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Stages is an open access, contemporary art journal for staging research generated in the context of Liverpool Biennial's artistic programme. 

Launched in 2013, Stages is developed in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University’s Exhibition Research Lab, and is freely available both online and in PDF format.

Commissioning Editor
Joasia Krysa

Published by
Liverpool Biennial
ISSN 2399-9675


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Stages #11, Turning The Tide, adopts the recently unveiled artwork Merseyside Totemy by Alicja Biala as a focal point. The three totemic sculptures bring together statistics around climate change aiming to visualize the issues Merseyside faces in terms of rising sea levels and flooding.

Stages #10 brings together conversations between Perennial Biennial partner organisations during a time of crisis. Offering an insightful behind the scenes glance at the internal operating systems of Biennials and festivals around Europe during the COVID-19 epidemic of 2020/21.

Stages #9 explores AI and curating at the time of the 11th edition of Liverpool Biennial,The Stomach and The Port. What can the practice of curating learn from AI, what can AI learn from curating, and how can both learn from questioning knowledge forms derived from colonialist frameworks of humans and machines?

Stages #8 brings together ideas and projects that emerged from the public programme of the 10th Liverpool Biennial: Beautiful world, where are you? 

Stages #7 explores the concept of Empire and its manifestation in contemporary visual culture and design.

Stages #6 presents proceedings from the Liverpool Biennial 2016 conference The Biennial Condition: On Contemporaneity and the Episodic. 

Stages #5 addresses the various divides and entanglements between community arts from the 1970s and 1980s and contemporary socially engaged practices. 

Stages #4 focuses on the historic practice of dazzle painting, and on a series of commissions in which contemporary artists have been invited to paint UK vessels in response to this history. 

Consisting of a series of letters and using the state of housing in the district of Toxteth, Liverpool 8, as its starting point, issue three of Stages considers how Liverpool Biennial might inhabit the city in more significant ways. 

By utilising the format of a recipe book, issue two of Stages, Homebaked: A Perfect Recipe, seeks to address the question: what ingredients does one need to cook up a revolution? Can a recipe be a formula for a public space? 

Issue one of Stages, Future City, presents insights, propositions and interventions produced during a year-long partnership between Liverpool Biennial and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art. 

Issue zero of Stages, The Banff Report, presents a portfolio of thinking that emerged from the Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) residency titled ‘Dock(ing); or, New Economies of Exchange’. 

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