Curatorial Tour Films

Curatorial Tour – Lewis's Building, Ground Floor

This video explores the Lewis's Building, Ground Floor where you can see the work of Diego Bianchi, Alice Channer, Jes Fan, Camille Henrot, Pedro Neves Marques & HAUT, and Jenna Sutela.

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Video: Carl Davies, FACT Production Services

Curatorial Tour – Lewis's Building, Floors 2 & 3

This video explores the Lewis's Building, Floors 2 & 3 where you can see the work of Erick Beltrán, Alice Channer, Lamin Fofana, Ane Graff, Sohrab Hura, Luo Jr-shin, Reto Pulfer, Kathleen Ryan, Zineb Sedira, Alberta Whittle.

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Curatorial Tour – Cotton Exchange

This video explores the Cotton Exchange Building, where you can see the work of Xaviera Simmons, Sonia Gomes and Invernomuto HQ & Jim C. Nedd.

This former Cotton Exchange is symbolic of this moment in the city’s economy and societal history; the building is explicitly and integrally tied to a time when wealth and economic prosperity depended upon enforced movement of people, enslavement, trade and labour. The works gathered here address the long-term impacts of the mass and forced dispersion of African people in different American contexts: Colombia, Brazil and the United States. They do so in a number of different ways – from critical viewpoints of the effects of racialisation of humans as a tool for domination, through to building forms of resistance and empowerment across borders.

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Video: Carl Davies, FACT Production Services

Curatorial Tour – Bluecoat

This video explores Bluecoat, where you can see the work of Jadé Fadojutimi, Laura Huertas Millan, Jorgge Menna Barreto, Roland Persson, Andre Romão, Kathleen Ryan and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.

The artists exhibiting at Bluecoat acknowledge new networks of relationships – kinship attachments and co-dependencies between people, things and environment. They propose a more equal world through challenging borders between nature and culture, alive or not alive and other binaries, offering multifaceted ways in which we belong to and are intertwined with the world beyond our concrete physical boundaries. To consider ourselves as part of nature is an argument against separateness, it means to recognise that nature is not around us but rather, we are nature.

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Video: Carl Davies, FACT Production Services

Curatorial Tour – FACT

This video explores FACT, where you can see the work of Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) and Zheng Bo.

The works at FACT reflect on different ways of understanding or connecting with the world, and each other, through our bodies. They suggest ways of coming together that move beyond our experience as individual humans, separate from each other and from nature. Exploring forms of mutual exchange, and practices of giving and caring, the works contest heteronormative logic – the belief that heterosexuality is the default, preferred, or normal mode of sexual orientation – and anthropocentrism – the belief that human beings are the most important entity in the universe.

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Video: Carl Davies, FACT Production Services

Curatorial Tour – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Building

This video explores the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Building, where you can see the work of David Zink Yi.

The history of the Port of Liverpool echoes other histories of bodies – in labour, in motion and in struggle. Transforming the former Dock Traffic Office, David Zink Yi’s video installation Horror Vacui (2009) emphasises the role of rituals in the production of music, operating as an extended picture without beginning or end.

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Video: Carl Davies, FACT Production Services

Curatorial Tour – Lush Building

This video explores Lush Building, where you can see the work of Christopher Cozier, Ayesha Hameed, Neo Muyanga and Jenna Sutela.

Artists gathered in this venue employ different viewpoints and organisms to question, disrupt and explore what a human can be against a ‘neutral’ and universal designation. Some of the artists explore ways in which our bodies are fluid, porous and interdependent – be it natural or artificial. Others confront historical corporeal constructions by amplifying experiences of those who have other bodies often located in a space of lack, in a place of disadvantage and subordination.

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Video: Carl Davies, FACT Production Services

Curatorial Tour – Liverpool Central Library

This video explores Liverpool's Central Library, where you can see the work of Yael Davids.

Interested in archives and different forms of research, Yael Davids presents her work Wingspan of the captive (2021). The sculptures and accompanying drawings take inspiration from the 19th century, The Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon, which contains a series of paintings and illustrations archiving North American birds. Davids considers the anatomy, behaviour and movements of these birds – exploring what it means to migrate, to study and be studied.This research has compelled Davids to reflect on modes and categories of togetherness.

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Curatorial Tour – Open Eye Gallery

This video explores Open Eye Gallery, where you can see the work of Zineb Sedira and Alberta Whittle.

The Port of Liverpool is at the heart of this Biennial. The transatlantic movement of enslaved people haunts the city’s past, while the repercussions of these experiences are still felt across the world today. This trade in commodified human beings and goods – for example, sugar and cotton – was part of a global project of modernity dependent upon exploitation.

The two artists shown at Open Eye Gallery both engage with these long histories, showing us how different forms of the past exist in our present moment.

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Video: Carl Davies, FACT Production Services