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April Lin 林森 The Earthly Realm Is Out of Balance 2022 Installation view at FACT Liverpool Photo by Rob Battersby SOCIAL 8
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April Lin 林森

April Lin 林森 presents The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance – a research-driven, choose-your-own-adventure game that investigates how meaning around ancestry is constructed, sustained, and embodied.

Part of the Radical Ancestry season

Who counts as an ancestor, and what does having an ancestry mean?

By texting with a chatbot, you are invited to converse with The Interface, an otherworldly guardian who tends to The Hall of Understandings, a cosmic library containing different perspectives, practices, and provocations on ancestry. The Interface needs your help as the library has fallen into disuse: the ecological, political, and spiritual consequences of this on the Earth are growing harder and harder to reverse.

By playing the game and texting with the chatbot, you help The Interface by reflecting on your own relationship to ancestry or by exploring existing Extracts from The Hall of Understandings. With each participation, The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance furthers its experiment in building an archive premised on a collective, healing, and nuanced discussion around belonging, while hinting at the intergenerational web of connections we are all part of.

The game is accessible remotely via Whatsapp or playable in gallery as a digital-organic nest.

Scan the QR code below to interact with The Interface.

These new works by April are presented in our new gallery space designed by Chila Kumari Singh Burman.

Lead Programmer: Yank Scally

Voice of The Interface: Jessica Murrain

Map Designer: Iago Pedreira

Music: Eurodyke

Sound: I. Nakhla

Research assistant: Jialin Hong

Supporting Programmer: nil00

Interviewees: Amina Atiq, John Tien-Chi Wardle, Talulla Ho, Valeria Radchenko

The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance (2022)

The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance is a research-driven, choose-your-own-adventure game featuring a custom-built chatbot that needs your help. By engaging with the work, you help build an archive which is premised on a healing, collective, and nuanced discussion around belonging.

April Lin 林森 The Earthly Realm Is Out of Balance 2022 Installation view at FACT Liverpool Photo by Drew Forsyth WEB RES 2

Talk

In Conversation: April Lin 林森

FACT

Join resident artist and Jerwood Arts x FACT Fellow April Lin 林森 for an in-conversation alongside their collaborators.

April Lin 林森, The Earthly Realm Is Out of Balance (2022). Installation view at FACT Liverpool. Photo by Rob Battersby

Workshop

April Lin 林森 Artist Workshop

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Resident artist, April Lin 林森, invites you to join them for an interactive workshop surrounding their new artwork, The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance (2022).

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