AND produces, develops and stages one of the biggest media arts festivals in the UK. Travelling to and mapping a different terrain every occurrence, AND Festival is a rehearsal space and catalyst for new models of working. The programme invites new ways of seeing the world through re-negotiating our relationship to place featuring live cinema events, installations, online projects, residencies, public realm interventions exhibitions, performances, games and apps.
AND Festival will resurface on the physical and virtual waves of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey for 2021.
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Thu 27th May — Sun 11th Jul 2021
Resurface was a space for questioning our collective futures, through a series of case studies and dialogues on future ecologies of art…
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Sun 6th Jun — Sun 4th Jul 2021
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
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
This week’s conversation connects across the oceans with Indonesia-based curator Ignatia Nilu, exploring ideas behind the presentation of Radio Ensemble at AND…
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Thu 1st Jul 2021
The Observatory Cinema was a temporary open air cinema atop Bidston Hill. A big screen weekend projected the art of sculpting time…
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Fri 2nd Jul — Sun 4th Jul 2021
In Weedweavers, the radical Dutch curatorial collective New Emergences present collaborative workshops and a live performance led by artists Angeliki Diakrousi, mariëlle…
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Fri 9th Jul 2021
New rendering and image making techniques like photogrammetry and LIDAR scanning are allowing us to visualize previously hidden or forgotten histories. Archaeologist…
Read moreRendering the Past \ Panel Discussion (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep 2017
James Ferraro // The Deluge Set in a nightmarish simulation of humanity – a Brueghelian underground – musician and critical futurist James…
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