This week, Liverpool Biennial announces the artists participating in the International
2002, 14 September ­ 24 November 2002. Over 75% of the artworks in the exhibition,
which includes art in public spaces, have been commissioned or completed especially for
Liverpool by both established and new artists.

Artists for Liverpool Biennial / International 2002 are Chiho Aoshima, Olaf Breuning,
Elizabeth Dadi & Iftikhar Dadi, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster,
Juan Fernando Herrán, Christine Hill, Todd James, Claire Langan, Nikki S Lee, Mark
Lewis, LOT-EK, PanOptic, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Barry McGee, Remy Markowitsch &
Michael Ming Hong Lin, N.I.C.J.O.B., Tatsurou Bashi, Jorge Pardo, Patricia Piccinini, Chloe
Piene, Stephen Powers, Jason Rhoades, Fred Tomaselli, Francesco Vezzoli, Dré
Wapenaar, Winter & Hörbelt, and Robert Wogan.

Work is sited in the Bluecoat Gallery, Pleasant Street Board School and Tate Liverpool
as well as in the public realm: Derby Square, the foyer of Liverpool Daily Post & Echo
Building, Liverpool City Centre Holiday Inn, platforms 7 & 8 and the façade of Liverpool
Lime Street Station, and Wolstenholme Square.

The artists entered into a dialogue with Liverpool, using the city as a specific cultural
context for the exhibition. International 2002 suggests approaches to the urban
environment as a microcosm of the global situation. Some of the issues addressed are
spin and the propagation of misinformation; viral contamination; media obsession and
celebrity culture; identity manipulation; fantasy; the totally designed environment;
privatisation; catastrophe anxiety; hedonism and terrorism.

- Liverpool Biennial aims to celebrate and promote contemporary visual art in the city,
building on a tradition of ambitious national and international exhibitions. The first
International exhibition, Trace, selected by Tony Bond for the 1999 Liverpool Biennial
signalled a new level of achievement in this tradition.

- The International 2002 is one of five programme strands in the Liverpool Biennial. The
others are John Moores Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Bloomberg New
Contemporaries and The Independent (artist-led exhibition). All the exhibitions open on
14 September and take place within Liverpool city centre. The Independent closes 13
October, Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Static on 27 October, the International
2002 closes on 24 November and John Moores 22 at The Walker closes on 8 December.
In addition there will be a programme of conferences, seminars and live art.

- The International 2002 exhibition is selected by a team of six Liverpool-based
curators led by Lewis Biggs, Director of the Liverpool Biennial. Eddie Berg Director of
FACT, the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology. Bryan Biggs, Director of the
Bluecoat Arts Centre. Catherine Gibson, Curator of Bluecoat Gallery. Christoph
Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool. Jo McGonigal, Curator (Exhibitions) for FACT.

- Partner organisations in the delivery of the exhibition are Henry Moore Foundation
Contemporary Projects (the commissioning body for a number of the artworks), Tate
Liverpool, Bluecoat Arts Centre, FACT, Open Eye Gallery, and the Liverpool Biennial
office.

- Liverpool Biennial 2002 is supported by afoundation, Arts Council of England, Capital
of Culture, englandsnorthwest, North West Arts Board, Liverpool City Council,
Northwest Development Agency and has been part financed by the European
Community through the European Community through the European Regional
Development Fund.

- International 2002 has received additional support from The Henry Moore Foundation,
Visiting Arts, The Elephant Trust, the Commonwealth Government through the Australia
Council, Québec Government Office in London, the French Embassy - Institut Français
du Royaume-Uni, the Institut für Auslandsbeziegungen e.V., the Cultural Relations
Committee, Ireland, the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, Pro Helvetia, the Arts
Council of Switzerland and Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes.

- Liverpool Biennial 2002 supports Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008 bid

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