Open Eye Projects
A dynamic programme of exhibitions, projects and professional development activities involving emerging artists and taking place in experimental formats, contexts and locations around Liverpool. Open Eye Projects aims to engage artists and audiences differently, creating open and inclusive spaces for the discussion, exhibition and production of contemporary lens-based art and related discourse.
Exhibitions & Screenings
Taking place both inside and outside the gallery, OEP exhibitions and screenings bring together a diverse range of artists, whose works question the role of photographic and lens-based media in relation to history, progress, memory, time and the media.
Past
The Memory Conspiracy
Long Night of the Biennial, 30 October 2008
6-11pm, Open Eye Gallery
Including video works by Rachel Reupke (UK) Francis Hunger (DE) and Ori Gersht (IL), this special one-night-only screening explores the relationship between stillness and movement, loops and progress, climax and repetition.
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Guided By The Echo - Nelson Guzmán
An exhibition of work in progress by our Colombian artist in residence
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Local Artists’ Commissions
OEP offers a range of commissions for artists in Merseyside that aim to experiment with new models of support and exchange in open and inclusive social contexts.
Past
Future Visions of History
30 October 2008
Over the course of a single day during the 2008 Liverpool Biennial, a project coordinated by Liverpool-based artists Penny Whitehead and Daniel Simpkins will spread like a virus through the streets of the city. A free newspaper featuring photographic & written contributions from a range of artists will be distributed on a series of mapped routes.
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The Pitch Commissions
At an evening event in June 08, fifteen artists pitched for three small-scale commissions in front of a voting audience. In the months that followed the selected artists - Alex Wolkovicz, Amy Goring and Leon Seth - received curatorial support and mentoring as they developed their pieces of work. On 7 October they returned to talk about their experiences of the project and present their work in progress.
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International Residency
Working with partners Metal Culture and supported by Visiting Arts, Open Eye Projects hosted Colombian artist Nelson Guzmán’s three-month residency in Liverpool, providing curatorial and mentoring support during his stay. The residency culminated in Guided by the Echo, an exhibition of the artist’s work in progress, which took place at Metal’s new project space at Edge Hill Train Station
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