Liverpool Biennial 2012
In 2012, Metal was invited for the first time to become a host partner to The Liverpool Biennial 2012. This ten week festival showcased some of the best contemporary art in the world. The theme of 2012 festival was The Unexpected Guest which explored notions of hospitality. For the duration of the festival Metal transformed Edge Hill Station into a pop up cafe/salon with artist commissions, discussion events and performances.
METAL presents CAFÉ VALISE
A pop-up café and arts venue at Edge Hill Station for the Liverpool Biennial Poetry, reading room, artist cooked lunches, discussions, evening performances, music, film, artists talks, tea + coffee, a warm welcome and much more...
Saturday 15 September – Friday 23 November 2012
Programme of Events at Café Valise:
JOHN COOPER CLARKE
Welcome Aboard!
Sat 15 Sept – Fri 28 Sept Daily at 12.01
Preview Event: Friday 14th Septc- running on the hour at 16.01, 17.01, 18.01, 19.01
Metal have commissioned cult punk poet, John Cooper Clarke to create a spoken word soundtrack to welcome visitors on their short train journey to Café Valise from Liverpool Lime Street to Edge Hill Station. Played daily (except Sundays) through a specially designed player by artist Sam Venables on the Northern Rail 12.01pm train to Wigan (Edge Hill Station is the first stop).
You can listen to it and download it here:
John Cooper Clarke poem by Metalculture
In the Café: LUNCH DATES
Sat 15 Sept – Fri 28 Sept 2012 Daily at 12.01 – 2pm
To accompany John Cooper Clarke's soundtrack, Guest Artists hosted a daily, free lunchtime discussion in Café Valise. A variety of creative practitioners were invited to design a menu and propose a topic for discussion each day. Including, amongst others; writer and journalist, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, novelist Rosie Thomas, stand-up comedian Shaista Aziz and choreographer Fearghus O’Conchuir.
The event started each day on the 12.01pm Northern Rail train to Edge Hill Station from Lime Street in the centre of Liverpool (see John Cooper Clarke listing above). On arrival at Edge Hill there was an opportunity to look around the historic building, chat to the guest artists as they prepare lunch or browse through our specially collated library of books and films on the Biennial theme of ‘the unexpected guest’ before sitting down to lunch with other visitors.
Here is a film commissioned by Metal and made by Ben Morgan during the 2012 Lunch Dates:
Lunch dates:
Sat 15 Sept: Rosie Thomas. Novelist
Rosie Thomas was born and bred in Flintshire. A visit to Liverpool (the Mersey Tunnel!) was a big excursion, and must have kindled an early taste for adventure. Having worked as a women’s magazine journalist and a publisher, she began writing fiction after the birth of her first child. Since then she has published 20 novels and a travel book, and has discovered that what it takes to generate an idea is not to sit in the back bedroom staring at the keyboard - or not all the time - but to get out and look at the world. She is a weekend mountaineer, and an enthusiastic adventure traveller. Last year she followed in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton in crossing the sub-antarctic peaks and glaciers of South Georgia, and after the Metal event she headed for the high mountains of Lunana in the Bhutanese Himalaya. Her latest novel is The Kashmir Shawl.
Mon 17 Sept: Bronac Ferran. Visual Artist/Curator
Bronac Ferran is a writer and curator. She curated ‘Poetry, Language, Code’ at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge in June 2012. She is working on an essay for a forthcoming exhibition catalogue of a new show by London Fieldworks with Gustav Metzger, to be published by Black Dog later this year. In 2010 she curated a summer school on design and ageing in Beijing for the RCA. She is also working for the AHRC on an event about Digital Transformation.
Tues 18 Sept: Donna Berry. Visual Artist
Donna Berry is an artist and sculptor from Birmingham. She has lived and worked in Liverpool for a number of years completing a variety of public realm commissions. Donna Berry is a Liverpool based artist originating from the industrial heart of the West Midlands. She attended John Moores University, Liverpool where she obtained her Degree in Fine Art. She has been nominated for Beck’s Futures, 2004 and British Arts 6 in 2005. Donna’s art practice continues to be influenced by her everyday interactions, observations and surroundings of which can range from the domestic to her socio – political observations. She comments that it is the comic and sometimes tragic aspects of the domestic nature of her own and contemporary society’s reality, that which appears almost imperceptible however, is in-effect relatively rapidly changing? It is these explorations of the subtle shifts in personal, social, corporate and global practices and culture’s that is of most interest to her.
