Thursday 27 May – Sunday 11 July 2021
Birkenhead – Ellesmere Port – Liverpool – Online
AND Festival resurfaced for 2021, taking us on an extraordinary journey responding to the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey. The programme followed the flows of shipping, energy and political power structures, from container ports on our doorsteps to the depths of the ocean floor; through ecosystems bound up with industrial chemicals, minerals and microplastics, to their effects on our planet, human and non-human bodies.
AND Festival 2021 took place online, on docklands and on the water, featuring field trips in the physical world via augmented reality seascapes, immersive voyages and floating laboratories, expanded through an online programme of radical and disruptive artworks, film screenings, performances, talks and workshops. Inviting radical artists, critical thinkers and curious audiences to renavigate the industrial landscape from physical and virtual perspectives, the programme brings into focus the oceanic scale of networked industries and infrastructures that form part of our daily contemporary consumption.
Audiences local and remote were invited to trace the entangled flows of shipping routes, oil refineries, chemical industries, recycling plants and energy systems from these ports, and unearth the impact on our ways of living.
Artists who presented work in the festival: Hakeem Adam, aio0o0o0, Assembly, YaYa Bones (Ayesha Tan Jones), Marija Bozinovska Jones, Kate Davies, Sarah Davachi, Angeliki Diakrousi, Anita Fontaine, Mary Maggic, Kali Malone, Luiza Prado de. O Martins, Maxwell Mutanda, New Emergences, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Aura Satz, mariëlle verdijk, Ignatia Nilam Agusta, public works and Sissel Marie Tonn.
Guest curators and contributors included: Dr Danielle-Maria Admiss, Angela Chan, Tendai Mutambu, Ignatia Nilam Agusta, Scalarama Merseyside, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona and Matt Turner.
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This new edition of Beginningless Mind activated embodied knowledge through movement, in an ongoing collaboration with 33EMYBW, J.G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Zygus) and Jayson Haebich, and an…
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Sat 12th Jun 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/06/The-Island-Is-No-Home-600x399.jpg)
Turbidity curated by Angela YT Chan [26 mins] Turbidity – the amount of solid particles that are suspended in water and that…
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Fri 9th Jul 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/06/riot.jpg)
RIOT curated by Tendai John Mutambu. Riot / John Akomfrah / 1999 / 50 min Curated by Tendai John Mutambu, we are…
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Fri 25th Jun — Fri 2nd Jul 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/06/Every_Rupture_still1-600x399.jpg)
Counterflows curated by Matt Turner [63 mins] Moving like the tides, shifting shapelessly, the works in this programme reflect the flow of…
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Fri 11th Jun — Fri 18th Jun 2021![Old black coin on green background](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/unnamed-600x399.png)
Link to text – All Power to the {Historical} Imagination! by McKenzie Wark Follow – Collective Reading: From Modes of Production to…
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Sun 13th Jun 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Screenshot-2021-05-18-at-12.49.51-600x399.png)
Celebrating the opening of AND Festival, we invited you to our open gathering to meet commissioned artists and the Abandon Normal Devices…
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Sun 30th May 2021![Woman in field smiling](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Suzanne-Dhaliwal-600x399.png)
The cultural shift required to address the climate crisis calls on the cultural sector to look closely at the sites of ecocide…
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Sun 6th Jun 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Screenshot-2021-07-01-at-16.57.50-600x399.png)
This broadcast event was followed by a Q&A, with questions submitted via YouTube chat, within our Live Channel. In Sustaining Uncertainty, we’re…
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Sun 4th Jul 2021![](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2020/03/unnamed-600x399.jpg)
Coinciding with the launch of WetLab, a new commission situated at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port, Rhianon Morgan-Hatch and Carlotta…
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