Contemporary artist and performer David Liver recently created Voice Over, an online magazine supported by the Intercultural Cities Programme of the Council of Europe. It engages with current critical discourse from the perspective of the artist and offers alternative narratives to ongoing social and political discussions that take place in- and outside of institutional walls. The first issue Conflict was curated together with artist Jimmie Durham and the second issue Bad AI features work by poet and artist Kenneth Goldsmith. The Compendium reached out to Liver to discuss the motivations and aims of his ambitious and challenging project. Voice Over is a magazine that addresses cultural issues to the institutional representatives. Why this target audience and what motivated you to initiate the series? I would say that this is a contextual audience made of people working and living within the “bubble” of the European institutions. They are where Voice Over takes the stage. By choosing the Council of Europe, and more specifically ICC (Intercultural Cities Programme), as the tribune from where we engage in the discussion, the representatives and their whole hive are de facto our first natural audience. Voice Over, however, is out there, possibly for everyone who is interested in reading artists’ opinions … Continue reading The perspective of the artist: David Liver on Voice Over magazine