Wed 19 Sept: Jai Redman. Visual Artist
Jai Redman lives and works in Manchester. He was born in Southampton in the UK in 1971 and as a teenager worked as a graphic artist on a variety of video game releases now considered cult classics. He left the industry to study Fine Art at Reading University and after graduating spent 10 years immersed in environmental activism, working on propaganda strategies throughout the road protests of the 1990’s, with Reclaim the Streets and the anti-globalisation movement. He established UHC in 2002 to initiate a dialogue between these areas of interest.
Jai Redman is a visual artist and Creative Director of Ultimate Holding Company (UHC), the collaborative art and design studio he established in 2002. The group are provocative, creative pioneers with a social agenda: challenging audiences to engage and embrace the role of artist/activist through collaboration.
Jai’s practice produces distinctive work of great beauty. Never located in any single field or format, it borrows from an unending list of disciplines from painting and graphic design to large public installations.
Thurs 20 Sept: Yasmin Alibhai Brown. Writer / Journalist
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown MBE is a Ugandan-born British journalist and author, who describes herself as a "... leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim, part-Pakistani, and... a very responsible person". She has written for The Guardian, Observer, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Evening Standard, the Mail and other newspapers and is now a regular columnist on The Independent. She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books. Her book, No Place Like Home, well received by critics, was an autobiographical account of a twice removed immigrant. She advises various key institutions on race matters. She is also a regular international public speaker in Britain, other European countries, North America and Asian nations. She is a diversity adviser to global companies and organisations. She is a governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a trustee of Dash Arts set up by the acclaimed theatre director Tim Supple and is also on the board of Metal. Yasmin has gained numerous accolades including BBC ASIA Award for achievement in writing, GG2 Leadership and Diversity award Media Personality of the Year and George Orwell Prize for political journalism. In 2001 she was appointed an MBE for services to journalism in the New Year’s honours list, a medal she returned in 2003 as a protest against the illegal war in Iraq. Her book, The Settler’s Cookbook, a food memoir on East African Asians was published in the spring of 2009 and was book of the week on BBC Radio4. It has been described by critics as ‘groundbreaking’ ‘wonderful’ and ‘elegiac’. She is currently writing a book titled Exotic England. She has just been awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to research the book. She has been voted one of the top ten most powerful Asians in Britain and one of the most influential voices on the left. In May 2011, she was invited to speak at a prestigious TED salon in London and described the theme of her new book to a surprised and very interested audience.
Fri 21 Sept: Fearghus O'Conchuir. Choreographer
Fearghus O’Conchuir is an independent choreographer and dance artist. Brought up in Ireland, he completed degrees in English and European Literature at Magdalen College Oxford, before training at London Contemporary Dance School. Fearghus’s work investigates the relationship between individuals and determining social and political structures. He involves audiences and performers in multi-layered encounters with our sense of place, identity and history. His film and live performances, seen in Europe, the US and China, are affecting, thought-provoking and deeply resonant with audiences. Recent work includes Tabernacle, addressing the impact of religion on the body and Starlight, a promenade performance about charisma. In 2013, he will premiere Cure, a piece about what it takes to recover. Fearghus was the first Ireland Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme and continues to contribute to the programme as a facilitator and speaker. He is curating a think-tank on professional development for artists as part of the Modul Dance Programme. He is a Board member of Project Arts Centre and Dance Digital and is part of Project Catalyst, the Associate Artist Initiative of Project Arts Centre.
Sat 22 Sept: Shaista Aziz. Stand up Comedian/Journalist.
