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April Lin 林森, The Earthly Realm Is Out of Balance (2022). Installation view at FACT Liverpool. Photo by Rob Battersby
Exhibition
April Lin 林森
2 Dec 2022 – 6 Feb 2023
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 88 Wood Street
- Liverpool
- L1 4DQ
- United Kingdom
Resident artist, April Lin 林森 presents The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance – a research-driven, choose-your-own-adventure game that investigates how meaning around ancestry is constructed, sustained, and embodied.
About
Who counts as an ancestor, and what does having an ancestry mean?
By texting with a chatbot, you are invited to converse with The Interface, an otherworldly guardian who tends to The Hall of Understandings, a cosmic library containing different perspectives, practices, and provocations on ancestry. The Interface needs your help as the library has fallen into disuse: the ecological, political, and spiritual consequences of this on the Earth are growing harder and harder to reverse.
By playing the game, you help The Interface by reflecting on your own relationship to ancestry or by exploring existing Extracts from The Hall of Understandings. With each participation, The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance furthers its experiment in building an archive premised on a collective, healing, and nuanced discussion around belonging, while hinting at the intergenerational web of connections we are all part of.
The game is accessible remotely via Whatsapp or playable in gallery as a digital-organic nest.
The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance (2022) is presented inside FACT's gallery space designed by Chila Kumari Singh Burman, alongside new works by fellow resident artist, Erin Dickson.
About the residency
The Jerwood Arts / FACT Fellowship emerged from FACT’s ongoing commitment to nurturing a diverse new generation of artists, curators, film-makers, creative technologists and critical thinkers based in the UK. Fellows take part in a hybrid residency to research and develop their initial proposal. During this time, they receive bespoke training, mentoring, production support and research input from the team at FACT, the other Fellows, and an invited selection of wider collaborators.
