Welcome to the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, where we conduct qualitative and experimental research in the arts, culture, and everyday life. We have interdisciplinary expertise on a wide range of issues including around space, time, and memory, and we engage with questions of urban experience and visual culture both locally in Liverpool and internationally. Watch this space for live and online events and opportunities relating to art and anthropology, cultural studies, everyday life research, material culture, urban media, critical and cultural theory, and much more.
Post-Pandemic Imaginaries Conference 5-6 Sept 2024
This was a two day international conference, with speakers from many countries including South Korea, South Africa, the US and Portugal. The full conference programme can be found HERE.
Image: Andrii and Lia Dostliev, 'Comfort Work', work in progress.
Recent Events: Artist talk by Andrii Dostliev
At the occasion of the launch of the AHRC-IAA funded project "Contemporary Art and Political Change for Ukrainian Displaced Persons".
Andrii Dostliev (b. 1984) is an artist, curator, and photography researcher from Ukraine, based in Poland. His primary areas of interest are memory, trauma, decolonial practices in Eastern Europe, gay history of Ukraine, and the limits of photography as a medium. His art practice works across photography, video, drawing, performance, and installation. His work (together with Lia Dostlieva) will be part of the Ukrainian Pavillion exhibition at Venice Biennale 2024.
"Contemporary Art and Political Change for Ukrainian Displaced Persons". is a collaboration between the Ukrainian Pavillion, Vid Simoniti (Philosophy Department, University of Liverpool), and Open Eye Gallery, investigating political self-expression of displaced persons through art. Event hosted in collaboration with Centre for Culture & Everyday Life.
Recent Events: Game Engine Cultures
This in-person workshop was hosted by CCEL on December 1st, 2023. It explored the role of videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal in our contemporary visual culture. Curated by Paolo Ruffino (University of Liverpool) and Valentino Catricalà (School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University), it included speakers Aleena Chia, Joseph DeLappe, Vid Simoniti, Lesley Taker, Sandra Youkhana & Luke Caspar Pearson . Full details on the University of Liverpool website at the link above.
Recent Events: Traces of Memory
This was a collaborative research project led by PhD student Emily Beswick, which explored how family photos can reveal the hidden stories of East and South East Asian communities in Liverpool. The sharing event and exhibition held in September 2023 at Tate Liverpool showcased the outcomes of the project. Emily is a member of the CCEL and holds a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Tate Liverpool.
Recent Events: Material Cultures of Play Symposium.
This interdisciplinary one-day symposium was held in May 2023 at the CCEL. Talks brought together disciplines including media, cultural studies, art history, archaeology, English literature, Latin American studies, photography studies and architecture, to reflect on the places, objects, practices and times of play. Speakers were: Jordana Blejmar & Erika Teichert, Peter Buse, Luca Csepely-Knorr & Amber Roberts Matthew Fitzjohn & Peta Bulmer, Ben Highmore, David Hopkins, and Joe Moshenska.
See our University webpages here. Enquiries: contact Prof. Michelle Henning or Dr. Les Roberts. If you would like to be notified of live or online events at the CCEL, join our mailing list by emailing us here.
The Centre for Culture and Everyday Life,
School of the Arts,
University of Liverpool,
19-23 Abercromby Square,
Liverpool,
L69 7ZG
United Kingdom