FACT Liverpool
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago -FACT is a leading visual arts organisation. Imagined and made in Liverpool, we make art, science and technology projects that radically explore society and its most pressing issues. To find out what's on in our galleries and online, visit our website. To take a look at the resources we reference in the podcast, visit our archive.
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Episodes
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre x Domes FM
February 22, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes - 59 MBListen to the personal stories and reflections of Alex, Mel and Luke - three young people who are currently being treated for cancer or who recently completed cancer treatment - as they share their unique perspectives in this experimental podcast produced by DOMES FM in collaboration with The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre’s Teenage and Young Adult Service. In 2022, FACT began a new partnership with The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre led by FACT’s learning team. This collaboration invites artists...
K-Podcast
August 22, 2022 16:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBBTS! Red Velvet! How is K-pop reaching all corners of the world? Discover the power of the popular Korean music genre, K-pop in a special K-Podcast. Join our special guest panellists to explore what K-Pop means to them. Alongside an energy filled K-pop dance tutorial, K-Podcast is the result of a collaboration between Yaloo, University of Liverpool’s K-pop Society and a group of young people from Liverpool. Expanding on the themes of Yaloo’s installation in the current exhibition My Garden...
Episode 3: Gaining Ground: Larry Achiampong and David Blandy
January 19, 2022 10:35 - 53 minutes - 197 MBWelcome to the third and final episode of our podcast series, Gaining Ground, hosted by our curator-in-residence, Annie Jael Kwan. In this episode, Annie chats with artist duo Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, whose work is currently on display at FACT in an exhibition called Future Ages Will Wonder. Both Gaining Ground and Future Ages Will Wonder are supported by Artsformation. To find out more information about this podcast series, the exhibition or us, visit our website fact.co.uk Se...
Gaining Ground Episode 3: Larry Achiampong and David Blandy
January 19, 2022 10:35 - 53 minutes - 197 MBWelcome to the third and final episode of our podcast series, Gaining Ground, hosted by our curator-in-residence, Annie Jael Kwan. In this episode, Annie chats with artist duo Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, whose work is currently on display at FACT in an exhibition called Future Ages Will Wonder. Both Gaining Ground and Future Ages Will Wonder are supported by Artsformation. To find out more information about this podcast series, the exhibition or us, visit our website fact.co.uk Ho...
Gaining Ground Episode 2: Breakwater of Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe
January 07, 2022 16:38 - 42 minutes - 36.5 MBWelcome to the second episode of our new podcast series, Gaining Ground, hosted by our curator-in-residence, Annie Jael Kwan. In this episode, Annie chats with Youngsook Chi and Taey Iohe of collective Breakwater, whose work is currently on display at FACT in an exhibition called Future Ages Will Wonder. Both Gaining Ground and Future Ages Will Wonder are supported by Artsformation. To find out more information about this podcast series, the exhibition or us, visit our website fact.co.uk ...
Episode 2: Gaining Ground: Breakwater of Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe
January 07, 2022 16:38 - 42 minutes - 36.5 MBWelcome to the second episode of our new podcast series, Gaining Ground, hosted by our curator-in-residence, Annie Jael Kwan. In this episode, Annie chats with Youngsook Chi and Taey Iohe of collective Breakwater, whose work is currently on display at FACT in an exhibition called Future Ages Will Wonder. Both Gaining Ground and Future Ages Will Wonder are supported by Artsformation. To find out more information about this podcast series, the exhibition or us, visit our website fact.co.uk ...
Episode 1: Gaining Ground: Yarli Allison & Boedi Widjaja
December 09, 2021 11:20 - 43 minutes - 30.6 MBWelcome to the first episode of our new podcast series, Gaining Ground, hosted by our curator-in-residence, Annie Jael Kwan. In this first episode, Annie chats with artists Yarli Allison and Boedi Widjaja whose work is currently on display at FACT in an exhibition called Future Ages Will Wonder. Both Gaining Ground and Future Ages Will Wonder are supported by Artsformation. To find out more information about this podcast series, the exhibition or us, visit our website fact.co.uk See acas...
