The Artist: Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
Academic
Information
MRes/PhD
in Art and Design History, 2006 >> 2008 (date
to be confirmed)
(Extended due to personal circumstances)
John Moores University, Liverpool, England.
BA
(Hons) Fine Art Degree, 2002.
John Moores University, Liverpool, England.
BA
Arts History Degree, 2005.
The Open University, Milton Keynes, England. |
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Art
and Philosophy
She
describes her mind and thoughts an anthology of memories,
images and residues of sensations. Visualisation relative
to others and not exclusive to her own existence. She
states she is not insular, neither her genome, which is
a recipe of hybridized evolutionary ingredients. Her temporal
and spatial existence she asserts is more that her being.
It extends to her lineage, not merely of those she is
conscious or familiar; mother, father, grandmother, grandfathers,
great and greater, as it dissolves back, but to one of
the singular organism, where all life evolved. The chance,
the accident, the mistake of this greater-than-great relative
of all ascended into cellular complexities of sentience,
no more and no less than the amoeba. She welcomes you
to our relative, the cell, the nuclei, the DNA, the RNA,
etc.. Somewhere in her body, her pet dog is kindred. The
canvas of creation, the biological edifice on which she
inscribes, at the moment of mark-making on this, she is
inscribing on not herself, but her pet dog, her parents
and predecessors, her lovers and familiars, acquaintances
and you. A performance artist who places temporal concepts
within the context of a live performance in the public
arena, the conventional and institutional readdressed,
including the various technological applications, such
as multi media processes, holographic, optical engineering
and digitalisation.
Biography
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney is a performance artist and graduate
of Liverpool John Moores University, England, in 2002.
She is currently on her doctorate and researching the
body within contemporary arts, science an culture. Her
art explores the temporality and spatiality of body politics
within the post modern environment and institutional structures.
She has performed and exhibited in an array of international
events, such as the Liverpool Biennial, Venice Biennial,
Performance Art Festival (US), Hong Kong Biennial and
Berlin Kunst Salon. Her art is strongly founded on the
canon and philosophy within the context of live performance
interventions, as well as considering new and innovative
modes of expression modified through digital technology
and optical engineering. Other projects and commissions
have been in London, New York, Paris, Copenhagen and many
other places.
Although
she pursues her independent practice in performance art,
she is a strong advocate of contemporary art practice,
creating projects for exchange and dialogue in the concepts
and philosophies of post modern art and society. To collaborate
and share to realise new and diverse modes of thinking
and creative expression in the international arts market.
She is also founder and Projects Co-ordinator of Gesquoi
and TransVoyeur UK, both research and management programmes
in arts and culture within the international market. She
was also one of the original founders of the Whores of
Babylon Arts Collective (UK).
Autobiography
I graduated from John Moores University (2002) from a
BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree. My former practice was a painter,
but I was inducted into this from childhood, as my father
was an artist and inspired his offspring with his passion.
I was commissioned through my twenties by several Councillors
in the Cheshire district for portraits, as well as contracts
for more commercial interests. As a painter though I experienced
a personal dilemma about this conventional practice, as
it was not challenging my creative abilities.
During
my academia on the BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree I decided
to remove the traditional art practices of painting and
sculpture to the basic elements of what constituted much
of my art, which was the human form, both in context,
concept and critical analysis. I had explored performance
sporadically before this, but made the conscious decision
to pursue the art through the body. From 2001, I had already
started to exhibit and initiate performances throughout
the Northwest of England, both in a gallery context and
the urban environment. I then considered the canonisation
of the body and flesh, whether implicit or explicit, and
how this has been institutionalised and commodified through
historical reference and media. This is still much of
the fundamentals to my art, but has extended to one of
contemporary ideals and structures.
My
line of enquiry has usually evolved from the critical
analysis of socio-cultural and political factors, ranging
from fundamentals of the human body, origin, existence
and sentience relative to the collective. From what forms
our biological edifice comparable to the structure of
society and the media semiotics and cultural expressions
of post modern life. My work has been both within a gallery
context and to the urban space of a city, but other live
interventions have transpired in the Louvre (Paris), the
Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Tate Modern (London),
the Brandenburg Gates (Berlin), the Little Mermaid (Copenhagen)
and so forth. I have had work included in the Performance
Art Festival (Cleveland, Ohio), the Liverpool Biennial
2002 and 2004 and other festivals and exhibitions in Tokyo
and New York.
