The Liverpool Biennial 2016 - Koki Tanaka

The 2016 Liverpool Biennial exhibition has been conceived as a series of episodes, drawing inspiration from Liverpool’s past, present and future. The episodes are: Children’s Episode, the Biennial’s first comprehensive commissioning programme for artists to work collaboratively with children; Ancient Greece, the inspiration behind many of Liverpool’s grandest buildings; Chinatown, acknowledging Liverpool’s heritage as Europe’s oldest Chinese community in Europe; Flashback, artists’ new interpretation of history; in Software, Biennial artists will open up new perspectives and interactions with technology; and Monuments From the Future, where artists have been invited to imagine what Liverpool might look like in the future.

This year The Liverpool Biennial will take place during the 9^th July – 16^th October.

Koki Tanaka is amongst the 44 artists that are participating in the Liverpool Biennial. Tanaka’s art piece revisits the political protest which involved 10,000 school children demonstrating against the Conservative government’s Youth Training Scheme. He brought together the original child participants from 1985 and retraced the original route from St George’s Hall to the Pier Head. He also invited children to interview the participants and found out the meanings and the social feelings towards this march at the time it was taken place.

This inspiring project by Koki Tanaka is not one to be missed. The project will be shown as a short film at the Open Eye Gallery throughout the Biennial as a part of the Flashback episode. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting Koki Tanaka at the Liverpool Biennial.

For more information visit: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/05/we-took-on-the-tories-and-won-liverpool-striking-schoolkids

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