at Tate Liverpool. Ends on 19 November 2008
In The Frame is a Mencap project that has been happening with Tate Liverpool since 2006, sponsored by Nokia. The In the Frame group of 10 people with a learning disability have produced The Art Lover's Guide.
The group has also launched an art exhibition sponsored by the Liverpool Culture Company, at Tate Liverpool as part of Liverpool 08. It is open from 14 to 19 November (gallery closed 17 November). The exhibition, called In My Liverpool Home, is part of Liverpool 08.
The In the Frame group have devised and are curating In My Liverpool Home. They helped run art workshops around Liverpool in September to help people who wanted to send in artwork. Over 100 entries were sent in and the group had a hard job picking a shortlist. In My Liverpool Home shows a fantastic range of paintings, photography, models, crafts, ceramics and video.
More details on the excellent new website
http://www.artspider.org.uk/
Nathan Pendlebury now has a limited number of calendars available. Wall calendars are just £9.99, and desk calendars are just £4.99. They can each be viewed at his website with the following link.
http://www.erpenstudios.co.uk/shop.htm
Delighted to see Birgit is the artist of the month (Nov 08) on the Axisweb website for her 'Dungbeetle and Sisyphus' video which was on show earlier in the Independents.
Part two can be seen tonight as part of the 'Slowness' show at Red Wire.
Good idea if he doesn't get charged with littering or something. Anyone want to try this in Liverpool?
ONE thousand artworks worth an estimated £1million will be scattered across the streets of London tonight for the public to take free.
In one of the biggest street art exhibitions the capital has seen, Adam Neate will distribute the paintings from 8pm across all 33 local authorities.
The 31-year-old artist said the A3 size works will be left at landmarks as well as in "nooks and crannies" and he does not expect them to be found until tomorrow morning.
Neate, from West Ham, has been involved in similar projects before. "In the past I've given away around 1,000 of my paintings each year so 1,000 on one night is a big task," he said. "This has always been a dream of mine to do an exhibition across London."
Neate will join a team of 20 in distributing the autographed printed works, which all feature the same image but have a different combination of printing and stamping.
In recent years his work has featured in Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in the West End where his pieces have fetched up to £43,000 each.
But his roots lie in creating paintings and sculptures designed for towns and cities. Neate said: "I first began giving away my artwork when I lived in Ipswich eight years ago. I painted quite a lot and had so many in my flat I just decided to put them out on the street for people to take.
"When I moved to London, I did the same thing on a bigger scale. It's like a surreal gallery."
The former internet designer, who now paints full-time, added: "Art should be a gift, free and fun for people to enjoy. That's what this project aims to achieve. I hope people take them home, but whatever they want to do with the works is their own business."
Neate's street art pieces are selling at auctions for between £2,000 and £15,000. His paintings use recycled cardboard boxes as canvases and have been acclaimed for their complex layering and bold use of paint.
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The Arts Council NW art08 awards this evening was good fun and all went well at the Novas CUC venue. There was music from DJ Dave Haslam and aerial dance from Wired Aerial Theatre (I missed that though) then the awards ceremony was hosted by Dave Spikey who was very funny. Sense of Sound also performed before and after the ceremony.
The big prize of £10,000 went to Paul Hartley who develops and delivers inspirational, sustainable and creative young people's engagement programmes, raising aspiration and a true youth voice.
Paul also won the prize in the 'Unsung Heroes' category.
Other prizewinners were the Bluecoat with Yorkshire Bank for its Shine project winning the Creative Sparks Award which celebrates innovative partnerships between the business and arts sectors.
Conceptual artist Naomi Kashiwagi from Manchester won the Artist Award.
Manchester International Festival got the 'Putting the North West on the Map' category for its opera 'Monkey - Journey to the West'
and Lancaster's Nuffield Theatre scooped the Inside Outside Online Award for its experiment in programming.
www.artscouncil.org.uk/art08
Fundraising sale of £40 postcard-sized artworks, the secret being that you won't know who the artist is until you've made your choice
More than 100 objects including ancient sculptures and famous paintings such as William Blake's 'Nebuchadnezzar'