A free symposium, in partnership with Liverpool Hope University, bringing together key thinkers, artists, and cultural workers to reflect critically on pressing issues raised by problems for, and relations between the arts, democracy and the city in the 21st century.
Speakers include: , Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London and , Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Environment at Plymouth University; , Professor of Theatre in the Department of English at King’s College London; Dr , Lecturer in Drama at the Department of Dance, Drama and Performance Studies, Liverpool Hope University.
Other contributors include local radical arts organisations: ; Kate Stewart, Director of ‘We Make Places and Friends of the Flyover’; ;Ìý.Ìý
Framing the symposium and on the occasion of the 9th Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool will be presenting an episode on Ancient Greece, showing classical sculptures from the collection at National Museums Liverpool alongside newly commissioned art works by Koenraad Dedobbeleer (Belgium), Jumana Manna (Palestine) and Betty Woodman (USA), among others. The artists imagine a world where ancient Greek and contemporary artists have collaborated; merging past, present and future into a single fiction, just like the city’s architects did when they designed Liverpool’s neoclassical buildings in the 1800s.
Programmed in association with Liverpool Hope University.