Ines Doujak
11th Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom
20 March - 6 June 2021
The 11th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, entitled The Stomach and the Port, explored notions of body and ways of connecting to the world. In cooperation with Manuela Moscoso, the curator of this edition, the artistic direction of the biennial invited over 50 international artists to respond to this theme within the context of the city of Liverpool. Drawing on non-Western ways of thinking, the biennial aims at challenging an understanding of the individual as a defined, self-sufficient entity. Ines Doujak, together with fellow artist John Barker, presented a work in film, Masterless Voices (2014), at Tate Liverpool and a new podcast series on the history of pandemics entitled Transmission: A series of five Podcasts on Disease and Pandemics in a Distorted World (2021).
Ines Doujak (born 1959 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria) lives and works in London and Vienna. Her work has been shown at the Dhaka Art Summit, the Bienal de São Paulo and at documenta 12, Kassel. Among other venues, she has had solo exhibitions at Salzburger Kunstverein, and Secession, Vienna.
The Liverpool Biennial was founded in 1998, and has since commissioned over 340 new artworks, and presented the work of more than 480 artists from around the world. Following co-productions of works by Oliver Laric in 2016 and Mathias Poledna in 2018, this represents Phileas’ third consecutive collaboration with the Liverpool Biennial.
