Live Performance: Augmented Empathy

FACT Liverpool is the UK's leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool.Our award-winning FACT building houses three galleries, a café, bar and four cinema screens, run byPicturehouseand showing the best in independent and mainstream film. FACT also runs its own film programmes, focusing on classic and art house.Since the organisation was founded in 1988, we have commissioned and presented over 250 new media and digital artworks from artists including Pipilotti Rist, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Isaac Julien.Our Engagement and Learning programmes offer a range of opportunities for people to get involved with creative technology and digital projects, and our Research team works with partners across the creative industries, health, high education and arts sectors to develop innovative projects.

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Step into an augmented world that brings Instagram filters to life.

Mann Island

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.Using your phone, you can take part in a performance and watch as augmented reality pieces extend from Sakeema’s body whilst she speaks and performs a reiteration of the speech she gave at the recent Black Lives Matter and Black Trans Lives Matter Protests. These performances spread Sakeema's message of love, change and hope for the future of our planet.These performances will take place inside the atrium at Mann Island (outside Open Eye Gallery). <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/X3VNh7NRnV6dFXxA6" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here</a> to find the location on Google Maps.

How To Attend<ol><li>Choose the time of the performance you would like to attend.</li><li>Register your attendance by booking a free ticket for you and your friends or family. When you book your ticket(s), you will be placed into a ‘bubble’. On the day of the event, your bubble will be placed into a zone to take part in the performance. Zones will be socially distanced from one another.</li><li>Once you’ve booked, you will receive email confirmation with instructions on when and where to meet and how to activate augmented reality during the performance.</li><li>To activate augmented reality during the performance, you will need to use your phone to scan an image. This image will be sent to you in the post with instructions on how and when to use it.</li><li>We kindly ask that you wear a mask during the performance to protect yourself and others.</li></ol>This event is suitable for all ages but you must be 16 or over if unaccompanied by an adult.

Watch OnlineIf you would like to watch the performance but are unable to take part in real life, you can watch a live stream of the performance from 18:30 on Thursday 10 September 2020. Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fact_liverpool" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@FACT_Liverpool</a> on Instagram to get reminders.

Cancellation PolicyNothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our community. We are going above and beyond to ensure all of our exhibitions and events are safe for the public. If there is a change in government guidance, this event may be cancelled. When booking, we will ask for your phone number and email address so we can keep you updated every step of the way.

Image: Keiken, George Jasper Stone &amp; Sakeema Crook, Feel My Metaverse - Mind, Body and Screen (2019). Courtesy of the artists and Jerwood Arts.

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