BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1230@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20161110 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20161111 DTSTAMP:20161019T141526Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/fact-day-collisions-fact/ SUMMARY:FACT: FACT: Day of Collisions at FACT DESCRIPTION:Day of Collisions at FACT\n\nA FACT and CERN event presenting a ctivities including the Roy Stringer Memorial Lecture - this year with Wil l Self as keynote speaker - an Arts at CERN roundtable discussion\, and th e preview of new exhibition No Such Thing as Gravity.\n\nEvent at FACT\, L iverpool\n\nSome events throughout the day require booking\n\n10 November 2016\, all day\, throughout the FACT building\n\nYunchul Kim\, Effulge\, 2 012. Image courtesy of the artist\n\nOn Thursday 10 November\, FACT (Found ation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool will host Day of Colli sions - a full day of activities investigating the relationship between ar t and science. The day is presented in collaboration with Arts at CERN - t he official art programme of the cradle of the World Wide Web and home of the Large Hadron Collider - where the world’s leading physicists and eng ineers investigate the fundamental mysteries of our universe. This event i s part of the three-year COLLIDE CERN FACT Framework Partnership\, which i ncludes workshops\, events\, and the International Residency Award COLLIDE \, granting an artist a fully funded residency split between CERN in Genev a\, and FACT in Liverpool. \n\nDay of Collisions will include the the year ly Roy Stringer Memorial Lecture\, sponsored by Amaze\, and will host writ er\, political commentator and broadcaster Will Self to give a lecture on the relationship between art and science\, followed by a Q&\;A session for the audience to participate.\n\nSouth Korean artist Yunchul Kim\, the winner of this year’s COLLIDE International Award\, and his partner scie ntist from CERN\, will discuss Kim’s residency project Cascade and their experience of\, and the possibilities for\, a meaningful art and science collaboration in a roundtable discussion. This will be the first public pr esentation of the residency\, and the revelation of the partnering scienti st. As the winner of the COLLIDE award\, Yunchul Kim will spend two months at CERN in a fully curated residency hosted by Arts at CERN\, followed by a residency at FACT\, where he will be working in the experimental design and technology space FACTLab to develop his findings from CERN in collabo ration with local audiences and communities.\n\nFACT’s Director Mike Stu bbs says: “It’s part of FACT’s mission to encourage curiosity and cr eativity\, which are qualities that are essential within both science and arts. We’re delighted to be able to offer this opportunity to explore bo th fields on this day of activities in collaboration with Arts at CERN\, a nd to present the Roy Stringer Lecture\, in memory of FACT’s former chai r and founder of creative technology agency Amaze - altogether highlightin g FACT’s unique position at the nexus of art\, science and technology. ”\n\nDay of Collisions also coincides with the opening of FACT’s new e xhibition No Such Thing as Gravity (11 November 2016 - 5 February 2017) ex ploring the ever-changing limits of science\, through art. Curated by Rob La Frenais\, the exhibition will feature a wide range of works merging art with scientific experiments\, new and future technologies\, and exploring the borders between life and death\, and the limitations of our conscious ness. Artists include Tania Candiani\, Yin-Ju Chen\, Gina Czarnecki / John Hunt\, Evelina Domnitch &\; Dmitry Gelfand\, Nick Laessing\, Nahum Man tra\, Agnes Meyer-Brandis\, Helen Pynor and Sarah Sparkes\, who will exhib it both new commissions and existing works as part of the exhibition\, inc luding a car fuelled by water\, a ghost mimicking a robot\, and portraits made of skin cells. This celebration of art and science offers visitors th e opportunity to learn more about the artworks on display in an Artist Tal k\, where a number of the show’s artists will discuss their practices\, followed by a panel discussion with curator La Frenais.