AND Festival 2011 \\ Liverpool + Knowsley, Preston & Egremont UK \\ 16 September – 02 October
Our default position is to suspend disbelief. The Millennium bug, an apparition of Christ in a piece of toast, the reliability of news coverage or the possibility of life after death: whether it is laziness, a deep seated need or because it is part of our DNA, humans want to believe in something. When looking at the works presented at AND Festival 2011, we can see that in very real terms artists make it their job to question our beliefs. AND’s ambition for 2011, was to create a thought provoking festival made up of extraordinary experiences, with projects starting life in the playing fields and pubs of Egremont and ending up in shop fronts in Liverpool.
Festival of new cinema, digital culture and art Liverpool (UK) We want to believe! Our default position is to suspend disbelief. The…
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Thu 29th Sep — Sun 2nd Oct 2011
First time features, archive renditions and cross platform experiments are amongst a heady mix of queer horror, warped fantasy and social misfits….
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Bringing new meaning to the phrase “cult of the new celebrity”, As-Salam wal Hub will see her remake a small army of volunteers in the image of a man loved and hated in equal measure in Liverpool, Ringo Star.
Read moreAs-Salam wal Hub \ Oreet Ashery (2011)
Sat 1st Oct 2011
Dopplereffekt is one of the strangest and most mysterious units on the electronic music scene today. Only a handful of interviews with…
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Fri 30th Sep 2011
AND Festival 2011 abandoned the gallery to spill out into cafes, shops, clubs and markets in a quest to test the trust and gullibility of the public, whether they are consenting or not! Audiences were told to expect phoney Beatles, celebrity cults, gurus, gimmicks, satanic messages and scryers in places where mysticism meets money.
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Sat 24th Sep — Sun 2nd Oct 2011
Ahmed Basiony was one of the few contemporary artists in Egypt who was consistently experimenting with the tools of new media. One…
Read moreThirty Days of Running in Place \ Ahmed Basiony (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Mon 28th Nov 2011
“Liang Zhifu as a Party member regards the wellbeing of people under the heaven as his duty. He remains committed, with a…
Read moreThe People’s Secretary \ Zhang Qing (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Mon 28th Nov 2011
Los Angeles-based video artist Rachel Mayeri has worked with primates for years, studying how they respond to different types of media and…
Read morePrimate Cinema: Apes as Family \ Rachel Mayeri (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Sun 2nd Oct 2011
Dead Drops Dead Drops was an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network for public spaces, incorporating USB drives embedded into walls, buildings and…
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