As
an artist, the dialogue, research and practice form the
edifice of my practice. The critical analysis provides
the structure to both inform and enlighten my performances,
some of which become critique themselves of contemporary
art and culture. The process of erudition to realise the
end performance is one which is derived from a manifold
of sources and this proclivity, rather drive, to deconstruct
and examine representations and ideologies from post modern
culture; then to reconstruct in to a conceptualisation
through intervention and action are indicative to the
critical and analytical processes and themes in my art.
This is further extended to many collaborations I have
experienced. I have been fortunate in my early developments
as an artist through to my present practice of collaborating
with other established performance and live artist, such
as Guillermo Gomez Pena in Excentris, Robert Pacitti in
Finale, Sumer Erek in the Bath, Alexei Kostroma and others.
Other
programmes produced include one for the Liverpool Culture
Company to organize cultural events for the Liverpool
European City of Culture Bid 2008 Bid to represent part
of the city in this, organising a collective of artists,
Realisations, to exhibit at the Atrium of Liverpool Echo
Building, the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool), the Palm
House (Liverpool) and workshop based initiatives in the
community centres of Liverpool.
From
the onset of such collaborations, I continued with the
ethos and through my own practice have invited other artists
to participate in projects set on the principle of live
performance and intervention, whether there art is within
these domains or more conventional, such as painters,
sculptor, writers, etc.. This developed from the original
arts collective, which was founded by Ben Youdan (Painter)
and myself before graduation, which has since fractuated
into two further programmes that form the research and
development of artistic and cultural collaborations, whether
through creative analysis or international exchanges.
These are Gesquoi (Research in Contemporary Art) and TransVoyeur
(An Anglo American Cultural Initiative)
These
are artist led initiatives to provide the support required
as a collective to realise large scale projects, whether
in Liverpool Biennial 2004, which both Gesquoi and Transvoyeur
were central to an exhibition between New York and Liverpool
based artists. These though are programmes created from
principles of how I work as practitioner, to consider
the elements which form the greater picture, so to speak.
My live interventions form a composition, a sense of an
experience, rather than a narrative. A concept imbued
to the viewer, the audience, to permeate their inner self,
rather than to present an anecdote. As are the visualisation
in dreams and momentary fragmented thought processes.
In
the large scale programmes and exhibitions I adopt the
role of Projects Co-ordinator to manage these. I have
worked as a lecturer in Performance and Combined Arts
with Fine Art students and as a writer for several publications
on this subject, including as a critic, in the US and
England. However, the fundamentals of all my activities
centralises to that role as the artist and that in live
art. An example of which can be viewed in the arts collective
of the TransVoyeur exhibition during the Liverpool Biennial
2004, where all artists, whether painter, sculptors, etc.,
collaborated to form a performance programme within this
exhibition and within the framework of a performance I
created, titled The Temple Series.
I
have been contracted to document through cinematopgraphy
the Art 05 event for the A Foundation in collaboration
with Tony Knox and explored further live performance art
interventions in Liverpool, England. Other exhibitions
exhibition have been at 340 Old Street Gallery, Shoreditch,
London, where the Temple Series was deconstructed and
reconstructed through creative, temporal and spatial explorations
of the gallery and urban context for the Voyeur Solo Exhibition,
curated by Terry Duffy. Part of the art from the Temple
Series has also been screened at the Turnpike Gallery,
Leigh, in the Obsessions of Desire Exhibition and part
of the Museum Man Exhibition, curated by Adam Nankervis
in the Venice Biennial 2005. This was followed by two
simultaneous exhibtions in Berlin, one with the British
Salon and the Museum Man, both as part of the Berlin Kunst
Salon.
In
2006, there have been numerous exhibitions, performances
and projects and the last completed under the Transvoyeur
Programme 2006, which was in three parts of Transvoyeur
Liverpool and New York Exhibition 2006, Transvoyeur Performance
Art Platform 2006 and Transvoyeur Gene Culture 2006. The
later I was Curator to this exhibition with a selection
of international artists on the topical subject of genetic
intervention. In the others I was Projects Co-ordinator
and contributing artists with others from the global arts
market, including Mexico, New York and across Europe and
Asia.
