LIVERPOOL TOP 9!

TSUI KUANG-YU

Exhibition: Tuesday 31 July - Sunday 2 September

Liverpool Top 9! explores our relationship with the urban environment and how we navigate the structures and systems laid out for us through urban design.

Consisting of short films, Tsui Kuang-yu’s exhibition plays with the urban landscape of Liverpool, but will resonate with people from cities across the UK.

As we move around the city, our behaviour is governed at all times by a whole array of rules, customs, signs and symbols. We navigate a world marked out by lines painted on the roads; by street signs, railings, fences, bollards; and by more subtle, unspoken and unwritten agreements. Very often, we’re not even aware of the many ways in which our behaviour in different places is controlled by different sets of rules, customs or expectations. But what would happen if we started to think about those customs – and to misuse them? What if we invented the rules?

Tsui Kuang-yu gives us a glimpse of what is unleashed as the residents of Liverpool put their own twist onto the signs, symbols and conventions of the city’s streets.

Liverpool Top 9! was commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial International 06.

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