Eight
Days A Week 2002 : Liverpool
Cologne 50th Twinning Anniversary 2002 exhibitions & events program
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Bryan Biggs, Director of Bluecoat Arts Center.
Introduces
Eight Days A Week: an
art exchange project between Liverpool and Cologne taking
place between May-September 2002. A leading European center
for art, Cologne has major museum collections, an unparalleled
commercial gallery scene and a large community of artist.
Liverpool, with its national collections at the Walker, the
Tate and the Biennial-the UK's largest modern contemporary
art event - has a growing reputation in the visual arts.
Unsurprisingly, art has therefore been an important element
of the twinning, most recently through Eight Days A Week,
a unique program of exhibitions, residencies, films, performances
and publications involving in the past four years alone over
60 artists and many more workshop participant.
This year sees artists from Liverpool and Cologne visiting
each other's cities in a series of exhibitions and events
encompassing crafts, video, painting, installation, photography,
architecture, printmaking, digital media and performance involving
galleries, colleges, artist' spaces, civic buildings and the
internet. Audiences will be able to see the fruits of the
creative collaboration in the following programme:
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Eight
Days A Week :
Welcomes by the Leaders of the city's.
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Cologne carnival 9-12th February 2002
Cologne hosted 20 paraders promoting Liverpool's Capital Culture bid
at their Annual Carnival, televised across Germany and attended by
1.5million people.
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Liverpool Chambers of commerce visit 24th -
27th May 2002
LCCI have been invited by the City Council of Cologne to participate
in an Exhibition that will include a display of the links between
the Chamber's youth training company, Mersey Chamber Training Limited
and its local partners BBZ and Berufskolleg Sudstadt. ____________________________________________________________________________
Renewal of Civic Twinning Ceremony in Cologne
24th - 27th May 2002
To be attended
by Lord Mayor and Lady Mayors, where an official twinning document
will be signed in Cologne. This event will be used as an opportunity
to promote Liverpool's aspiration to be European Capital of Culture
for 2008. During the Civic visit, Cologne will host a 2 day workshop
related to culture and job creation themes. ____________________________________________________________________________
Ecumenical pilgrimages to Cologne May - July
2002
This Springtime sees the reawakening of a grand ecumenical vision.
The churches of Liverpool will remake contact with the churches of
Cologne on two occasions in May. The first visit, 4th - 11 th May,
will be in response to an invitation from Cologne Church for Liverpool
ecumenical representatives to be present at the 200th Anniversary
Celebrations of the Cologne Protestant Church. The second visit will
support the Civic delegation to Cologne, to be led by the Lord and
Lady Mayors. The Pilgrimage will take place from 22nd -28th May and
will include a Festival Sunday Service.
The Cologne churches will make a return visit
to Liverpool from July 20 - 27th, to be hosted by the Dean of the
Anglican Cathedral and Liverpool partner church representatives.
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Cologne liverpool Art exhibitions May - September
2002
A development of Cologne and Liverpool artists'
exchanges, coordinated via a consortium of artists led by the Bluecoat
Gallery and the Cologne Federation of Visual Arts.
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Jawne in Cologne Exhibition October 2002
This exhibition
details the history of the first Jewish Grammar School in the Rhine
and it arose out of the sadness that traces the lives and experiences
of some of the former pupils of Die Jane Zu Koln'. Many pupils whose
lives were inextricably touched by their escape to
Liverpool, Manchester and London.
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Art in education
projects July - August 2002
Euforia International Youth Exchange Project
- Hope Street Limited are hosting 12 countries including Cologne to
deliver a performance and parade during the Queen's visit and the
Spirit of Friendship Festival.
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Cologne Chambers
of commerce and the British consulate
September/early October 2002
To visit Cologne and Dusseldorf over this period. Several Liverpool
companies have already expressed interest and Liverpool Chamber aim
to create a party of around 20 companies. This will also be supported
by the DTI through the Export Explorer Programme.
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Mayor Schramma
of Cologne
viset 22nd - 25th July 2002
Mayor Schramma
and a delegation of officers, from Cologne's Municipality plan to
visit Liverpool to coincide with the Queen's Jubilee visit to the
city in July. A program of visits paying particular attention to youth,
arts and culture and job creation activities, will form a major part
of his tour of the city.
