NEW CINEMA DIGITAL CULTURE & ART
AND Festival 2021

AND Festival will resurface on the physical and virtual waves of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey for 2021.
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Thu 27th — Sun 11th Jul 2021
Psychedelic audio-visual sculptures explode from land and water, and the Liverpool skyline playfully shapeshifts revealing a surreal alternate reality of the urban landscape in this new AR work.
Read moreThe Blue Violet River \\ Anita Fontaine

Conceived as a floating laboratory, WetLab is a space for creative minds to openly engage with the public and explore the ecology of the canal, envisaging potential future uses for this once essential piece of this national infrastructure.
Read moreWetLab \\ public works + Assembly

Enter an subaqueous sonic reality on Kate Davies’ By the Sound of Things; a 3-hour immersive audiovisual experience onboard the unique steam-powered Mersey-built, Daniel Adamson.
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Re-enacting the historical and modern flow of people, cargo, data and power One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface invites you to walk amongst it and view how three continents are tethered via transatlantic data cables, air and sea routes and trade.
Read moreOne-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface \\ Hakeem Adam and Maxwell Mutanda

Toxicity’s Reach presents a collection of installations, spanning multiple disciplines as a way of exploring how industrial chemicals that are found in our waterways affect humans, animals and the landscape we live in.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ignatia Nilam Agusta (Ignatia Nilu) is a writer, independent curator and cultural producer based in Indonesia.
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Luiza Prado de O. Martins is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work examines themes around fertility, herbal medicine, coloniality, gender, and…
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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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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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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

Closing Date: 9am Monday 26 April 2021 AND Festival resurfaces for 2021, taking you on an extraordinary journey responding to the Manchester…
Read moreCALL OUT: Online Production Team
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Through a summer of anticipated opening and emergence, Abandon Normal Devices resurfaces for seven weeks from 27 May – 11 July along…
Read moreIntroducing AND Festival 2021
Thu 08 Apr 2021
Following the programme announcement for AND Festival 2021, we’re pleased to welcome John Herring as the new Chair of AND’s Board.
Read moreNew chair announcement: John Herring
Wed 31 Mar 2021Annual Programme

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.
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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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