Shaista Aziz is a former BBC and Aljazeera journalist, a regular contributor to BBC radio, and writes for the Guardian and Pakistan's Dawn newspaper. Shaista is an aid work with MSF/ Doctors Without Borders, and is a storyteller and a stand up comedian. She's traveled extensively and worked in countries as diverse as Yemen, Burma, Tajikistan, Haiti, Iraq and Syria. Shaista was a semi finalist at the Funny Women competition and won the prestigious Comedy Store King Gong open mic competition for new stand ups. She has performed stand up at the Edinburgh Festival, Hong Kong international comedy festival and across the UK. She uses her experiences as a British Muslim woman who ends up in the middle of everything to create comedy. She's currently writing a sitcom.
Mon 24 Sept: Heidi Wigmore. Visual Artist
Recent projects include 'Independent Free State' - a drawing based 'Campaign for Imaginative space' incorporating a billboard artwork in central London and a contemporary 'Shell Grotto' constructed inside a beach hut on the South Bank as part of the Festival of Britain Anniversary. Her practice is drawing-based and multidisciplinary including installation, props, film and performative work through live drawing as 'spectacle'. Earlier this year she completed a residency in the Virgin Islands, facilitating live drawing events on the beach with local people that became an alternative tourist attraction by way of an antidote to the luxury cruise ship scene. Her imagery references Paleolithic carved figurines, classical relics and idols, dolls and mannequins. She is interested in the desires and anxieties aroused by these objects, the abject or imperfect imitation of the human: she/it looks human but she is not what she seems. Her sources are museum collections, archival books, found images, film stills she likes to reflect on how these images appear to ‘choose her’ i.e. the psychic work of appropriation, representation as recognition.
Tues 25 Sept: Gina Czarnecki. Visual Artist.
Gina Czarnecki’s work crosses multiple genres and platforms, encompassing film, installations, public artworks and sculpture. Her work is inspired by human biology, perception and belief and is influenced by the arena of biomedical science. Czarnecki’s work has been exhibited internationally at major museums and festivals including; the Natural History Museum, London, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne, Adelaide Film Festival, Ars Electronica, Sundance Film Festival. in 2011 she had her first UK retrospective at the Bluecoat in Liverpool and works from this have gone onto exhibition at the Science museum London and her recent works 'Wasted' will be the feature of the Manchester Science festival Oct 2012. She has won prestigious awards including a Creative Scotland Award, and a Fleck Fellowship at the Banff Centre, Canada. Her film, Nascent, has been screened extensively across the world, winning several awards and prizes. Her art entices us in to a journey that crosses from a powerful and seductive surface into deeper meanings, rhythms, associations and connections: Through combinations of image, sound, scale and context we arrive into a complex tapestry of associations and meaning.
Wed 26 Sept: David Gyasi. Actor
David Gyasi has just finished shooting a role in the new series of Dr Who and the up and coming film CLOUD ATLAS which is due for release later this year. David Gyasi trained at Middlesex University, studying Arts and Drama and, since the start of his acting career, has played integral roles in critically acclaimed productions across stage, television and film.
In 2005, David starred alongside John Hurt and Hugh Dancy in the BAFTA nominated feature Shooting Dogs, based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide. In 2008, he took to the stage in the National Theatre's multi-award winning production of War Horse, in the role of Captain Stewart. In 2009, David appeared in the ITV mini-series Murderland alongside Robbie Coltrane and Sharon Small. Murderland was a three part British television series created by David Pirie and directed by Catherine Morshead.
Earlier this year David appeared in six part series White Heat for the BBC. Directed by John Alexander and written by Paula Milne, David played Victor Bailey, one of the central characters, opposite Sam Claflin, Claire Foy, Reece Ritchie, MyAnna Buring, Lee Ingleby and Jessica Gunning. The series charted the lives of seven friends from 1965 through to the present day.
Also in 2012, David was seen in George Lucas’ World War II film Red Tails, The opening episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who. Later this year you will be able to catch David in the Highly ambitious and highly anticipated ‘Cloud Atlas’ film by Tom Tykwer (Perfume, Run Lola Run), Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski’s (Matrix, V for Vendetta) playing alongside, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Susan Sarandon and many more.
Thurs 27 Sept: Esther Wilson. Playwright.
