FACT’s new online journal is an open-access contemporary art journal that delves into FACT’s artistic programme with essays, images and perspectives from curators, artists and scholars.

This issue brings together texts by curators, artists, scholars and participants who were integral to FACT’s Radical Ancestry Programme, a cultural inquiry and artistic programme spanning from 2021 to 2023. Radical Ancestry explored how we construct our personal identity and sense of belonging through our understanding of ancestry and inheritance, as well as how technology can open up new spaces where different forms of cultural identity may flourish.

The Journal forms part of the series of resources generated by the programme, which includes a series of podcasts with participating artists Yarli Allison and Boedi Widjaja, Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe of Breakwater, and Larry Achiampong and David Blandy.

Journal contributors

Dr Nicola Triscott, Annie Jael Kwan, Dr Lucienne Loh, Maitreyi Maheshwari, Carrie Chan, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley with Alharith Ahmed, Corey Anderson and Tia Hume-Jennings (the Bandidos) and Rachel Mason, Neil Winterburn, Ashleigh Sands and Lucía Arias (FACT), and Delphie Levy Jones.

Published by

FACT Liverpool, 2023

Editor

Nicola Triscott

Copy editor

Jane Hamnett