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Interview with Joan

FACT Visitor Services Manager
Insurrection - 2 weeks of art, music, poetry and discussion put on by Nerve Magazine at FACT from 31st March to 12th April.

By John Daly

Do arts organisations need to have more events like Nerve Insurrection?
It’s absolutely our role to bring the best of art around the world into Liverpool, and FACT has always been very internationalist in outlook but what’s equally important is that the voices in your own city also get heard; to get people in here to have a voice. As the first people to come in here, in the 10 weeks of ‘Knowledge Lives Everywhere’, Nerve have been fantastic. They set a really, really high standard.

Would you say Nerve has brought different people into FACT?
Yes, I would. There are lots of people who are very familiar to me who are regulars in here but there’s been brand new faces, and people who might, perhaps, have been a little bit wary of coming in before. They might see us as an establishment organisation, which in some ways it’s fair enough to say that. Being able to have this space running in the way it has, has made people feel more comfortable with us as an organisation, and has given a voice to people in an establishment like this which wouldn’t normally happen.
We do have non-establishment voices happening all the time really. But to have something as well organised as this, and the continual input over 12 days is a real achievement.

Nerve Insurrection brought together over 50 artists of various kinds with a budget of less than £500.

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