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.

Ongoing

Empire Drive-In is a large-scale, post-apocalyptic drive-in movie theatre made from wrecked cars and a 40-foot screen constructed of salvaged wood.

AND will be presenting a specially programmed series of film screenings at Empire Drive-In when it comes to Manchester, including new cinema, short films and trashy modern classics such as Mad Max II: Road Warrior.

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Empire Drive-In / Jeff Stark and Todd Chandler (2012)

Ongoing

The train project is an ongoing body of speculative investigation into the language and aesthetics of transport culture by artists HeHe. They…

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M-Blem: the train project / HeHe (2012)

Ongoing

Pigs Bladder Football launched in 2011 by setting out a remarkable challenge: by August 2012, artist John O’Shea would culture the world’s first bio-engineered football, grown from living cells.

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Pigs Bladder Football \ John O’Shea (2012)

Thu 30th Aug 2012

A Dream Came Through by Lanfranco Aceti questions the politics of exploitative labour. In a durational performance half-naked ‘workers’ sign a contract…

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A Dream Came Through / Lanfranco Aceti (2012)

Thu 30th Aug 2012
Ongoing

Miscommunication Station is a video platform with universal language translation which allows users to communicate with others across space, and also cultures….

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Miscommunication Station / Telekommunisten (2013)

Wed 29th Aug 2012

The Inventory is a fanzine compilation of digital artefacts produced online, seeking to explore the relationship between user-generated content and the ways in…

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The Inventory / Peter Martin and Orla Foster (2012)

Wed 29th Aug — Sun 2nd Sep 2012
Thu 30th Aug 2012

Who is really to blame for the current financial crisis? Is it the over-zealous drive of corporate bankers, or the demand for private property?

Are we here because of the pursuit, or indeed failure, of a particular notion of capitalist success?

This exhibition at BlankSpace examines the perpetual disillusionment of a generation of artists living through global financial turmoil.

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What have I done to (de)serve this? / Group show (2012)

Thu 30th Aug — Sun 16th Sep 2012
Ongoing

Rafaël Rozendaal is an artist who uses the internet as his canvas. His work researches the screen as a pictorial space, reverse…

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Happy Mondays / Rafaël Rozendaal (2012)

Dare
Sat 1st Sep 2012 Ι

Girl Gang is swagger and adventure, bluff and bravado. Girl Gang is open to any bold and fearless female. Girl Gang challenge…

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Dare / Girl Gang (2012)

Sat 1st Sep 2012