29/09/2026
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Curated by Nora O’ Murchú and presented in partnership with FACT and The Institute of Art and Technology (IAT) at Liverpool John Moores University, How To Read An Image is a three-day conference exploring how images train the real, organising what we see, feel and believe.
Photo: Simone C. Niquille, Beauty and the Beep (2024). Courtesy of the artist.
MCKENZIE WARK OPENING KEYNOTE + Q&A
Fri 2 Oct, 18:00
McKenzie Wark explores the ‘cis gaze’: a way of looking that polices normative ideas of gender and is anxious about deviations from them. Considering what it means to be trans as an art of both seeing and appearing, Wark asks how these tactics might resist, evade or exploit the gaze at a time when seeing and classifying are increasingly delegated to machines.
Weekend Pass – £30
Weekend Concession – £25
Friday Keynote – £10
McKenzie Wark
ALEX QUICHO: AURA POINTS
Sat 3 Oct, 13:30
A suspiciously superficial theory about the ‘high-aura’ activities of staging selfhood for the planetary camera; and the simultaneous orientation of actually-existing Girl Intelligence towards mystery and sycophantic deception. A girl becomes a hyper-visible totality while she black-boxes her inner world—something she is able to achieve because humanity underestimates her agency and autonomy.
ALEX QUICHO AND LUIZA PRADO: THE FANTASY OF VISIBILITY
Sat 3 Oct, 14:30
Alex Quicho and Luiza Prado consider the promise of visibility as a form of recognition and power, and what happens when being seen also means becoming available for circulation, measurement and extraction. Together, they ask what other forms of power might begin with refusing to appear.
Weekend Pass – £30
Weekend Concession – £25
Saturday only – £15
alex quicho
LUIZA PRADO: CLOUD COMMENSALITIES
Sat 3 Oct, 14:00
The Cloud might appear immaterial, but its worlds are built from water, land, labour and extraction. In this lecture-performance, Luiza Prado stages an encounter between two figures inhabiting its contradictions to uncover the material, environmental and colon
