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Artists Anonymous Communication and Association 20 September - 30 November 2008 Within their complex and often disorientating installations, Berlin based collective Artists Anonymous explicitly acknowledge the means by which art is created, and the whirl of social events and intellectual debates that accompany it. In Communication & Association, the artists play on A Foundation’s role within the Liverpool Biennial as host of the official opening party as well as a series of discussions, social events and performances, by creating a labyrinthine installation specifically designed to have a disruptive influence on the proceedings. Communication & Association consists of seven interconnected, freestanding rooms each representing an extreme environment for experiencing art. Inside the construction, paintings and scientific texts can be viewed amid a variety of uncomfortable conditions such as wild temperature fluctuations; a room in negative; low ceilings and mirrored surfaces. The exterior, clad with found and recycled materials and marooned on a sandy beach in the centre of A Foundation’s 700m2 Furnace gallery, acts as a performance space and open platform over the period of the Biennial. Local people are invited to contribute unwanted household items, furniture, waste building materials and manpower to help create the structure. Communication & Association follows Artists Anonymous’s current show Perception & Sensation at Magazin 4 Kunstverein Bregenz, Austria and will run simultaneously with their show at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany’s foremost Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin. The public discussion, Raising The Curtain, between Biennial directors, Artists Anonymous and the International Curators Forum will take place within the exhibition on 20th September, the day after the opening party. The participants will question the role of the Biennial and the Capital of Culture and provide an open forum for discussion with the public. Invitation to participate in Communication & Association Artists Anonymous issued an open invitation to artists, scientists, performers, musicians and poets to hold public debates, events or gatherings within Communication & Association, an exhibition created as a platform for discussion, ideas and public interventions. Communication and Association brings together the notion of hospitality an enquiry within the gallery space, with communication as its driving force. An integral stage with seating for around 200 people ensures that the space can be transformed to host any public event or performance with accompanying bar if required. The only requirement is that during gallery opening hours (Tuesday to Saturday 12pm – 6pm) the performance area will be treated as a public space. This means that visitors to the gallery can attend any event held during normal opening hours. 7 November 1pm & 4pm, free Laughing Piece Live artist Nathania Hartley will peform her one hour work Laughing Piece situated within Communication & Association. 14 November 2pm to 6pm, free A Game To Play On Friday November 14th 2008 Between 2pm and 6pm at A Foundation, Liverpool Join Carson & Miller for a narrative game based on the principle of question and answer, founded in the surrealist game of exquisite corpse, but with some added variables. Carson & Miller’s hybrid game will explore ways in which an audience can observe our play and be invited into it. Carson & Miller’s collaborative practice centres on their common interest in narrative. They work in a number of different ways, particularly focussing on the book as a shared creative space in recent work. Recent publications include synopsis (2008), Things We Have Seen (edited) (2008) and The Exquisite Fold (2007). 7pm to 11pm, £2 admission Brickface The launch of the first edition of fanzine Brickface bringing together the disparate worlds of art and music with live performances from We Came Out Like Tigers, Castrovalva, Simon & Johannah and key-tar and stylophone stars The Brett Domino Trio. Artworks include MIXTAPE/ME, a mixtape of songs and spoken word pieces patched together to create a narrative by Claire Potter and large-scale photographs by Colin Crawford. 15 November 7pm to 11pm, free Night of the Owl During the summer of 2008 the Owl Project worked with musicians Leafcutter John, Kaffe Matthews and Thor Magnusson (IXI software) to develop a range of new wooden instruments for live performance. Night of the Owl will be a chance to see and hear some of the first results of this collaboration, the new ‘mLog’, as well as other classic Owl Project instruments such as ‘iLogs’ and ‘Log1Ks’ and the notorious ‘Stump’. Including performances from legendary turntablist and artist Philip Jeck, SoundNetwork members Tim Lambert and & field recordist Simon Whetham. Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan present a premiere of their new short film 'The Reapers', a documentary on a group of rural pigeon hunters and their encampment of wires, cages, homemade traps and tower hide, concealed deep in a forest in south west France. Castlefield Gallery's Project Space programme supports artists through sustained periods of bespoke professional development activities, funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England. SoundNetwork supports current and emerging sound based artistic practice in the North West of the UK through advocacy, networking and collaboration. www.owlproject.com www.soundnetwork.org.uk www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk 21 & 22 November 12pm to 6pm, free Despite The Noise David Goldenberg leads two days of discussion and participation exploring a new model of art under the name of Post Autonomy. Planned as a sequence of dynamic events, projects, trajectories, and activities Despite The Noise explores the concept of “Post Autonomy” through an exploration of the different spaces that make up any venue. Posing the question “How is it possible to rethink staging contemporary practice from the beginning?” David Goldberg will break down and disrupt how art is staged in galleries and museums over the two days of shared workshops and discussions. Come on the first day to help shape the direction of the two days’ events. www.postautonomy.co.uk 22 November 12pm to 6pm, free 100 Greetings Performance by Caroline Wright. 25 November to 29 November 12pm to 6pm, free AASPACE An audio piece by Claire Potter available on walkmans throughout the installation, pick one up to hear remembered events and experiences mixed with imagined alternate situations. 29 November 2pm, free Human Error Performance by Irish performance artist Lisa-Marie Johnson. 29 November 7pm to late, free Wrongteous Non-event Wrongteous is a hardback book publication, which incorporates existing and newly commissioned UK and international visual art and short fiction. It includes many artists and writers from Liverpool and the North West and is edited by Merseyside artists Leo Fitzmaurice and Paul Rooney. Wrongteous is proud to be not supported by the European Capital of Culture. 30 November 12 - 6pm, Free Gimmie Performance group Magic Collective engage audience members through performance practice and inititate comments and interventions. For further information about Artists Anonymous please visit www.artists-anonymous.net		Artists Anoynmous Communication and Association , 2008 Image by Gunter Lepkowski. Courtesy of the Artists. Artists Anoynmous Communication and Association , 2008 Image by Gunter Lepkowski. Courtesy of the Artists. Artists Anoynmous Communication and Association , 2008 Image by Gunter Lepkowski. Courtesy of the Artists. Artists Anoynmous Communication and Association , 2008 Image by Gunter Lepkowski. Courtesy of the Artists.


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