Gaining Ground Episode 1: Yarli Allison & Boedi Widjaja
December 09, 2021 11:20 - 43 minutes - 30.6 MBWelcome to the first episode of our new podcast series, Gaining Ground, hosted by our curator-in-residence, Annie Jael Kwan. In this first episode, Annie chats with artists Yarli Allison and Boedi Widjaja whose work is currently on display at FACT in an exhibition called Future Ages Will Wonder. Both Gaining Ground and Future Ages Will Wonder are supported by Artsformation. To find out more information about this podcast series, the exhibition or us, visit our website fact.co.uk Hosted o...
Performing Trust
December 07, 2021 15:05 - 1 hour - 32 MBA core question for FACT, from our work with artists and participants, has been around the idea of trust. How is trust built and exchanged in digital spaces? In his role as artist-in-residence on FACT’s Board of Trustees, Jack Tan explores how trust exists as representation and as performance, asking how it is enacted between staff, trustees, funders and audiences? For this online event, Jack has invited Rachel Higham, Chair of FACT’s Board of Trustees, to discuss how we build, maintain and...
Episode 5: Performing Trust
December 07, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 167 MBA core question for FACT, from our work with artists and participants, has been around the idea of trust. How is trust built and exchanged in digital spaces? In his role as artist-in-residence on FACT’s Board of Trustees, Jack Tan explores how trust exists as representation and as performance, asking how it is enacted between staff, trustees, funders and audiences? For this online event, Jack has invited Rachel Higham, Chair of FACT’s Board of Trustees, to discuss how we build, maintain an...
In both trickles and floods
September 17, 2021 09:47 - 51 minutes - 94.8 MBReaching across time zones and geographical regions, artist in residence Angela YT Chan and curator Annie Jael Kwan, have co-created an experimental audio work that explores their shared fascination with liquidity. The piece weaves field sound recordings and research into water scarcity and embedded power structures in cultural narratives to examine rising waters and eco-anxiety alongside strategies of hydrofeminism and radical solidarity across borders. This work is made possible by fundi...
Episode 4: In both trickles and floods
September 17, 2021 09:47 - 51 minutes - 94.8 MBReaching across time zones and geographical regions, artist in residence Angela YT Chan and curator Annie Jael Kwan, have co-created an experimental audio work that explores their shared fascination with liquidity. The piece weaves field sound recordings and research into water scarcity and embedded power structures in cultural narratives to examine rising waters and eco-anxiety alongside strategies of hydrofeminism and radical solidarity across borders. This work is made possible by fundi...
Episode 3: I’ve got the power!
September 17, 2021 09:25 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBFor Framework for Trust, artist in residency Tessa Norton and artist Shonagh Short have produced a podcast by exchanging voice notes. Their unfolding conversation considers how questions of trust are important to their practice, and asks how learning to trust can offer solutions or create problems. Are artists trusted, or indeed trustworthy? Shonagh Short is a socially engaged artist based in Bolton, Greater Manchester. They make participatory, playful work that uses language in its widest ...
I’ve got the power!
September 17, 2021 09:25 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBFor Framework for Trust, artist in residency Tessa Norton and artist Shonagh Short have produced a podcast by exchanging voice notes. Their unfolding conversation considers how questions of trust are important to their practice, and asks how learning to trust can offer solutions or create problems. Are artists trusted, or indeed trustworthy? Shonagh Short is a socially engaged artist based in Bolton, Greater Manchester. They make participatory, playful work that uses language in its widest ...
Three Generations in One Fleshy Body
September 17, 2021 09:19 - 14 minutes - 26.3 MBIn light of the rise in popularity of audio communication such as voice note, immersive narrative podcasts and Club House, Ebun Sodipo and Keiken have collaborated to create an audio piece that invites you on a journey: offering a full-body experience through your imagination with music and sound design by Khidja. The piece explores voice, tone, stories and sound as different modes of audio communication to create our own fleeting and invisible mode of communication and question, where does...
