Exhibition
Ciarán Wood
16 Jun 2022 – 10 Jul 2022
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 32 Seel Street
- Liverpool
England - L1 4BE
- United Kingdom
Liverpool-born artist Ciaran Wood uses archive footage of Coopers, a lively city-centre karaoke pub, to mount a poetic exploration of the area's social, architectural and class histories.
About
Kicking off OUTPUT’s 2022/23 Arts Council-funded programme is a solo exhibition by Ciarán Wood, a Liverpool-born artist who works primarily with video, using historical and personal footage to interrogate the purpose and function of recording events. His film ‘Echo in Time’ sees the artist utilise footage shot by his Father (photographer Tom Wood) in Cooper's Town House in Liverpool in the early 2000s. This busy, karaoke-centric city-centre pub (previously known as the Sefton) sits on Cases Street, in an area with historical links to the slave trade, which has seen extensive redevelopment since the 1960s.The film resonates strongly in the current era, showing a close-knit local community which finds joy and familiarity in regular gatherings, imbuing the physical space of the pub with an overwhelming sense of personality and the ability to unite disparate groups in camaraderie and song. In exploring the social and architectural history of this area, Wood reveals universal truths about the marginalisation of working class spaces and culture in contemporary Britain. ‘Echo in Time’ is warm, nostalgic and honest; a must-see for Liverpool residents who have lived through the urban and social upheaval depicted in the film.
Please join us for the exhibition launch from 6-8pm on Thursday, 16th June.
