Highlights from the Liverpool Biennial 2012
By Eliza Gluckman
JOHN AKOMFRAH,
The Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest international art biennial and a key player in the city’s cultural calendar. A port-city, Liverpool is a significant distance from London, and has historically played a major part in trade and travel, commerce and migration, through the years of British imperialism, colonialism and the industrial revolution. It was therefore with great pertinence that the seventh biennial took the notion of hospitality as its thematic springboard. Works by 242 international artists, including new commissions, were exhibited across 27 major cultural institutions and off-site project spaces.
