Liverpool Biennial 2016.
Citation summary:
Author(s) (Last name, First name): Krysa, Joasia; Tallant, Sally; Willsdon, Dominic; Manacorda, Francesco; Malasauskas, Raimundas; Cooper, Rosie; Brannan, Polly; Bertolotti-Bailey, Francesca; Tan, Yun; Parmar, Sandip; Cairns, Steve.
Author URL: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-arts-professional-and-social-studies/liverpool-school-of-art-and-design/joasia-krysa
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32JK2
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Multiple sites across Liverpool including Tate Liveprool, Bluecoat, Open Eye Gallery, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- July
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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10
- Research group(s)
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2 - Exhibition Research Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The 9th edition of Liverpool Biennial developed from research into exhibitionary practices that examine transnational biennial formats. Engaging the concept of contemporaneity (Osborne, Smith), it sought to reflect on the structures of temporalisation in the light of globalisation and planetary scale computation through curation of the biennial. It took the idea of the episodic - simultaneity as opposed to linear narration - as the grounding principle of the exhibition structure to test experimental, multi-site, multi-narrative, large scale formats. The exhibition was structured as six episodes sited in multiple venues in Liverpool and online in the gaming platform, ‘Minecraft’.
Prof. Krysa co-curated the overall exhibition, while her research specifically underpinned the ‘Software Episode’ to examine non-human and algorithmic processes in exhibition making (with artists Cheng, Treister, Abu Hamdan, Laric). Prof Krysa also authored the chapter, “Episodic in Computational Worlds” (Liverpool University Press); organised an international conference, ‘The Biennial Condition: On Contemporaneity and the Episodic’, with Danish Research Council funded Aarhus University’s research project, ‘Contemporary Condition’ (DKK 650 000); and edited journal volume, ‘The Biennial Condition’, Stages, 06/2016. The project generated £5.3 million net contribution to Liverpool economy and £5.5 million to North West, attracting 1.2 million visitors.
The curation of LB2016 informed the focus of research at LJMU's Exhibition Research Lab , led by Prof. Krysa. The innovative curatorial model of LB2016 has been widely cited and led to further invitations (e.g. to author a chapter for ‘Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research’, Sternberg 2020), and informed new research (e.g. doctoral thesis: Costantin. P., ‘Machines will watch us die: a curatorial study of the contemporaneity of digital decay’, MMU 2019). As a result, digital art commissioning is now part of new LB programme in partnership with The Whitney Musuem of Amercian Art (i.e. artists Morehshin Allahyari, Ubermorgen).
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