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.
To mark a new collaboration between AND festival and DaDa Fest, provocative disabled artists collective 15mm Films developed a new project after…
Read moreSex for the Disabled \ 15mm Films (2009)
Sat 26th Sep 2009
AND was proud to present an exhibition and personal appearance by the renowned American artist Carolee Schneemann, who took over Tate Liverpool’s…
Read morePrecarious \ Carolee Schneemann (2009)
Wed 23rd Sep — Sun 27th Sep 2009
Strange Attractors – The Anatomy of Dr Tulp was a study of embodied discourse; how we use our bodies to move and to communicate in a material world, and how our bodies mediate between the internal and external worlds, at a microscopic and global level.
Read moreStrange Attractors \ KMA (2009)
Thu 24th Sep — Wed 14th Oct 2009
Widely regarded as a central figure in contemporary cinema, Thai filmmaker Apichatpong ‘Joe’ Weerasethakul premiered his first UK solo exhibition at FACT…
Read morePrimitive \ Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2009)
Wed 23rd Sep — Sun 29th Nov 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 \ The Yes Men (2009)
Wed 23rd Sep — Sun 25th Oct 2009
Krzysztof Wodiczko is one of the most prominent Polish artists renowned internationally for his socially engaged work employing large scale slide and video projections. War Veteran Vehicle continued Krzysztof Wodiczko’s interest in the situation of soldiers who fought during recent armed conflicts and who are returning to civilian life.
Read moreWar Veteran Vehicle \ Krzysztof Wodiczko (2009)
Tue 1st Sep — Fri 2nd Oct 2009
In Still Available, Laric scanned the daily news and invented URLs based on the cultural, poltical and technological developments of the day. Purchased domains were then scratched off the list of ‘still available’ URLs, a scorecard for the artists’ accuracy in forecasting profitable domain squatting investments.
Read moreStill Available \ Oliver Laric (2009)
Hanne Mugaas puts her own twist on the fascinating phenomena of live blogging TV – hopeful internet stars posting live webcam streams of themselves watching television, most often live awards shows and other televised events.
Read moreModern Marvels \ Hanne Mugaas (2009)
During the 2009 festival, a marathon surfing session aimed to unearth every possible manner of unauthorized Star Wars related cultural production that…
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