The best of Liverpool Biennial - in pictures

A bouncer stands guard for But I'm on the Guest List Too by Elmgreen & Dragset in the Liverpool One shopping complex Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Belonging by Patrick Murphy, a series of 150 brightly coloured pigeons on the roof of the Walker Art Gallery Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian A detail of Patrick Murphy's Belonging on top of the Walker Art Gallery Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian A detail from Ancient Film by Sun Xun at the Bluecoat Gallery Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian The Lift by Oded Hirsch during its installation Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Drift Topography, 2003, by Thomas Hirschhorn in the Thresholds exhibition at Tate Liverpool Photograph: courtesy Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY A.O.N.B (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), 1982-1984, by Keith Arnatt in the Thresholds exhibition at Tate Liverpool Photograph: The estate of Keith Arnatt 2-Way Mirror Cylinder Bisected By Perforated Stainless Steel by Dan Graham Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Exile by José Angel Vincench, a piece that moves around the city Photograph: Jerry Hardman-Jones Liverpool to Let by Superflex in the Cunard Building Photograph: Jerry Hardman-Jones Refraction by Jorge Macchi in the LJMU Copperas Building Photograph: Jerry Hardman-Jones The Source by Doug Aitken on Albert Dock Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Victoria Miro Gallery, London; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles Photograph: Charlie Coleman, Infinite 3D Vilnius Black Pillow, a huge inflatable black pillow, by Audrius Bučas & Valdas Ozarinskas at the LJMU Copperas Building Photograph: Jerry Hardman-Jones