Curated by FACT’s 2025 Curator-in-Residence, Milia Xin Bi, the exhibition draws inspiration from tabletop games, where every player’s decision rewrites the story. In this exhibition, you become the meeple: a human-shaped game piece whose actions have real-world consequences. The artworks invite you to take part, make decisions, and consider how your actions influence our technological future.
Vytas Jankauskas reflects on the climate crisis, human existence and technological development, revealing the pleasure and pain that emerge from their entanglement. Jan Zuiderveld’s works create encounters between people and machine-learning algorithms placed inside physical objects, highlighting how we often see certain behaviours as signs of life. Joseph Wilk's tabletop game positions play as a form of resistance against the political ideas built into many technologies.
Step into this playful world, test the boundaries and discover the impact of your choices. Together, these artworks ask: in a world shaped by intelligent systems, who makes the next move?
FACT’s 2025 Curator-in-Residence is supported by the John Ellerman Foundation.
Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. FACT is funded by Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, with support from Culture Liverpool.
In Life Forever, Vytas invites us into an absurd ‘jellyfish wellness spa’, where jellyfish float inside a tank warmed by cryptominers - machines that use computer power to generate cryptocurrency, and produce significant heat. In a video, the spa’s host, Lola, prepares visitors for a treatment that raises questions about our values, desires and pleasure-seeking lifestyles in the face of the climate crisis.
CripShip is a tabletop role-playing game that transforms lived experiences of disability into a space for resistance, collaboration, and new ways of thinking.
by Joseph Wilk
Life on FACT transforms a vintage broadcast camera into a real-time nature-documentary narrator.
In Coffee Machine, the simple act of buying a coffee becomes a curious conversation about existence. You can try to get a drink, but the AI-driven machine refuses to dispense coffee on demand.
Special Event
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Join us after hours to celebrate the opening of Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria? A new group exhibition curated by FACT's 2025 Curator-in-Residence, Milia Xin Bi.
Tour
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Join Curator-in-Residence Milia Xin Bi for a guided tour of FACT's current group exhibition.
Workshop
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Join Produced Moon to imagine multi-sensory slimy AI from the future.
Workshop
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Join artist Joseph Wilk for a game of CripShip, a tabletop roleplaying game that unfolds as a collective act of storytelling.
The exhibitions includes:
If you have any questions or feedback about the accessibility of the exhibition, please ask at the Information Desk on the ground floor, and we will be happy to help.
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