We have been webcasting for the past couple of weeks as part of the gallery show currently taking place at FACT until May 31st - Climate for Change.
This gallery show could be confused with yet another attempt to meet the question of our changing climate (if you believe that this is actually what is happening…thats another story) but, in actual fact it isn’t all to do with climate change. Of course, this has been a pretty important aspect of the show the very title lets the cat out of the bag a bit. However, this was also a show about action, re-action, debate, discussion, event, workshop, happening - to coin a few generic terms.
On our part, tenantspin wanted to reinvent our weekly forum for debate tried out in tate Liverpool end of last year, beginning of this year. We took the ‘change’ topic and talked through protest (should we? Shouldn’t we? Does it do anything?) bread (slow, fast, fat, thin) web 2.0 (what does it mean to be an armchair protester? Does the internet promote cause or promote slouchy debate) the last cultural commentators (does culture have legs after 08 - what is it anyway?) local environmental debate, community money, oil and finishing 26th May 12.30 - 1.30 with a look at Jean Grant and the Pool project’s ‘The Settlement’ before join artist Nina Edge for a game to change.
We have been on the couch with Mandy ‘Queen’ of Culture, Trine Hughes, Simon Snowdon, Erik Buchard, local artists, performers, Stan ‘the harp’ Ambrose, Kenny, David, Jon, Tracey, Jennifer, John, Dolly, Sid ‘The Greek’ Jay, Steve, Sandi, Gaby, Anna, St Francis of Assisi, John O’Shea, amongst many others.
To watch our programmes back you can visit the home page of the tenantspin website and have a look in the ‘on demand’ section of our mogulus channel. Or via www.mogulus.com/tenantspin.
A big thank-you to everyone who helped us to debate the issues and subjects of change in our Tuesday sessions.







Cultural Commentators part 3
As part of our year-long commentary on cultural events in Liverpool 2008 tenantspin invited Mandy ‘Queen of Culture’ back onto the couch to host an hour-long discussion with artists and commentators from around the city. Red Wire, The Royal Standard, Wolstenholme Projects and artinliverpool.com joined us to look at the last 5 months of events and celebrations and discuss what we all are aspiring to in the looming year of sustainability 2009.
There was much discussion around what we wish we hadn’t missed what we want to see and indeed the future of Liverpool once the coverted year is over. The debate will be uploaded to www.google.com/video soon so keep your eyes peeled!
We will also be doing our year round up from our studio in Tate Liverpool in January.