Esther has written extensively for stage, TV & radio. Her first R4 play ‘Hiding Leonard Cohen’ won a Mental Health in Media award. The Heroic Pursuits of Darleen Fyles was shortlisted for numerous awards, and has since been developed into a series. Series 2 aired in March of this year. Her stage play ‘Soulskin’ toured nationally with Red Ladder. She was lead writer on ‘Unprotected’ (Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. R4 version was shortlisted for a Prix Italia Europa award). ‘Ten Tiny Toes’ won one of the international Susan Blackburn Smith awards and was shortlisted for a TMA award. Working with Zho Visual Theatre she was commissioned to write a site specific piece ‘The Quiet Little Englishman’ set in a disused cinema. The piece was hugely ambitious and critically acclaimed. Esther is presently developing another site specific piece with Zho Visual Theatre ‘The Last Paddling Pool at the End of the World’ for 2021.
Her TV work includes episodes of Jimmy McGovern’s The Street (Soldier’s Story won an RTS award for best newcomer) & Accused ‘Kenny’s Story’. She has written for BBC daytime dramas ‘Moving On’ & ‘Justice’. She’s currently writing an episode of a new prime time series with Neal Street Productions, for the BBC. She has her own TV series ‘Bite’ in development and has been commissioned to write her first feature film. Esther’s interest in writing for children’s theatre was stimulated while writing ‘Noah’s Ark’ for Walk the Plank (co-written with Lee Beagley). A complex story told through symbolism, myth and the language of theatre. She then went on to write ‘In Search of Fabulous Beasts’ for Fuse at Unity’s Children’s Theatre Festival and the Unity Theatre’s Christmas Show ‘Pinocchio’ with Zho Visual Theatre. She sees the First Words project as a time to explore various ways of live story telling & is hoping to develop the necessary skills to enhance her work when writing for children.... ....but more importantly Esther Wilson has two fine sons.
Fri 28 Sept: Martyn Ware (Human League, Heaven17). Musician/Music Producer.
Martyn Ware. Born in 1956 in Sheffield, UK. After leaving school worked in computers for 3 years, in 1978 formed The Human League. Formed production company/label British Electric Foundation in 1980 and formed Heaven 17 the same year. Martyn has written, performed and produced two Human League, two BEF and nine Heaven 17 albums. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totaling over 50 million sales worldwide - producing Tina Turner, Terence Trent D’Arby, Chaka Khan, Erasure, Marc Almond, Boy George, Mavis Staples, etc. Founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2000 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique three-dimensional sound technology in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world. Clients include: Mayor Of London, Brighton City Council, BP, Ogilvy, The British Council, The Science Museum, The Royal Ballet, Amnesty International, The V&A Museum, Mute Records, BBC TV, the Royal Observatory Greenwich, BAFTA , Museum Of London. Etc.
Suzanne Lacy
Visual artist Suzanne Lacy hosts a series of events that give young people, politicians and community leaders the chance to speak openly about the subject of rape and domestic violence.
Party for Freedom
Oreet Ashery
Thursday 11 October 7pm
Live artist, Oreet Ashery presented a section from her new project Party for Freedom, a poignant and humorous examination of populist claims that portray immigration and Islam as a threat to Western values of Freedom. The event included, film, live music and a presentation. Read more.
The Pendle Witches: a night of spoken word, music and film
The Hive Collective and Metal
Thursday 25 October 7:30pm
A unique audio-visual event evoking the alienating nature of the famous Pendle Witch Trials of 1612, with visual artist, Sam Wiehl and guests, including a brass composition originally performed in 1996 by the world famous Black Dyke Band. Conceived in response to the 400th anniversary commemorations.
The Atlas Project
Thomas Joshua Cooper
Thursday 8 November 7pm
Thomas Joshua Cooper is a photographer who travels to the World’s most extreme and inhospitable places to capture a single image on a single frame. He talked about The Atlas Project, his twenty-one year epic project to photograph the Atlantic Basin, which has taken him to the Arctic, South Africa, Scandinavia and beyond.
This event is kindly supported by Shedkm
ConFusion
Jonathan Aasgaard, Manuella Blackburn, Tom Challenger
Thursday 22 November 8pm
Jonathan Aasgaard, RLPO’s Principal Cellist and current artist-in-residence at Metal, presented an evening of contemporary music with special guests, Manuella Blackburn and Tom Challenger.
