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AND festival artists to receive New York art prize
Activist pranksters The Yes Men win award Activist pranksters The Yes Men (whose fascinating exhibition Keep it Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with the Yes Men continues to show at LJMU's Art and Design Academy) will be presented with the inaugural Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change by New York public art organisation Creative Time on 23 October.&nb… Read on >
News 17/12/09 CommentsRider Spoke wheels into FACT
FACT presents a work for cyclists by acclaimed UK artists Blast Theory Part of its exhibition Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment (18 December - 21 February), Rider Spoke Liverpool, is a work by award-winning, UK-based, interactive performance company, Blast Theory, with Liverpool-based artists Venya Krutikov and Lorena Rivero de Beer. Based on an origi… Read on >
News 01/12/09 CommentsSpace Invaders powers up at FACT
This winter FACT is playing games Space Invaders: Art and the Computer Game Environment is a group exhibition exploring the increasingly blurred boundaries between videogame spaces and real spaces. From the detailed, complex worlds of Grand Theft Auto to zen gaming and augmented reality, the exhibition brings together world renowned new media artists and innovative games designers who are … Read on >
News 15/10/09 CommentsFACT passes the AND festival baton to folly
Abandon Normal Devices is far from over While the five-day festival closed with a bang yesterday, Abandon Normal Devices is far from over. There's still plenty to tickle your creative tastebuds here in Liverpool. Head to FACT for the UK premiere of Primitive a new multi-screen video installation by ground-breaking Thai artist/filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Galleries 1 and 2, until… Read on >
News 27/09/09 CommentsThe Yes Men arrive in Liverpool following New York Post hijinks
The Yes Men arrive in Liverpool after releasing a fake version of the New York Post Political pranksters The Yes Men will present their first ever exhibition in the UK from Thursday 24 September - 25 October. A million copies of an amended New York Post were handed out on the streets of New York on Monday, September 21. Timed to coincide with the U.N. meeting on climate change, the pap… Read on >
News 22/09/09 CommentsAre FACT's Flying Flappers on the move?
Flying Flappers to take flight? As part of the exhibition A Theory of Entanglement, artist Bernie Lubell worked closely with FACT to design a model bird that visitors can build, decorate and customise. For the past three months, more than 3000 people from adults and young people to families have been making their own Flying Flapper masterpieces from the recycled materials provided an… Read on >
News 28/08/09 CommentsAND festival programme announced
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is excited to announce the full programme for the inaugural festival The festival debuts 23 September in Liverpool and throughout the 5 days celebrates more than 15 new commissions, over 25 film screenings, 6 UK premieres and over 10 exhibitions from more than 50 leading and emerging international artists and film-makers across more than … Read on >
News 15/08/09 CommentsGrab your camera phone and get busy
Abandon Normal Devices and the Liverpool Echo join forces for a film competition AND Festival and the Liverpool Echo join forces for a film competition that's Out of the Ordinary! We are inviting anyone with a camera phone to create a short film (no more than 3 minutes long) that captures "Out of the Ordinary" goings-on in Liverpool. The film could be fiction, documentary, anything! The con… Read on >
News 13/08/09 CommentsPrimitive by Apichatpong Weerasethakul to premiere at FACT
'Primitive' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul comes to FACT as the artists first UK solo exhibition Widely 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 and is a multi-platform work commissioned by FACT, in partnership wit… Read on >
News 30/07/09 Comments