2006 Archive
This, the Independents Biennial 2006 website, is today a research archive and no additional art content will be posted. It is intended to launch here an Independents Biennnial 2008 website early in 2008.INDEPENDENTS 2008
Please note the Independents Biennial Office intends to give notice, on September 20th 2007, of opportunities,schedules and deadlines for the inclusion of artists and others in promotional initiatives and publications throughout the year up to and including the 2008
Biennial.
In the meantime the forum remains live for all and any interested members to post their comments and views. Concurrently, a forum concerning the Independents is alive and kicking at www.artinliverpool.com. The forum strand here will continue to publish at INDEPENDENTS DOCUMENTS minutes of board meetings and the results of negotiations with stakeholders formulated for wider considertion.
These will also be made accessible via the artinliverpool website.
Independents Biennial Liverpool 2006 showcased artwork by over 150 North West, UK and International artists across 62 venues and spaces throughout the city of Liverpool.
The artworld equivalent of a festival fringe the Independents mix of exhibitions, live art, performances, interventions and happenings emerged and spread across the city into every available space. The Independents were not themed, categorised or curated by the City’s institutions, they existed on their own terms, doing their own thing, looking for attention, dialogue and interaction.
For ten weeks, these artists extended an open invitation to all those curious to seek out the undiscovered, prepared to be surprised, engaged, challenged.
Interviews with artists and Independents news and reviews were posted weekly the archive of listings can be found under the Events tab, a series of interviews from some of the curators and contributing artists can be found below.
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Independents Feature Articles:
* On Max Zadow by Tim Birch
* On Michelle Wren by Tim Birch
* The Art Organisation (TAO) : On Gregory Scott-Gurner by Cecilia Andersson
* Cape Farewell : Art and Climate Change by Peter Hagerty
* I’ll Be Your Mirror - Curator David Hancock by Leo Wood
* Real Life, the Private and the Public : On Nina Edge by Alex Hetherington
* On Ben Parry & Jacques Chaumat by Leo Wood
* On Gino Saccone by Alex Hetherington
* On Adam Nankervis by Alex Hetherington
* On Nadim Karam by Alex Hetherington
In Another Place
As Antony Gormley’s iron men sculptures near the end of their long stay on Crosby Beach more and more people are photographing each other with the life-size statues. Some confront the sculptures; others treat it as a member of the family. The sculptures have been dressed up, occasionally – some poseurs have almost matched their nudity!The Independents created a web exhibition of a photograph throughout the Biennial period.
See all of the "In Another Place" submissions