The Psychic Power of Plants
Ailie Rutherford
Tuesday 20th to Thursday 22nd November, daily from 1pm
Artist Ailie Rutherford explored the bizarre body of evidence that suggests plants have an ability to preconceive events, anticipate the future and transmit knowledge.
IMAGES:
1) Cafe Valise at Metal Peterborough
2) Jonathan Aasgaard
3) © Oreet Ashery, Party for Freedom, still, 2012
4) Pendle Witches, Sam Wiehl
5) Thomas Joshua Cooper. Copyright the artist, courtesy the artist & Haunch of Venison, London
6) Ailie Rutherford: The Psychic Power of Plants
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Clarke has opened for such acts as the Sex Pistols, The Fall, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, and New Order. He has more recently been opening for Arctic Monkey’s at major venues on their recent sell out tours, breaking a whole new generation of fans. His poem "Out of Control Fairground" was printed inside Arctic Monkeys' single "Fluorescent Adolescent" CD. The poem is also the inspiration behind the single's video in which clowns brawl. Another poem was printed inside the 10" release of the same single. Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys has said he is very fond of Cooper Clarke's work And has a tattoo of his name and takes inspiration for lyrics from his poems. A version of his poem "Evidently Chickentown" is performed at the start and end of the video for Joy Division's "Transmission" single which shows John Cooper Clarke reading the refrain. Clarke's recording of "Evidently Chickentown" from his album Snap, Crackle & Bop was also featured prominently in the closing scene of The Sopranos episode Stage 5. A live performance of the same poem appears in the film Control with Clarke portraying himself in a re-creation of a 1977 concert where he supported Joy Division. His performance at last year’s Latitude Festival saw The Poetry Arena Stage filled to its 500 capacity within 20 minutes of opening. The organisers laid on external sound which saw a crowd of 1500 gather to lay worhship to their ever evolving hero. He is the headline act at the sold out ‘Meltdown festival’ at the South Banks Queen Elizabeth Hall in June 2011.
Suzanne Lacy is an artist, writer and video producer whose work includes large scale performances on urban themes. She is a theorist of public art and a pioneer in community development through art. Lacy is the Executive Artistic Director of TEAM, an organization she founded in 1991 with photographer Chris Johnson and producer Annice Jacoby. She has been a driving force in the public art movement for over twenty years and is best known for her socially oriented, large scale, tableauölike installations and performances. These structures combine art exhibits, performances, video and audio tracks, workshops, collaborations, public speak outs, symposia and demonstrations - all amplified by extensive media coverage. Dependent on long-term involvement of participants and community organizing, Lacy orchestrates complex behind-the-scenes scenarios, directing teams of collaborating artists and choreographing the movement of scores of non-artists who come together to address social issues and build community through her experiential, experimental art process.
Oreet Ashery is a visual artist, internationally renowned for her ongoing interrogations of art, politics, selfhood and representation, particularly in the context of minority discourses. Ashery's practice spans performance, still and moving-image and objects, as well as participatory events, platforms and situations. Ashery's work is complex and relational whilst remaining accessible, inclusive and humorous. Ashery exhibits, performs, intervenes and screens her work extensively in an international context, including biennials, museums, galleries, contemporary art-centres and festivals, as well as alternative and context-specific sites including curators' bedrooms and a men-only religious celebration. Ashery's work has been published and discussed in numerous art and cultural publications in many languages and her work is in worldwide private and public collections. Ashery is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Drama Department of Queen Mary University London and she is a lecturer at the Art Department in Goldsmiths. Her latest project, Party for Freedom, was developed through workshops for Artsadmin (London, UK), Performance Matters: Trashing Performance (Suffolk, UK), Teak Theatre Academy (Helsinki, Finland), Le Transpalette Centre d'Art Contemporain (Bourges, France) and Metal (Southend on Sea, UK).
Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. He was born in California in 1946 but has lived in Scotland for many years. Cooper is the founding head of photography at Glasgow School of Art but spends much of his life seeking out the edges of the world. Like artists such as Richard Long, and Hamish Fulton, Cooper is a traveller, a nomadic artist whose extraordinary photographs are made in series at significant points around the globe, most often at its extremities. The capturing of any one image can involve days, weeks and months of preparation, arduous travel and considerable efforts to achieve. The locations are found on a map, tracked down and then photographed, each place the subject of a single negative taken with a weighty antique field camera. They are meditative, almost philosophical images, exquisitely printed by the artist in the 19th century manner with layers of silver and gold chloride.
