Biennial 'Touched'

As part of the semester, the Liverpool Biennial is played a major part for our development. Starting with the 'Touched Talks' some of the artists from the biennial came to talk about their work, one of which was Song Dong who exhibited at the Renshaw street base of the Biennial. He talked about the trials he faced as a homeless person in New York morphing it into along progressing tale of additional information he does not believe is necessary for when his work is published as his work is a performance of the reality of the world and complex lives. The Video piece in Renshaw street called 'Touching People' 2010 refers directly to the theme of the Biennial using a ghost like hand to reach out and caress the solid people within the recording with people turning to look into the camera curiously directly at the viewer as if they have sensed the touch of this ghostly hand.

Another piece within the old hardware store is Zbynek Sedlecky's 'Offices' 2008.though I did not understand the relevance at first, I found the expressive, loose, repetitive terracotta brick wall forces a sort of formality within the painting reminding me of imprisonment and oppression though others have disagreed saying it is rebellion against such things.