For 2020/21, the Liquid Club returns in partnership with Melodic Distraction Radio to invite collective exploration of the ideas and practices inherent in the upcoming edition. Join us on the third Thursday of every month as the Liquid Club moves online for a new series focused on sound, listening and aural practices. The events will feature our LB2021 artists including Lamin Fofana, Jamila Johnson-Small, Larry Achiampong and Ayesha Hameed alongside invited guest speakers. It is free and open to all to take part.

Beginning the series, we invite collective Invernomuto & Jim C. Nedd to explore Colombian pico culture as a continuation of their work investigating the remnants of subcultures and their individual research practices into sound.

Taking the lead from their forthcoming new film work Grito – Las Brisas de Febrero (2021), being premiered during the Liverpool Biennial in 2021, Invernomuto & Jim C. Nedd present a dynamic hour of listening, discussion and contemplation. Featuring pre-recorded interviews captured during the production of the new video installation alongside music, field recordings and conversation, they explore Colombian pico culture – where customised sound systems or ‘picos’ go head-to-head playing Afro-Colombian records, animating the street parties of the country’s Atlantic Coast.

About the artists

Simone Bertuzzi (b. 1983, Piacenza, Italy) and Simone Trabucchi (b. 1982, Piacenza, Italy) live and work in Milan, Italy. They have been collaborating as Invernomuto since 2003, focusing primarily on moving image and sound, while often integrating sculpture, performance and publishing into their practice. Jim C. Nedd (b. 1991, Verona, Italy) lives and works in Milan, Italy. Nedd is an Afro-Colombian interdisciplinary storyteller, involved in sonic environments and visual arts.

Further reading/listening

www.invernomuto.info

https://autoitaliasoutheast.org/projects/pico-un-parlante-de-africa-en-america/

The Liquid Club

Launched in 2019 to expand the conceptual thinking behind the Liverpool Biennial’s 11th edition, the Liquid Club began as a monthly critical reading and discussion group where we asked how we can conceive of our body beyond its concrete physical boundaries. We read anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro on ways to expand an understanding of subjectivity beyond the human, with Sylvia Wynter we studied ways of deconstructing the biocentric premise of the human as a purely natural organism in Western modernity, before going on to read texts from Denise Ferreira da Silva, Rosi Braidotti, Suely Rolnik, Louis Onuorah Chude-Sokei among others.

The 2020/21 Liquid Club is brought to you in partnership with Melodic Distraction Radio. An independent internet radio station, online magazine and events programmer situated in the heart of Liverpool.