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AND Festival Resurfaces
AND Festival resurfaces in 2021 with a new hybrid format, exploring the post-industrial landscapes of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey, with an ambitious programme of in-real life field trips via augmented reality seascapes, immersive voyages and floating laboratories, expanded through an online programme of radical and disruptive artworks, film screenings, performances, talks and workshops.

Kate Davies is a UK based artist and architect. Her work explores the complexities of contemporary landscape; from landscapes of extraction, manufacturing and logistics to remote territories, wilderness and ancestral homelands.
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Hakeem Adam is a Ghanaian digital artist, and freelance arts and culture writer, exploring the power of narrative, transmitted through various creative outlets including poetry, creative writing, photography, video art and sound design.
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Anita Fontaine is an Australian speculative future artist who blurs the virtual and physical with a flexible tactility. Layering high tech with low art, her work spins fanciful new expressions within the grand Metaverse marked by a sense of punk and hyperrealism.
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public works is a not-for-profit critical design practice set up in 2004, occupying the terrain in-between architecture, art and performance. Their projects are interested in what constitutes civic in both urban and rural environments and how to re-design structures that restrict it.
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Maxwell Mutanda is a pluridisciplinary artist/research/designer whose meticulously detailed collages, data visualisation and architectural practice investigate the role of globalisation and environmental protection.
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Assembly is a UK based multi disciplinary design and research practice, working to create tools and activities to challenge our inherited and institutionalised biases for living, working and engaging in the natural world.
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The New Emergences Foundation is a Netherlands based platform for amplifying voices underrepresented within digital media culture, electronic music and sound art.
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Marija Bozinovska Jones (MBJ) explores links between social, computational and organic architectures. Her work revolves around technocapitalist amplification and unpacks cryptic ways of forging subjectivity.
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Mary Maggic is a non-binary Chinese-American artist currently based in Vienna, Austria. Their work spans amateur science, public workshopology, performance, installation, documentary film, and speculative fiction.
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Ignatia Nilam Agusta (Ignatia Nilu) is a writer, independent curator and cultural producer based in Indonesia.
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Sissel Marie Tonn is a Danish artist based in The Hague, The Netherlands. In her practice she explores the complex ways humans perceive, act upon and are entangled with their environments.
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Journal

We are thrilled to announce that AND Festival will resurface from 27 May – 11 July 2020. Abandon Normal Devices Festival, the UK’s only roaming…
Read moreANNOUNCEMENT: AND Festival 2021
Thu 18 Feb 2021
We’re very pleased to announce that Luke W Moody (LONO Studio and previously Sheffield Doc/Fest) has joined the team as AND’s Creative…
Read moreWelcoming Luke Moody as AND’s Creative Director & new 2021 Festival Team
Wed 17 Feb 2021
2020 has been both monumental and mundane, seemingly nothing has happened while our lives have been restricted geographically and socially, while simultaneously…
Read moreFarewell to 2020
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Inspired by Oblique Strategies, a series of card prompts to overcome creative blocks, Abandon Normal Devices has invited AND artists from the last decade to devise a new collection of strategies reflecting on our altered world and the way we are now required to exist and behave.
Read moreAbandon Normal Strategies

COSMOS is a collaboration with The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory and bluedot festival, that launched in July 2017. Scheduled to take place each summer, COSMOS invites an international artist to create a new audio-visual work developed for, and to be projected onto, the iconic Lovell Telescope.
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