Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool Biennial 2002
International 2002
14 September - 24 November 2002
Curators: curators: Lewis Biggs, Eddie Berg, Bryan Biggs, Catherine Gibson, Christoph Grunenberg & Jo McGonigal

The themes in the International 2002 concern the interplay between passion and desire on the one hand, and frustration of the mechanisms of control on the other. Control – the will to dominate our social or material environment – is a necessary fact of life for every person, but perhaps more evident in a city in which many people have to struggle for material necessities. The realities of natural and artificial environments, of political and social institutions, of mischief and fantasy all frustrate the impulse to organise our surroundings in order to satisfy our desires.

Artists:

Chiho Aoshima
Tatsurou Bashi
Olaf Breuning
Iftikahar and Elizabeth Dadi
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Juan Fernando Herrán
Christine Hill
Todd James
Clare Langan
Nikki S. Lee
Mark Lewis
LOT-EK
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rémy Markowitsch
Barry McGee
Michael Ming Hong Lin
N.I.C.J.O.B.
PanOptic
Jorge Pardo
Patricia Piccinini
Chloe Piene
Stephen Powers
Jason Rhoades
Fred Tomaselli
Francesco Vezzoli
Dré Wapenaar
Robert Wogan
Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt