A year of exhibitions, artworks and events presented online and in real life that explore our relationship with the natural world.
Whilst we stay home and stay safe, The Living Planet looks at how we can build a more sustainable, responsible global community. In the midst of a global pandemic, we are all trying to find ways to connect with each other and the world around us and although our building may be closed at times, we are still open, creating moments where people, art and technology meet and merge.
This programme now feels more real than ever before. In 2020 and 2021, we will be trying to think beyond the human, looking at ways in which wildlife, plantlife and other ecological systems have responded to the impacts of our actions. We are collaborating with local and international artists, filmmakers, educators and experts to commission and create artistic content that will be shared through our social media, website and weekly newsletters.
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We wish all of you well in this period of uncertainty and hope you will join us in an exploration of what it means to exist digitally in our new shared reality.
Explore artworks, events, projects and resources that explore The Living Planet or take a look at some of the highlights below.
Machine Auguries (2019). Multi-channel sound installation (10 min)
The Substitute (2019). Synced video installation (6 min 18)
The Nereida Capsule (2007). Installation environment (dimensions variable).
by Ariel Guzik
Wolves From Above (2018). Single-channel video with sound (5 min 40)
Oh!m1gas: biomimetic stridulation environment (2012). Installation environment (dimensions variable)
by Kuai Shen
Catalogue of great ape gestures (in alphabetical order) (2018) Single-channel video (13 min 22). Dance choreographed with and performed by Michael Smith.
Is it grunting, barking or panting? (2017) Humans imitating primate calls, 5.1 audio installation (50 min)
Pan troglodytes ellioti and cousins (2016). Single-channel video loop (1 min 1), video camera with infrared trigger and monitor
Global Challenges is a 13-part short online comedy series made for IGTV. Set in people’s bathrooms and toilets, the online series tackles each of the 15 Global Challenges.
PESTS is a 'choose your own adventure' game created by artist Shonagh Short commissioned as part of online project, FACT Together.
Visions of a Future is a collective archive project by ElMalArt that reimagines towns and cities with participants across the North.
The Magic Tree is an interactive digital exhibition that each visitor has the power to irreversibly change.
by nil00
Uma Breakdown is an artist, writer and researcher who uses horror studies, feminist literature and queer role-playing games to create art. Play the downloadable game, Animal Agency, online and find out more about the concept ‘ahuman’ which inspired the creation of the artwork
We are Symbiotic explores the movements of fungi, sea slugs, frogs, octopuses, sea anemones, gut flora and lichen.
RE:PLACES is an installation that critically examines the possible and speculative present and future of dealing with plastics. Created during a remote artist residency, watch video documentation of the artwork in the artists' studio in Berlin.
the river sings is a lyrical journey exploring the fluid parallels between nature and identity, created by day mattar.
by day mattar
methuselah is an interspecies video game which explores the relationships we form, and the consequences of our actions.
by Elle Bulger
'You, Copiphora Gorgonensis' is an hour-long meditative experience for online audience focusing on interspecies relationships, psychoacoustics and presence.
Re:Formed is a project by Tammy Reynolds (artist and performer), Natalia Bedkowska (artist) and Dot Alma (queer audio describer and access worker) for FACT Together.
Talk
Online
Join FACT Together artist Milda Baginskaitė live from her bathroom to find out more about her IGTV series Global Challenges: from the inspiration behind it, to the challenge of making a web series during a global pandemic.
Exhibition
FACT Gallery
Discover the exhibition online! Walk with the animals in a virtual tour and watch interviews with the artists as we explore the relationship between human and animal.
Exhibition
FACT Gallery
Immerse yourself in this new free exhibition that uses Instagram to explore how social media can be used as a space for exchange and artistic creation. Created by artist collective Keiken with Sakeema Crook and Ryan Vautier.
Festival
FACT Gallery, Online and Offsite
Ars Electronica Garden x FACT presents four days of performances, conversations and tours about The Living Planet.
Performance
Offsite
Step into an augmented world that brings Instagram filters to life. Join us for a special event by artist collective Keiken and dance artist Sakeema Crook that uses augmented reality and your phone to present two live augmented performances.
Talk
Online
Join us for an online conversation with Kasia Molga and Ivan Henriques as they discuss their work, Natural Glitches.
Tour
Online
Join us on an Instagram tour of And Say the Animal Responded? and tap through our stories to explore the gallery.
