Visible Virals - Urban Virals

Taking place across the city’s public transport, parks and urban spaces, Visible Virals are currently engaging thousands of people as they spread across the city during 2008.

Visible Virals are at the forefront of the public realm programme, commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company as part of European Capital of Culture 2008 and managed by Liverpool Biennial, and are part of a broad and inclusive programme of work that reflects Liverpool’s cultural life and its varied communities including the city centre’s surrounding neighbourhoods.

For their project titled One Year in Liverpool, Stockholm artists collective A-APE are investigating the concept of ‘the average Liverpudlian’ through their life, behaviour and consumer habits. The project takes its basis from statistics, gradually feeding unusual facts into the public realm over the year and inviting people in the city to provide information about themselves. The project will manifest itself in a series of installations that will spread through unexpected locations in the city centre to reveal the bigger picture. A-APE are Akay, Kidpele, Made and Eric Ericson.

The project launched in January 2008, and there are now artworks appearing in public places across the city. .

(Part of public art programme, commissioned from Liverpool Biennial by the Liverpool Culture Company for European Capital of Culture 2008).