Stages #0, 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’.
Stages 0 is the inaugural issue of Liverpool Biennial’s episodic online journal. Stages will act as a container for staging content generated from the Biennial’s year-round programme, thinking and research. Our approach to research in the context of Stages is exploratory and experimental, guided by how one might perform and embody practice and knowledge through editorial and design concerns.
Stages 0 presents a portfolio of thinking that emerged from the Banff Research in Culture (BRiC) residency titled ‘Dock(ing); or, New Economies of Exchange’. Lead by Joseph Grima, Suzanne Lacy, and Hakan Topal, alongside the Liverpool Biennial curatorial team, artists, activists, economists and historians took the residency theme as a starting point to collectively explore some of the social, political and cultural challenges we face at the outset of this new century. This multidisciplinary, multifaceted investigation opened new vantage points on long-standing problems, considering the politics played out on physical and metaphoric docks.
Dominic Willsdon: A School Is A Building With A School In It
Curator Dominic Willsdon explores how an alliance between architectural and educational thinking can lead to valuable new ways of curating education, with reference to his recent projects in San Francisco and Porto Alegre.