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Your diary of exhibitions and special events in September at FACTFull listings and cinema details available at www.fact.co.uk ‘Primitive’ – Apichatpong Weerasethakul24 September – 29 November Gallery 1 & 2 FREE EntryFACT is delighted to present the [...]
Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson Nov 16 2007 – Jan 13 2008 Manchester based artists Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson have worked collaboratively since 1994. For this major exhibition they have developed a body of work that deals with [...]
Winter Almanac March 5 2008Liverpool’s sister city in China is Shanghai. On 05 March, tenantspin will host a virtual get-together and cultural exchange, using internet based video-streaming to help us learn more about our global neighbours and ourselves. Over the [...]
Al & Al – ‘Eternal Youth’April 18 – June 8 2008Renowned and respected for their work with blue-screen computer generated video, AL and AL‘s new work, developed through an artists’ residency at Edge Hill station in partnership with Metal, is [...]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Primitive24 September – 29 November 2009Widely regarded as a central figure in contemporary cinema, Thai filmmaker Apichatpong ‘Joe’ Weerasethakul returns to FACT for his first UK solo exhibition. Primitive forms a major component of Abandon Normal Devices [...]
APRIL EVENTS at FACTYour diary of exhibitions and special events at FACT 8 – 13 April at Gallery 1 FREE EntryCLIMATE FOR CHANGE: Eyebeam Sustainability Roadshow Residents from Eyebeam Art & Technology Centre land at FACT to lead a [...]
FACT’s August Listings Your diary of special events at FACT EVENTS Bernie LubellA Theory of EntanglementWORK|SHOP The Media Lounge becomes a magical workshop inspired by Bernie Lubell’s whimsical wood machines. FACT invites you to bring along your old cardboard [...]
Bernie Lubell – A Theory of Entanglement 19 June – 6 September 2009 FACT will unveil a major new commission by Lubell and bring together a series of his low-tech, lo-fi sculptures, powered entirely by the audience. Visitors will become [...]
‘Made Up’ at FACT focuses on the power of the mind to make up meaning; art that suspends disbelief.Exhibitions 20 September – 30 November 2008 Artists showing as part of MADE UP at Fact include: U-RAM Choe Ulf Langheinrich Stella [...]
Breakfast with the Artists and Jude KellyFriday April 18 11.00 Join us for breakfast with AL and AL as they discuss their new work ETERNAL YOUTH, and their 18-month Liverpool residency, with Jude Kelly OBE – Founder and Chair of [...]
British Animation Awards 2008: Public ChoiceFebruary 19-21 2008The Box at FACT18.30 Public Choice invites the audience to vote for the winners of the British Animation Awards 2008. Voting forms will be issued at each screening at FACT. Each three-minute programme [...]
Climate for Change. ENDS on 31 May 2009 For its first new exhibition of 2009, its UNsustainable year, FACT is proud to present Climate for Change, a unique experiment in activism, engagement and networking, examining the multiple crises affecting the [...]
DING>>D0NG. 12 December 2008 – ENDS SUNDAY 22 February 2009Gallery 1 & 2, Media Lounge and online spaces at FACTDING>>D0NG ends the year with whistles, bangs and electronic noise. Liverpool music icon Andy McCluskey (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) teams [...]
Here is a trailer for – Al and Al’s Eternal Youth at FACT (mpeg4) and listen to our Podcast Interview with Al & Al here
Space Invaders: Related Events and Other Events at FACT 18 December 2009 – 17 February 2010 (Exhibition details) Blast Theory: Rider SpokeFACT, Weekends During the Exhibition Period, FREERider Spoke is a work combining theatre with game play and state of [...]
FACT ListingsMarch – June 2010 EXHIBITIONS: MyWar: Participation in an Age of War Gallery 1, 2, Public Spaces & Online 12 March – 30 May FREE Entry A radically personal look at conflict through the work of 12 international artists, [...]
