7th February, 2014 / 11.00am - 4.00pm
5th July, 2018
A wide-ranging list of participants including economists, sociologists, linguists, media theorists, architects and painters are invited to variously address or refract the question borrowed from Friedrich Schiller to title the Biennial: Beautiful world, where are you?
Programme
Thursday 5 July
Moonlight and LED, An exchange between Liverpool Biennial 2018 artists Ei Arakawa (New York) and Silke Otto-Knapp (Los Angeles)
Thursday 26 July
Climate Grief and the Visible Horizon, A talk by Meehan Crist (Writer-in-residence in Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York)
Thursday 13 September
Self-Repairing Cities, A talk by Mark Miodownik (Professor of Materials and Society, University College London)
Thursday 27 September
The Fabric of the Planetary Surface, A talk by Jussi Parikka (Professor of Technological Culture and Aesthetics, University of Southampton, UK, and Docent of Digital Culture Theory, University of Turku, Finland)
Thursday 11 October
A Great Enchanted Garden: Can AI Give Us Back Our Sense of Wonder?, A talk by Ryan Avent (Senior Editor and Free Exchange Columnist, The Economist, Arlington, USA)
Thursday 18 October
October Reclaiming Beauty as a Public Good, A talk by Angela Nagle (Writer, author of Kill All Normies, Dublin and New York)
Friday 26 October
Aliens, Fieldwork, and Universal Grammar, A talk by Jessica Coon (Associate Professor of Linguistics, McGill University, Montreal) and a conversation with Vincenzo Latronico (Writer, translator and guest co-editor of The Serving Library Annual 2018/19)
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