Future Projects
Cities on the Edge future projects include:-
For the Likes of us
20th September - 30th November
Garston Artistic Village,
Wellington Street,
Liverpool,
L19 2LX.
FREE
For more information: info@culturalvillage.co.uk
The Rotunda
106 Great Mersey Street,
off Stanley Road, Liverpool,
L5 2PL.
For more information: 0151 207 2176.
Edge Hill Station,
Tunnel Road, Kensington,
Liverpool
L7 6ND.
For more information: 0151 261 0514.
A 'peer led learning opportunity' for the Big Table network: Liverpool Biennial, Rotunda College, Metal, Garston Cultural Village. Artists and cultural producers selected by the partner organisations work together in a series of face-to-face meetings, residencies and workshops. For the Likes of Us explores the relations between centre and periphery in addressing feelings of disconnection between citizens and wider social, cultural and political processes.
Garston Cultural Village / PGR art, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk:
A series of three projects 'Questioning Educational Strategies' around artists' involvement with schools;'Off the Street', a series of interventions on the streets of Garston and a special September edition of the Garston News 'Gdansk News'
Rotunda College, The Italian Club / Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, napoli.est, Naples:
A billboards project in collaboration with artists Alan Dunn and David Jacques around notions of Italophilia and Liverphilia - exemplified by the 1950's trend of holidaying around the Bay of Naples and the flow back and forth of first / second generation Liverpudlian - Italian families.
Metal / Lezarap'Art, Marseilles:
Artist Adelin Schweitzer and Cédric Lachasse will be in residence in Kensington to develop interactive visual technology, which interplays the perception of Liverpool with Marseille using GPS navigation.
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Terminus
Sunset - Sunrise
28th October - 2nd November
Outdoor projection on the east wall of Georges Dock Building, Pier Head, L3 1DD
The journey flows from South to North, day to night, back and forth with only a vague sense of beginning or end; a seemingly implausible and therefore dreamlike experience of the endless unfolding of a bygone industrial landscape.
Terminus is a cinematic construction of the entire Liverpool dock complex as could have been witnessed from a journey on the Liverpool Overhead Railway (LOR) 1893-1957. A single, real time tracking shot at an elevation of 8m, takes the viewer along the length of the docks into the container port at the mouth of the River Mersey.
Through a dynamic exploration of what is, seen only from the architectural perspective of what might have been, the historic and now phantasmagoric viewpoint of this industrial landscape exposes the spaces of geographic dislocation and makes the invisible visible. This work references the birth of cinema and Lumière's famous tracking shot filmed from the LOR in 1897.
Produced by Jump Ship Rat in association with Cities on the Edge and FACT
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Coming and Going
10th - 23rd November
Static,
23 Roscoe Lane,
Liverpool,
L1 9JD.
Coming and Going is created and produced by Quarantine and Fkuk. "Quarantine has created a body of beautiful, fragile and authentic work, which finds the extraordinary in the ordinary lives of real people." Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
Coming and Going is two weeks of events investigating migration and cultural identity with artists, experts and "ordinary people" from five port cities: Liverpool, Naples, Istanbul, Gdansk and Marseille.
Liverpudlians - with origins across the world - will invite neighbours they don't yet know into their homes for a meal. Quarantine, working with Istanbul sociologist and food expert Dr Zafer Yenal, will help to create this series of extraordinary encounters between strangers. Turkish photographer Ali Taptik will exhibit photographs of his journeys in all 5 cities on the platforms at Edge Hill station and at FACT. Leading Marseille music promoters Marsatac will create a new band of musicians from Marseille and Liverpool in residency at CUC/Novas. Radio Grenouille from Marseille, based in the public spaces at FACT, will broadcast sounds from each city into and out of the streets of Liverpool.
All strands of the project come together in two remarkable evenings at Static Gallery on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November - combining food, conversation, photography, music and live radio.
www.qtine.com
www.alitaptik.com
www.grenouille888.org
www.marsatac.com
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Cities on the Edge Book of Photography
13th November - 18th December
NOVAS,
Contemporary Urban Centre,
Greenland Street,
Liverpool,
L1 0BS
For further information contact: Simon Bell sbell@liv.ac.uk 0151 794 2234
Cities on the Edge has invited 6 European photographers to make new work in Liverpool for 2008. This is a unique initiative which will result in an exhibition and publication - highlighting Liverpool in relationship to Marseille, Naples, Gdansk, Bremen and Istanbul.
Each photographer-artist will make a documentary comparison between Liverpool and the photographer's home port city on the theme of people and places. Liverpool University Press will publish a high quality picture book of the best images from this project.
The book is introduced by Franco Bianchini, with information and images by: Gabriele Basilico (Naples), Sandy Volz (Bremen), Wojtek Wilczyk (Gdansk), Philippe Conti (Marseille), Ali Taptik (Istanbul) and John Davies (Liverpool).This work will also be shown as an important exhibition to coincide with the International Port Cities Conference in November 2008. The book, "Cities on the Edge", will also be launched at the same time.
