You Are Here

Live Art Programme for the Liverpool Biennial 2002
18 – 21 September 2002

You Are Here has been developed by Bluecoat Arts Centre in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency.

You Are Here is a specially commissioned programme of Live Art for the Liverpool Biennial 2002 that looks at the complexities of contemporary identities and asks whether Internationalism is a geographical or a cultural concept.

It has been conceived as a dialogue between the selected works and Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Ex-Centris project in the Biennial's International Exhibition.

Over four intensive days of challenging and engaging work, a diverse range of British based, 'international' artists working with live and time based practices contemplate, contest and critique ideas of cultural difference, displacement and hybridity. Considering questions of where 'here' is right now, the programme takes in studio based performances, installations, public interventions and one to one audience-artist encounters.

You Are Here highlights Live Art as an essential and exciting arena for artists and audiences alike. With its flexibility of form, irreverence for convention and ability to move fluidly across genres, spaces and ideas, Live Art is ideally equipped to respond to the complexity and hybridity of our modern experiences and expectations.

Growing out of Performance Art in the 60s and 70s and the impact of artists working at the edges of theatre, dance, film, video and political activism throughout the 80s and 90s, Live Art in the 21st century embraces a wide range of performative practices. It signifies new artistic approaches and cultural sites rooted in the real and grounded in ideas of presence and immediacy. From intimacy and complicity to confrontation, it can offer audiences direct, unmediated encounters that destroy pretence, create sensory immersion and open up different kinds of engagement with meaning.

In its challenge to the politics of artistic process and practice, Live Art is a potent form that disrupts the nature of contemporary art, defying expectations of who is making art, how they are making it and who they are making it for. More significantly, for many artists and audiences in Britain, Live Art has become a powerful site to break apart traditions of representation and express new identities beyond the old distinctions of nationality, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. These issues and more are reflected in You Are Here. The programme of live work is complemented by screenings and talks, including an unmissable presentation by Guillermo Gómez-Peña on the critical role of Live Art in the 21st century.

You Are Here invites you to be there. Prepare to be provoked, unsettled and entertained.
 
Wednesday 18 September
KIRA O'REILLY : Blood Wall Drawing return
Hanover Galleries 10am – 5pm

GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA : In Defence of Performance Art
Bluecoat 8pm
 
Thursday 19 September
KIRA O'REILLY : Blood Wall Drawing return
Hanover Galleries 10am – 5pm

OREET ASHERY : 7 Acts of Love photos
Bluecoat 11am  5pm

LIVE ART NOW : A Sampler video programme
Bluecoat 11am-5pm

You Are Here Triple Performance Bill:
GEORGE CHAKRAVARTHI Great Expectations
SILKE MANSHOLT Homage to the Heart
QASIM RIZA SHAHEEN Conversing with Angels
Bluecoat 8pm
 
Friday 20 September
KIRA O'REILLY : Blood Wall Drawing return
Hanover Galleries 10am – 5pm

LIVE ART NOW : A Sampler video programme
Bluecoat 11am-5pm

STACY MAKISHI : You are here…but where am I?
Sites around the city centre

OREET ASHERY : Say Cheese performance
Time and location supplied when you book a place on Marcus' bed

OREET ASHERY : 7 Acts of Love photos
Bluecoat 11am  5pm
 
Saturday 21 September
KIRA O'REILLY : Blood Wall Drawing return
Hanover Galleries 10am – 5pm

STACY MAKISHI : You are here…but where am I?
Sites around the city centre

OREET ASHERY : Say Cheese video documentation
Bluecoat 11am  5pm

OREET ASHERY : 7 Acts of Love photos
Bluecoat 11am  5pm

SUKI CHAN and DINU LI : Shadow Songs
Bluecoat, 12 noon  1pm and 4-5pm

CAI YUAN and JJ XI: Mad For Real : Soya Sauce and Ketchup Fight
Bluecoat Front Courtyard from 2pm

Further programme detail and artists' biographies are available on this site .
 
TICKETS
Individual event tickets and You Are Here Special Ticket (admits to all paying events, priced £10 / concessions £8) from Bluecoat.

Box Office
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Monday  Friday 11am  4pm.
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Concessionary Tickets Concessions are indicated in brackets and are available to students, jobseekers, under 16s, people with disabilities and senior citizens. Proof of eligibility must be provided  one discount per ticket. Payment Cash, credit/debit card or cheque (payable to Bluecoat Arts Centre Ltd).

ACCESS
Whilst the ground floor gallery spaces are ramped, the upstairs performance space (where Ex-Centris, Triple Bill and Shadow Play will take place) is regrettably not yet accessible to wheelchair users.
 
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