AND Festival resurfaces between 27th May – 11th Jul 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, with more to be announced. Explore the programme below.
For LightNight Liverpool 2021, Abandon Normal Devices (AND) present a unique radio broadcast, mixing oceanic feelings with deep listening drone. This audio…
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Fri 21st May 2021
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
Thu 27th — Sun 11th Jul 2021
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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Thu 27th — Sun 11th Jul 2021
A journey across the Wirral peninsula, Headwaters, curated by Michael Pierce and Monika Rodriguez of Scalarama Merseyside, invites you to explore our…
Read moreHeadwaters \\ Scalarama Merseyside
Deeper is a series of in-depth conversations with artists presenting work elsewhere within the festival, offering a weekly moment to delve beyond…
Read moreArtist Talks \\ Deeper
Thu 27th — Thu 8th Jul 2021
“Join the colonization today!“ From the make-up, soaps and birth control pills in your bathroom to plastic packaging in your kitchen, beauty,…
Read moreEstroworld Now: The Quarantine Edition \\ Mary Maggic
Thu 27th — Sun 11th Jul 2021
When our ancient ancestors crept out of the primordial soup, they had to effectively “fold” the ocean back into themselves. This is…
Read morePlastic Hypersea \\ Sissel Marie Tonn
Thu 27th — Sun 11th Jul 2021
The name of the river Mersey originates from the Old English ‘Maere,’ meaning ‘boundary’. Boundaries, borders and interstices are sites of transition…
Read moreThe Sea Collapsed into the Pleasures of Sand \\ Luiza Prado de O. Martins
Thu 27th — Sun 11th Jul 2021
For New Cinema Shorts, AND21’s weekly programme of short form cinema, we have invited curators Angela Chan, Tendai John Mutambu, Natasha Thembiso…
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