(IMAGE: Force Majeure, The South Atlantic Ocean, Looking Towards Cabo San Juan...Copyright the artist, courtesy the artist & Haunch of Venison, London)
Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard studied the cello at the Barratt Dues School of Music in Oslo with Bjørn Solum and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. A pupil of the late Prof. Leonard Stehn, Jonathan won all the cello and chamber music prizes and was a Gold Medal finalist. He received his recital Award in 1998 together with a medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. In 1999 he was appointed principal cello of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and has since performed more than 25 works for cello and orchestra with the RLPO. He is regularly invited as a guest principal with several leading British and European orchestras. Chamber music performances have taken him around Europe, the Middle East, Japan, South Korea and the USA including a range of leading festivals. Jonathan Aasgaard will be joined by Special guests Tom Challenger and Manuella Blackburn.
(Image Credit: Barraclough Wolkowicz)
Born in Huddersfield, Tom moved to London at 18, taking up studies at the Guildhall where he graduated with a first class honours degree. He has worked with Micheal Garrick, John Taylor, The LJO, and Clark Tracey to name a few, but also participates in diverse outfits such as Chemba and Shux (part of the Small-Worlds Collective), The John Escreet Quartet, and The Optimist Club. He is also a soloist with The Heritage Orchestra. He also leads a quintet with Phil Donkin, George Fogel, John Blease and Ben Bryant. Assistant tutor at Glamorgan Summer School, private one to one tuition with adults.
Manuella Blackburn is an electroacoustic music composer who specializes in acousmatic music creation. However, she also has composed for instruments and electronics, laptop ensemble improvisations, and music for dance. She studied music at The University of Manchester (England, UK), followed by a Masters in Electroacoustic Composition with David Berezan. She became a member of Manchester Theatre in Sound (MANTIS) in 2006 and completed a PhD at The University of Manchester with Ricardo Climent in 2010.
Sam Wiehl has an art and design background having run a multi-disciplinary studio www.burneverything.co.uk that has ran as a commercial entity but also as an art lab which saw it produce a number of art projects and interactive installations and exhibit nationally. His involvement in the music scene has shaped a lot of the work he does and he continues to explore music’s potential visual narrative and the politics of music culture, both responding and collaborating with musicians on print projects, installations, film, sound & moving image and performance.
Ailie Rutherford’s practice is grounded in the places she works and shaped by the people who actively engage in collaborative processes. She takes her work to unexpected locations and new audiences. Her drawing apparatus gather ideas and images, considering the role of drawing in our creative imagination; how the drawing process can stimulate the thought process, how through sensory isolation we might tap into intermediatory zones and how through drawing we might communicate internal visions. Ailie has recently been using her drawing machines with urban design professionals, looking at the practice of visioning in urban planning and producing works that pose alternative futures.
A Cigarette in a Traffic Jam / Bad Style / Bamuchi / Birkenhead Stomper / Club Foot Chicago / Driving Vans / Drive Throughs / Darts Entrances / Eyelolz / Fierce Dogz / Home Alone 2 / Hidden Tracks / High Viz / In House Jokes / Jan Terri / King of Rock Remixes / Kemp / L A / Metal Themed Food e.g. The Slayer Burger / Mel Gibson in Disguise / Nineties Dashboards / Nike Air Max / Old Tents / PM’s / Pineapple Anything / Quality Meats / Remakes of the Birkenhead Stomper / Styling Mousse / Smithereens / Spliffy Jackets / Shop Fitters / Steve McDonald / Storage Wars / Tommy Wiseau / Two Bottle Dance / Too Much Denim / Two Cars / Themed Hotels / The Oner / Use of the word Roflcopter / Vauxhall Astra Owners Club Mk 1. / Wigan Pier 37 / Wayne Szalinski / Word Art / Workies.
For more information about the Liverpool Biennial 2012, go to their website.