The New Observatory

The New Observatory, a collaborative exhibition co-produced by FACT and the Open Data Institute (ODI) brings together an international group of artists whose work explores new and alternative modes of measuring, predicting, and sensing the world today through data, imagination and other observational methods.

 

Yu-Chen Wang's new work I Wish to Communicate with You comprises of a large-scale drawing, mapping the diverse sites and technologies that relate to the old Liverpool and Bidston Observatories and their legacies today. Her unique style of drawing renders this network of places, communities, and instruments, as a vast evolving assemblage. Alongside this work Yu-Chen will install flags depicting designs reworking traditional semaphore iconography for the 21st century, in both FACT and atop Bidston Lighthouse and Observatory, linking the sites and reawakening Bidston’s 200-year history as site of flag-based communication. Wang will also be on a residency in Liverpool, based at Metal, for two months during the exhibition, developing a sci-fi in collaboration with writer Nathan Jones, an accompany film project and delivering observational drawing workshops at FACT.

 

Curated by Sam Skinner (FACT, Liverpool) and Hannah Redler Hawes (ODI, London)