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.

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 May — Sun 11th Jul 2021
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.
Read moreBy the Sound of Things \\ Kate Davies
Fri 9th Jul — 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 May — Sun 29th May 2022
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 May — Sun 29th May 2022
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
Sun 13th Jun 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
Thu 24th Jun — Sun 27th Jun 2021
The new edition of Beginningless Mind activates embodied knowledge through movement, in collaboration with choreographer Franka Marlene Foth. In search of a…
Read moreBeginningless Mind: (rivers, rhythms, rituals) \\ Marija Bozinovska Jones
Sat 12th Jun 2021
Does Spring Hide Its Joy was an immersive audio experience by American composer Kali Malone featuring musicians Stephen O’Malley and Lucy Railton….
Read moreDoes Spring Hide Its Joy \\ Kali Malone
Thu 1st Jul — Sun 4th Jul 2021
AND Festival 2021 commissioned artist and filmmaker Tulapop Saenjaroen to create a new short film exploring themes of globalised networks, territoriality, and…
Read moreNotes from the Periphery \\ Tulapop Saenjaroen
Fri 18th Jun — Sun 11th Jul 2021
Turbidity curated by Angela YT Chan [26 mins] Turbidity – the amount of solid particles that are suspended in water and that…
Read moreNew Cinema Shorts \\ Angela YT Chan: Turbidity
Fri 9th Jul 2021
Resurface was a space for questioning our collective futures, through a series of case studies and dialogues on future ecologies of art…
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Sun 6th Jun — Sun 4th Jul 2021
Deeper was a series of in-depth conversations with artists presenting work elsewhere within the festival, about their ways of thinking and making….
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