AND Festival 2010 (Autumn) \\ Manchester, UK \\ 01 – 07 October 2010
Artists and filmmakers demonstrated ideological and sexual dissidence, through politically deconstructed networks, archives and reconfigured stereotypes. Through exploring the behaviour and systems that define us, our identity is pulled in and out of focus generating new perspectives on our trust in science and technology… AND Festival 2010 (Autumn) was a week long feast for curious minds and disillusioned spirits.
AND 2010, the Autumn edition took place in Manchester. It featured 15 new commissions, 6 residencies, 18 film screenings, 7 exhibitions, 17 live events and 1 online project from leading and emerging international artists and film-makers across a number of venues and public spaces in the cities.
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Fri 1st Oct — Thu 7th Oct 2010AND proudly presented the UK debut of underground San Francisco phenomena Midnight Mass, starring horror hostess Peaches Christ in this Rocky Horror-style…
Read moreMidnight Mass: Peaches Christ presents All About Evil (2010)
Sat 2nd Oct — Sun 3rd Oct 2010Lawrence Malstaf’s work is an intriguing contradiction between science and technology often creating sensory experiences that bypass intellectual analysis.
Read moreShrink \ Lawrence Malstaf (2010)
Mon 4th Oct — Tue 5th Oct 2010Rethink, reconstruct, rewire the devices you use, the games you play, the identities you inherit and the bodies you employ. Audiences were…
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Sat 2nd Oct — Thu 7th Oct 2010Plan C was a dystopian reminder of the fragility of advanced technological societies. The project involved a rather adventurous trip to Chernobyl, Ukraine, site in 1986 of one of the most dramatic nuclear disasters ever.
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Sat 2nd Oct — Thu 7th Oct 2010Featuring a cacophony of performances with some of the world’s leading exponents of live and improvised cinema. Kinematic was a night of…
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Tue 5th Oct 2010Starting as a work of fiction, design is always oriented towards a possible future; a community of users that have yet to…
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Sat 2nd Oct — Sat 30th Oct 2010Internationally acclaimed Taiwanese video artist Chen Chieh-jen sees his work as ‘an act of connection, linking together the history of people who…
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