Collapsing tree house to feature in Tatton Park Biennial 2010

Jan 28 2010 by Laura Davis, Liverpool Daily Post

ENORMOUS lily pads, a collapsing tree house, a fossilisation machine and a 2-tonne block of ice carried from Greenland are just a few of the extraordinary artworks planned for Tatton Park Biennial 2010.

From May 8 to September 26, the contemporary art event returns to Tatton Park, featuring new work by more than 20 emerging and internationally recognised artists.

The theme for the works will be Framing Identity and they will include large- scale installations, films, performance and the written word.

Curators Danielle Arnaud and Jordan Kaplan, of Parabola, say: “We are looking forward to seeing the works moving off the paper and into the grounds and mansion. Framing Identity marks Tatton’s Biennial as a truly unique event – an acknowledgement of the specifics of people and place from some of the finest artists practising today.”

The inaugural biennial, in 2008, was shortlisted for the prestigious Lever Prize and one work, Heather and Ivan Morison’s I am So Sorry, Goodbye, was selected by RSA Arts & Ecology Magazine as one of the world’s most inspiring artworks of the year.