The
next stage in my creative development is to centralise
to the core element of my creative practice and prepare
for a collaboration with a leading geneticist. This will
involve the discourse of artists and scientists to realise
a visual dialogue on the subject of genetic intervention.
History of Art and Cultural Projects, Exhibitions
and Performances
2007
• Flora and Fornication (Part II), Genome and Digital
Photgraphy, Liverpool, England, 2007.
• UGLY (-) Natural Order versus (ou)R-DNA, Live
Art and Digital Media, London, England, 2007.
• Poems and Art: Liverpool's 800th and Ghana's 50th
by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and Kofi Fosu Forson, Liverpool
(UK), New York (US) and Ghana (African), 2007.
• Because I Love You!, Series on Domestic Violence
and Support Group, Womensaid, Bristonl/Liverpool, England,
2007.
• Curator to Transvoeyur Love and Death Online International
Exhibition, Liverpool, England, and Online, 2007.
• Flesh Abstract Series Part II, Liverpool, England,
2007.
• Flesh Abstract Self Portrait Series, Liverpool,
England, 2007.
•
Love in the 21st Century
of the Human Male and Female Species ... The Horsley and
Greer Love Affair Warhol Style ... 15 mins (If You Are
Lucky!), 21st Century Gender Portrait Series, Gender Politics
(Screen Prints), London/Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Ugly Beautiful
Abstract Series (Digital and Combined Media), Liverpool,
England, 2007.
•
I
am Mary Ann Bevan ... The World's Ugliest Woman ... and
So Are You! (Art and Medicine Cultural Research Project,
Acromegaly), Part II, Collaboration Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
and Kofi Fosu, Liverpool, England, and New York, US, 2007.
• I
am Mary Ann Bevan ... The World's Ugliest Woman ... and
So Are You! (Art and Medicine Cultural Research Project,
Acromegaly), Part I, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Liverpool,
England, 2007.
• Biographical
Research Project, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (UK), Lucia Andrea
Sweeney (UK), Andrew Taylor (UK) and Kofi Fosu (US),
2007.
• Transvoyeur
Paris/Barcelona Cultural Research, France and Spain (respectively),
2007.
• Rape Culture
<> Culture Rape (Research Series), London/Liverpool,
England, 2007.
• Transvoyeur
and the Big Draw 2007, Liverpool, England, 2007.
•
Transvoyeur
Legacy, Hospital Permanent Art Collection, Royal Liverpool
University Hospital, Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Curator
to Transvoyeur: Gender, Space, Art and Architecture (Pilot
Scheme), Liverpool and New York Exchange Programme 2007,
Liverpool, England, and New York, US, 2007.
• Artists Exchange Collaborations, Liverpool/Colgone,
Eight Days a Week, Liverpool, England, and Cologne, Germany,
2007.
• Paris Brief (Art in the Urban Space), When the
City Speaks - The City is a Stage, Paris, France, 2007.
• London
Brief (Art in the Urban Space), When the City Speaks -
The City is a Stage, London, England, 2007.
• Liverpool
Brief (Art in the Urban Space), When the City Speaks -
The City is a Stage, London, England, 2007.
• Art, Liverpool and World Environment Day, Garden
Festival Art, World Environment Day, England, 2007.
• Birds, Breath, Feathers and Fantasy, Collaboration,
2006-7, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and Andrew Taylor, Digital
Live Art Stills (Sweeney) and Prose (Taylor) (Copyright
to respective artist, 2006-7), Liverpool, England.
• Four
Decade Portraiture (Digital Media and the Canon of Portrait
Research Project), Liverpool and London, England, 2007.
• Knowledge and Consciousness (Digital Media Research
Project), Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Genome
Incarnation of Bast (Egyptian Goddess of Cats), (Digital
Media Research Project), Liverpool, England, and Cairo
Museum, Egypt, 2007.
• Made up of Many Parts (Sentience Pluralised) (Digital
Media Research Project), Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Flora and Fornication (Digital Media and Gender
Politics Research Project), Liverpool and London, England,
2007.
• Filthy Red Clown Series (Live Art and Digital
Media Research Project), Liverpool and London, England,
2007.
• Psychedelic Scream, Digital Show 2X, Futursonic
2007, Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas, 10-12 May
2007, Manchester, England, 2007.
