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David Haley
Liverpool Becoming: The Writing On The Wall
Gaia Cabinet
Saturday 25th October 6 - 9pm
Liverpool Becoming: The Writing On The Wall, is a temporary poetic/performance/artwork and will be the fifth in the series of such works created by ecological artist, David Haley in Germany, Taiwan and the UK. The artwork is an extended ‘haiku’ style poem, of nine lines rendered directly onto a wall in charcoal and then read out loud by the artist. The writing will last as long as the elements permit.
Some scientists argue that global warming has passed the ‘tipping point’ and that climate change may be a form of evolutionary perturbation. Addressing the possibility of collapse, this artwork considers the opportunities for becoming anew through ‘ecological resilience’.
Jacqueline McCormick
Performance
Birkenhead Park (The Rockery)
Thursday 23rd October 12 - 1pm
Dance Artist Jacqueline McCormick will be enlivening the green space of Birkenhead Park, reminding us through the physical, of the textures, shape and hidden stories belonging to the space. The movement is generated from the body, investigating the physical space and creating spontaneous improvisations.
Scott Thurston & Elizabeth Willow
Truthing the Ground
Sefton Park (Eros Fountain)
Sunday 26th October, 11 - 12am
Truthing the Ground is a perambulatory poem performed by Scott Thurston with visual accompaniment by Elizabeth Willow. The poem is a response to the history and prehistory of Sefton Park as an urban ecosystem and uses eight specially-chosen sites to meditate on a variety of themes including James Lovelock’s recent account of his predictions for the global climate in his book The Revenge of Gaia (2006).
The title Truthing the Ground refers to the technique of verifying environmental data gained by aerial photography by walking over the ground in question. It is hoped that the experience of the poem will acquaint us with both old and new truths about the ground on which it takes place, whilst obliging us to confront some difficult truths about its future. Drawing on diverse sources from Robert Smithson to Aeschylus, George Herbert to Deleuze and Guattari, the poem ‘uses the park to think with’ as the park in turn undergoes a period of renovation unprecedented in its 126-year-old history.
We will meet at the Eros Fountain at 11am in the centre of Sefton Park. The performance will take approximately one hour and involve about half an hour’s gentle walking on the main thoroughfares of the park. The performance will be fully accessible by wheelchair. Please come prepared for the Autumn weather – the show will go on, rain, sleet or snow!
ArtYarn
Knitting Circle
Gaia Cabinet
Sunday 2nd November, 12 - 4pm
The idea of the knitting circle is to create a skills sharing forum, bringing together people who are already skilled in knitting and crochet with people who want to learn. Come and join in! All ages and abilities welcome, men and women wishing to learn to knit and crochet, share you skills and learn more about our knitting plastic bags recycling project.
James Brady
DRIFT (autumnal interventions)
Stanley Park
Sunday 2nd November, 12 - 2pm
Sefton Park
Sunday 9th November, 2 - 4pm
Birkenhead Park
Sunday 16th November, 12 - 2pm
Come along for a 'leafy' adventure and explore three of Liverpool's finest historical public parks. James will be working amongst the trees! Can you find him?!
Three days. Three earthworks. Three encounters.
ArtYarn
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Recycled Plastic Bag Bombing
Liverpool City Centre
Thursday 13th November (pm)
ArtYarn are performing a series of interventions in Liverpool city centre, ‘tagging’ street furniture with pieces of knitting made from recycled plastic carrier bags. They have embarked on a series of one day visits to the streets of Liverpool to collect discarded plastic carrier bags from public spaces and inner city wasteland areas. Each bag found and retrieved from a site has been documented and mapped to draw awareness of littering of this particular material on the streets of Liverpool.
The found bags have been cleaned and shredded to form a recycled yarn for which new art works will be made by hand knitting. By referring back to the mapping document created on retrieval of the found plastic carrier bags, ArtYarn will replace the bags, now in a knitted art form, into the environments they were found which have the highest volume of plastic bag littering and waste.
Rebecca McKnight
Artist Talk
Gaia Cabinet
Wednesday 19th November, 6.30 - 8pm
Rebecca will be exploring and sharing Liverpool's 'hidden' urban ecology through a process-driven project, which will begin with Rebecca choosing spaces and places in Liverpool that relate to one of the four elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire.
In this informal artist talk Rebecca will be discussing her explorations of Liverpool and showing visual documentation of the processes she used to create her final artworks. There will be opportunity for guests to ask questions/have discussions and also view the art works within the exhibition. Refreshments will be provided.
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