Liverpool Biennial 2010 - Touched

What is Liverpool Biennial 2010?

Liverpool Biennial is the largest as well as one of the most exciting contemporary visual arts events in the UK, and with 960,000 visits in 2008, it is one of the best attended in the world.

Liverpool Biennial presented Touched, the International 10 exhibition as part of Liverpool Biennial 2010

18 September - 28 November 2010

“In a world packed with countless biennials, triennials and the rest, this madcap event in Liverpool remains distinctive and entertaining. The shows are scattered all over the city, often in pretty strange places, but the overall ambition — to introduce British audiences to up-and-coming international artists and trends — is adhered to excellently." The Times

We had a school trip to visit this exciting arts event on 21/10 a lovely Thursday. This event is so awesome because the whole city becomes a massive gallery. We had to follow the landmarks of the map go to different places to see those artworks. We seemed playing a tracking game and it was so interesting. However, we could not have enough time to see all the exhibitions in a day so I plan to do to Liverpool again to see the rest of artworks we haven’t seen.

We had so much fun during this trip. Some of the artworks are pretty interactive and we could play with the artworks or play in the artworks.

I took a short video of Žilvinas Kempinas’s Lemniscate(2008) in the exhibition of City without Walls. The description of the installation is

Žilvinas Kempinas’s Lemniscate(2008) is a large-scale kinetic sculpture consisting of two massive industrial fans whose billowing force suspends a strip of magnetic tape in midair.

This artist has done quite many flying tape installations and they are easy to be found on Youtube.