• Transvoyeur Charity Art Auction in Aid of the
Emergency Department at Royal Liverpool University Hospital,
Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Curiosity, Live Art, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and
Tony Knox, Martin Turck Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2007.
• Artist Professional Research and Exchange, Transvoyeur
in association with Eight Days a Week: Liverpool and Cologne,
Cologne, Germany, 2007.
• Liverpool Hope University Art Auction, Cornerstone
Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Interview Researcher, Cornerstone Gallery/Fine
Art Department, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool,
England, 2007.
• Systemmatic Sabbotage by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney,
Preview of Installation, Liverpool, England, 2007.
• 2000 Art and Artefact by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney,
'White(washed) Fidelity (Transvoyeur 2006)', Distribution
Liverpool, UK and international arts market, 2007.
• Pocket Exhibition, Curated by Royal Standard,
Site Gallery, Albert dock, Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Nietzsche's Urbanised Icon by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
and Tony Knox, Loft Space Exhibitions Programme, Curator
Jo Derbyshire, Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Transvoyeur and SOS Childrens Village: 'Childhood'
Exhibition, Transdigital On-Line Gallery Space, 2007.
• Bunny Girl (Performance), ‘Doll Man Disco
(Ticket to Love)’ (Organiser and concept Gary Sollars),
Liverpool/Manchester Double Decker Journey and Green Room,
Manchester, England, 2007.
• Transvoyeur Webcam Performance Art Platform, Part
of I Love 39 International Cultural Programme, Liverpool,
England, 2007.
• Mentor in Creative Practice and Research, Live
Art and Fine Art, Liverpool, England, 2007.
• Transvoyeur Research and Development, UK Projects
Co-ordinator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Transvoyeur UK, Liverpool,
England, 2007.
2006
• Research Project 'Live Art and Prose' Gaynor Evelyn
Sweeney and Andrew Taylor, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Bunny Girl (Performance) Dollman Disco, 'Sherry
Trifle Disco', New Years Eve 2006, The Vines Ballroom,
Liverpool, England, 31 December 2006.
• Boudiccas PMT in 21st Century, Cosmic Cabaret
in the Potting Shed, Walk the Plank in association the
Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool Biennial and Transvoyeur,
Independents Liverpool 2006, Liverpool, England.
• Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform 2006, View
Two Gallery, Liverpool, England, Independents Liverpool
Biennial 2006.
• Seasons - When the City Speaks (Concept and Direction
Jo Derbyshire with collaborative performance by Sweeney
and etal), Cosmic Cabaret in the Potting Shed, Walk the
Plank in association the Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool
Biennial and Transvoyeur, Independents Liverpool 2006,
Liverpool, England
• Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform 2006, View
Two Gallery, Liverpool, England, Independents Liverpool
Biennial 2006.
• Darwinian Donations Series, Transvoyeur Liverpool
and New York Exhibition 2006, Independents Liverpool Biennial
2006, View Two Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Boudicca's PMT in the 21st Century, Transvoyeur
Performance Art Platform 2006, Independents Liverpool
Biennial 2006, View Two Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Seasons - When the City Speaks (Concept and Direction
Jo Derbyshire with collaborative performance by Sweeney
and etal), Transvoyeur Performance Art Platform 2006,
Independents Liverpool Bienial 2006, View Two Gallery,
Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Literature Review of Mein Kampf, Tic Tac Toe (by
the Laboratory Bunny Girl of Death), Transvoyeur Performance
Art Platform 2006, Independents Liverpool Bienial 2006,
View Two Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Temple Series and Anointed by Medici - Paris,
Transvoyeur Art Auction, View Two Gallery, Liverpool,
England, 2006.
• Bunny Girl (Performance), ‘Doll Man Disco
(End of Summer Fruits Party)’ (Organiser and concept
Gary Sollars), Walk the Planks, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Researcher and Curator of Gene Culture Exhibition,
Slaughterhouse Gallery, Independents Biennial 2006, Liverpool,
England, 2006.
• Cyber Society Series, London Biennale Arcadia
in Arcadia Exhibition, London Biennale, London, England,
Curator Jill Rock, 2006.
• Researcher and Curator of Gene Culture Exhibition,
Egg Space Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Live Art Series, Saatchi Gallery 'Your Gallery'
(Website Database, London, England), Gaynor Evelyn Sweeny,
2006.