\n\nThere will also be opportunities to participate in the event Voyage: A session for rememb ering\, where artist Nahum Mantra uses hypnosis to explore the possibiliti es of producing an intimate experience of travelling to the Moon. In anoth er workshop\, Yin-Ju Chen will be teaching us the art of tarot cards\, int roducing mystic symbols to encourage participants to develop their trust i n their intuition.\n\nFACT is supported using public funding by Arts Counc il England\, and Liverpool City Council. Day of Collisions coincides with the opening of new exhibition No Such Thing as Gravity\, which is supporte d by Arts at CERN\, Liverpool University\, Taiwanese Ministry of Culture\, and The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in London. The Roy Stri nger Memorial Lecture is sponsored by Amaze.\n\nArt &\; Science Day iti nerary:\n\nGalleries open 11am - 8pm for the opening of new exhibition No Such Thing as Gravity.\n\n8am - 10am: Networking Breakfast\nAn opportunity to meet with colleagues from across the art and science sectors ahead of the day’s events. FREE / The Garden at FACT\n\n11am - 11.15 Welcome by M ike Stubbs\, Director at FACT and Monica Bello\, Head of Arts at CERN \n\n FREE / The Box\n\n11.15am - 12.30pm: No Such Thing as Gravity Artist Talk \nThe No Such Thing as Gravity artists will discuss their work in the exhi bition\, followed by a panel discussion with the exhibition’s curator Ro b La Frenais. FREE (booking required) / The Box\n\n1pm - 2pm: Nahum Mantra Performance: Voyage: A session for remembering\nIn the workshop Voyage: A session for remembering\, artist Nahum Mantra uses hypnosis to explore th e possibilities of producing an intimate experience of travelling to the M oon. FREE (limited places available - booking required) / The Box\n\n2pm - 3pm: CERN roundtable discussion\nSouth Korean artist Yunchul Kim\, the wi nner of the COLLIDE International Award – a new collaboration between CE RN and FACT – and the CERN scientist Kim will partner with will discuss Kim’s residency project Cascade and their experience of\, and the possib ilities for\, art and science collaboration in a roundtable discussion. Pr esented by Monica Bello\, Head of Arts at CERN. FREE (booking required) / The Box\n\n3.30pm - 4.30pm: Yin-Ju Chen Performance: Tarot Card workshop\n \nYin-Ju Chen will teach us the art of tarot cards\, introducing mystic sy mbols to encourage participants to develop their trust in their intuition. FREE (limited places available - booking required) / The Box\n\n4.30pm - 6pm: Roy Stringer Memorial Lecture 2016\nIntroduced by Mike Stubbs\, Direc tor at FACT\, and Amaze Head of Digital Operations Services\, Amanda Folli t\, writer\, political commentator and broadcaster Will Self will give a t ypically provocative lecture on the relationship between art and science. The event will conclude with a Q&\;A session with the audience. £10.50 +booking fee/ Screen 1\n\n6pm - 8pm: Public preview of No Such Thing as Gr avity \n\nOfficial opening of the new ambitious exhibition No Such Thing a s Gravity\, exploring the ever-changing limits of science\, through art. F REE / Throughout the FACT building\n\n6pm - 7pm: Nahum Mantra Performance: Voyage: A session for remembering\nIn the workshop Voyage: A session for remembering\, artist Nahum Mantra uses hypnosis to explore the possibiliti es of producing an intimate experience of travelling to the Moon. FREE (li mited places available - booking required) / The Box\n\n7pm - 7.15pm: No S uch Thing as Gravity Opening Speeches\nSpeeches by FACT’s Director Mike Stubbs and VIP speakers to mark the opening of No Such Thing as Gravity. F REE / The Box ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2016/09/fact-cern.jpg LOCATION:FACT\, 88 Wood Street\, Liverpool\, L1 4DQ\, Liverpool\, United Ki ngdom GEO:53.402564;-2.978127 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=88 Wood Street\, Liverpool\ , L1 4DQ\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=FACT:geo: 53.402564,-2.978127 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR