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.
Preston is the UFO capital of the UK, alleging more sightings of alien spacecraft than any other city in the country. Inspired…
Read morePiercing Brightness \ Dir Shezad Dawood (2011)
Sat 1st Oct 2011
ROMEO ECHO DELTA was a new sound project by artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. Commissioned and produced especially for AND, it…
Read moreRomeo Echo Delta \ Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (2011)
Mon 31st Oct 2011
Phone Story is an educational game about the dark side of your favourite smart phone. Follow your phone’s journey around the world…
Read morePhone Story \ Mollieindustria (2011)
Commissioned in 2011 Transparent Cities was a conceptual project by Paulo Cirio concerning contemporary surveillance technologies and their related social implications. An inverse…
Read moreTransparent Cites \ Paolo Cirio (2011)
Thu 29th Sep — Sun 2nd Oct 2011
Pigs Bladder Football was a year long programme of artistic enquiry aiming to reconnect us with traditional craft and lost knowledge. The…
Read morePigs Bladder Football \ John O’Shea (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Sun 2nd Oct 2011
In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of…
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