CURATORS:
Tomas Harold and Nathan Jones (Mercy)

VENUE:
Arena Gallery (1st Floor)
82/84 Duke Street, Liverpool L1 5AA

DATES:
02-26 November 2006

Opening times:
Wednesday-Sunday 10am-5pm*
*Plus late night events opening
from 6pm:

Thursday 2: Private View, 6-10pm
Saturday 11: HIVE, 7-11pm
Friday 17: Fiction, 7-11pm
Wednesday 22: Special Film
Screening, 7-10pm
Friday 24: Live music party, 8pm-late

Mercy are proud to present the third instalment of the ]BracketTHIS[ project.

For this exhibition, we have specially commissioned ten artists and invited five more to include recent work. While all of the artists are currently based in the North West of England, they are from diverse cultural backgrounds and have employed a range of different practices
to reflect on their pluralised and mobile social context.

Following the format of previous ]BracketTHIS[ shows, during the course of the exhibition four special events will take place within the gallery, attempting to bring the whole idea to life. For ]BracketTHIS[ 3, we are pleased to welcome the return of HIVE and Fiction, who will be presenting live electronica and brand new poetics on November 11 and 17 respectively. We are also pleased to host a special screening of artist’s film and video, curated by James Harding, on November 22. The exhibition will draw to a close by staging the first party of the Biennial’s closing weekend – a ‘cultural extravaganza’ of music and performance.

Please consult the Mercy website for further details: www.showmercy.co.uk

May we take this opportunity to thank everybody who has been involved with ]BracketTHIS[ 3.

ARTISTS:

Anne Charnock
Anne-Laure Franchette
Birgit R Deubner
Fiona Curran
Kai-Oi Jay Yung
Laura Pullig
Laurence Payot
Markus Soukup
Michael Aitken
Nic Kendall
Nicole Bartos
Rhian Russell
Sarah Nicholson
Sean Halligan
Suki Chan