Insurrection – The Nerve Centre at FACT (Knowledge Lives Everywhere). 31 March – 12 April 2011. After a hugely successful ‘Nerve Centre’ that took place in the summer of 2010, when the former Rapid Hardware paint shop on Renshaw Street [...]
FACT’s July Listings Your diary of special events at FACT EVENTS Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern Body01 July, 6.30pm at The Box £7.00/£5.00 (Members & concs) Film as Skin Expanded Cinema, Video Art and Apparatus08 [...]
“Knowledge Lives Everywhere” design by Mike Snowdon Knowledge Lives Everywhere 1 April – 12 June 2011 FACT showcases the work it does with communities across Liverpool. From social housing tenants, schoolchildren to hospital patients, FACT has collaborated with a diverse [...]
Liverpool Biennial 2010 – International 10 at FACT18 September – 28 November 2010 FACT presents new commissions from artists including Yves Netzhammer and Minouk Lim, and the first European exhibition of acclaimed performance artist Tehching Hsieh, as part of the [...]
Media Facades Europe Festival27 August – 3 October 2010FACT hosts first Media Facades Europe Festival in Liverpool. Sites including the FACT building, RopeWalks Square, BBC Big Screen and North Liverpool. Media Facades is a brand new a European-wide public realm [...]
FACT – MyWar – Identity and Appropriation under War Condition 12 March – 30 May 2010In a period of global unrest, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) presents a timely exhibition. MyWar explores conflict in a digitally networked world [...]
People: Place: Presence April 2 to April 6 – Media Lounge Join neuro surgeon Andrew Curran, lead researcher for SONICStreams, sound recordist Chris Watson, artist Samantha Jones, SoundNetwork artist Ross Dalziel’s, tenantspin, community workers and scientists as they explore the [...]
Persistence of Vision 18 June – 30 August 2010 How does memory influence what we see? What part does technology play in shaping both how we see and what we remember? Informed by scientific research and inspired by historical developments [...]
FACT invites you to remix Pipilotti!Pipilotti Remixed! Throughout her exhibition running until 31 August 2008, FACT would like to invite you to remix Pipilotti. Pipilotti Rist’s practise can be understood as a constant remix of fantasy and the everyday, creating [...]
Pipilotti Rist27 June – 31 August 2008 One of Europe’s leading contemporary artists, Pipilotti Rist explores the world and our relationship with our environment to address the third element of the Human Futures programme. Famed for her stunning sculptural video [...]
Promised Lands – a metaphor for the migrant experience told through music, words, and images30 January 2010, 8.30pm, FREEAs part of Liverpool’s city-wide Black Atlantic Season, FACT presents internationally-profiled sound artists Edward George and Anna Piva’s (Flow Motion) ongoing project [...]
sk-interfacesFebruary 1 to March 30A groundbreaking exhibition on the uncertain limits between art and science, sk-interfaces explores, materially and metaphorically, the concept of skin as a technological interface. This multi-disciplinary exhibition launches FACT’s Human Futures programme. Image:Tissue Culture and ArtVictimless [...]
Don’t miss sk-interfaces Closing Event: stitched-up Saturday 29 March 200811.00 – 22.00 A packed one-day event of live performances, artist talks, experiments and interactive art stitched-up presents: Interactive Installation A rare opportunity to experience artist Paul Thomas’ audio-visual installation Midas. [...]
sk-interfaces Conference8 – 9 February 2008This hugely significant event will illustrate many of the aesthetic, philosophical, scientific and medical issues raised in the exhibition sk-interfaces, and will feature specialists of international renown from a wide range of fields and disciplines. [...]
Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment18 December 2009 – 21 February 2010 See also Related EventsPart of a season of gaming at FACT, Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment is a group exhibition exploring the increasingly [...]
Special Effects: On the Edge of Reality 25 – 27 April 2008 A weekend exploring the history of Special Effects in cinema and artists film over the last century – including a digitally remastered version of The Wizard of Oz [...]
