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Touched celebrates a decade of bringing new art to the UK through curatorial collaboration for the International show. It will involve more artists than ever before, while continuing to place an emphasis on commissioning ambitious new work from leading and emerging artists based outside the UK.
Artists currently proposing new commissions for Touched include: Sachiko Abe, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Rosa Barba, Laura Belém, Emese Benczúr, Daniel Bozhkov, Nina Canell, Danica Dakic, Song Dong, Wannes Goetschalckx, NS Harsha, Diango Hernández, Nicholas Hlobo, Jamie Isenstein, Alfredo Jaar, Eva Kot’átková, Will Kwan, Lars Laumann, Antti Laitinen, Minouk Lim, Cristina Lucas, Tala Madani, Yves Netzhammer, Raymond Pettibon, Ranjani Shettar, Do-Ho Suh, Franz West and Héctor Zamora.
Tehching Hsieh, Kris Martin, Otto Muehl, Carol Rama and Ryan Trecartin will show existing work not seen before in this country.
In addition to the ongoing emphasis on new commissions, there will be five special projects within the International:
• Magdalena Abakanowicz (Poland) will show an installation from 1978/80, previously unseen in the UK
• Painters Aime Mpane (Congo/Belgium), Oren Eliav (Israel), Tim Eitel (Germany/Usa), Edi Hila (Albania), Y.Z. Kami (Iran/Usa), and Zbynek Sedlecký (Prague/Ger/France) will exhibit work not seen before in the UK under the title The Human Stain
• Minerva Cuevas (Mexico), Meschac Gaba (Benin/NL), Michael Clegg and Martin Guttmann (Israel/Germany), Daniel Knorr, Lee Mingwei (Taiwan/Usa), Rob Pruitt (Usa), Julieta Aranda/Anton Vidokle (Usa) and Bert Rodriguez (Miami) will use existing and new projects to animate a 200m shop front with the provocative aim of Re-Thinking Trade
• The final act of Tania Bruguera’s (Cuba/Spain) legendary Cátedra Arte de Conducta from Havana will take place over the 10 week period of the Biennial, with continuing actions by 20 Cuban artists recreating Allan Kaprow’s Happenings and staging new performances and events
• For the first time, Liverpool Biennial has commissioned an artist - Carlos Amorales (Mexico) - to be responsible for the visual concept for marketing Touched.
Lewis Biggs, Artistic Director, comments: ‘Focusing on the qualities of art that affect the viewer, the curatorial team for Touched has investigated materiality, metaphor, duration, embodiment, family, narrative, separation, desire, attachment, craft, compulsion, viscerality, neurosis and, especially, emplacement. We’ve been touched in the head and in the gut; and we’ve traced the trajectory of a feeling from a sensation in the hand to an emotion in the heart. We have felt the beauty of proximity.
The curatorial team for Touched is Lorenzo Fusi, Liverpool Biennial (non-gallery sites), Peter Gorschlüter (Tate Liverpool), Patrick Henry (Open Eye Gallery), Sara-Jayne Parsons (the Bluecoat), Mike Stubbs (FACT – Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and Mark Waugh (A Foundation Liverpool).
Images, from above:
1. Venice of Brazil2007 Laura Belém
2. Cut Papers #10 2009, Sachiko Abe
3. Flame Test, 2009, Will Kwan
4. Mandi XV, 2007, Kris Martin
5. In-Flight (Project: Another Country), 2009, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan
6. Forest Composition, 2009, Antti Laitinen
7. Fallen Star 1/5, 2009, Do-Ho Suh
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