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Interview with Ella-Mei Burns

FACT's Young Film Programmer Trainee Ella-Mei offers an honest insight into what it means to build a film programme that puts community, curiosity and young people at its heart, with Manon Euler, Head of Film at Film Hub North.

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Interview with Sahjan Kooner

Sahjan Kooner reflects on their most recent project, in which they centred imagination as the most important form of technology and explored how stories are created and shared.

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Watch, Read, Listen & Play with ONLY SLIME

With a bold signature aesthetic shaped by game engines and electronica we asked ONLY SLIME to share recommendations — from music and films to books and games — that have helped build their reference-rich universes and immersive hybrid worlds.

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How They've Got Your Eyes Was Made

Journey behind the scenes of Rachel Maclean's new film work, They've Got Your Eyes, and discover more about her creative filmmaking process!

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INTERVIEW WITH MILIA XIN BI

Curator-in-Residence Milia Xin Bi shares more about her exhibition Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria?, on display at FACT until Sunday 26 April.

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Immersive Arts at FACT: Developing Your Practice at Studio/Lab

Between 2024 and 2027, more than 200 artists across the UK are exploring immersive technologies with support from Immersive Arts funding. In this spotlight, we showcase three artists who embedded themselves in FACT’s Studio/Lab using professional equipment, mentorship and creative support to prototype work in spatial audio, XR storytelling and interactive device design.

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FACT Journal #2 - Resolution

The second edition of FACT's journal explores Resolution (2018–25), a seven-year programme using art, listening and collaboration to reimagine justice and social change.

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Katrina Palmer, Sentences (2024). Installation view at FACT Liverpool. Photo by Rob Battersby

Artist Text: Kara Chin

Kara Chin shares the inspirations and ideas behind her Liverpool Biennial 2025 installation, on display at FACT until Sunday 14 September.

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The Otolith Collective on Bahar Noorizadeh

Read a text by The Otolith Collective, a long-standing artist-led organisation supporting intergenerational art practice, research-led projects and process-based forms of development.

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FACT Journal #1 - Radical Ancestry (2021-2023)

FACT’s new online journal is an open-access contemporary art journal that delves into FACT’s artistic programme with essays, images and perspectives from curators, artists and scholars.

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Q&A with The Bandidos

Check out our interview series featuring members of The Bandidos and artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, in which the young people share their inspirations behind the video game artwork, When Our Worlds Meet (2022).

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