AND Festival 2009 \\ Liverpool, UK \\ 23 – 27 September
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival premiered in 2009, welcoming audiences to experience the best in new cinema and media art in a celebration that spilled from screens and galleries into the streets and imaginations of Liverpool. AND created a space where artists and filmmakers could offer striking new perspectives, and visitors could enjoy, discuss and interact with ideas, in a festival that questioned the normal and championed a different approach. Audiences were told to expect an eclectic array of screenings, installations, online projects, public realm interventions, workshops and live events, with a distinctive emphasis on ideas and discussion.
The festival explored physical, social and technological concepts of normality. Featuring artworks that were provocative, asking questions in a variety of ways, be they humorous, subtle or direct. Key themes included the body, intimacy and transformation, nomadic identities and trade, and innovators playing with cinematic form.
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Wed 23rd Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2009
AND presented a mouth-watering selection of Northwest premieres, mixing special previews of films seen on the big screen for the first time. From the imaginative use of archive material to marauding zombies, stand-up comedians and vengeful women. The programme featured outsiders and troublemakers, bodies and philosophy and plenty to discuss in the bar afterwards.
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Wed 23rd Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2009
Taking its title from a piece by Michael Bell-Smith – a simple Google search for the phrase – From Now On This Blog Is Going…
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Sun 20th Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2009
For the duration of the AND Festival 2009, filmmakers and artists from Liverpool and beyond worked together to produce exciting new short…
Read moreLiverpool Kino Caberet (2009)
Sun 27th Sep 2009
“Over the past decade The Yes Men have fearlessly taken on the world’s biggest corporations and bureaucracies. Infiltrating the elite realm of…
Read moreKeep it Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with the Yes Men (2009)
Wed 23rd Sep — Tue 27th Oct 2009
Showing time-based art is very different to exhibiting art objects, so how can art which uses the Internet, interactivity, social systems, or…
Read moreReal-Time: Showing Art in the Age of New Media (2009)
Thu 24th Sep 2009
AND and the Bluecoat teamed up to work with three artists, selected for their interest in live art, expanded cinema and leftfield…
Read moreArtists at Work \ Rules and Regs (2009)
Thu 24th Sep — Fri 25th Sep 2009
Inspired by a trade fair scene in the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola film “The Conversation” and your local jumble sale, Interface Amnesty played with the…
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