• Art Works, Artist Residency, Curator Alex Corina,
Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Transvoyeur Research and Development, UK Projects
Co-ordinator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Paris and Barcelona
Arts Collectives and Galleries, 2006.
• Urban Culture, Postit Exhibition, Conceived and
Curated by Craig Atkinson, Atkinson Gallery, Southport,
Merseyside, England, 2006.
• Urban Culture, Part 2, Las Vegas (US), ‘Flagging
Down May Day, London Biennial and Liverpool, England,
Curated by Adam Nankervis and David Medalla (Museum Man,
Liverpool, and London Biennale, England), 2006.
• 08 Ambassadors for the Liverpool Culture Company
and Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, 2006.
• Co-Curator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney with George
Lund and Jo Derbyshire in affiliation with Transvoyeur
and Head Space @ Egg Space Gallery (Jazamin Sinclair,
Karen Henley, etal), Maria Hughs and Jamie Reid Exhibition,
2006.
• Bunny Girl (Performance), ‘Doll Man Disco
(Carnivalesque Discotheque)’ (Organiser and concept
Gary Sollars), The Vines, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Urban Culture (Performance and Digital Prints)),
Flagging Down May Day, London Biennial and Liverpool,
England, Curated by Adam Nankervis and David Medalla (Museum
Man, Liverpool, and London Biennale, England), 2006.
• Five Questions for ... Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney,
Interview by Steve Pill, Metro News Paper, 27 April 2008
• The Enlightenment – Les Cushion Belles (Part
III) (Performance), Walk the Plank Theatre Production,
Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Eminised by Hand - The Bird (Painting, Private
Commission) [Client undisclosed], Liverpool, England,
2006.
• The Enlightenment – Les Cushion Belles (Part
I and II) (Digital Film Projection), Walk the Plank Theatre
Production, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Diva Hollywood and Femme Feline, Collaboration
of Burlesque Live Art Performance (Concept Dorrie Halliday),
Walk the Plank Theatre Production, Liverpool, England,
2006.
• Transitions Symosium, Liverpool John Moores University,
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Conscious of the Trade Over Now: You Then, Me
Now (Performance, Robotic and Light installation), Collective
Exhibition, Wellington Mill, Manchester, England, Curator
by Irene Rubereka, Tifiledig Productions, 2006.
• Mentor in Creative Practice and Research, Live
Art and Fine Art, Liverpool, England, 2006.
• Transvoyeur Research and Development, UK Projects
Co-ordinator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Transvoyeur UK, Liverpool,
England, 2006.
2005
• The Temple Series (Photographic Stills from Performance),
Liverpool City Town Hall, The South Bohemian Art Gallery
Exhibition, Liverpool, England, 2005.
• Literature Review of Mein Kampf, Tic Tac Toe (by
the Laboratory Bunny Girl of Death), Live Exhibition and
Performance Platform (Live performance and Video Still
Reproductions), Egg Space Gallery, Liverpool, England,
2005.
• Bunny Girl (Performance), ‘Doll Man Disco
(New Years)’ (Organiser and concept Gary Sollars),
Walk the Plank, Liverpool, England, 2005.
• La mort d'amour, le chat et poulet (The Death
of Love, The Cat and Chicken) (Live performance), No Cost
of Chaos Show (Produced by Amanda DeAngeles), National,
Liverpool, 2005.
• The Sea, Mermaid and Sailor (Model/Performer to
Dorrie Halliday), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England,
2005.
• Boudicca’s PMT in the 21st Century (Performance),
Scope London, St Martin Hotel Boutique, Lee Wells (New
York Curator), 2005.
• Boudicca’s PMT in the 21st Century (Performance),
British Art Salon, Berlin Art Festival, Terry Duffy (Curator
of British collective), 2005.
• Anointed by Medici (Digital Short Film), British
Art Salon, Berlin Art Festival, Terry Duffy (Curator of
British collective), 2005.
• Bunny Girl and Croupier (Performance), ‘Doll
Man Disco (Summer)’ (Organiser and concept Gary
Sollars), Walk the Plank, Liverpool, England, 2005.
• The Temple Series and Anointed by Medici (Photographic
stills), Berlin Kunst Salon, Adam Nankervis (Curator,
Museum Man), 2005.
• The Temple Series (Digital Video and Stills),
Museum Man and Adam Nankervis (Curator), Venice Biennial
2005, Venice, 2005.
