Giving in to Gift, Liverpool

As a meeting point between artists, their peers and the public, Giving in to Gift begins a conversation around ideas of generosity and reciprocation and how such themes manifest.

It is an examination of the contradictions present in the giving of gifts, with a particular emphasis on how they may interact with the changing economic landscape, whilst at the same time providing an opportunity for differing modes of collaboration to be explored.

Final event: 12 November 2011

Venue: central Liverpool / the Bluecoat

Web: www.givingintogift.org

Small gift actions, Liverpool

As part of the weekly meetings in Liverpool the participating artists have been offered various prompts and exercises to explore ideas of gift. Here are some of the resulting impromptu actions.

Street Sketch Gift, Church Street, central Liverpool:

Overtly recycled presents, Liverpool:



text: hope you like & enjoy these overtly recycled presents & feel free to RETURN them if not.

Street scene, London

POST Artists at Exchange Project Space, Hackney

Here's an image showing a collaborative performance to video, as installed at Exchange Project Space for the exhibition 'Broken Telephone', 1st September 2011.









Performance video by Katie Gilman, Helen Jacobs, Jenny Rolfe-Herbert and Natasha Vicars







Further information on POST Artists and the research visit with OgreAttend in Athens that lead to this work and the exhibition.

#dawnchorus - tweeting the dawn

#dawnchorus - tweeting the dawn - was performed at dawn on Sunday 16th October 2011 (approximately 5:35am to 8am UK time) on Twitter.

See all tweets here on Twitter

Participating writers are: Joanna Brown,Tiffany Charrington, Eddy Dreadnought, Sally Labern, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson and Natasha Vicars.



#dawnchorus is conceived by Natasha Vicars and developed in collaboration with Mary Paterson and the writers, as part of the Live Art Development Agency's DIY8 programme. For more information, email Natasha Vicars or see us on Twitter.