Kirsten Hawkins

Taking the aurora into a reservoir – A space to meditate on water

Kirsten Hawkins shares her experience of visiting Aurora, a site-specific installation by Leeds-based ensemble Invisible Flock with international collaborators with the intention of opening up art to the city of Liverpool, and open hearts to the magic of something we take for granted daily.... READ MORE...

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How much of this is fiction. An Exhibition by FACT Liverpool

Kirsten Hawkins

How Much of this is Fiction. A rhetorical question, you could say. There is a lot of doubt over the way things happen in society, so how much can we believe? The key message from the last exhibition at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool is about deception. To what extent are we being fooled or protected from the strange incidents that come to pass in political media?... READ MORE...

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Right Here Right Now: combining and collaborating in a digital landscape

Kirsten Hawkins

Right Here Right Now has been the first exhibition of its kind to be held at The Lowry, acting as a digital showcase led by curator Lucy Dusgate and her team. The installations and works on display combine visual arts with other fields, such as video, coding, electronics and sound engineering.... READ MORE...

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Lesions in the Landscape by Shona Illingworth. A report from FACT Liverpool

Kirsten Hawkins

How would it be if you could not form memories – Who are you really without the memories that make you who you are? Can we talk in terms of past, present and fu... READ MORE...

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Autonomous Times, the exhibition at Arebyte. An Interview with Nelmarie du Preez

Kirsten Hawkins

South African-born artist Nelmarie du Preez has taken on an unusual approach to sculpture, art, film and “making”. She has blurred the boundaries between art and technology to striking effect in her current exhibition, Autonomous Times, curated by Nimrod Vardi.... READ MORE...

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Build Your Own: Tools for Sharing. Exploring new ways of working, sharing, collaborating

Kirsten Hawkins

Build Your Own: Tools for Sharing is a free exhibition running until 31st August 2015 and hosted by flagship digital space, FACT Liverpool, to celebrate the diverse nature of skill-sharing across communities, home spaces and on a global scale, featuring projects based in Liverpool and Norwich.... READ MORE...

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A journey into our future. Interview with Zoë Hough

Kirsten Hawkins

The Microbial Verdict has just closed at London’s Arebyte and curated by Nimrod Vardi. In this installation, Zoë Hough has simulated a hypothetical reality whereby the fictitious government institution The Department of Self and Sanity obliges citizens, to ingest a tablet containing a brain activity-tracking protein... READ MORE...

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Art for medicinal purposes. Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age

Kirsten Hawkins

Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age is a perfect example of art allowing you to look deep inside yourself and make positive changes. Throughout the multimedia exhibition, the mental wellbeing of the FACT Liverpool inmates is to be examined through the vast array of installations and short film screenings... READ MORE...

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