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Businesses
seeking to trade with Germany .Cologne
21st - 23rd November 2002
Arrangements are being made by Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry
and the North West Training Council to attend the above event with
an Exhibition Stand promoting youth training links and products and
services available through Liverpool businesses seeking to trade with
Germany.
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Kloned -ST. Edwards college Physical theatre
tuesday July 23rd 2002 St. Georges Hall Liverpool
A piece of representational
physical theatre that reflects the cultural and social relationships
between Liverpool and Cologne that has been active for over 50 years.
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Cologne Chambers
of commerce.
To be attended by Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, where an official
twinning document will be signed in Cologne. This event will be used
as an opportunity to promote Liverpool's aspiration to be European
Capital of Culture for 2008. During the Civic visit, Cologne will
host a 2day workshop related to culture and job creation themes.
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Liverpool chambers
of international trade exhibition
24th-27th may 2002
Cologne Chamber
have been invited intend to attend the event with an Exhibition Stand
which will acknowledge the 50th Anniversary of the Twinning and promote
German companies, who will also be in the City for a period of a week
meeting with Liverpool companies.
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Neil
Morris & Paul Davidson : Two English Men in Cologne - Hat der
Teufel Einen Sohn
Graph
ikwerkstatt, Cologne
25 May- 21 June.
Opening: 24.5.2002 at 20.00 o'clock
Two printmakers teaching at Liverpool Art School / John Moores University
present an exhibition of prints as part of a continuing exchange with
Cologne printmakers from Graph ikwerkstatt.Neil Morris, Paul Davidson,
seriousness
only if it is a matter of informing her students in the technology
of the printing. Otherwise they attack everything, also the exchange
with the Cologne artists who should be also invited in future again
to exhibits in the Hope Street Gallery.
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Padraig
Timoney and Neville Gabie : Bluecoat Gallery
8th August-8th September 2002
BBK, Cologne Exhibition from Bluecoat Gallery, comprising Timoney's
paintings and Gabie's photos of improvised goalposts from around the
world.
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'Collaborators'
Neil Morris & Tracy Brown Pete Clarke & Georg Gartz
Hope Street Gallery, Liverpool Art School 14 - 27 June 2002
Private View: June 25, 5.30 - 8.OOpm
Liverpool Art
School and `Eight Days a Week' presents artists' from Liverpool and
Cologne who make collaborative paintings, printmaking and drawing
to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the town's twinning.
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Moltkerei
Video Screening / workshop.
`Moltkerie Galerie', Koln 2002
Moltkestrasse
8, 50674 COLOGNE.
3rd May - 11th May, 2002
Open: Monday to Friday : 3 - 6, Saturday: 1- 3
Simon Gross, Rebecca Reid, Peter Wobser
In the videotapes of three graduates Liverpool kind of School and
the University of Central Lancashire so different elements meet like
the typically English humor, the interpersonal behavior, the omnipresent
supervision by video and a meditation about the symbolic salary of
the classical architecture of Saint George's Hall.
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Made
in Cologne / Found in Liverpool
3rd May - 29th May, 2002
Opening: 3.5.2002 at 16.00 o'clock
Five artists
from Cologne Inge Hueber, Angelika Kissing, Sophie Kreidt, Veronika
Moos-Brochhagen and Helga Reay-Young founded the group „ made
in Cologne “ to call an art project in the life which should
remind especially of the 50-year-old Städtpartnerschaft.
www.made-in-koeln.com
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The
View Two Gallery , Made in Cologne / Found in Liverpool
23 Mathew
Street, Liverpool
13th June
– 25th July, 2002 (opening: 12th June, 2002)
open: Thursday – Saturday 12.00-16.00 o:clock
Five artists
from Cologne Inge Hueber, Angelika Kissing, Sophie Kreidt, Veronika
Moos-Brochhagen and Helga Reay-Young founded the group „ made
in Cologne “ to call an art project in the life which should
remind especially of the 50-year-old Städtpartnerschaft.
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Paul
Sullivan: Coincidence II / 2002
Cultural centre Ignis, Elsa-Brändström-Str.6, 50668 Cologne
4th May
– 31st May, 2002
Opening: 3.5.2002 at 20.00 o'clock
An exhibit together
with artists from Germany, Poland, Nigeria, Russia and Turkey
The work with the title "Scale" connects drawing and architecture.
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Tenantspin
Webcast
Wednesday
5 June, 2-3 pm Webcast
tenantspin is the UK's only tenant-run Internet TV channel. Join its
web cast between Liverpool and Cologne as tenants discuss pensioners'
activism across Europe. Information: Alan Dunn, tenant spin Super
channel Manager at FACT, dunn@fact.co.uk and www.tenantspin.org
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Kiinstwerk
goes Liverpool.
8-16 June
: Jump Ship Rat, Liverpool
Paintings, drawings and sculpture from Cologne's artist-run venue,
KOnstwerk, plus a programme (8-15 June) of electronic music, DJs,
video and performance. Artists comprise: Anne Cichos, Armin Kuehne,
Fabian Hochscheid, John Miller, Jilrgen Bub, Jung-Suk Ruy, Kalman
Varady, Laurens Schneider, Manfred Gabriel, Marc Dueveneck, Martina
Puetz, Sergej Sologub, Angelica Schubert, Omiwas Lodi, DJ Eiken, Doris
MOcke, Frank Christian Stoffel, Georg Heike, Thilo Skusa, Ewa Latoszek
and Michael Mikena. Programme details from the gallery.
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Internet
collaboration: Geoff Molyneux (Liverpool) and Wolfgang Lüttgen
(Cologne)
7 0 -21
June, The Door, Liverpool
Geoff Molyneux & Wolfgang Liittgens: Collaboration Exhibition
showing the results of an ongoing collaborative artwork created through
email, occasional telephone conversations and rare studio visits between
Geoff Molyneux in Liverpool and Wolfgang Luttgens in Cologne
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Greeting
from Cologne of Rita, Ruth and Georg: Huyton Gallery , Liverpool 2002.
`Grusse
aus Koln von Rita, Ruth und Georg'
2nd July – 8th September, Huyton Gallery, Liverpool
Exhibition of Koln Artists curated by Pete Clarke as part of the fiftieth
anniversary of Koln and Liverpool's cultural connections selected
the German artists Ruth Gilberger, Georg Gartz and Rita Rohlfing for
the Huyton Gallery, Knowsley.
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Geoff
Molyneux: Land slides (installation)
August
– 11th August Opening 2nd Auguest at 20.00 o'clock
Bonn embankment Shipyard, Cologne
Geoff
Molyneux is a traveller between the worlds, for him the borders are
fluent between painting, object art and action art. For this new installation
uses Molyneux the photo material of earlier projects which he projects
on a construction from chairs and tables.
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Gorilla
Tactics II : Jump Ship Rat Gallery
1st -31st
August
Deutz-Mülheimer-Str. 127-129, 51063. Cologne
The opening
exhibit of the Liverpool gallery Jump Ship rat in 2001 was a living
mixture of happening with installation, created by the artists of
the gallery Ben Parry and Robert McCafferty and guest's artists from
Paris and Glasgow. Now to the one-year-old existence they want to
present in the Cologne piece of art the action „ gorilla of
Tactics II “, together with the artists Jacques Chauchat, Emma
Neilson, to Yabon Paname, Sandrine Peyroux, Myriam Tahir and Guillaume.
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Photography
and picture collages of Wolfgang Luettgens and Geof Molyneux
FLOOR 1 Gladbacher
street.44, 50672 . Cologne
1 August - 6th September
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Spheres
:Veronika Moos-Brochhagen
March 2002
Moos used the same exhibition room in Ignis and manufactured an installation
with the title: “ This work responded to the previous work from
Lin Holland.
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Beniamin
Patterson Liverpool Biennial 2002
Liverpool John Moores University & University of Central Lancashire,
Preston.
A project organised by Pete Clarke, Colin Fallows, Liverpool Art School
and Geoff Molyneux, Liverpool City College to present work, a lecture
programme and performance by international renowned `Fluxus' artist
Benjamin Patterson in October & November 2002. Patterson is a
classically trained musician from the USA who is now based in Wiesbaden.
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