About
S.Q.U.A.T. (Social Questioning Using Art Today) Liverpool is the umbrella title for the collaborative project between the New York-based group, No Longer Empty (NLE) and the UK-based group, The Art Organisation (TAO), it is one of six official projects in this year's Liverpool Biennial.
No Longer Empty
The No Longer Empty (NLE) Liverpool Biennial Exhibition is curated and produced by Asher Remy-Toledo, who co-founded the group with Manon Slome in New York in response to the current economic crisis. Their mission is to introduce art to a wider public by temporarily transforming vacant spaces.
Through the exhibitions NLE produce they encourage new models of collaboration between international artists, curators, museums, grassroots organisations and generous landlords. Using limited resources, but without compromising on quality, NLE manages to shift the paradigm of how art is experienced, and, ultimately, who it is for. Liverpool marks the premiere of No Longer Empty on the Road before continuing on to other locations.
The Art Organisation
(TAO) Property Solutions TAO, founded and run by Robert Howie Smith and Greg Scott-Gurner, has been active for the last ten years in helping to establish spaces and opportunities for artists and creative communities in Liverpool and across the UK by enabling the legal occupation of disused spaces. TAO Property Solutions, based on Slater Street, launched in March this year and is the new branch of TAO established to take on the specific role of brokering this interaction. It enables a clear and confidential point of contact between owners and future tenants, maintaining portfolios of available spaces and potential projects.
No Longer Empty Exhibitions:
Phase 5
15 - 21 Seel Street
Hours: Opening weekend Sat 18 and Sun 19 Sep 12 7pm
Exhibition continues: Tue 21 Sep Sat 27 Nov 2010, open Tuesday Saturday, 2 6pm
A former bank and abandoned nightclub development, Phase 5 will feature works by ten international artists working at the forefront of experimentation with new technologies in sound:
Juan Cruz, Joe Diebes, Clemencia Echeverri, Phil Jeck, Ray Lee, Mayke Nas & Wouter Snoei, Miguel Angel Rios, Jani Ruscica, Giuseppe Stampone, Imogen Stidworthy.
binarycell
40 Seel Street
Hours: Opening weekend Sat 18 Sep 12 7pm (binarycell after party continues until midnight), Sun 19 Sep 12 7pm
Exhibition continues: Tue 21 Sep Sat 27 Nov 2010, open Tuesday Saturday, 2 6pm
Occupying the ground floor of the binarycell, a new multimedia lab building, New York-based artist Ted Riederer's Never Records is a record store turned art installation, continuing and developing a project which took over the former Tower Records store in New York City.
Drive-Thru Gallery
Renshaw Hall Car Park, Benson Street off Renshaw Street, L1
Hours: Daily 12 noon to 5 PM, Sat 18 Sep - Sat 27 Nov 2010
Marina Rosenfeld: Public Address no.2
Borrowing its form from the sound systems of social gathering places, Rosenfeld's Public Address no.2 (2010), will use the complex overhead airspace and daily function of Liverpool's historic Renshaw Hall, now a car park, as both a reflecting and distorting structure for sound.
Also part of No Longer Empty:
Kaarina Kaikkonen at FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L14DQ
Hours: Mon to Sat: 11am - 6pm, Sun: 12 - 6pm, Sat 18 Sep - Sat 27 Nov 2010
Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen's work crosses the boundaries between sculpture, installation and architecture, for the 6th Liverpool Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art she will be taking over the atrium of FACT with a piece of sculptural work made from second hand clothes donated by people from the city.
