Planet Art eXchange
The Womb Liverpool Genesis
Introduction Host city of the European capital of culture 2008, Liverpool is a fitting place for the conception of the vision of Planet Art eXchange (PAX), a collaborative circle of artists. Our aim is to use art as a unifying force, as a medium of persuation, our vision is to create a WOMB, a multicultural, translingual, visual encounter communicating diverse perspectives, perceptions, sensations and experiences to the viewer promoting tolerance, understanding and solidarity
Home to the Womb, The Black-E (aka Great Georges Community Cultural Project) is a community arts centre based in a former Congregational Church. Established in 1968, Britains’s first community arts projects has a long history of hosting play and community groups and a cultural programme of arts workshops, youth projects, performances and exhibitions, with the emphasis on cultural diversity and shared experience. Opening after six years, its regeneration has seen the preservation of the original structure and architecture. Locals have long known The Blackie as a central hub of the community where children and families were brought together to create ans play. Its protective walls, reconstructed from bricks garnered from around the city, enclose a protecti9ve space where up to 150 children at a time were nurtured and given the freedom to play and develop, fed by food on the enormous gas stove which still sleeps in the bowels of the centre patiently waiting to be fired up again, a fitting place to house the Womb.
The Creative phase The Creative stage of the Womb starts here in Liverpool in July with 40 artists from 13 countries.
< More photos> Art, a Powerful antidote to the hate, fear and mistrust generated by politics, humanizes what politics demonize The Workshop Artist-in-residence program: 1-15th July 2008 DNA, the code of life
The artists have been asked to use the building blocks of life; DNA. The DNA code GATC is used to create a personal message. We all share this DNA code; although we are are all different, we all share the basic building blocks of humanity; this universal language, this translingual form. Art is also translingual and transcultural. A can be the A for "Art", "Amour" (Love in French), Anxiety, or "Ana" (I in Arabic) , " Alma" (Soul in Italian), etc .. Parallel event - Oceans apart Exhibition Oceans apart Exhibition
Phase 1 Press Coverage
Phase 2 The Installation This is only a site specific installation based on the concept of the spiral. The final structure will be build in a second phase The Venue
PAX'08 Team Dr. Lotfi Kaabi, Curator and Project Manager
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