• The Temple Series (Digital video of Performance),
Obsessions of Desire Exhibition, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh,
England, 2005.
• The Temple Series (Photographic Stills of Performance),
Hong Kong Biennial, Hong Kong, 2005.
• Bunny Girl (Performance), ‘Doll Man Disco
(Spring)’ (Organiser and concept Gary Sollars),
Walk the Plank, Liverpool, England, 2005.
• The Temple Series (Performance) Part of the Voyeur
Exhibition, 340 Old Street Gallery, Shoreditch, London,
curated by Terry Duffy and performance by Gaynor Evelyn
Sweeney, 2005.
• Raspberries, Ripeness, Randolfs (Radio Arts Platform),
The Foundry, Shoreditch, London, 2005.
• Performance Workshops with Rita Says and Tony
Knox, 340 Old Street Gallery, Shoreditch, London, 2005.
• Cinematographer, Arts 05, A Foundation, Liverpool,
England. To film and edit with digital video production
Art 05 events, awards and Tracey Emim, 2005.
• Mentor in Creative Practice and Research, Live
Art and Fine Art, Liverpool, England, 2005.
• Transvoyeur Research and Development, UK Projects
Co-ordinator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Transvoyeur UK, Liverpool,
England, 2005.
2004
• Design/Production of Interiors for VIP Area, Society
Nightclub, Liverpool, England, 2004.
• Slater Street, Liverpool, England (Combined Arts
Research Project), 2004. Collaboration with Gaynor Evelyn
Sweeney (Performance Artist), Ben Zulcke (Photographer)
and Tony Knox (Videographer).
• The Temple (Performance and Digital Projection
Installation), Transvoyeur (Anglo American Cultural Programme),
Independents, Liverpool Biennial 2004, Liverpool, England,
2004.
• The Temple (Performance and Digital Projection
Installation), BART Programme), Independents, Liverpool
Biennial 2004, Liverpool, England, 2004.
• Anointed by Medici Paris (Digital Film Projection),
BART Programme), Independents, Liverpool Biennial 2004,
Liverpool, England, 2004.
• Anointed by Medici Paris (Digital Film Projection),
Transvoyeur (Anglo American Cultural Programme), Independents,
Liverpool Biennial 2004, Liverpool, England, 2004.
• The Enlightenment – Les Cushion Belles (Digital
Film Projection), Transvoyeur (Anglo American Cultural
Programme), Independents, Liverpool Biennial 2004, Liverpool,
England, 2004.
• Liverpool and New York Artists Interviews (Digital
Film Projection), Transvoyeur (Anglo American Cultural
Programme), Independents, Liverpool Biennial 2004, Liverpool,
England, 2004.
• Artists Talk (Liverpool and New York), Transvoyeur
(Anglo American Cultural Programme), Independents, Liverpool
Biennial 2004, Liverpool, England, 2004.
• The Enlightenment – Les Cushion Belles (Digital
Film Projection), in association with Brendan Byrne, Poznan,
Poland, 2004.
• I like Blue ... (Portrait, Private Commission)[Client
undisclosed], Holbaek, Denmark, 2004.
• gesquOi (Part 5): Become Jean Michel Basquiat
for the Day (Research and Development in Contemporary
Art and Culture, 2004). Collaboration with artists in
Liverpool to explore and create art within a collective
of practices. Liverpool, England. Presented within the
exhibition space of transVoyeur venue for the Independents,
Liverpool Biennial 2004.
• gesquOi (Part 4): Open Performance Art Platform
(association with Transvoyeur). Artists invited to submit
visual and performance based art within a platform of
the transVoyeur exhibition. Administered through dialogue,
workshops and end presentations of art created. Liverpool,
England, 2004.
• gesquOi (Part 3): Objectifying the Object, the
Civic and Commodifications (Research and Development in
Contemporary Art and Culture, 2004). A collective of artists
co-ordinated by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney to explore human
residues and artefacts in the urban space and conceptualise
them both as art and in a gallery context. Liverpool and
the Egg Space Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2004.
• gesquOi (Part 2): Art and the City (Performance
and Combined Arts Platform, 2004). Performed by a collective
of artists co-ordinated by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney. Live
performances throughout the city of Liverpool and the
Bluecoats Art Centre, Liverpool, England, 2004.
