FACT

     Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), is the UK's leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. It is a space where people, art and technology meet. FACT has been leading the UK video, film and new media arts scene for over 20 years with ground- breaking exhibitions and research projects.

     In November of this year they will show “No Such Thing as Gravity”, a new exhibition exploring the ever changing limits of science, through art, curated by Rob La Frenais. The exhibition will investigate the unresolved questions within scientific enquiry, through the dual framework of engineering and physics, and contemporary discussions into life and death. In this exhibition the visitors will have the opportunity to see two remarkable works commissioned by two internationally distinguished Mexican artists; Tania Candiani and Nahum Mantra.

Tania Candiani

   Candiani has an extensive experience in Mexico and internationally. The large-scale projection Machine For Flying Besnier (1673) by Tania Candiani was made in zero gravity in “Star City”, Russia, as part of the Matters of Gravity project.

   Candiani, who represented Mexico at the Venice Biennale last year, works with disappearing technologies and the poetic uses of engineering. This new work is based on pioneering anti-gravitational devices and marvellous inventions that were ahead of their time. For “No Such Thing as Gravity”, Candiani’s film will be shown in Ropewalks Square, a large public piazza in front of FACT’s building. This work explores the idea of unrealised technology and failed visions of the future. Candiani’s creative processes continue linked with language, and her intention is increasingly oriented towards the materiality of sound, the idea of the automaton, the possibilities of mechanisms and the sensible experience with architecture.

Nahum Mantra

   Mantra is an artist and musician. He lives between London and Mexico City and works at the intersection of the arts and science. His focus is on the relationship between the arts, technology and science and the spaces that exist between.

   FACT has invited Mantra to perform his work Voyage: A session for remembering, a performance that offers an alternative for experiencing a real trip to the Moon in the minds of the audience.

   Mantra is a founding member of musical ensemble Orchestra Elastique and currently directs Matters Of Gravity, the first space mission of zero gravity by Mexican artists in collaboration with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia.

   In 2014 Mantra was recognised as a Young Space Leader by the International Astronautical Federation for his cultural contributions to outer space activities.