A neon-lit restaurant orbiting in space is one of the alternative worlds created in FACT's latest exhibition.
The Wood Street arts centre is using virtual reality to create a mystical space free from division and bias.
Entitled "you feel me_", it will transform the arts centre's galleries into alternative worlds with interactive artworks suspended in air, floating in a hazy mist and exploding on to walls.
Opening on November 1, the exhibition seeks to challenge the systems we live with, the show asks how we can work together to repair, rebuild and restore justice to groups affected by bias.
Nicola Triscott, FACT 's director/CEO said: "Curator Helen Starr has brought together an extraordinary group of artists to explore how prejudice is perpetuated in the systems that underpin society.
"The exhibition features an array of dazzling artworks, which suggest connections between societally engrained systems of power and the built-in biases of video games, artificial life and VR, and consider how we might move towards a place of healing.”
Exhibiting artists are Rebecca Allen, Megan Broadmeadow, Anna Bunting-Branch, Phoebe Collings-James, Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana, Aliyah Hussain and Salma Noor.
you feel me_ has been developed by Helen Starr, Curator-in-Residence at FACT - an opportunity made possible with support from Art Fund.
Helen said: “It has been a privilege to be a resident here, in multicultural Liverpool - I am much changed from the experience.
"The team at FACT has taken a group of interwoven ideas and developed them into a beautifully ordered exhibition. The exhibition is dedicated to my Mother; a Carib woman, for teaching me to trust my feelings, tropical rainforests and turquoise seas.”
Throughout the exhibition’s run, visitors are invited to dive deeper into the alternative worlds of you feel me_ in FACT’s series of exhibition related events. Highlights include a cult film season featuring classics Barbarella and Belladonna of Sadness, an artist-led tour with ROOT-ed Zine and a series of video game-based adventures through our galleries with performer and gamer Conway McDermott.
you feel me_ opens at FACT on November 1.
