CCP Car Park Gallery
Duke Street, Liverpool L1 5AA

Opening times:
Tues-Fri 12-6pm

Exhibition completion parties:
Sat 25 Oct / Sat 01 Nov /
Sat 08 Nov / Sat 15 Nov /
all at 6-9pm

Workshops:
Sun 26 Oct / Sun 02 Nov /
Sun 09 Nov / Sun 16 Nov /
all starting at 4pm

Over four weeks, Interchange will present the work of four groups of artists from Gdansk, Istanbul, Naples, and Liverpool. Each ‘city’ will occupy the gallery for one week in-turn to produce an exhibition and host a weekend of music, performances and workshops.

At the end of each week, the artists will leave their completed exhibition behind. When succeeding groups occupy the gallery, they will incorporate what the previous ‘cities’ have left. Visitors will see the exhibition evolve from week-to-week with the successive influence of artists from the North, South, East, and West of a new EU.

The reason for selecting the four cities involved in Interchange is to connect four of the most disparate cities falling within the new European Union, and so to also explore the diversity contained within an emergent understanding of ‘Europe’.

The project as a whole will explore the potential of the port city as a contemporary metaphor. Ports are sites of transition, exchange, and transgression - conditions that result in forms of expression which surpass established norms and offer new alternatives and solutions. Interchange will act as a dynamic environment for the development of a new international network - facilitating the bilateral movement of people, alternative ideas, and (counter-)cultural impulses.

Special reference will be made to the importance of these qualities in informing attitudes towards cultural policy and urban regeneration. The result will be a project that critiques those trends in urban life associated with the erosion of public space and the sanitising effects of urbanism and cultural tourism. These ideas have been inspired by Franco Bianchini’s concept of ‘Cities on the Edge’, as developed by Liverpool Culture Culture Company. Cities on the Edge is a year-long cultural cooperation project led by Liverpool in partnership with Bremen, Gdansk, Naples, Marseilles, and Istanbul.

Every Saturday evening their will be live music and performances to celebrate the completion of that weeks show. Every Sunday afternoon, a free open workshop will provide a greater level of engagement with the work of that weeks artists. In between times, the gallery will remain open for visitors to experience the work-in-progress.

Artists: Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, Grzegorz Klaman, Joanna Maltanska & Lukrecja Plusz, Jacek Niegoda, Jack Southern, Johan Strauss, Michal Szlaga, Maciek Szupica & Przemyszaw Adamski, Ania & Adam Witkowscy, Martyna Zdanowicz

Curators: Ola Grzonkowska, Roma Piotrowska

Sat 25 Oct Completion Party (6-9pm): Music by Adam Witkowscy, an electronic pioneer in the city of Gdansk, and performance by Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, an artist and maverick who blends theatre, technical movement and fantastically kitsch dress.

Sun 26 Oct Workshop (starting at 4pm): Modelarnia

Artists: Can Altay, Cevdet Erek, and Ha za vu zu: Sukru Ozgur Erkok, Emir Ozer, Guclu Oztekin, Mert Oztekin & Gunez Terkol

Sat 01 Nov Completion Party (6-9pm): Music and performances Ha za vu zuby artist collective. Musicians, artists, friends and lovers, Ha za vu zu are many things, and their approach to everything is high spirited, perceptive, and unexpected.

Sun 02 Nov Workshop (starting at 4pm): Ha za vu zu

Artists: Christian Costa, Carmine De Falco, Alessandro Inglima, Antonella Maiello, Pasquale Napolitano, Giuseppina Paola Viscardi

Curator: Laura Galloppo

Sat 08 Nov Completion Party (6-9pm): Music and performances by the Naples based Sound Barrier collective, using sounds recorded from the ports of Naples and Liverpool to generate a new sonic composition - live.

Sun 09 Nov Workshop (starting at 4pm): Christian Costa, Componibile62

Artists: Gordon Culshaw, Tracey Eastham, Karen McLeod, John O’Hare, Emily Speed, Jamie Torode, Brychan Tudor

Curator: Tomas Harold, Brychan Tudor

Sat 15 Nov Completion Party (6-9pm): Biltone: grand balladry and strings, The Knife: : a poetry, music and live illustration collaboration between Nathan Jones, Hannah Peel and Sketchybeast. Plus very special guests.

Sun 16 Nov Workshop (starting at 4pm): Mercy

The exhibition will remain open until Sunday 23rd November