Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non- Knowledge No.11
On Waste: The Disappearance and Comeback of Things.
Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge. Photo by Stephan Beer
On Saturday 29th November 2008 I was one of 50 'experts' that contributed to Blackmarket at The Bluecoat, Liverpool: An Installation with 50 Experts, a Digression on the Rhetorics of Dialogue and a Shadow Play for a Dialogue Duo.
30 Minutes in Silence
Blackmarket formed part of Liverpool Live programme for the Liverpool Biennial 2008 and was one of the foremost spectacles of the Capital of Culture programme which has generated £800m for the regional economy through the appropriation of the work of artists, musicians and other cultural practitioners. By December 2008 ' £176m had been brought in to the city through tourism alone, with a record one million hotel beds sold', in addition to 'unprecedented media coverage calculated to be worth more than £200m globally'. For Blackmarket, a group of local ‘experts’ had been amassed to perform for an audience by engaging in intimate dialogue with members of the public. Suffering from the fatigue of a year of unwitting performance by artists for the purpose of the regional and global economy I invited visiting members of the public to collaborate with me on 30 Minutes in Silence, an underperformance in which we attempted to resist the social, personal and professional pressure to perform to the best of one's ability.
Figures quoted from Liverpool08 website, 17/12/08. http://www.liverpool08.com/archive/index.asp?tcmuri=tcm:146-143523&ipage=1&m=Dec&y=08
Blackmarket
Blackmarket is an interdisciplinary research session on learning and un-learning where narrative formats of knowledge transfer are tried out and presented. The installation imitates familiar places of knowledge exchange, like the archive or library reading room, and combines them with communication situations such as markets, stock exchanges, counselling or social service interviews.
Each Blackmarket presents a different topic, generating an encyclopaedia with local experts. In Liverpool the theme deals with the relationship between human beings and their material world, the moment when things lose their form, deteriorate, rot, explode, slide into decay; and when remembrance and forgetting lose their distinction. In our economy of waste, rubbish is the repressed side of consumption, whilst non-biodegradable, radioactive toxins have made waste an ecological survival problem. In response to this we have developed a range of methods to stabilise waste, such as recycling, burning, conserving or archiving.
At this new Blackmarket you could book a 30-minute one-to-one dialogue with one of 50 experts recruited from Liverpool, including garbologists, philosophers, economists, alchemists and psychoanalysts. Or you can observe and listen into select conversations via headphones on Blackradio's six channels. The experts put together a lexicon that fragmented, mirrored and hallucinateed the theme of waste – through stories, theories, documentation and myths.
Mobile Academy is a project devised by Hannah Hurtzig with changing partners based at HAU, Berlin. Following ten Blackmarkets on different topics in Berlin, Warsaw, Istanbul, Hamburg, Graz, Vienna and other cities, this is the long-awaited first Blackmarket in the UK.
Blackmarket No 11 is part of the Bluecoat's Liverpool Live programme for the Liverpool Biennial 2008. Presented in association with the Live Art Development Agency. Supported by Arts Council England, Liverpool Culture Company and the Goethe Institut Manchester.
Free. No advance booking available
Book an expert for £1 or €1!
View the opening text of the silent dialogue
Related Links:
Mobile Academy website
Bluecoat website
View image slideshow on Flickr
On Waste: The Disappearance and Comeback of Things.
Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge. Photo by Stephan Beer
On Saturday 29th November 2008 I was one of 50 'experts' that contributed to Blackmarket at The Bluecoat, Liverpool: An Installation with 50 Experts, a Digression on the Rhetorics of Dialogue and a Shadow Play for a Dialogue Duo.
30 Minutes in Silence
Blackmarket formed part of Liverpool Live programme for the Liverpool Biennial 2008 and was one of the foremost spectacles of the Capital of Culture programme which has generated £800m for the regional economy through the appropriation of the work of artists, musicians and other cultural practitioners. By December 2008 ' £176m had been brought in to the city through tourism alone, with a record one million hotel beds sold', in addition to 'unprecedented media coverage calculated to be worth more than £200m globally'. For Blackmarket, a group of local ‘experts’ had been amassed to perform for an audience by engaging in intimate dialogue with members of the public. Suffering from the fatigue of a year of unwitting performance by artists for the purpose of the regional and global economy I invited visiting members of the public to collaborate with me on 30 Minutes in Silence, an underperformance in which we attempted to resist the social, personal and professional pressure to perform to the best of one's ability.
Figures quoted from Liverpool08 website, 17/12/08. http://www.liverpool08.com/archive/index.asp?tcmuri=tcm:146-143523&ipage=1&m=Dec&y=08
Blackmarket
Blackmarket is an interdisciplinary research session on learning and un-learning where narrative formats of knowledge transfer are tried out and presented. The installation imitates familiar places of knowledge exchange, like the archive or library reading room, and combines them with communication situations such as markets, stock exchanges, counselling or social service interviews.
Each Blackmarket presents a different topic, generating an encyclopaedia with local experts. In Liverpool the theme deals with the relationship between human beings and their material world, the moment when things lose their form, deteriorate, rot, explode, slide into decay; and when remembrance and forgetting lose their distinction. In our economy of waste, rubbish is the repressed side of consumption, whilst non-biodegradable, radioactive toxins have made waste an ecological survival problem. In response to this we have developed a range of methods to stabilise waste, such as recycling, burning, conserving or archiving.
At this new Blackmarket you could book a 30-minute one-to-one dialogue with one of 50 experts recruited from Liverpool, including garbologists, philosophers, economists, alchemists and psychoanalysts. Or you can observe and listen into select conversations via headphones on Blackradio's six channels. The experts put together a lexicon that fragmented, mirrored and hallucinateed the theme of waste – through stories, theories, documentation and myths.
Mobile Academy is a project devised by Hannah Hurtzig with changing partners based at HAU, Berlin. Following ten Blackmarkets on different topics in Berlin, Warsaw, Istanbul, Hamburg, Graz, Vienna and other cities, this is the long-awaited first Blackmarket in the UK.
Blackmarket No 11 is part of the Bluecoat's Liverpool Live programme for the Liverpool Biennial 2008. Presented in association with the Live Art Development Agency. Supported by Arts Council England, Liverpool Culture Company and the Goethe Institut Manchester.
Free. No advance booking available
Book an expert for £1 or €1!
View the opening text of the silent dialogue
Related Links:
Mobile Academy website
Bluecoat website
View image slideshow on Flickr