The Peroni Collection – Italian Style on the Silver Screen. 1-5 March 2011 in the Bar area at FACT.A major collection of rare images depicting the influence of Italian style on film. The exhibition has been curated with Peroni Nastro [...]
From 27 September on Channel 4 October 26 – Performance and talks at FACT Artists including Marina Abramovic, Johan Grimonprez, Hollywood actor James Franco, Palme d’Or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Turner Prize winners Mark Wallinger and Mark Leckey will [...]
Nam June Paik – FACT and Tate Liverpool17 December 2010 – 13 March 2011Video artist, performer and composer Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century and is widely considered to be the [...]
FACT: Beyond Human 23 May 2012 13:00 Tying in with the publication of the new book Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism, this event is an opportunity to discuss issues relating to the use and depiction of animals in art [...]
8 May Doors 18:00 Start: 18:30 Free (£1.60 booking fee when seats reserved online (reccommended)) An event to celebrate and discombobulate the marvellous medium of film! An evening of films and moving image based work that splice, squiggle and savage [...]
FACT: Cracking the Curatorial 2 March 14-17:00 The Box What is the role of an arts institution in facilitating community connections and generating frameworks for public meaning making through art and media? FACT hosts the seminar, Cracking the Curatorial to launch Open [...]
19 April FACT are inviting creative businesses, artists, arts organisations and stakeholders to a day long event when we will be launching some exciting projects including artplayer.tv developed with Arts Council England and unveiling our new training programme including app [...]
FACT: Kosmica Liverpool 31 January 2012 19 – 22:00 pm Free Each KOSMICA session is unique: bringing together the cosmically curious and culturally quirky space community for a social mix of art–space programmes – a film screening, performance or live [...]
13 September – 21 November 2012 FACT will present one of the most ambitious programmes of contemporary artist film ever seen in Liverpool, as part of the Liverpool Biennial. As part of the Biennial’s The Unexpected Guest exhibition, FACT is [...]
25 – 28 February 2013 Private View or Launch Event details (if any): Lift-Off International is an exciting new film festival whose objective is to “look beyond the gloss” in order to promote raw talent and artistic flair in filmmakers [...]
6 December 2012 – 24 February 2013 Noisy Table, an augmented ping pong table that will make music and sounds as games are played, will be available for the public to try at FACT from December 6. It will be [...]
Doors Open 18:00 Free entry One Minute Volume 5 is a programme of experimental, oblique and poetic video featuring the work of a number of artists at varying stages of their careers. A myriad of approaches, techniques, media and processes [...]
Fact: Open Curate – The Stuff of Experience 24 April 2012 18:00 – 20:30 Free Media is moving beyond the screen and being used to shape, or curate, our experience in new ways. This free seminar will involve presentations from [...]
26 October 2012 11 – 17:00 Part of Liverpool Biennial International artists and key figures join FACT for this day-long event of discussions and live performances celebrating Channel 4’s Random Acts and the history of artist interventions into television. FACT [...]
FACT: Reframe It 23 May 2012 18:30 – 21:00 Can we begin to think about contemporary curation as being a framing and reframing of experience through media and data systems? ReFrame It is a seminar with talks by Graham Harwood [...]
Viewing: 15 March Location: Gallery 1, Gallery 2, Media Lounge, Public Spaces Cost: FREE Entry Co-curated by FACT and interdisciplinary design collective body>data>space, this major new exhibition showcases some of the most exciting ideas from international artists and technologists. Exploring [...]
1 July – 11 September 2011 at FACT. ‘Semiconductor: Worlds in the Making ’ FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool presents the first major solo exhibition of Semiconductor, aka Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. The British artist duo has [...]
12 – 18 May 2011 in Gallery 2 at FACT. Artist and activist Nina Edge brings 34 people into FACT’s Gallery 2, all influential in their own way. Thanks to their generosity, eleven events are on offer covering language , [...]
