{"id":655,"date":"2016-10-25T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2017-09-26T23:16:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:16:35","slug":"no-such-thing-as-gravity-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/no-such-thing-as-gravity-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"No Such Thing as Gravity &#8211; FACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Sparkes&#8217; new commission, <em>The GHost Formula<\/em>, funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fact.co.uk\/projects\/no-such-thing-as-gravity.aspx\">FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)<\/a> and Arts Council England,\u00a0 is part of the exhibition <em>No Such Thing as Gravity<\/em> curated by Rob La Frenais.\u00a0 The GHost Formula, is the artists visualisation of\u00a0 ghost research and is created to present as a ghost research area.\u00a0 The installation features a GHost Machine robot, inducing a feeling of presence, a library of ghost fiction and non fiction, a web interface for uploading ghost stories, ghost hunting equipment and various sculptural interventions.<\/p>\n<p>The installation is in part\u00a0 at FACT and also at <a href=\"https:\/\/williamsontunnels.com\/\">Williamson Tunnels<\/a>, Liverpool.\u00a0 A GHost research has been\u00a0 created for FACT.\u00a0 The artist has created two &#8216;GHost Tunnels&#8217; installed at both venues with the proposition that they are portals between each space.<\/p>\n<p>Sparkes will be artist in residence for the duration of the exhibition, collecting Liverpool ghost stories and interviewing\u00a0 ghost researchers and Liverpool paranormal groups.\u00a0 In addition she will convene three of her Ghost Hostings and a Magic Lantern Ghost Show.<br \/>\nRead the Liverpool ghost stories and find out about the Liverpool GHost Hostings collected and curated by Sarah Sparkes of GHost as part of this project at the GHost Portal sister website here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theghostportal.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.theghostportal.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gk-social-buttons\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"gk-social-label\">Share:<\/span>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=No+Such+Thing+as+Gravity+%26%238211%3B+FACT&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fno-such-thing-as-gravity-fact%2F\"\n\t            onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'twitter-share', 'width=550,height=235');return false;\">\n\t            <span class=\"social__icon--hidden\">Twitter<\/span>\n\t        <\/a>    \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-fb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fno-such-thing-as-gravity-fact%2F\"\n\t\t\t     onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'facebook-share','width=580,height=296');return false;\">\n\t\t\t    <span class=\"social-icon-hidden\">Facebook<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-gplus\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Fno-such-thing-as-gravity-fact%2F\"\n\t           onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'google-plus-share', 'width=490,height=530');return false;\">\n\t            <span class=\"social__icon--hidden\">Google+<\/span>\n\t        <\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Sparkes&#8217; 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