• gesquOi (Part (1): The Enlightenment - Les Cushion
Belles (Part 1) (Live performance in collaboration with
Kofi Fosu (text) and Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (performance
concept), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2004.
• Between Elysium and Hades (Live performance),
The Brandenburg Gates, Berlin, Germany, 2004.
• Bloggers, A Web Based Cultural Platform by Michael
Mayhew (Manchester),Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and other artists
invited to contribute to the virtual space of this programme,
2004.
• UK Projects Co-ordinator, Transvoyeur, Anglo-American
Cultural Exchange) Liverpool and New York, 2004 (including
research and development founded through gesquOi).
• Mentor in Creative Practice and Research, Live
Art and Fine Art, Liverpool, England, 2004.
• Transvoyeur Research and Development, UK Projects
Co-ordinator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Transvoyeur UK, Liverpool,
England, 2004.
2003
• Transvoyeur Research and Development, UK Projects
Co-ordinator, Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney, Transvoyeur UK, Liverpool,
England, 2003.
• Finale (Live performance in collaboration with
Pacitti Company), Blue Coats Arts and Tate Performance
Art Platform Initiative, The Reservoir, Liverpool, England,
2003.
• Live Art Series, Yoke and Zoom (Japan Arts Initiative
for Dispensing Machines), Tokyo, Japan, 2003.
• Daughter of Babylon (Performance and Film Production),
Shadow Films (Production Company), Channel 4, England.
• Through my Father’s Eyes (Now) – Genealogy
of Art (Performance), Cultural Critique), Egg Gallery,
Liverpool, England, 2003.
• Reflections (Performance), Creative Letts, Blue
Coats, Liverpool, England, 2003.
• Between a Priest and a Dying Man – Marquis
de Sade (Live Performance in Public Arena), Audience Development
Project, Liverpool, England, 2003.
• In the name of … (Performance), Artist in
Redisence, Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A)/End of
Year Show, Bolton Institute, Bolton, England, 2003.
• Gender Genderisation (Performance and Installation),
Artist in Redisence, Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A),
Bolton Institute, Bolton, England, 2003.
• Realisations - Dancer sur le Bord …, (Performance
and Cinematography), Cleveland Performance Art Festival
2003, Ohio, USA, 2003.
• Member of Wild (Discourse/Research Group in Art
Philosophy and Practice), Static Gallery, Liverpool, England,
2003.
• Digital and Live Art Residency, Artists Access
to Art Colleges (AA2A), Bolton Institute, Bolton, England,
2002-3.
• Annointed by Medici - Paris (Performance), Medici
l'hotel, Paris, France, 2003.
• Ars Gratia Artis Perdu (Live Performance, )Louvre,
Paris, France, 2003.
• Ars Gratia Artis (Photographic Performance Stills
and Installation in Exhibition), Realisations (Exhibition),
Liverpool Culture Company, Culture Bid 2008, Sefton Park
Palm House, Liverpool, England, 2003.
• Ars Gratia Artis (Photographic Performance Stills
and Installation in Exhibition), Realisations (Exhibition),
Liverpool Culture Company, Culture Bid 2008, Walker Art
Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2003.
• Realisation Workshops, Bronte Community Centre,
Liverpool Culture Company, Culture Bid 2008, Liverpool,
England, 2003.
• Ars Gratia Artis (Photographic Performance Stills
and Installation in Exhibition), Realisations (Exhibition),
Liverpool Culture Company, Culture Bid 2008, Atrium, Liverpool
Echo and Daily Post, Liverpool, England, 2003.
• Realisations - Dancer sur le Bord … (Performance),
Liverpool Culture Company, Culture Bid 2008, Realisations
(Exhibition), Liverpool Culture Company, Culture Bid 2008,
Atrium, Liverpool Echo and Daily Post, Liverpool, England,
2003.
• Gender Generation, Femme à femme, Apocraphillia
Part II (Performance/Forum), Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool,
England, 2003.
• Mentor in Creative Practice and Research, Live
Art and Fine Art, Liverpool, England, 2003.
2002
• Canonized Anthology (Performance), Tate Modern,
London, England, 2002.
• Transitions (Live performance), Collaboration
Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney and Sumer Erek, London, England,
2002.
