Thursday 27 May – Sunday 11 July 2021

Birkenhead – Ellesmere Port – Liverpool – Online

AND Festival resurfaced for 2021, taking us on an extraordinary journey responding to the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey. The programme followed the flows of shipping, energy and political power structures, from container ports on our doorsteps to the depths of the ocean floor; through ecosystems bound up with industrial chemicals, minerals and microplastics, to their effects on our planet, human and non-human bodies.

AND Festival 2021 took place online, on docklands and on the water, featuring field trips in the physical world 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. Inviting radical artists, critical thinkers and curious audiences to renavigate the industrial landscape from physical and virtual perspectives, the programme brings into focus the oceanic scale of networked industries and infrastructures that form part of our daily contemporary consumption.

Audiences local and remote were invited to trace the entangled flows of shipping routes, oil refineries, chemical industries, recycling plants and energy systems from these ports, and unearth the impact on our ways of living.

Artists who presented work in the festival: Hakeem Adam, aio0o0o0, AssemblyYaYa Bones (Ayesha Tan Jones)Marija Bozinovska JonesKate DaviesSarah DavachiAngeliki DiakrousiAnita FontaineMary MaggicKali MaloneLuiza Prado de. O MartinsMaxwell MutandaNew EmergencesTulapop SaenjaroenAura Satzmariëlle verdijkIgnatia Nilam Agustapublic works and Sissel Marie Tonn.

Guest curators and contributors included: Dr Danielle-Maria AdmissAngela ChanTendai MutambuIgnatia Nilam AgustaScalarama Merseyside, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona and Matt Turner.

Bodies intertwined against white background
Sat 12th Jun 2021 Ι

This new edition of Beginningless Mind activated embodied knowledge through movement, in an ongoing collaboration with 33EMYBW, J.G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Zygus) and Jayson Haebich, and an…

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Beginningless Mind: (rivers, rhythms, rituals) \\ Marija Bozinovska Jones

Sat 12th Jun 2021
Fri 18th Jun 2021 Ι 7pm

AND Festival 2021 commissioned artist and filmmaker Tulapop Saenjaroen to create a new short film exploring themes of globalised networks, territoriality, and…

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Notes from the Periphery \\ Tulapop Saenjaroen

Fri 18th Jun — Sun 11th Jul 2021
Fri 25th Jun 2021 Ι 7pm - 8pm

RIOT curated by Tendai John Mutambu.  Riot / John Akomfrah / 1999 / 50 min Curated by Tendai John Mutambu, we are…

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New Cinema Shorts \\ Tendai John Mutambu: RIOT

Fri 25th Jun — Fri 2nd Jul 2021
Black, blue and green graphic with Radio Ensemble written in white
Thu 1st Jul 2021 Ι 7pm - 8pm

This week’s conversation connects across the oceans with Indonesia-based curator Ignatia Nilu, exploring ideas behind the presentation of Radio Ensemble at AND…

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Deeper: Ignatia Nilu \\ Radio Ensemble

Thu 1st Jul 2021
Ongoing Ι 12pm - 11:45pm (UTC+1)

To mark the final day of AND Festival 2021, we ran our online programme of AV performances, music, talks and films that…

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Closing Tide: All Day Broadcast

Sun 11th Jul 2021
Fri 21st May 2021 Ι 8pm - 9pm

For LightNight Liverpool 2021, Abandon Normal Devices (AND) presented a unique radio broadcast, mixing oceanic feelings with deep listening drone. Domes FM,…

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Light Night 2021: Oceanic Feelings

Fri 21st May 2021
Fri 4th Jun 2021 Ι 7pm

For New Cinema Shorts, AND Festival 2021’s weekly programme of short form cinema, we invited curators Angela Chan, Tendai John Mutambu, Natasha…

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New Cinema Shorts \\ Every Friday

Fri 4th Jun — Sun 11th Jul 2021
Fri 9th Jul 2021

In Weedweavers, the radical Dutch curatorial collective New Emergences present collaborative workshops and a live performance led by artists Angeliki Diakrousi, mariëlle…

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Weedweavers \\ New Emergences: Performance

Fri 9th Jul 2021
Sat 10th Jul 2021 Ι

In this audiovisual broadcast, artist Aura Satz collaborated with electroacoustic composer Sarah Davachi to sonically haunt a decommissioned coal fired power station….

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The Grief Interval \\ Aura Satz with Sarah Davachi

Sat 10th Jul 2021