Workshop
Online
Learn the basics of augmented reality (AR) and equip yourself with digital tools for the classroom in this free training for teachers and educators.
Talk
Online
Take your place around the table as either a human or a household pest as we attempt to negotiate a new agreement for sharing space.
Workshop
Online
Do you want to learn how to get a virtual glow up? We are streaming an online tutorial to help you get started with digital software, Spark AR.
Conference
Online
Join us for a series of online conversations inviting you to think about the world we are creating, destroying and the systems behind this.
Exhibition
FACT Gallery
Kiara Mohamed’s work examines the ways we exist alongside one another and our environment, as well as what happens when we readdress our traumas through moments of radical joy.
Exhibition
FACT Gallery
This exhibition presents 10 digital artworks created by artists in the North of England during lockdown in 2020.
Exhibition
FACT Gallery
Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach and the Port looks at the body and ways of connecting with the world with works from Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S) and Zheng Bo.
Listen back to Framework for Resilience, our series of online conversations that invite you to think about the world we are creating, destroying and the systems behind this.
by Jess Fairclough
On this episode of the podcast, Tammy Reynolds (artist and performer), Natalia Bedkowska (artist) and Dot Alma (queer audio describer and access worker) discuss accessibility not just as a basic right, but as a radical creative practice.
by Jess Fairclough
For 2020, artist collective Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler joined FACT as artists-in-residence after being awarded the European Media Artist Residence-in-Exchange by the European Media Art Platform.
by Gina Schwarz
Uma Breakdown has made a visual novel in the form of a downloadable game for FACT Together, released earlier this week, called Animal Agency. Lesley, our Exhibitions Manager, had a chat with them about horror, critters, love, and how this commission altered Uma’s approach to world-building in the game space.
by Gina Schwarz
Learn how to get a virtual glow up! This online tutorial will help you get started with Spark AR, the digital software that influencers and artists use to create augmented reality experiences such as Instagram filters.
by Jess Fairclough
Jerwood Arts and FACT are delighted to announce the 3 creatives who will receive the Jerwood Arts / FACT Digital Fellowship
by Josh Barrow
Explore our current exhibition, And Say the Animal Responded? with your family in real life or online with a virtual tour!
by Jess Fairclough
Explore a virtual tour of our timely exhibition, Any Say the Animal Responded? As we emerge from the isolation of Covid-19 and refocus our attention on a rapidly changing climate, this exhibition creates a space for the voice of the animal that we have gained a greater awareness of during this time.
by Jess Fairclough
In partnership with Jerwood Arts, FACT is pleased to invite emerging artists, curators, technologists, and cultural activists to apply for a new paid remote residency and artistic development opportunity.
by Jess Fairclough
FACT awards £15,000 of grants to Northern Artists to support creation of new digital work
by Josh Barrow
Documentary filmmaker Tanguy Stoecklé shares an insight into the world of filming bats.
by Gina Schwarz
Get to know more about your bat neighbours and how to conserve roost sites by watching our interview with Charlie Liggett from Merseyside and West Lancashire Bat Group. This video interview was part of LightNight at Home in 2020.
by Jess Fairclough
We invited Chris Tynan from RSPB Liverpool to share his knowledge to help you identify birds and bird calls in around Merseyside.
by Josh Barrow
Listen to sonic reimagining of the dawn chorus by acclaimed ecological field recordist and musician Geoff Sample and Daniel Thorne, saxophonist, composer and founder of the Immix Ensemble.
by Jess Fairclough
Watch and listen to a poetry reading with Dr Bethan Roberts, William Noble Postdoctoral Research Associate in the English Department at University of Liverpool, as she shares a few of her favourite poems about birds.
by Jess Fairclough
We celebrated #InternationalDanceDay with Liverpool dance artist Nicolette Whitley. Sway and stretch along at home with these four movements inspired by the theme of our 2020 programme, The Living Planet.
by Jess Fairclough
Learn how to build your own terrarium using recycled materials as artist Gregory Herbert shows us how to explore and celebrate the different varieties of micro-ecological systems that exist in our everyday life.
by Jess Fairclough
FACT is inviting artists living or working in the North of England to create work during lockdown. The scheme entitled FACT Together will offer 10 early-career artists a grant of £1,500 each to develop an idea that will be presented online.
by Jess Fairclough
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