The Winner Takes It all?
NAN Tour of Liverpools Capital of Culture
Hosted by Red Wire and The Royal Standard
In October 2008 25 artists will arrived in Liverpool to explore the Capital of Culture and the 2008 Liverpool Biennial. Through their investigations and the experience of Red Wire and our partners in the scheme- The Royal Standard,we discussed the opportunities and meaning the title has for artists. Many of the attending artists have links to other Capitals of Culture including Glasgow (1990) and Vilnius (2009) or bidded for the 2008 Capital of Culture title like Cardiff and Newcastle, and as such will made a valuable contribution to the debate.
above: The Artists visiting Red Wire (left) where Daniel JOhnston was on show and (right) The Royal Standard in the Resource Centre. The Resource Centre was made from articles brought by the visiting artsts that had a relation to thier own city.
At The Bluecoat in the Royal Art Lodge exhibit
The Artists on tour and in The Garston Embassy. The Tour was split into a Urban group and Suburban group. The Urban Tour took in The Bluecoat, Wolstenholme Projects, FACT, Bombed out Church, Atelier Bow-Wow, Rapid Paintshop, Biennial Centre, Catholic Cathedral, Spinning trees, Novas CUC and A Foundation. The Suburban Tour went to Metal in Edge Hill and venues in Garston (I was on the Urban tour, so can only remember that one!)
View from in The Rapid Paintshop and a play set. below the difficult sandwich choice and Laurence Payot's exhibition in The New Slaughterhouse