Liverpool University Press is publishing the Cities On The Edge book worldwide.
www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk
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On the Waterfront Conference: Culture Heritage and Regeneration
19th - 21st November
Arena and Convention Centre Liverpool,
Monarchs Quay,
Liverpool,
L3 4FP
Throughout history, the world's greatest port cities have been shaped and reshaped by the capricious tides of change. International Port Cities investigates how a port's history shapes the future of today's 21st - century waterfront? Set in Europe's City of Culture 2008 this major international three day conference explores the global city on the edge.identifying, debating, discussing and celebrating its:
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Distinct identity
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Unique cultural importance
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Need for regeneration yet desire for historical authenticity
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Adaptability to change
Situated on a waterfront recognised by UNESCO as the exemplar of regeneration within an historic environment - International Port Cities aims to give delegates access to some of the most influential experts on port regeneration from around the world (China, North America, Europe & UK).
If you are working within a prt environment; part of a regeneration project; a local authority with a port; an academic or student; a developer or a consultant working within an historic, maritime or seaside context then international Port Cities is this year's essential event for you!
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.13922
Great port cities are noted for being different, they have their own particular identities, their own notions of: independence, freedom, dissent, and cosmopolitanism. Their own perceptions of: work, justice, politics and culture.
Liverpool is not England, New York is not America, Naples is not Italy, Marseilles is not France and Hamburg is not Germany. Port cities do not always feel loved or understood by their countrymen, they have an identity with each other rather than with their domestic neighbours. Port cities are riotous - they celebrate leisure and pleasure. The night-time is the right-time. Their passion for "irregularity" breeds creativity. Their rebelliousness places them on the edge.
But are these cities on the cusp of the wave - has post-industrial change left them marooned and stranded? Instead of looking out to the wide-horizon have they now turned inwards to look nostalgically at their great pasts? Or can their creativity/riotousness be harnessed to produce a permanent renaissance?
We go to Liverpool, Marseilles, and Istanbul to explore the past and show how these cities have a common meeting point in New York where Liverpool shipped 9 million emigrants to the New World.
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Reberth
On sale from 6th December
ReBerth will be an anthology of short fiction examining the changing face of Europe's Port Cities. By placing stories from diverse communities side by side, the anthology will scrutinise the influence of shifting populations on a port city - feeding its economy, invigorating its culture, and occasionally becoming the focus of social tension.
Featuring two stories from each of the Cities on the Edge - and perspectives from both established and incoming communities - ReBerth will provide a structure for exploring the mixed heritages and cultures of port cities.
The ReBerth project will provide a forum for intercultural dialogue between writers, translators, cultural theorists and readers from each of the cities. It will result in the publication of the ReBerth Anthology, a ReBerth Short Story Day of live readings and discussions, and a Student Writing and Translation Scheme - an initiative to showcase the work of young creative writing students and translation/language students from each of the cities alongside that of established practitioners.
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Football: On the Edge of Passion
December TBC
Istanbul, Marseilles and Liverpool are famous beyond their borders for their unconditional dedication to their football; team and their cities. In this case it's more than just a similarity: it is more a kind of common identity that transcends their idioms or where they come from: a visceral passion for their respective and their legendary football club with their impressive trophies generating unprecedented ecstatic mood: Liverpool, Everton, Olypimque de Marseilles (OM), Galatasaray, Fenerbace, Besiktas. All are Mythical football clubs, known and renowned across Europe.
Their supporters live their passions with such a power that can be seen as unbelievable excesses. These men and women are not jus fan, they are not just passionate, they are literally the incarnation of their clubs. Of course there are others cities where the passion is spectacular and deeply embedded in their identities, Barcelona or Munich are good examples. But in this case it is also about cities with strong economies. In our film the four cities from "Cities on the Edge" network are not capital cities, they are not or no longer cities with economical hegemonies.
Thus, the dedication that the supporters devote to their teams is tinted with a spirit of revenge, of social demands, of social pride incomparable to any other passion.
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Street Philosophy
11th December
Static,
23 Roscoe Lane,
Liverpool,
L1 9JD.
Urban Makers - Parallel Narratives on Grassroots Practices and Tensions is a book-based platform for artists, urbanists, architects, consultants and cultural managers working in Liverpool, Marseilles, Istanbul and Naples. The project analyses the spontaneous practices developed in the urban sphere which are affecting the way the four cities are perceived. It capitalizes on the special knowledge owned by people who are at the centre of informal and parallel economies, and who create everyday tactics to use and misuse the city's public realm.
Furthermore, the research brings into the discussion the concept of self-organization, i.e. intended as reactions to the many social, political and economic problems taking place within the contemporary city. Self-organized groups of citizens develop legal and informal practices as forms of resistance towards the existing conditions and towards the upcoming urban regeneration plans. In this logic, the book displays the high level of participation and the great potential for creativity bore by these grass-roots movements. It is by understanding the city dwellers as potential storytellers that the research aims at representing the discrepancies existing between the narratives produced by public institutions, and those produced by local people.
The book, edited by Emanuele Guidi and published by b_books, Berlin, will be launched on December 11th 2008 by Static organization in collaboration with its director Paul Sullivan.
