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.

Still from Self Made
Sat 2nd Oct 2010

“…a compelling exercise that deliberately blurs the lines between documentary and fiction. Artfully constructing and thought provoking.” – Leslie Felperin, Variety Who are…

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Self Made \ Dir Gillian Wearing (2010)

Sat 2nd Oct 2010
Tue 1st Sep 2009

Krzysztof Wodiczko is one of the most prominent Polish artists renowned internationally for his socially engaged work employing large scale slide and video projections.  War Veteran Vehicle continued Krzysztof Wodiczko’s interest in the situation of soldiers who fought during recent armed conflicts and who are returning to civilian life.

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War Veteran Vehicle \ Krzysztof Wodiczko (2009)

Tue 1st Sep — Fri 2nd Oct 2009
Ongoing

LevelFive was a performance workshop inspired by the self-actualization seminars that first became popular in the 1970s. Also known as “human potential…

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LevelFive \ Brody Condon (2011)

Sat 1st Oct 2011
SweatSHOP logo
Ongoing

SweatSHOP is an interactive, performative installation using humour and play to critique and subvert corporate practices. Using a local business as the temporary Mellor Management headquarters and under the guise of a corporate consultant, Mellor will attempt a test of endurance, cycling on a bicycle attached to a small generator powering a LED “SHOP” sign.

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SweatSHOP / Alexia Mellor (2012)

Stepping into the light, photo by Chris Gold on Flickr
Sat 1st Sep 2012

This inspiring seminar allows the audience to join Jeremy on his exciting ride, the day he became an opera singer, and gives them the impetus to take opportunities that scare them and find greatness in uncertainty that they could never find in experience.

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Stepping Into The Light / Jeremy Finch (2012)

Sat 1st Sep 2012
Thu 30th Aug 2012

Monetised was a performance that looked at how we materialise our dreams by monetising specific aspects of them, and the difference between…

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Monetised / Steven Ounanian (2012)

Thu 30th Aug 2012
Sat 1st Sep 2012

Created by ‘faux queen’ trixxie carr, a born-female drag queen orphan from San Francisco, The Right to RULE was the performance-party highlight…

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The Right to Rule / trixxie carr (2012)

Sat 1st Sep 2012
Thu 30th Aug 2012

Iraqi American artist Wafaa Bilal is known internationally for his controversial online, performative and interactive works. For his latest project Bilal continues this trend, making a traditional public square home to a very different kind of monument: a giant, inflatable representation of Technoviking.

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Meme Junkyard: Technoviking / Wafaa Bilal (2012)

Thu 30th Aug — Sun 2nd Sep 2012
Thu 30th Aug 2012

Last chance to see this collection of new film and video works exploring the ideals of the Olympic movement.

Featuring artists Kota Ezawa, Cao Fei, Yeondoo Jung, Kimsooja, Torsten Lauschmann, Susan Pui San Lok, Emily Wardill, Hiraki Sawa and Kyungwoo Chun.

Open at Holden Gallery, Manchester until 20 Sep.

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Blue Crystal Ball / Group show (2012)

Thu 30th Aug — Thu 20th Sep 2012