AL and AL's Eternal Youth may have closed at FACT but the new commission has opened as part of a media art show in Beijing called Synthetic Times. An official cultural project in the lead up to this summers Olympics, the new media exhibition is showcasing work by over 50 artists from 30 countries.
AL and AL join Anthony McCall in representing the UK.
FACT's Programme Delivery Manager Nick Lawrenson has been overseeing installation of the UK works in the show.
Join us for breakfast as the artists discuss their new work, Eternal Youth, and their 18 month Liverpool residency, with Jude Kelly OBE - Founder and Chair of Metal and Artistic Director of the South Bank Centre, London.
£4.00/£3.00 (Members & concs)
Date:Friday, April 18, 2008
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Location: The Box @ FACT
Street: Wood Street
City/Town:Liverpool, United Kingdom
Contact Info
Phone:01517074450
www.fact.co.uk
Are you telling the truth?
Are you editing yourself?
RANDY is now taking people for the experiment......
does it work? will we find out something that we didn't know before?
But - the other side of this is do we want to know?
do we need to be editors as well as composers of our thoughts?
Do we believe in 'truth'?
If you are going to tell the truth then we need to ask the right questions
Or perhaps the answer will still be 42. . . .
Future of the Body or Future Body?
This weekend is the final weekend of our sk-interfaces exhibition and we're hosting an event called stitched-up where we draw together some of the ideas that we have discussed over the Body period of our Human Futures programme.
We're exploring what we think we need to discuss about the future of the body - or future bodies. . . . .
More Later,
Laura
I just added the blog to technorati so as we continue to add more Human Futures articles we'll get some more readers......
Our (not yet very well populated) Technorati Profile is here.
I love this book.
Not only it it full of amazing things, it changes colour when it gets hot! Wow.
The sk-interfaces book is available in the FACT Shop.
We have made some images from the sk-interfaces exhibition available. And they're on Flickr here. Some are beautiful. The exhibition's pretty good too! http://humanfutures.fact.co.uk/
The anticipated international conference starts today with international guest speakers delivering keynote presentations and debating many of the aesthetic, philosophical and medical issues raised in the exhibition.
Tickets have sold out, but if you want to keep up with the conference and add to the debate then join us here as we'll be blogging the next two days!
Conference speakers include:
Amanda McDonald Crowley (AU/USA)
Mike Stubbs (UK)
Jens Hauser (DE/FR)
Claudia Benthien (DE)
Stelarc (AU)
Siân Ede (UK)
Stéphane Dumas (FR)
Maurice Benayoun (FR)
Jill Scott (AU/CH)
One of the many highlights from the sk-interfaces opening (for those unable to attend) was the phenomenally received Yann Marussich Blue Remix performance, in which Yann gradually turned blue over the duration of an hour encased within a glass vitrine. By controlling the pressure in his body, Yann allowed blue methylene to appear through and pour out of the pores in his body.
Watch a clip from the live performance below:
