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Listening Works | Rehearsing Governance is a three-episode podcast exploring listening as an institutional practice. Developed through Stella Sideli’s Research Curator residency at FACT Liverpool (2024-2025), the series documents a set of live, artist-led interventions that reimagined how boards and organisations meet, speak and make decisions. It blends sound, conversation and reflection, offerin...

Listening Works | Rehearsing Governance is a three-episode podcast exploring listening as an institutional practice. Developed through Stella Sideli’s Research Curator residency at FACT Liverpool (2024-2025), the series documents a set of live, artist-led interventions that reimagined how boards and organisations meet, speak and make decisions. It blends sound, conversation and reflection, offerin...

Listening Works | Rehearsing Governance is a three-episode podcast exploring listening as an institutional practice. Developed through Stella Sideli’s Research Curator residency at FACT Liverpool (2024-2025), the series documents a set of live, artist-led interventions that reimagined how boards and organisations meet, speak and make decisions. It blends sound, conversation and reflection, offerin...

Introducing a new three-part podcast series in which we hear from those who have direct experiences of the UK justice system and educators, alongside artists who have contributed to the multiyear art and research project,  Resolution.  FACT identifies the justice system as a collection of statutory, non-statutory and charitable agencies and organisations, with some responsible for uphold...

Introducing a new three-part podcast series in which we hear from those who have direct experiences of the UK justice system and educators, alongside artists who have contributed to the multiyear art and research project,  Resolution.  FACT identifies the justice system as a collection of statutory, non-statutory and charitable agencies and organisations, with some responsible for uphold...

Introducing a new three-part podcast series in which we hear from those who have direct experiences of the UK justice system and educators, alongside artists who have contributed to the multiyear art and research project, Resolution. FACT identifies the justice system as a collection of statutory, non-statutory and charitable agencies and organisations, with some responsible for upholding the law...

Listen 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...

BTS! 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...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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 m...

Welcome 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 infor...

A 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...

Reaching 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 strategi...

For 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 Bolt...

In 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 commun...

In 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 th...

Black 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...

Black 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...

Framework 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 w...

Re: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...

Celebrate 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,...