the dirt on VIDEO POSITIVE 97

Here's information on the UK's largest video and
electronic arts festival, VIDEO POSITIVE 97:

VIDEO POSITIVE 97: ESCAPING GRAVITY

Exhibitions Programme details follow:

LIVERPOOL

11 April - 17 May

Bluecoat Gallery. Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.30am - 5.00pm Admission
Free Lyndal Jones, John Wood & Paul Harrison with ARTSKILLS, Bobby Baker
& the Ashworth Hospital Women's Art Project, Sera Furneaux & Common
Ground Sign Dance Theatre with SILENT VIEW, Richard Layzell with
Liverpool University of the Third Age, Roderick Buchanan with MediaBath,
Helsinki & Halton College, Merseyside

Internet residency at Queens Road Community Centre (Eng/Fin) Admission
Free 'The Bootle Pages' 1997 (CP)

11 April - 27 April

Cream at Nation. Open Monday-Saturday 12noon-8.00pm Admission Free
David Ward, Alan Currall, CD-Roms

11 April - 20 April

The Grand Hall, The Colonnades Albert Dock. Open Daily 10.30am - 5.00pm
Admission Free. Simon Robertshaw (England)

11 April - 10 May

68 Hope Street Gallery. Open Mon - Fri: 10.30am - 5.30pm (No Saturdays
except for 12 April). Admission Free. Luchezar Boyadjiev (Bulgaria)

11 April - 17 May

Open Eye. Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00am - 5.30pm Admission Free.
Gordon Bennett, Thecla Schiphorst, Stephanie Smith / Edward Stewart

12 April - 20 April

The Oratory, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. Open Daily 10.30am - 4.30pm
Admission Free. Bill Viola (US)

11 April - 20 April

Wade Smith (Outdoor Athletic). Open Monday - Saturday : 9.30pm -
5.30pm Sunday 12noon - 4.00pm. George Barber (England)

MANCHESTER

11 April - 18May

Castlefield Gallery. Open: Tuesday - Friday 10.30am - 5.00pm, Saturday -
Sunday 12noon - 5.00pm. Admission Free. Anne