Episode 2: Three Generations in One Fleshy Body
September 17, 2021 09:19 - 14 minutes - 26.3 MBIn light of the rise in popularity of audio communication such as voice note, immersive narrative podcasts and Club House, Ebun Sodipo and Keiken have collaborated to create an audio piece that invites you on a journey: offering a full-body experience through your imagination with music and sound design by Khidja. The piece explores voice, tone, stories and sound as different modes of audio communication to create our own fleeting and invisible mode of communication and question, where does...
Episode 1: Meditation for a Falling Whale (and other social animals)
September 17, 2021 09:05 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBIn this podcast, artist in residence Yambe Tam delivers a guided meditation of her new work Deep Dive (2021). Using sensory and creative technologies, Yambe Tam's work explores the evolution of consciousness in living and artificial beings. The artwork explores the connection between human presence of mind, and the uncertainty of the natural world, following the journey of a whale falling from the surface of the ocean to the seabed. Tracing memories from birth to the construction of a matur...
Meditation for a Falling Whale (and other social animals)
September 17, 2021 09:05 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBIn this podcast, artist in residence Yambe Tam delivers a guided meditation of her new work Deep Dive (2021). Using sensory and creative technologies, Yambe Tam's work explores the evolution of consciousness in living and artificial beings. The artwork explores the connection between human presence of mind, and the uncertainty of the natural world, following the journey of a whale falling from the surface of the ocean to the seabed. Tracing memories from birth to the construction of a matur...
Black Obsidian Sound System: Lisa Amanda Palmer with Nzinga Sounds
August 20, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 103 MBBlack Obsidian Sound System: Lisa Amanda Palmer with Nzinga Sounds is the second of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System’ by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. This episode is a conversation between writer and Deputy Director of the Stephen Lawrence Foundation, Lisa Amanda Palmer, and veteran DJ duo Nzinga Sounds, as they talk about their formation, experiences of be...
Episode 2: Black Obsidian Sound System: Lisa Amanda Palmer with Nzinga Sounds
August 20, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 103 MBBlack Obsidian Sound System: Lisa Amanda Palmer with Nzinga Sounds is the second of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System’ by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. This episode is a conversation between writer and Deputy Director of the Stephen Lawrence Foundation, Lisa Amanda Palmer, and veteran DJ duo Nzinga Sounds, as they talk about their formation, experiences of be...
Episode 2: Black Obsidian Sound System: Lisa Amanda Palmer with Nzinger Sounds
August 20, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 103 MBBlack Obsidian Sound System: Lisa Amanda Palmer with Nzinger Sounds is the second of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System’ by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. This episode is a conversation between writer and Deputy Director of the Stephen Lawrence Foundation, Lisa Amanda Palmer, and veteran DJ duo Nzinga Sounds, as they talk about their formation, experiences of ...
Black Obsidian Sound System: In Focus with TYGAPAW
July 21, 2021 14:18 - 51 minutes - 119 MBBlack Obsidian Sound System: In Focus with TYGAPAW is the first of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System’ by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. The exhibition can be seen at FACT from 19 May until 28 August 2021. This episode is a conversation between DJ, Curator and Producer TYGAPAW and B.O.S.S. member, writer and filmmaker Deborah Findlater. Stay tuned for the second ...
Episode 1: Black Obsidian Sound System: In Focus with TYGAPAW
July 21, 2021 14:18 - 51 minutes - 119 MBBlack Obsidian Sound System: In Focus with TYGAPAW is the first of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System’ by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. The exhibition can be seen at FACT from 19 May until 28 August 2021. This episode is a conversation between DJ, Curator and Producer TYGAPAW and B.O.S.S. member, writer and filmmaker Deborah Findlater. Stay tuned for the second ...
