AND produces, develops and stages one of the biggest media arts festivals in the UK. Travelling to and mapping a different terrain every occurrence, AND Festival is a rehearsal space and catalyst for new models of working. The programme invites new ways of seeing the world through re-negotiating our relationship to place featuring live cinema events, installations, online projects, residencies, public realm interventions exhibitions, performances, games and apps.

Fri 18th Sep 2015

The 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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Seeing The Forest Through The Trees (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 6th Dec 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Spreadkom 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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Spreadkom / BridA (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Humans 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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Cloud Face / Shinseungback Kimyonghun (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 6th Dec 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

This new work brought together two contrasting viewpoints and histories of search and rescue missions. Drawing inspiration and research from the ‘Gibson…

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Searcher / Jen Southern (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Sat 19th Sep 2015

Artist 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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Home / Geraldine Pilgrim (2015)

Sat 19th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Flight wasn’t just explored through drones and UAV’s at Grizedale Forest, but through Space aircraft too. Officially the Space Race has arrived…

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Origami Space Race / Saso Sedlacek (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

From deep within the forest, we can see the landscape visualised by the same machines that were used for its construction. The…

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Where the City Can’t See / Liam Young (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

The UK Premiere of a new iteration of Love Motel for Insects, site-specific to Grizedale Forest, was a large-scale living sculpture for…

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Love Motel for Insects \ Brandon Ballengee (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015
Fri 18th Sep 2015

Experience In the Eyes of the Animal online. In the Eyes of the Animal enabled audiences to encounter England’s forests anew through…

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In the Eyes of the Animal / Marshmallow Laser Feast (2015)

Fri 18th Sep — Sun 20th Sep 2015