Artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan make an artwork Passage (Project: Another Country) for this year’s Liverpool Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art in the TATE Liverpool.
They ask public to help make small boats from cardboard boxes as a part of the installation.
Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan are from the Phillipines and they are interested in collective experience and memory. They involve communities and audience in the production of their work.
For their Liverpool Biennial installation, they have looked at how the life and history of Liverpool people might connect with those living in Australia, where the Aquilizans have lived since 2006. Focusing on the sea they ask public to think about sea journeys in the making of cardboard’s boats. The boats will be presented together in the final work.
Meaning of installation will be offered as a meditation on issues such as migration and identity, and ideas of home.
When I saw Artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan’s installation ‘Passage’ on TATE it remained me The Great Green Sculpture Challenge of artist Graham Marsden.
Over the Easter holidays on April 2009 Tate Liverpool was giving over its ground floor gallery to The Great Green Sculpture Challenge. It was a fan to bring together community, recycling and art. Artist Graham Marsden inspired visitors to build huge installation out of recycled materials.
I worked there as a volunteer and it was great!
I can imagine how difficult was organised 'health and safety' in the gallery space, but it was a lot of fan for children and adults.
Sculptures and installation was absolutely fantastic!
Building on the success of previous installation making workshops, children from 5 years of age and adults constructed a new fantastic world populated by sculptures of trees, animals, people and building.
All sculptures were made out of rubbish that would normally be thrown away.
Visitors were invited to bring along their clean plastic containers, bags and newspapers and transform them into a something beautiful and artistic. Recycling Company Gaskells Waste, who recycle as much as possible from the waste generated at Tate Liverpool, was also provided clean recycled materials for use in The Great Green Sculpture Challenge, and when the event was ended Gaskells removed the sculptures and ensured they are recycled.
Over the Easter holidays on April 2009 Tate Liverpool was giving over its ground floor gallery to The Great Green Sculpture Challenge. It was a fan to bring together community, recycling and art. Artist Graham Marsden inspired visitors to build huge installation out of recycled materials.
I worked there as a volunteer and it was great!
I can imagine how difficult was organised 'health and safety' in the gallery space, but it was a lot of fan for children and adults.
Sculptures and installation was absolutely fantastic!
Building on the success of previous installation making workshops, children from 5 years of age and adults constructed a new fantastic world populated by sculptures of trees, animals, people and building.
All sculptures were made out of rubbish that would normally be thrown away.
Visitors were invited to bring along their clean plastic containers, bags and newspapers and transform them into a something beautiful and artistic. Recycling Company Gaskells Waste, who recycle as much as possible from the waste generated at Tate Liverpool, was also provided clean recycled materials for use in The Great Green Sculpture Challenge, and when the event was ended Gaskells removed the sculptures and ensured they are recycled.