Episode 1: Framework for Resilience - Ecological Empathy
March 22, 2021 13:51 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBFramework for Resilience is a three-part series of online conversations which bring together activists, artists, researchers and educators to think about the world we are creating, the world we are destroying, the systems which will fall, and those which should prevail. In this first episode of the series, we focus on the dismissive and destructive ways colonial powers have overtaken the natural world, extending the same attitudes to those who call these spaces home. Foregrounding the impor...
Framework for Resilience Episode 1: Ecological Empathy
March 22, 2021 13:51 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBFramework for Resilience is a three-part series of online conversations which bring together activists, artists, researchers and educators to think about the world we are creating, the world we are destroying, the systems which will fall, and those which should prevail. In this first episode of the series, we focus on the dismissive and destructive ways colonial powers have overtaken the natural world, extending the same attitudes to those who call these spaces home. Foregrounding the impor...
Episode 3: Framework for Resilience - Migration and Adaptation
March 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 78 MBFramework for Resilience is a three-part series of online conversations which bring together activists, artists, researchers and educators to think about the world we are creating, the world we are destroying, the systems which will fall, and those which should prevail. In this third and final episode of the series, we discuss migration and adaptation. Host Kayt Hughes (Public Programme Producer at FACT) and mediator Maitreyi Maheshwari (Head of Programme at FACT) and joined by speakers D...
Episode 2: Framework for Resilience - Climate Justice from De-colonialist Perspectives
March 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBFramework for Resilience is a three-part series of online conversations which bring together activists, artists, researchers and educators to think about the world we are creating, the world we are destroying, the systems which will fall, and those which should prevail. In this second episode of the series, we start from a collection of questions of how we engage with time, land and ownership: What happens if we consider that the very earth and trees, as well as non-sentient beings like AI...
Re:Formed
December 01, 2020 11:27 - 22 minutes - 35.2 MBRe:Formed is a new commission by queer, disabled artists Tammy Reynolds and Natalia Bedkowska and queer audio describer, Dot Alma for FACT Together. Their work looks at accessibility not just as a basic right, but as a radical creative practice. Re:Formed exists on the FACT website as an accessible online photography gallery and series of conversations between the artists, made into a podcast. The work explores how access can be produced within the same space, and with the same intent, of th...
Re:Formed, (2020)
December 01, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 35.2 MBRe:Formed is a new commission by queer, disabled artists Tammy Reynolds and Natalia Bedkowska and queer audio describer, Dot Alma for FACT Together. Their work looks at accessibility not just as a basic right, but as a radical creative practice. Re:Formed exists on the FACT website as an accessible online photography gallery and series of conversations between the artists, made into a podcast. The work explores how access can be produced within the same space, and with the same intent, of th...
Episode 0: Re:Formed, (2020)
December 01, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 35.2 MBRe:Formed is a new commission by queer, disabled artists Tammy Reynolds and Natalia Bedkowska and queer audio describer, Dot Alma for FACT Together. Their work looks at accessibility not just as a basic right, but as a radical creative practice. Re:Formed exists on the FACT website as an accessible online photography gallery and series of conversations between the artists, made into a podcast. The work explores how access can be produced within the same space, and with the same intent, of th...
Natural and Unnatural Landscapes
May 04, 2020 14:41 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBCelebrate International Dawn Chorus Day with us! Acclaimed ecological field recordist and musician Geoff Sample joins with Daniel Thorne, saxophonist, composer and founder of the Immix Ensemble, to create a sonic reimagining of the dawn chorus. Using musical instruments, Thorne will respond to Sample's recordings of different landscapes and the birds that inhabit them - from woodlands to wetlands, to parks and cities - echoing the call and response of the morning symphonies we hear every da...
Precarity in the Arts
August 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBFACT and a-n present Precarity in the Arts. Listen to Julie Lomax, CEO of a-n The Artists Information Company, and Emily Speed, Artist and Chair of a-n Artists Council, in conversation with artists in Liverpool on the ongoing debate about precarious work in the field of contemporary art. FACT is a leading visual arts organisation, based in Liverpool, that makes internationally exceptional art, science and technology projects that radically explore society and its most pressing issu...