• Transcension (Installation/Performance), collaboration
with Alexei Kostroma Liverpool Biennial 2002, LBK, Liverpool,
England, 2002.
• Excentris (Performance) collaboration with Guillermo
Pena Gomez, etc., Liverpool Biennial 2002, Blue Coat Gallery,
Liverpool, England, 2002.
• Colours of a Female (Performance, Liverpool Biennial,
2002, Egg Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2002.
• The Bath (Installation and Performance) collaboration
with Sumer Erek,Liverpool Biennial 2002, St. Johns. Liverpool,
England, 2002.
• Whores of Babylon (Sculpture/Installation/Performance)
Liverpool Biennial 2002, St. Johns, Liverpool, England,
2002.
• Once upon a time…! (Performance), Little
Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002.
• Ars Gratias Artis (Laser installation and Performance),
End of Year Show (Live Performance at Graduation Exhibition,
John Moores University, Liverpool School of Art, Liverpool,
England, 2002.
• Prometheus Bound, Cow Says Wor! (Art Exhibition)The
Egg Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2002.
• Ars Gratias Artis and The Death of Les Demoiselle
d'Avignon (Photographic Performance Stills), Bags (Art
Exhibition), The Egg Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2002.
• Bagism Performance (Performance), The Egg Gallery,
Liverpool, England, 2002.
• The Death of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (Performance),
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 2002.
2001
• Ars Gratias Artis (Performance Photographic Series),Ten
in the Bed (Art Exhibition, Jump Ship Rat Gallery, Liverpool,
England, 2001.
• Ars Gratia Artis (Performance, Louvre, Paris,
France, 2001.
• Research and Development of Promethous Bound Series
(Paintings and Sculptures), Liverpool, England, 2001.
• The Body the Canvas Series, (Paintings, Sculptures,
Digital Short Films and Live Art), Liverpool, England,
2001.
• Art, Society and Cultural Research in Theory and
Practice, Paris, France, 2001.
• Philosophies Attired and Transgressed (Painting
Series on Mixed Media), The Eclectic (Exhibition, Hope
Street Gallery, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool
School of Art, Liverpool, England,, 2001.
• Generous Genitals Series (Mixed Media Installation),
Circque de Société (Promotional Event),
Society Night Club, Liverpool, England, 2001.
• Art, Society and Cultural Research in Theory and
Practice, New York, US, 2000-1.
Previous to 2000
• The Stalker and the Homeless Man (Scultpures,
Ceramics, Paintings, etc.), Year Exhibition, Southport
College, Southport, England, 2000.
• Family Portraiture (Private Commission), Mr Bill
Foster (Councillor - Halton Borough Councillor), 1999-2000.
• Educational Designs ( Public Commission), St.
Bertelines CofE Primary School, Runcorn, England, 1999.
• School Prospectus (Public Commission), St. Bertelines
CofE Primary School, Runcorn, England, 1999.
• Events Co-ordinator, The African Experience Programme,
Robert Allan Sweeney (Snr.), Cheshire, England, 1997 -
1999.
• Interview with a Zombie (Digital Short Film),
53rd Edinburgh Film Festival and NBX, 1998.
• Seasonal Designs (Private Commission), West Runcorn
Youth Club, Runcorn, England, 1995.
• Publicity Design (Private Commission), Halton
Child Support Contact Centre, Runcorn, England, 1995.
• Prose Illustrations (Private Commissions, Varied),
Mr John Walsh (MA)(Writer), Cheshire, England, 1995-1996.
• Design and Redesign (Public Commission), Illustrations
of Political Satire, Halton Borough Council, Runcorn,
1995.
• Candidacy Characterised (Public Commission), Illustrations
of Political Satire, Halton Borough Council, Runcorn,
1995.
• Heritage, Family Portraiture (Private Commission)
[Client undisclosed] Chester, England, 1993-4.
• Adoration, Portrait (Private Commission) [Client
undisclosed] Warrington, England, 1994.
• Us Now, Portrait (Private Commission) [Client
undisclosed] Exeter, England, 1993-4.
• To Remember, Portrait (Private Commission) [Client
undisclosed] Plymouth, England, 1993.
• The Classical (Environmental and Sculptural Designs,
Mixed Media and Concrete)[Client undisclosed] Runcorn,
England, 1993.
• Art, Society and Cultural Research in Theory and
Practice, England and France,1993-8.
