AND Festival 2015 \\ Grizedale Forest, UK \\ 18 -20 September
The festival created a space where audiences could experience the forest anew through inviting world-class artists to create new art works for the historical site. We turned the forest into a laboratory, which became a temporary haven for filmmakers, artists, creative technologists, philosophers and scientists, who explored the secret infrastructure of the forest and natures processes. The programme provided new perspectives on the forest, through the eyes of the plants, animals and machines that inhabited it, allowing visitors an insight into natures technologies as well as emerging trends in digital practice.
This bespoke screening space was dedicated to Hiker Meat, an exploitation film that never actually existed. Hiker Meat and its fictitious Italian director…
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Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015Peak Simulator was a new sculptural installation from Matthew Plummer Fernandez that juxtaposed computer-generated landscape over the ‘natural’ landscape. In the early…
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Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015Night of the Living Deadwood was a workshop led by microbiologists Dr Rod Dillon and Dr Jackie Parry, based at Lancaster University, it…
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Fri 18th Sep — Sat 19th Sep 2015Isabella Rossellini and her critically acclaimed and provocative online and video series, Green Porno was screened within our Cinema Caravan as part of…
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Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015The lifestyles of plants were a source of inspiration for this unconventional exhibition at Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre. Seeing the Forest Through…
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Fri 18th Sep — Sun 6th Dec 2015Spreadkom was an alternative communication system created especially for the forest by Slovenian collaborators BridA (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango and Jurij Pavlica) . This…
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Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015Humans often see figures and forms in clouds, whether that’s animals, faces and even god. This kind of perception also appears in…
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Fri 18th Sep — Sun 6th Dec 2015This new work brought together two contrasting viewpoints and histories of search and rescue missions. Drawing inspiration and research from the ‘Gibson…
Read moreSearcher / Jen Southern (2015)
Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015Artist Geraldine Pilgrim developed a weekend workshop that looked at the meaning of ‘home’ and how our personal relationship to this word…
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