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.
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
Kurt Hentschläger has spent a lifetime creating artworks that push the viewer into a state of sensory overload. ZEE is no exception….
Read moreZEE \ Kurt Hentschläger (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Mon 28th Nov 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
Conceptual cousin to the film of the same name, Piercing Brightness was an exhibition of new work at the Harris Museum and…
Read morePiercing Brightness: Exhibition \ Various Artists (2011)
Sat 17th Sep — Sat 26th Nov 2011
Including art by robots for robots, visions of outer space and diagrams for mechanical copulation, Q.E.D. was an exhibition with something of…
Read moreQ.E.D \ Various Artists (2011)
Wed 28th Sep — Sun 2nd Oct 2011
Interlinking a number of life support machines together to create a gasping, seemingly self-sustaining organism, The Immortal was a new, experimental project which…
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