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.
LevelFive was a performance workshop inspired by the self-actualization seminars that first became popular in the 1970s. Also known as “human potential…
Read moreLevelFive \ Brody Condon (2011)
Sat 1st Oct 2011
AND Salons were a series of talks responding to the work shown at the 2011 festival featuring artists, academics and guests that…
Read moreAND Salons (2011)
Sat 1st Oct — 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
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
Residencies have been key to AND since it was founded in 2009, providing artists with the opportunity to collaborate with the likes…
Read moreAND Festival: Residencies (2011)
In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of…
Read moreA Crowded Apocalypse \ IOCOSE (2011)
Fri 30th Sep — Sat 1st 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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