AND Festival 2012 \\ Manchester, UK \\ 29 August – 02 September
AND invited visitors to experience a festival that highlighted the complexities, gradations and anomalies encountered when we examine success as an ideal. AND Festival 2012 continued to be as much about work evolving over time, artists experimenting, and setting ambitious parameters, as it was about finished exhibitions. The experience of success can be fleeting and addictive. Through unusual strategies, the artists and filmmakers presenting in the festival revealed alternative ways of being by offering rich counterpoints to perfection and undermining accepted logic.
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#1 The Art of Success We often have romanticised preconceptions of artists as impoverished yet passionate creators, but how does this work…
Read moreSalons (2012)
Thu 30th Aug — Sat 1st Sep 2012![Dare](https://www.andfestival.org.uk/app/uploads/2012/07/GG_Clockwork_press_smaller-600x399.jpg)
Girl Gang is swagger and adventure, bluff and bravado. Girl Gang is open to any bold and fearless female. Girl Gang challenge…
Read moreDare / Girl Gang (2012)
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The Humble Market headed to Preston for the WE PLAY Expo – a whole weekend of unmissable free events in Preston that celebrated…
Read moreThe Humble Market at WE PLAY Expo (2012)
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The Humble Market was a fusion of theatre and media art from the Brazil-UK theatre network Zecora Ura and new media artists…
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