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Now Open - On the other side
RUNNING until 2 June 2024, FACT Liverpool is presenting a group exhibition called:- 'On The Other Side,' featuring artworks that consider the impact of systems of control on those who design them, those who administer them, and those who are subject to their enforcement.
Melanie Crean and Katrina Palmer present two new artworks made with participants across Liverpool, York, and Rochdale who have experiences with the justice system: imprisoned people and their communities, staff, and those who influence decision makers. Public perception and understanding of the UK justice system varies wildly across media outlets, political positioning, and cultural representation. Developed between the artists and the participants, as experts in their own experiences of the system, these artworks make visible the complex formation of individual and collective identities formed by the landscapes of prison and incarceration. Alongside, Pilvi Takala presents a multi channel video installation made in collaboration with former colleagues who worked as private security guards in one of Finland's largest shopping malls. Close Watch (2022) considers how power is exercised in spaces for the public that are privately owned and reflects on the roles and responsibilities of security personnel who exert power to maintain social order. Each presentation encourages visitors to reconsider the everyday behaviors people learn and conform to, and how we might develop new relationships between those who hold power and those affected by it. This event is free to enter and requires no booking of places. The event is open every:- Tuesday to Sunday, from:- 11 am to 6 pm, until:- 2 June 2024, at Wood Street, Liverpool, L14DQ. For more information please visit:- FACT.Co.UK.
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