AND Festival 2017 \\ Peak District, UK \\ 21-24 September
Across four days, the festival saw a host of site-specific installations, world premieres and performances take-over the village of Castleton in the Peak District National Park. From satellites to neutrino observatories, fossilisation to free-fall, 2017’s festival programme revealed the earth’s layers, from the drone’s eye view to the sunshine-deprived depths of subterranean bunkers, exploring themes of verticality and deep time in a series of prophetic, provocative and uncanny reflections on the earth.

Undercurrency Vault: 53.3414° N, 1.7921° W was a performative journey underground that wove together subterranean, sonic, and somatic histories. Experienced as a multi-sensory…
Read moreUndercurrency Vault: 53.3414° N, 1.7921° W \ AUDINT (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep — Sat 23rd Sep 2017
What if, in the far future, we cannot read the electronic documents, images and multimedia files, that proliferate our worlds today? Digital…
Read moreDigital Dark Ages Tour \ Various Artists (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep 2017
Indonesian artists, Ikbal Lubys and Tony Maryana produced a bespoke, sculptural musical instrument in response to the mouth of Peak Cavern. The…
Read moreThe Hive \ Ikbal Lubys & Tony Maryana (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep — Sun 24th Sep 2017
The ambulatory sanctuary of the AND Cinema Caravan returned in 2017 with the thought-provoking and ground-breaking work of Irish Artist and Video…
Read moreEverything \ David O’Reilly (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep — Sun 24th Sep 2017
What does building high really mean? From modernist social housing projects to luxified skyscrapers, across the world high-rise living has become a…
Read moreVertical Living from the High Rise (2017)
Sat 23rd Sep 2017
In 100 million years, what will the geology on the site of an abandoned server farm be like? Digital culture is often…
Read moreChromobytes \ Thomas Thwaites (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep — Sun 24th Sep 2017
Electronic music producer and artist Mark Fell developed a new piece working with different geometric shapes, mathematical and notational systems, in light…
Read moreMark Fell \ Extensionless Thought Points (2017)
Fri 22nd Sep — Sun 1st Oct 2017
Festival goers joined professional caving instructor Adam Evans on a beginner’s session in Peak Cavern to learn the basics of caving, an…
Read moreCaving Tours (2017)
Sat 23rd Sep 2017
Electronic composer and artist Beatrice Dillon took up a residency in Peak Cavern during the AND Festival. Taking inspiration from Pauline Oliveros…
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