Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Kelly Mark | Liverpool A-Z


 

Kelly Mark w/Tenantspin
Liverpool A-Z
Liverpool, UK: Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, 2006
40 pp., 8.05 x 0.23 x 20.29 cm., staple-bound
Edition size unknown

The result of Kelly Mark's month-long residency in Liverpool in 2006 was a project in which she interviewed 26 residents, one for each letter of the alphabet: Adam, Ben, Catherine, Dolly, Eileen, Fenfen, Gill, Hilary, Iain, John, Karl, Laura, Margo, Neil, Olivier, Paul, Queenie, Roger, Steven, Tony, Uka, Vinny, Wibke, Xavier, Yorkie and Zena. 

The participants include a dancer, singer, town planner, teacher, police officer, retired postal worker, BBC presenter, a philosopher and many others. The bookwork combines photographs of each with a short quote from the video interviews Mark conducted with the Liverpudlians.  

Designed to echo the iconic London street guide, Liverpool A–Z is an attempt to create a human map of the city. Mark provides a short introduction  and Alan Dunn of Tenantspin contributes an essay. Both are excerpted below. 


“Through the process of story telling a portrait of a city emerges from its people. Using the map guide of Liverpool A-Z as a starting point twenty-six individuals, with names ranging from Adam to Zena, were asked to share personal stories, insights and opinions in order to create a temporal guide to their city, an emotive map which includes humor, sadness, anger and love. The true essence of a city is its people.”
- Kelly Mark



"The A-Z street map as we know it today was the brainchild of Phyllis Pearsall (MBE) in 1936. It is a tool with thousands of equal working parts yet activities such as house hunting or relocating inevitably make a few pages dog-eared and marked while leaving the bulk of the A-Z as pristine sheets of streets, parts of the city that one need not, should not or cannot access.

My own Liverpool A-Z, purchased in late 1994 while house-hunting, is a case in point. Pages 95-100 are loose, as are 73/74 and 117/118 – both areas of residence. Page 199 has a red line drawn along The New Chester Road to give someone directions to The Oval and page 102 has Hatton’s Lane marked. A further 10 pages have been referred to, making a total of 22 pages from 175.

From two project managers and a call for participants on the local BBC Radio station, the avenues starting opening up. As buildings grow from single buildings on the river bank, one email became a phone call became a project proposal became a letter and a group of 26 guests who are in no way the only 26 people who could have participated in Liverpool A-Z but tenantspin as the connection between all these people – direct and also remote – became the validation for this particular mapping.

Kelly and tenantspin have pieced together a city in which no areas are deemed inaccessible, unnecessary or undesirable. Arts, law, history, philosophy, entertainment, sport, activism and media are all represented. As are the gaps in-between; people as citizens, observers, doers, participants in urban life and people as fine details of this great city, brought together to form more than the sum of the parts."
- Alan Dunn

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