Barcelona , 22. February - 31. May 2008.




Following an invitation by curator Montse Badia in October 2007, Liversidge typed and posted 88 proposals to C.A.S.M. The exhibition thus comprises objects related to proposals sent by Liversidge ("I propose to place on the floor of Gallery 2 at Centre d'Art Santa Monica a bronze cast of the two elastic bands I found outside my front door this morning. The elastic bands were the red type often dropped by postmen. They were laying on top of each other, and this is how they will appear in the gallery space"); graphic documentation of actions performed by the artist himself ("I propose to scatter British wild-flower seeds in any broken ground in the city of Barcelona"); and a wall filled by all 88 framed proposals for visitors to read and wonder as to which have happened, and which will never live beyond the confines of the typed page and their imaginations.

By responding to the organiser’s invitation in this way, Liversidge begins a process of discussion, of exchanges of views, of shared decisions and responsibilities which invite us to rethink the roles of artist, curator and audience.

Neon striplights creating new doors and walls, timed smoke machines and sudden noises in the galleries force us to reconsider our immediate surroundings, whilst natural objects cast in unlikely materials, taxidermied birds, floral tributes and new films made at Barcelona zoo confront us with different representations of ‘nature’. Liversidge’s proposals open up a world of almost boundless possibility, suggesting the power we all have to influence and change our surroundings. Using humour as his trigger, he raises fundamental questions about what it is to be human and to inhabit the world.

Peter Liversidge is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.

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