About

Pigs Bladder Football is an unusual, new and experimental art project, re-connecting traditional techniques and lost knowledge through the use of cutting-edge scientific processes. The historic and material origins of our beautiful game are explored through a programme of hands-on workshops, games development activities, short films and exhibitions.

Through mutually creative and scientific experiments, artist John O’Shea and Prof. John Hunt at University of Liverpool Clinical Engineering Unit, will cultivate a uniquely captivating sculptural object: a 21st century “football” grown from living cells.

Over the course of 2012, John O’Shea is in residence at the University of Liverpool, Clinical Engineering Unit working in collaboration with Phd. scholar Theun Van Veen.

Pigs Bladder Football is commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices Festival and is funded by the Wellcome Trust.

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During 2011, through a series of public workshops, competitive games of “pigs bladder football” were developed across the North West which culminated at the 2011 Egremont Crab and Sports Fair in Cumbria with the first game of “Pigs Bladder Football” to take place during the 21st Century! This took place on Saturday 17th of September 2011 (as part of Abandon Normal Devices).

Below is a lecture giving an overview of the Pigs Bladder Football challenge which was presented at the 2011 TedX Merseyside event held at Liverpool John Moore University Art and Design Academy: