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.
For four weeks throughout the months of September and October 2011 Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair pedalled a plastic swan over 160…
Read moreSwandown / Dir Andrew Kotting (2012)
Fri 22nd Jun 2012
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)
Fri 7th Sep 2012
The Humble Market was a fusion of theatre and media art from the Brazil-UK theatre network Zecora Ura and new media artists…
Read moreThe Humble Market / Zecora Ura and artists (2012)
Fri 22nd Jun — Wed 29th Aug 2012
Dir. Tim Brunsden and starring Scottee. Told over four episodes, Follow was commissioned in 2012 as a live and evolving documentary about…
Read moreFollow / Tim Brunsden (2012)
Fri 22nd Jun — Sun 2nd Sep 2012
We are all familiar with the stories about what the stork brought and the birds and the bees – Papadopoulou asks how these stories will evolve in an age of invitro fertilisation and stem cell research.
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