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Shifting Horizons @ Digital Window Gallery

27 March - 31 March 2024

PLATFORM: ISSUE 6

26 March 2024

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Saturday Town: Launch Event

10 April 2024

Exhibitions

Coming Soon: Saturday Town

11 April - 18 May 2024

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PLATFORM: ZINE LAUNCH EVENT

21 March 2024

Home. Ukrainian Photography, UK Words: Tour

4 March - 28 February 2025

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Home: Ukrainian Photography, UK Words @ New Adelphi

4 March - 8 March 2024

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CREATIVE SOCIAL: IN THE ABSENCE OF FORMAL GROUND

2 March 2024

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We Feed The UK @ Exterior Walls

8 February - 31 March 2024

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Contrail Cirrus: the impact of aviation on climate change

7 March 2024

Exhibitions

Tree Story @ Liverpool ONE

16 February - 1 May 2024

Open Source #27: Saffron Lily – In The Absence of Formal Ground @ Digital Window Gallery

6 February - 31 March 2024

Past Events

Contemporary Photography from Ukraine: Symposium @University of Salford

4 March - 5 March 2024

Past Events

Is Anybody Listening? Symposium: Commissioning and Collecting Socially Engaged Photography

29 February 2024

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Different approaches: Artists working with scientists

15 February 2024

Events

LOOK Climate Lab 2024: All Events

18 January 2024

Exhibitions

Diesel & Dust @ Digital Window Gallery

18 January - 31 March 2024

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Tree Walks Of Sefton Park with Andrea Ku

21 January 2024

Past Events

Artists Remake the World by Vid Simoniti: Book Launch

31 January 2024

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Shift Liverpool Open Meeting

6 February 2024

Past Events

We Feed The UK Launch and LOOK Climate Lab 2024 Celebration

8 February 2024

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Cyanotype workshop with Melanie King

17 February 2024

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End of Empire: artist talk and discussion

22 February 2024

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Book Launch: What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes

24 February 2024

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Local ecology in the post-industrial era: open discussion

14 March 2024

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Waterlands: creative writing workshop

23 March 2024

Past Events

Plant a seed. Seed sow and in conversation with Plot2Plate

16 March 2024

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Erosion: panel discussion

9 March 2024

Past Events

Waterlands: an evening of poetry and photographs

23 March 2024

Events

Force For Nature Exhibition

27 March - 28 March 2024

Voices of Nature: Interactive Performances

28 March 2024

Past Events

Sum of All Parts: Symposium

27 February 2024

Exhibitions Main Exhibition

LOOK Climate Lab 2024

18 January - 31 March 2024

Past Events

MA Socially engaged photography Open Day event

1 February 2023

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Tish: Special screening and Q&A

13 December 2023

Past Events

Book Launch: A Look At A New Perspective

23 November 2023

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Community workshops @ Ellesmere Port Library

6 November - 5 February 2024

Past Events

Book Launch: ‘544m’ By Kevin Crooks

30 November 2023

Past Exhibitions

Bernice Mulenga @ Open Eye Gallery Atrium Space

17 November - 17 December 2023

Past Events

Bernice Mulenga: Artist Talk

18 November 2023

Past Exhibitions

Local Roots @ The Atkinson

14 October 2023

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Community @ Ellesmere Port Library

26 October - 11 April 2024

Past Events

Critique Surgery for Socially Engaged Photographers

6 November 2023

Past Events

Deeds Not Words: panel discussion

12 October 2023

Past Exhibitions

Deeds Not Words @ Atrium Space

3 October - 22 October 2023

Ode To Our Space @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

A Look At A New Perspective @ Digital Window Gallery

29 September - 23 December 2023

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Book Launch: Crow Dark Dawn

19 October 2023

Past Events

Exhibition Launch: A Place of Our Own

28 September 2023

Reflections

12 September - 22 December 2023

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Liverpool Biennial 2016: Books

Liverpool Biennial 2016 is a story narrated through several episodes: Ancient Greece, Chinatown, Children, Monuments from the Future, Software and Flashback.

Open Eye Gallery’s exhibition as part of Liverpool Biennial 2016 has a particular focus on the Flashback and Children’s episodes, featuring international artists Koki Tanaka, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.

The Flashback episode presents a way of experiencing history as it punctures the present, unexpectedly. The Children’s episode invites artists to consider children as the primary audience, making work with and for them.

To celebrate the start of Liverpool Biennial 2016 and the opening of the new exhibition, we have brought together products and publications from our independent book shop that reflect the Flashback and Children’s episodes, complementing the work of our exhibiting artists:

The Two- Sided Lake: Edited By Rosie Cooper, Sandeep Parmar, And Dominic Willsdon – £9.99

Published by Liverpool University press, The Two-Sided Lake is the essential companion to Liverpool Biennial 2016! Featuring scenarios, storyboards and sets from Liverpool Biennial 2016, the publication explores the concept of the ‘episode’ and how stories can be told. Includes contributions from Liverpool Biennial’s artists and texts by many more!

Precarious Practice: Koki Tanaka – £35.00

Koki Tanaka is one of our international exhibiting artists for Liverpool Biennial 2016. Tanaka revisited the scene of a 1985 protest in Liverpool, which involved around 10,000 school children angered by the Youth Training Scheme.

Precarious Practice was published by Deutsche Bank to coincide with Tanaka being awarded Artist of the Year 2015. His work often reflects on poignant historical moments such as America’s occupation of Japan and the 2011 tsunami in Fukushima, while participation from visitors adds a collective social element to his projects. The book explores Tanaka’s interest in the everyday, revisiting recent and past projects and how they came into fruition.   

YTS & Liverpool In The 1980s: Dave Sinclair (Café Royal Books) – £8.00 signed edition

Like the images on Koki Tanaka’s billboards? Dave Sinclair’s original photographs of the 1985 protest against the Conservative government’s Youth Training Scheme in Liverpool feature alongside Koki Tanaka’s video work in our Liverpool Biennial 2016 exhibition. These captivating photographs and many more feature in Liverpool in the 1980s and YTS. At the time, Sinclair was the official photographer for the Militant newspaper and consequently captured images of the anger and resentment of Liverpool’s children and the formidable impact social demonstrations can have. YTS is published by Café Royal Books an independent publishers based in North West England, specializing in documentary photography.

Are You Lost? – £6.00

Seven artists from the Royal College of Art exhibited in ‘Telling Tales’ a Fringe exhibition for Liverpool Biennial 2016 in collaboration with our curator Thomas Dukes over the opening weekend.

The Are You Lost? zine edited by Matt Taylor compiles the work of first year MA Photography students at the Royal College of Art, showcasing a diverse mix of talent and individual style. The images offer an insight into each photographer’s practice, from obscure landscapes to domestic interiors. 

Our independent book shop is open Monday-Sunday, 10am-6pm throughout Liverpool Biennial 2016.

Written by Nicole Etherington 

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