METAMORPHOSIS: the city as cultural site Thursday 21 November 2002 14.00-18.00 Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool L1 9BG (Disabled access) (NB. please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or address below only)
METAMORPHOSIS: the city as cultural site What do our cities mean to us? How do we experience them? Liverpool Biennial�s International 2002 seminar explores ways that we use and inhabit places and the ways our lives are shaped by those places. SPEAKERS: Doreen Massey; Simon Sadler; Chloe Piene; Stephen Powers; Professor David Dunster, Chair Professor Doreen Massey Doreen Massey is Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. She has written extensively on space and place, on cities and on culture. She is co-founder and editor of Soundings: a journal of politics and culture; and has contributed to a number of publications including: The Unknown City: Contesting architecture and social space (MIT Press, 2000), Architecturally Speaking: Practices of art, architecture and the everyday (Routledge, 2000); Strangely Familiar: narratives of architecture in the city (Routledge 1995); and Space, Place and Gender (Polity Press, 1994). Simon Sadler Simon Sadler is a Paul Mellon Fellow for Studies in British Art and an architectural historian with the University of California, Davis. He is author of The Situationist City (MIT Press, 1998), co-editor of Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom: Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism (Architectural Press,2000); his forthcoming publication Amazing Archigram will be published by MIT Press in 2003. His work explores the history of the neo-avant-garde. Professor David Dunster, Chair David Dunster holds the Roscoe Chair of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. He is a member of the Design Review Panel of CABE, contributing editor to The Journal of Architecture and Chair of RIBA's Research Awards Panel. He lectures on history of archi-tecture and urbanism nationally and internationally. Chloe Piene Extreme behaviour and actions in contemporary soci-ety is a recurring theme in Piene's video works. Many of her projects to date have been built around the emotional axis of the oppressor and subjugator in relation to the dominated and vulnerable. The result is an often ambiguous human drama of power, control and survival. This interplay of emotion and drama extends into Piene's drawings. Piene's The Woods video commission for the International 2002 of 150 male teens from the New York borough of Bensonhurst Brooklyn, harnesses the rituals and actions of hardcore music fans in a mosh pit. Fans establish a physical space where they can unleash their aggression and angst, almost as a form of tribal rite. Stephen Powers Stephen Powers/ESPO has been a central figure to the graffiti movement since the late 1980s. The huge clean up by authorities of the spaces used by graffiti writers found Powers turning to alternative spaces and contexts to work. Powers has built his tag ESPO into a brand, mimicking the visual language and machinery of advertising and retail. This interest in logo and branding as identity has continued into his more recent gallery work where he has developed an equiv-alent for his graffiti-writing rather than simply transfer-ring the street work into the gallery space. From 1991- 97 Powers published On the Go, a graffiti and hip-hop lifestyle magazine, and is author of The Art of Getting For more information please contact: Sharon Paulger, Education and Access Co-ordinator Liverpool Biennial � PO Box 1200 � Liverpool L69 1XB t +44 (0)151 709 7444 � f +44 (0)151 709 7377 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] � www.biennial.org.uk Tickets �6.00 / �4.00 concessions from Unity Theatre Box Office +44 (0)151 709 4988 ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
