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A message from Andy Miah:
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Open Source, Open Space, Open Art @ FACT Liverpool
>Dear Colleagues,
In my role as a Fellow at FACT (the Foundation for Art and Technology) in
Liverpool (UK), I'm writing to promote a great opportunity they’re
providing over the next three months. You are invited to consider locating
an event in their main gallery space and thus become part of their new
exhibition Climate for Change
For clarity, the space is available for free use and they want as many
groups as possible to ‘book in’ and bring their people to the
gallery. The set-up is conducive to a range of events, workshops, or
practice-based activity and will comfortably hold around 50 people. Your
job is to get the people through the door, this is why it would work best
if you have an established community to bring, a seminar, a conference,
etc.
I ran an event there this week and it’s such a wonderful location for
discussion and provocation. They will work out the tech with you, just get
your people here. The philosophy is simple: your meeting is in the Gallery,
you are art works, people can wander in and observe what’s happening.
Open Space, Open Source, Open Art.<
Here’s their brief...
What are the urgent issues of our time?
What could you do with a gallery space right in the centre of Liverpool?
FACT has the space, equipment, materials and a team of people - all we need
are your networks and ideas!<
Climate for Change
13 March 2009 – 31 May 2009
Gallery 1, Gallery 2 and Media Lounge
Climate for Change is an exhibition that takes a wider view of
environmental crisis from the perspective of power and politics, linked to
food crisis, housing crisis, financial crisis and more. The exhibition is
about grassroots networks and communities.
From 13 March to 31 May, FACT is opening its gallery doors for artists and
groups to come together through workshops, talks, discussion, and activity.
You don't have to be an environmental group to be involved - we're
interested in all types of grassroots, self-organised communities doing
interesting things!
If you would like to use FACT's gallery space for a workshop, presentation,
group meeting, screening or just for more information, contact:
Leon Seth on 0151 707 4441 / email [log in to unmask]< or Andrea Lee on
0151 707 4464 / email [log in to unmask]
Climate for Change is online at http://climateforchange.fact.co.uk you can
also have a look at availability and get a sense of who’s already
signed up.
Finally, here’s a glimpse of the space:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/andymiah/sets/72157615580436006/show/>
Get in early before it’s all booked up.
It will be helpful to their marketing if you let them know where you heard
about this.<
Best wishes,
Andy
>Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty<, edited by Andy Miah
Liverpool University Press & FACT / University of Chicago Press
(Available from 11 December 2008 UK / 28 February 2009 USA).
ISBN: 978-1-84631-181-9 (HB), 350pp, 200+ images, 25
Chapters,http://humanfutures.wordpress.com
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Professor Andy Miah, PhD, FRSA |http://www.andymiah.net
http://andymiah.wordpress.com
Fellow, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT, Liverpool)
http://www.fact.co.uk<
School of Media, Language and Music
University of the West of Scotland
Ayr Campus, KA8 0SR, UK
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