08 Days A week: Public art could catch on for ECHO readers.Byline: By CATHERINE JONES Catherine Jones is an English television news journalist, currently a reporter and presenter on Five. Born on 12th January 1971 and brought up in Essex, Jones started her professional career in the newsroom of Buckinghamshire based local radio station Mix 96 in 1994. Culture Reporter ART will be contagious contagious /con·ta·gious/ (-jus) capable of being transmitted from one individual to another, as a contagious disease; communicable. con·ta·gious adj. 1. Of or relating to contagion. throughout Liverpool in 2008 and ECHO readers are being given the change to get involved. Visible Virals will spread modern art concepts across the city's streets and open spaces. The programme of public realm art - co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial The Liverpool Biennial is the UK's largest international festival of contemporary art. The festival is a collaborative event delivered every two years in association with the region’s established visual arts organisations. and the Culture Company - launched this week with One Year in Liverpool. Stockholm artists AAPE are delving into the life and behaviour of "the average Liverpudlian". And this is where readers come in. Today the ECHO prints questions the artists would like readers to answer - with the responses being turned into a series of statistics. A question will appear on the 08 Days A Week page each Monday for a month while more will be able to be found on the artists' website. One Year in Liverpool will present the results in unusual artistic forms, on buildings, shopping centres and rooftops. Organisers hope the art will gradually reveal the bigger picture about Liverpudlians. Artworks this month include questions appearing on walls, and a set of scales in the Metquarter that can tell you if your weight equals how many tears we shed in a lifetime. Later in the year, animal silhouettes on a shopping centre roof and a giant pyramid will demonstrate how much paper we use. Biennial biennial, plant requiring two years to complete its life cycle, as distinguished from an annual or a perennial. In the first year a biennial usually produces a rosette of leaves (e.g., the cabbage) and a fleshy root, which acts as a food reserve over the winter. programme director Laurie Peake said: "The artworks will infiltrate infiltrate /in·fil·trate/ (in-fil´trat) 1. to penetrate the interstices of a tissue or substance. 2. the material or solution so deposited. in·fil·trate v. 1. public spaces and infrastructures, creating surprising installations and inviting participation from residents and visitors." Answer the questions THE public can become part of the artwork by making a "yes" or "no" response to questions. Here are the first three today. In their 10-year music career, the Beatles scored 17 number one singles. Are you sick of people calling Liverpool the home of the Beatles? The global temperatures for 1998-2007 were the warmest on record. Do you care? One in four of all kidney transplants in 2007 were living donor transplants, a total of 690 cases. Do you know someone you'd gladly give a kidney to? Register your answers by visiting www.a-ape.org CAPTION(S): CRYING GAME: Paula Lawler, owner of Animal in the Metquarter, tests the 'tears' machine |
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