Looking at Google Maps I have just realised that Cairns Street, shown in the Flickr images of the street party was the street in which I based my second year project.
Please paste: ‘Granby Street, Liverpool’ into Google Maps and you can have a look round on Street View and see what the lecture was referring to.
Again, the evenings Rip It Up And Start Again lecture dovetailed nicely with the themes of the Breakfast Lecture.
The key principle to take from the evening for me, came from an answer in the questions section. That the Biennial provided, ‘A structure for the maintenance of the city.’ The most important point of the survival of any city is that people value it, in terms of the economic possibilities but also its social possibilities. Art can be a good way to get to know eachother-normally through having a laugh at someone else.
The Marcus Coates’ project: Journey to The Lower World was my favorite artpiece. I question the implication that asking residents their issues with a place and community and then suggesting answers derived through a Shaman ceremony does not have any ulterior motive, but that’s good in this case. As we saw, the other forces smashing these communities all have ulterior motives and don't work for the good of the people they serve.
I question the assertion that there is dignity in poverty so poverty is fine. This is not acceptable. In a time when Heroin is so accessible it is neither practical.
‘Liverpool-A City That Dared To Fight’, Peter Taffe and Tony Mulhern. It lost. It’s still loosing and art won’t change that alone, just like one city on its own couldn’t win alone.
This brings us to the question, ‘What is a community?’
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