Time & Tide by Steve Bird

“Time & Tide”, the latest audiovisual composition from multimedia artist Steve Bird, seeks to evoke the essence of a city with images of what was, what is and what is yet to be. Set in Liverpool, the European Capital of Culture 2008, a city of diggers, cranes and wrecking balls, frantically toiling to prove to the world how “Cultured” it is, “Time & Tide” questions our changing values, the very nature of ‘culture’ and wonders what has happened to the dockers, the bakers, the sailors and the factory workers who made up the real culture of the city. Where are they, now that the places where they earned their daily bread have been demolished to make way for chain stores selling the products of British companies manufactured for pennies in the Far East, or for high rent steel and glass apartments that they could never afford if they saved every penny that they earned in a lifetime? Times change – for better or worse - whether we like it or not - times change.

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