Discover something new this autumn and winter as we explore the growing impact of technology on our daily lives.
Enjoy free entry to all exhibitions including you feel me_, a major group show that invites you to feel the future and imagine a world without division. Bringing a close to our 2019 theme of gender, identity and representation, the exhibition transforms our galleries into alternative worlds filled with artworks made from virtual reality, artificial intelligence, ceramics and game design.
Alongside the exhibition is an exciting programme of events including talks, tours, workshops and films with special screenings of Belladonna of Sadness (1973), Barbarella (1968) and Daughters of the Dust (1991).
Don’t miss our young people and family events which have had a gaming takeover! Break the boundaries of reality and explore virtual space together in Do Something Saturdays or create your own escape room in our half-term Prototype Camp: Escape the Game.
We hope you enjoy your visit!
This season is presented by Curator-in-Residence, Helen Starr. This residency is kindly supported by ArtFund.
Helen Starr is an Afro-Carib Trinidadian Blixn* who lives between Trinidad and the UK. She has worked in the Arts sector for over 25 years. She founded The Mechatronic Library in 2010, to enable artists to engage with new media tools such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual reality (VR), Game engines, and 3D printing technologies. Starr’s focus is on the wellbeing of local communities. Working with museum curators and education teams, Starr’s hope is that cutting edge artworks can provide a glimpse of a future filled with hope.
Warm Worlds and Otherwise (2018-2019), Anna Bunting-Branch, & META (2018), Aliyah Hussain, Installation environment (dimensions variable); digital animation for Oculus Go (11:40 minutes, looped)
Anna Bunting-Branch, The Linguists (2017). HD video with sound (8:04 minutes, looped).
Mother Tongue (2016), Anna Bunting-Branch, Mixed media (105 x 85 x 75 cm)
Why can’t we do this IRL? (2019), Megan Broadmeadow, Installation environment (dimensions variable); HD video with sound.
Life is... Grand II: Anatomy of Apology (2019), Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana, Installation environment (dimensions variable)
Phoebe Collings-James’ work explores the poetics and emotional debris of violence, language, and desire, through the medium of ceramics.
oKoKok (2013-2019) is a collection of fragile plaster ruins that evoke the image of a hood or spectre.
Mother Tongue, Mother Master is a video of ringing bells on net stretched across the artist’s face.
The Observer is a moving painting built using Emergence: a computer system that Allen developed in the late 1990’s, able to generate artificial life.
Talk
Join us for a round table discussion with the artists and Curator-in-Residence from exhibition you feel me_
Special Event
FACT are pleased to be hosting N-Prolenta, Kepla and Abena for the after party of you feel me_
Exhibition
Feel and heal in an alternative world imagined by artists. Explore our current exhibition and immerse yourself in a collection of works made using virtual reality, sculpture, film, video gaming and artificial intelligence. Free entry.
Workshop
What role have women played in making and engaging with new technologies?
Workshop
Join performer and gamer Conway McDermott on an adventure through our galleries, creating your very own Dungeons and Dragons characters!
Film
An evil lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.
Talk
you feel me_ exhibition artist Anna Bunting-Branch invites participants to an evening of encounters with works that play with our feelings: touching, engaging, immersing, provoking….
Workshop
Join artist David Blandy for an evening workshop to build new elements based on Liverpool's myths, legends and ecosystems
Talk
Join us for the launch of a new immersive virtual reality experience by artist Megan Broadmeadow that questions violence in online gaming
Tour
Join our curator in residence Helen Starr for a guided tour of our autumn exhibition, you feel me_
Film
Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.
Workshop
Calling all teachers and educators! Join us for a workshop discussing the impact of gaming on young people
Workshop
Play artist Hwa Young Jung's new card game which challenges players to make the most meaningful connections between people!
Film
In 1991, Julie Dash made history when she became the first African-American woman to direct and produce a feature film that was widely distributed in the U.S. Set in 1902, it tells the story of three generations of women living on an island off the coast of South Carolina as they prepare to migrate North to the mainland.
Tour
Discover alternative perspectives of our autumn exhibition, you feel me_, led by guest, Liverpool-based creatives
Workshop, Learning
FACT
Create your own escape room in virtual reality! Build, learn and play in our art and creative technology camp for 11-16 year olds
Join us for an exciting live podcast recording with Liverpool based collective Go Off, Sis.
Listen to a live podcast by Go Off, Sis that explores intersectionality within Liverpool through different narratives. Recorded live at FACT to close exhibition you feel me_, hosts Rach and Mimi are joined by special guests Lord Mayor Councillor Anna Rothery, Ngunan Adamu and Niloo Sharifi.
by Jess Fairclough
We invited Fauziya to share her thoughts and feelings on our current exhibition, you feel me_ which explores themes of power, justice and bias.
by Josh Barrow
To tie in with a brand new season of exhibitions and events, FACT presents a trilogy of cult-classic film.
by Jess Fairclough
Curator-in-Residence Helen Starr talks us through the thinking behind her upcoming exhibition at FACT, you feel me_.
by Joe Goulding
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For FACT's film programme, visit What's On or look for our special Cinema in the City screenings.
