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.
AND transformed Preston’s thriving covered market into a cinematic platform for Nicholas Roeg’s stunning sci-fi classic, The Man Who Fell to Earth….
Read moreDrive in: The Man Who Fell to Earth (2011)
Sat 24th Sep 2011
Since the phone-hacking scandal engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s news empire, the methods journalists use to find stories have been brought into question. Luckily…
Read moreWORKSHOP: Media2012 & ScraperWiki \ Hacks and Hackers (2011)
Tue 2nd Oct 2012
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
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
The Modes of Al-Ikseer was a live performance that launched AND Festival in 2011, fusing contemporary pop culture, tongue-in-cheek humour and ancient…
Read moreThe Modes of Al-Ikseer \ Harminder Judge (2011)
Thu 29th Sep 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
Atalonia took a new step in human exploration, deep beyond traveled boundaries through the earth’s crust down into a Hollow Earth. Through new…
Read moreAtalonia – A Descent to Hollow Earth \ The Kazimier (2011)
Mon 26th Sep — Sat 1st 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…
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