1. Touched
Liverpool Biennial International
106 Wood Street
Garage, part of Touched in the public realm:Wood Street Garage (Berry
Street end) See if open
Raymond Pettibon
Introduction
Raymond Pettibon is one of the few visual artists to have achieved almost
legendary status in the punk-rock and underground music scene of the
American West Coast. Born Raymond Ginn and brother to guitarist/songwriter
and impresario Greg Ginn, Pettibon has substantially contributed towards
shifting popular genres (such as comics) or formats (fanzine or fly-poster
style) from subculture to the realm of art.
FACT
88 Wood Street, L1 4DQGalleries Open: Monday–Saturday 11.00–18.00,
Sunday 12.00– 18.00FACT Centre Open: Monday–Saturday 10.00–23.00,
Sunday 11.00–22.30Tel: +44 (0) 151 707 4464 www.fact.co.uk
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Free Entry / Fully Accessible
Kaarina Kaikkonen
Introduction
Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen creates site-specific installations in both
interior and exterior spaces using old pieces of clothing or shoes collected
from local donors. The garments carry personal memories of the owner, and
with them she makes large-scale architectural forms or sculptures. While the
materials she uses represent a common experience of domestic life, they also
often allude to the artist’s own parents, as she uses her deceased father’s
jackets as well as her mother’s shoes.
Meiro Koizumi
Introduction
Dislocation and the fetishisation of relationships underlie the work of Meiro
Koizumi, and especially so in My Voice Would Reach You. In a video
documenting a performance of sorts, a male protagonist makes an idealised
telephone call that falls on deaf ears.
While the man pours out his thoughts and emotions to his mother, against the
backdrop of a busy Tokyo street, a call centre employee is revealed to be
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2. desperately trying to make sense of what she is hearing on the other end – a
romantic request to share a spa holiday in the country together, a particular
gesture in Japanese culture to signify wealth. As the video progresses, the
protagonist continues to make heartfelt ‘prank calls’ in an attempt to
communicate his feelings to these surrogates, reaching out to his mother too
late.
Yves Netzhammer
Introduction
Yves Netzhammer reflects on fundamental, even subconscious, aspects of
the human condition. In this newly commissioned piece, he pares human
figures back to their most basic forms in a narrative whose non-linear storyline
suggests a flashback following an accident. A three-dimensional animation
focuses on characters who are struggling to remember situations that are lost
or strangely misshapen by the collective consciousness.
Minouk Lim
Introduction
In Minouk Lim’s previous video works, New Town Ghost and S.O.S., she
compares ‘before and after’ images of specific sites within the development-
crazed city of Seoul. She invents indirect strategies and symbols to discuss
these fundamental and often sensitive issues – the first using movement (that
of a flatbed truck moving throughout the city), the second light (that of a cruise
ship spotlight on a river bank).
While video is her main format, her work is heavily performance-based,
constructing poetic yet contentious scenarios that hijack the city. In this new
piece, the artist relies on temperature as a strategy.
OPEN EYE GALLEY
28–32 Wood Street, L1 4AQOpen: Tuesday–Sunday 10.30–17.30Tel: +44 (0)
151 709 7460 www.openeye.org.ukFree Entry Fully Accessible (the gallery is
above street levelbut there is an external lift for access)
Lars Laumann
Introduction
For Touched, Open Eye Gallery has commissioned Lars Laumann to create a
new work, which is exhibited alongside two existing works. The commissioned
work, Helen Keller (and the great purging bonfire of books and unpublished
manuscripts illuminating the dark), is a video essay in two parts. It uses a
range of techniques and approaches to discuss filmic and literary adaptation,
multiple narratives, censorship and the burning of books.
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