Programme
How far can you push the perspective of some of the most iconic views of Venice? Canaletto was an Italian painter who…
Read moreCollaging Canaletto – You and your own Impossible Perspective
Sat 28th Sep 2024Join Peut-Porter in a collective re-visioning of the unknown lives of the women of Tatton. Little is known about the life of…
Read moreSee me Appear – Who are you, Elizabeth Egerton?
Sat 28th Sep 2024Performance Lecture Series are a volume of immersive gatherings and a platform for surveying emerging net and digital cultures by Abandon Normal Devices.
Read moreCritical Acts: Performance Lectures exploring how power operates in the digital age
Wed 9th Oct 2024Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and the School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University are embarking on a two year curatorial…
Read moreAnnouncing a new partnership between AND and the School of Digital Arts
Thu 25 Jul 2024Abandon Normal Devices, Cheshire East Council and Tatton Park are excited to announce two new creative collectives selected for the Impossible Perspectives…
Read moreImpossible Perspectives 2024
Tue 11 Jun 2024Over the last few months we’ve been recruiting for Board Members and for our newly created Associate Board Members roles. In August…
Read moreAND’s new Board Members and Associate Board Members
Wed 18 Oct 2023Abandon Normal Devices is delighted to announce the appointment of Tadeo Lopez-Sendon as our new Director, alongside Louise Hargreaves as Executive Director…
Read moreIntroducing AND’s new Directors
Thu 24 Aug 2023Delve into Episode 16 of the Abandon Normal Devices podcast, ‘Yearning for new ways to make and circulate: towards an infrastructure of…
Read moreThe AND podcast with New Cinema Days 2023 keynote speaker, Jemma Desai
Wed 28 Jun 2023In April 2023, we hosted our first-ever New Cinema Days, a week-long creative development lab for film makers of the future. A…
Read moreReflecting on our first-ever New Cinema Days
Mon 15 May 2023New Cinema Days starts this week, so we caught up with selected artist Yambe Tam to uncover the creative ethos behind her…
Read moreQ&A with New Cinema Days Artist, Yambe Tam
Mon 17 Apr 2023Recently, we sat down with New Cinema Days selected artist Che Applewhaite to find out more about his latest projects and who…
Read moreQ&A with New Cinema Days Artist, Che Applewhaite
Thu 13 Apr 2023After a collective 25 years working for AND, our Director Ruth McCullough and Executive Director Catherine Waddington are bidding farewell to the…
Read more2023 is set to be a year of change for Abandon Normal Devices
Thu 30 Mar 2023Earlier this month, we sat down with New Cinema Days selected artist Grace Ndiritu to find out more about her creative processes,…
Read moreQ&A with New Cinema Days artist, Grace Ndiritu
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Nina Davies (she/her) is a Canadian-British artist who considers the present moment through observing dance in popular culture and how it is…
Read moreNina Davies
Peut-Porter are a London-based Design Collective who develop participatory live-experiences. Headed by Alexa Pollmann and Bine Roth, the studio works with fashion,…
Read morePeut-Porter
Michael-Jon Mizra (he/him) is a computer musician based in London. Whilst studying music at the University of Leeds (2009) he explored performativity…
Read moreMichael-Jon Mizra
CAN is an Architecture and Ideas studio founded by Mat Barnes. Since its formation in 2016, CAN has built a reputation for…
Read moreCAN
Petra Szemán (they/them) is a moving image artist working with animation and game-like landscapes. They roam the edge-territories of worlds both real…
Read morePetra Szemán + David Blandy
Kialy Tihngang is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist working in textiles, costume, photography and moving image. She is interested in the inability of…
Read moreKialy Tihngang
Baff Akoto’s work embraces the fluidity of visual grammar, notions of plurality and (self) perceptions. Based in London, his practice explores the…
Read moreBaff Akoto
Angela Chan is an independent researcher, curator and artist based in the East Midlands. Her work reconfigures power in relation to the…
Read moreAngela YT Chan
Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan filmmaker and visual artist whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Her films…
Read moreGrace Ndiritu
Che Applewhaite is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Through intimate connections that reframe how we see; his work elaborates spiritual insights that…
Read moreChe Applewhaite
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